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Locobot · 06-12-2005, 02:06 AM

Yeah this has pretty much come out of nowhere for me too. As long as Romero had final cut on this then I'm confident that it'll be decent. I'm worried that this was moved up suddenly because some distro had a slot to fill and gave Romero a "finish in a week or it'll never come out" ultimatum.

My two biggest fears about this film:
1. after 28 Days Later and the Dawn remake I'm worried it might feel like a regression to return to Romero's original plodding zombies
2. Romero continues on his "thinking zombie" plot begun in earnest with Day of the Dead(which wasn't all that good honestly). The beauty of zombie flicks post-Romero is the arbitrary nature the antagonist zombies. Even the "when hell is full the dead will walk the earth" legend we're left to think this is the completely naieve attempt of the surviving humans to understand the complete paradigm shift they're caught in. If zombies are given a capacity for rational thought then they're reduced to simple ghoulish vampires.

06-12-2005, 02:06 AM	#14 (permalink)
Locobot is awesome!	Yeah this has pretty much come out of nowhere for me too. As long as Romero had final cut on this then I'm confident that it'll be decent. I'm worried that this was moved up suddenly because some distro had a slot to fill and gave Romero a "finish in a week or it'll never come out" ultimatum. My two biggest fears about this film: 1. after 28 Days Later and the Dawn remake I'm worried it might feel like a regression to return to Romero's original plodding zombies 2. Romero continues on his "thinking zombie" plot begun in earnest with Day of the Dead(which wasn't all that good honestly). The beauty of zombie flicks post-Romero is the arbitrary nature the antagonist zombies. Even the "when hell is full the dead will walk the earth" legend we're left to think this is the completely naieve attempt of the surviving humans to understand the complete paradigm shift they're caught in. If zombies are given a capacity for rational thought then they're reduced to simple ghoulish vampires. Last edited by Locobot; 06-12-2005 at 02:19 AM..