I had heard Simon Pegg and Edgar Winter, Star and Director of "Shawn of the Dead" respectively, were in the film as zombies. I even saw them listed in the credits, but I never caught sight of them. Sigh. Guess I'll have to wait for the DVD.

a coworker told me that (about the Shaun guys), but i didn't remember seeing them either.

apparently they were the "take your picture with a zombie" zombies...

edgar:

http://www.twitchfilm.net/pics/edgarzombie.jpg

simon:

http://www.twitchfilm.net/pics/pegg.jpg

pictures from http://www.twitchfilm.net/

simon looks like bub.

Thanks Grendel! You rock!

glad to help... thinking about catching this again this weekend...

I didn't like it. Not at all.

I love George Romero. Dawn of the Dead is one of my favorite movies. I love them all. I am a horror geek. However, I didn't like the movie. It lacked the feeling of all the other movies he did. I liked the Tom Savini Cameo as a zombie, that was cool, but I think it could have been alot better.

Hmmmmmmmmm......No
 

I love George Romero. Dawn of the Dead is one of my favorite movies. I love them all. I am a horror geek. However, I didn't like the movie. It lacked the feeling of all the other movies he did. I liked the Tom Savini Cameo as a zombie, that was cool, but I think it could have been alot better.

Maybe I'm being harsh, but I thought this movie was terrible...

'Course, it may be just because I had high expectations, but I kinda doubt it.

Spoiler: One of the things that bothered me most were the gaping holes in the plot. Examples?

*One zombie somehow decides that he is going to learn to speak - suddenly, all the zombies in the area understand zombie language

*Although zombies had never before tried to walk across the river, they suddenly decide to do so. That's alright, I suppose, now that we have a genious zombie, but when he jumps in, he jumps in alone. All the others just kinda hang out and mourn the loss of their leader. <fast forward 3 seconds> All of them exit the water at the same time - only moments behind their genious leader

*In a city presumably of at least hundreds of thousands, they have but one vehicle capable of doing anything productive?

*I believe this is pretty much a direct quote, forgive me if I'm wrong - "The same things that were keeping the zombies out are trapping us in" Uh - Dude, it's a river on two sides. Can noone swim anymore?

*On that same note, if you are fortifying a city against zombies - relentless zombies - would you have but one thin piece of plywood as a wall? The guy hacked through with a butcher knife with ease - I would think that one would be a bit more concerned with the sturdiness of the material.

*The empathy for the zombies - instead of killing the same zombies that just ate an entire city full of your friends, you decide that maybe they aren't so bad after all - they are "just looking for a place to stay" (and more of your friends to eat, might I add)

*Finally, what is the deal with Canada? Apparently, noone lives there. Sorry Canadians, you're but a figment of your own imagination....

There are more issues, but I have spent enough time thinking about them - it just seemed very much like the old horror movies in the way that they tried masking the absense of any continuous plot and poor acting via gratuitous gore....

And to think, I was a huge fan of the remake of Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, and 28 Days later....

As in many horror movies, old and new, there are many plot holes. But what strikes me, now that I think about it more, is not the holes, but the genious soical commentary worked in the film. As just one example, and there is a small spoiler here, are how the zombies are hypnotized by the fireworks. While they watch and are lulled into a stuper by the fireworks, the living go about looting the towns and killing them without a struggle.

Now if the zombies represent the American masses as they have in past Dead movies, and the fireworks represent patriotism, then you get a bleak but honest message about modern America. As Americans, of which I am one, are lulled into apathy by the government's abuse of patriotism and honor, they go about ruining our lives and the lives of others, looting our freedoms ansd killing at will.

Now I might be reading too much into it, but Romero's other work has been full of this kind of message as well. And if this is his intent, to me the man is pure genious. If not, I have bored you all to tears for no reason.

Ya, he had how many years to write a great zombie flick and this is the best he could come up with!

Damn, I've been looking forward to seeing this, but now I'm not too sure.
Ah, well, I'm probably gonna go see it anyway, I even went to see Alone In The Dark just to see how bad it really is

There are just as many plot holes in his other films, so... this is nothing new.

For what it is... a zombie flick, it's damn good and is better than the majority of the other "horror" movies that have been released in the past 15 years - that's all that matters.

Hopefully these recent releases in good horror flicks will drive away the other bullshit we've had to endure or some how accept as "horror" (The Ring, and other various PG-13 BS).

finally got around to reading this (read it all today, in fact). the one i read today is Volume 1 (Days Gone Bye), and it's fantastic. i'm gonna have to pick up the other trades soon.