Dawn of the Dead (Widescreen Unrated Director's Cut)
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Actor: Jake Weber, Lindy Booth, Mekhi Phifer, Sarah Polley, Ving RhamesBrand: POLLEY,SARAH
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Digital Sound, Director's Cut, Dolby, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-26
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Universal Studios
Product features:
- The Lost Tape - 15 minutes of terrifing footage
- Special Report - Zombie Invasion
- 12+ minutes of deleted scenes
- Commentary with director Zack Snyder and producer Eric Newman
Movie Reviews of Dawn of the Dead (Widescreen Unrated Director's Cut)
Movie Review: Matt Perri - (that idiot from Friends)
Summary: 5 Stars
I'll be honest. This was the first review I ever read for the movie. It's why I started reviewing, but usually on websites that give a small number of words. What ticked me off is that he treats Romero like he's a fu**ing genius, but he's not. This Matt Perri inspired me, and made me want to start reviewing. That's why I decided I would use his review to do mine. After I read this, I knew I had to get in there and review too. Thanks Matt. You're a good man, or unintelligent one.
"What ticks me off isn't that this movie was re-made. That's really only a quarter of my anger. What really makes me mad (and I mean raging, running ZOMBIE mad) is that George Romero has been trying to get funding for years to make his fourth "Dead" film and this piece of junk is greenlighted. So, instead of seeing a less violent, well thought-out and BRAND NEW zombie picture, we get a hackneyed, burnt-out, steroid-injected remake of "Dawn of the Dead" for the hip-hop generation???" -Matt Perri (that idiot from Friends)
News for you Matt. They've been trying to get the remake funded since 1999. Romero's been trying to get his fourth piece of crap funded since 2001. So who's had a harder time? Not only that, but he also says this is for the hip-hop generation. Truthfully, I hate hip-hop. I hate rap. I hate music in general. I don't watch stupid MTV Generation movies. Like "2 Fast 2 Furious", or "Torque". Why? Because they look stupid.
"Makes perfect sense to me. Just be sure to kick the chair of the Eminem-wannabe in front of you who keeps repeating the phrase, "Aw, yeah! Dat's so TYGHT!" everytime a zombie attacks the camera-crew...er, I mean band of survivors." -Matt Perri (that idiot from Friends)
Sorry Matt, but I didn't see any of those people in the theatre. I hardly saw teens at all. No one said a word in my theatre. They were talking all the way through the crappy "House of the Dead", and even the good "Resident Evil", but not this movie. Why? There were no teens in the theatre. Most teens don't like zombies.
"What plagues the Earth is not really explained at all." - Matt Perri (that idiot from Friends)
Romero neve gave us an explanation. Why do these people need one?
"Anyway, the Nameless Virus takes over the Earth in about 11 minutes" - Matt Perri (that idiot from friends)
Let's see. There were people being brought in during the evening. The next day, the world new it was happening, and people were dying by the hour. By the afternoon, television stations were going off the air, and by night everything was getting overrun. They never said everyone was gone. They just said there was no more news, and no more shelters.
"Those younger viewers who have seen this movie are going to say some fun things like, "This was just as good as '28 Days Later'" or "this was better than '28 Days Later'" or even something that will make you so happy that you will want to put a bullet in your head, like, "fast-moving zombies are really scary!!!"" - Matt Perri ( that idiot from Friends)
You got the just as good part wrong, but the better than was just right. By the way, fast zombies are scarier than slow zombies.
"Zombies are slow. They move slow. They always have moved slow. Numbers were their strong-suit. You moved wrong, did something stupid, you were dinner. You made a mistake and put yourself in a corner, you were dinner. And again, they moved slow. And you were surrounded. You saw death coming and you couldn't do anything about it. THAT was scary. Everything these days must be fast, including horror films. The killer in "Scream" was fast. The zombies in "Resident Evil" were fast. The infected in "28 Days Later" were fast...and that brings me to my point:" -Matt Perri (that idiot from Friends)
Numbers are still the strong-suit in the remake. That's why they could not just run outside. Too many of them. He says if you're surrounded, then you're dinner. I say run through them. They're weak, right? You should have no problem. Yet, another guy ( I will not call him an idiot) says that "Resident Evil" had fast zombies. They were not.
"This movie sucks. This movie is NOT "28 Days Later", nor is it BETTER than that movie, nor is it just as good. It doesn't even deserve to be called "Dawn of the Dead". Call us zombie fans "nerds" but there's one factor that makes this movie needless, unintelligent, unwatchable sludge: those crazy, monsters who should be less obssessed with consuming human flesh and more concerned with training for next year's Olympic games. Call us zombie fans "movie snobs", but the reason why "28 Days Later" had those angry, hyped-up, caffeinated...well, I hesitate to even refer to them as "zombies", so I will call them infected humans, since that's what they were...the only reason they could move like they did was because, they weren't DEAD, they were living people infected by a virus that stimulated the part of the brain that caused anger and unnatural rage. That makes any comparison from "Dawn of the Dead" to "28 Days" null and void. If you're dead and you come back to life, you won't be running for the Jamaican relay team, you'll be carrying your almost disembodied leg as you wander to the closest thing that resembles your lunch: a human being. If you have been infected by a virus and you die and come back to life, you won't be towards a living soul like a baserunner coming around third and heading for home plate. You'll be attempting to outrun the snail that's trying to break for the same patch of lawn as you are. You are a zombie. You move SLOW. That's zombie law. You can't run like the Six-Million Dollar Man. You can't jam around a corner like a $35,000 BMW. You CAN'T. You will move a foot every three or four seconds." - Matt Perri (that idiot from Friends)
Thank you for admitting that this is not 28 Days Later. It never was, nor did it ever claim to be, but yes, it's better, and yes it deserved to be called "Dawn of the Dead". Thank you for also mentioning that the creatures in 28 Crappy Days Later were not dead. There's another reason why this is not a rip-off. Then he says the zombies would not run, which brings me to the conclusion that he knows everything about a zombie. Every little detail. By the way, how does anybody know what a zombie is like? I've never seen one, but clearly someone out there must have seen one to know so much about them. Come on Matt! Where's your proof. Also, zombies don't have laws. I can do a zombie movie the way I want to. How does he know if I were a zombie I would move a foot every three of four seconds? Hell, look at the first zombie in Romero's crappy "Night of the Living Dead". He was moving fast. Wasn't he?
"Forgiving all that I have given you above, I should probably mention that Ving Rhames and Sarah Polley head up a cast of cliched characters which include The Black Guy, The Pregnant Girl with the Zombie Baby (yes, the Zombie Baby), The Morally Converted Security Guard, The Nurse, The Mean Guy, The Sweet Doggie, and more. And it all takes place at the mall where the suvivors have made their new home. Of course, zombies are headed to the mall. Why? Good question. In the original, there was still a microscopic part of the zombies that recognized it as a place to mecca. It was a brilliant metaphor that Romero put on us: we're all just a bunch of dumb, brain-dead, culture-and-fad-obssessed zombies. The Mall was just as much a character as the rest of the other characters. The zombies in this film seem more concerned with just death and destruction and eating more to further their cause...nice try at a metaphor...but it doesn't work." -Matt Perri (that idiot from friends.
Basically everything's a cliché these days. Shaun of the Dead was a cliché. The mum loving brit. The girlfriend that doesn't want to be with star anymore, and wants a better life. The guy who hates the mum loving brit. The best friend that dies. It's all cliché. As you can see. This is another person that likes to brag about how great a metaphor Romero put in this film, even though he would not have known, had he not been told by another source. Romero also portrays "consumerism" inaccurately. "Consumerism" involves the consumption of goods. The zombies didn't want the goods, they wanted the place. Also, "consumerism" was something that was beginning in those times, which refers to the title, "Dawn of the Dead". It would be silly to do a movie based in modern times, but do something that was happening back in the seventies. Hell, that would be like bringing racism back to the film. Hahahahahaha!!! Mall? A character? The mall is just a building given a funny name. Always has been always will be.
"If anything, Romero's point still stands strong today. Want proof?
We all flocked like zombies to this stinkbomb, didn't we?
--Matt" - Matt Perri (that idiot from Friends)
Romero does not stand strong. He's old, pathetic, and a crack-head. I agree with Zack Snyder. The only people who did not want this movie to be made and asked him why he was remaking a "classic" and calling it stupid before it even came out were all old, pot-smoking crack-heads. Yep. There's the quote I used in my "Night of the Living Dead review. By the way Matt. You flocked like a bird to the movie. I drove. Also, it proved to the world that it wasn't a stink bomb like Romero's film.
Summary of Dawn of the Dead (Widescreen Unrated Director's Cut)
A mysterious virus turns people into flesh-eating zombies, leaving survivors to battle for their lives.Genre: Horror
Rating: UN
Release Date: 23-MAY-2006
Media Type: DVD
Are you ready to get down with the sickness? Movie logic dictates that you shouldn't remake a classic, but Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead defies that logic and comes up a winner. You could argue that George A. Romero's 1978 original was sacred ground for horror buffs, but it was a low-budget classic, and Snyder's action-packed upgrade benefits from the same manic pacing that energized Romero's continuing zombie saga. Romero's indictment of mega-mall commercialism is lost (it's arguably outmoded anyway), so Snyder and screenwriter James Gunn compensate with the same setting--in this case, a Milwaukee shopping mall under siege by cannibalistic zombies in the wake of a devastating viral outbreak--a well-chosen cast (led by Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, and Mekhi Phifer), some outrageously morbid humor, and a no-frills plot that keeps tension high and blood splattering by the bucketful. Horror buffs will catch plenty of tributes to Romero's film (including cameos by three of its cast members, including gore-makeup wizard Tom Savini), and shocking images are abundant enough to qualify this Dawn as an excellent zombie-flick double-feature with 28 Days Later, its de facto British counterpart. --Jeff Shannon
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