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Post by Ms. Cleo on Jul 26, 2007 8:59:40 GMT
www.answers.com/topic/diary-of-the-dead-1The 5th film in the series unfolds as a sidestory to the events depicted in Night and follows a group of film school students shooting in the forest just as the dead have begun their invasion. In stark contrast to Night, the students witness and study the corpses first-hand in person, rather than barricaded in a farmhouse. I. Can't. Wait.
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Post by shaft121 on Jul 26, 2007 9:04:02 GMT
Wow, that film sounds incredibly sucky. And how are they going to adjust the socio-historic values of the first film into a contemporary setting? Is it going to be more anti-Bush 'metaphors'? And are they going to set it in the same time period as the first film? If so, they're going to be carrying pretty crappy cameras around the woods.
Just Blair Witch with zombies isn't it? I'm afraid Romero appears to be losing his touch.
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Post by Scorpio on Jul 26, 2007 9:13:45 GMT
You can't compare it to Blair Witch because nothing happens in Blair Witch.
Romero is a genius. For every ass that uses the name of Romeros films for a cheap ass zombie bomb of a movie, Romero brings out one that shoves theirs straight into the DVD 2 for £5 bin.
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Post by Ms. Cleo on Jul 26, 2007 10:12:45 GMT
The premise sounds basic enough but I wanna see where Romero goes with it. He's not known for being very clichéd, so though the story may seem blah there may be mouthwatering and intricately-detailed, suck-you-in-and-make-you-leisurely-imagine-something-like-that-for-weeks-like-you-used-to-when-you-first-watched-Star Wars subplots that could harbor the twists and satire Romero's famous for.
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Post by Kan on Jul 26, 2007 11:04:46 GMT
It should have been out by now.
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Post by shaft121 on Jul 26, 2007 14:29:07 GMT
He's not known for being very clichéd... Four films about the same thing? The usual blood, guts & gore? The 'metaphors' that are that little bit too obvious? Man I hated Land of the Dead....so disappointing! |
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Post by Scorpio on Jul 26, 2007 15:42:36 GMT
He's not known for being very clichéd... Four films about the same thing? The usual blood, guts & gore? The 'metaphors' that are that little bit too obvious? Man I hated Land of the Dead....so disappointing! Compare it to every other recent zombie movie, all trenchcoats and guns. Romero is working with the best formula. |
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Post by Ms. Cleo on Jul 26, 2007 19:19:06 GMT
Lemme rephrase it then: "He's not as clichéd as other zombie directors."
EDIT: Naw, scratch that Shaft, I shouldn't have to explain myself. I'm a diehard fan of Romero's Dead saga, and just like any diehard fan of anything, you're supposed to stick by your thing through thick and thin, blocking out and ignoring whatever anybody else says about it, cause it should be bullshit to a diehard fan.
Just like how true sports fans passionately support their favorite team rather than jumping on the bandwagon, even though they've had an 18-game losing streak, I'm not gonna abandon my proud allegience as a zombie knight in Romero's service just because he's come out with a so-called "weak" movie or two.
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Post by grigori on Jul 27, 2007 0:42:58 GMT
I agree. For every five crappy zombie b-movies, Romero puts something watchable to the zombie palette. So what if his metaphors are a little obvious at times. The movies are at worst entertaining, and at best quite nearly masterpieces of the horror genre. This will probably be just as good, if not better, than the rest. I know I'll be watching.
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Post by Oct-taku on Jul 27, 2007 3:31:20 GMT
First off, I rather enjoy the metaphors that Romero seamlessly crafts into his movies.
Second, Scorp's right. All zombie movies as of late have characters with incredible fighting ability and/ or access to unlimited millitary hardware. Look at Resident Evil: Apocalypse! The Nemesis literally has a trenchcoat on! (Okay, in Capcom's defense, the RE series is frigging scary, and while the movies are crap, the games rock.)
Let's face it: Romero is an artist, and his paints are the blood of the dead...and some other people, too.
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Post by shaft121 on Jul 27, 2007 7:33:36 GMT
I'm not disagreeing that Romero is the definitive Auteur of the zombie genre, but what I am saying is that he seems to not evolve the premise, other than setting the story later and later on during the crisis.
My main concern is that if this new film is set during the time of the first, then surely it should be set in the 1960's as well. Seeing a poster of a guy with a camcorder kind of means that it isn't. So that means he's ignoring his own timeline (if this film is set in the same diegetic world as the first).
My secondary concern is that this film is going to be the nail in the coffin for Romero as a popular film-maker. Taking quite a stereotypical idea (kids in the woods, monsters appear, kids die) and merely replacing the werewolf/psychopath/boogieman with zombies seems poor to me.
I want Romero to make a decent zombie film again, but I feel he hasn't done that since Dawn of the Dead, the one true classic of the genre. And if he relies on blood and gore as much as he did in that film (which has repulsed me more and more the older I get) then I, for one, won't be watching.
But it isn't for me to say what people should and shouldn't watch, I am merely putting across my opinion.
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Post by Kan on Jul 27, 2007 19:06:48 GMT
It will not be set in the 60's, LotD was set 3 or 4 years after the events of NotLD.
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Post by Scorpio on Jul 27, 2007 19:24:17 GMT
The thing about Night of the living Dead is that, the setting being at a farm and all. It could easily have taken place at any decade.
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Post by grigori on Jul 27, 2007 19:25:28 GMT
The thing about Night of the living Dead is that, the setting being at a farm and all. It could easily have taken place at any decade. Coming from living in the country, I can say that you are 100% correct. Especially when said farm belongs to the elderly. |
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Post by Scorpio on Jul 27, 2007 19:34:27 GMT
The thing about Night of the living Dead is that, the setting being at a farm and all. It could easily have taken place at any decade. Coming from living in the country, I can say that you are 100% correct. Especially when said farm belongs to the elderly. No offence meant of course. I was just comparing the original with Savini's remake. Both locations look almost the same, one being filmed in the 60's and the other in the 90's |
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Post by Ms. Cleo on Jul 27, 2007 20:19:36 GMT
My secondary concern is that this film is going to be the nail in the coffin for Romero as a popular film-maker George Andrew Romero's popular?  Huh, must be a British thing. |
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Post by Kan on Jul 27, 2007 20:31:33 GMT
Scorp is right, a farm can look like it is from another time, hell I know of some like that and they are near a damn city, Modern city.
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Post by shaft121 on Jul 30, 2007 7:19:15 GMT
My secondary concern is that this film is going to be the nail in the coffin for Romero as a popular film-maker George Andrew Romero's popular? Huh, must be a British thing. Probably yes. Depends upon the circles you're in. But no matetr who you speak to, he's always going to be more popular than Uwe Bol. |
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Post by Oct-taku on Jul 30, 2007 23:35:04 GMT
Amen to that, Shaft. Amen to that.
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Post by Ty on Jul 31, 2007 0:22:46 GMT
Well, no shit. Hell, I'm more popular than Uwe Boll.
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Post by Oct-taku on Jul 31, 2007 0:36:09 GMT
...Who're you? ;D
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Post by grigori on Jul 31, 2007 1:05:12 GMT
George Andrew Romero's popular? Huh, must be a British thing. Probably yes. Depends upon the circles you're in. But no matetr who you speak to, he's always going to be more popular than Uwe Bol. Ohhhhh snap. Seriously, though, I bet that VA Tech guy is more popular than Uwe Bol. I mean, he just won't stop making those crappy movies. |
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Post by samsbrumen on Aug 8, 2007 22:23:59 GMT
He's not known for being very clichéd... Four films about the same thing? The usual blood, guts & gore? The 'metaphors' that are that little bit too obvious? Man I hated Land of the Dead....so disappointing! All the movies were different. Sure, the idea was the same (A group of people try to survive zombies, but due to their inhumanity and intolerance to differences, they all die.) but when you look at them, a farm, a mall, a military base, a city, and the forest don't have much in common. Besides the fact that they're easily taken by zombies. |
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Post by Ms. Cleo on Aug 9, 2007 7:16:19 GMT
Who the hell's Uwe Bol? Or did I just answer my own question?
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Post by The King Of Scots on Aug 12, 2007 14:58:33 GMT
So, im wondering how Romeros going to put humans as being the bad guys at the end, hes Done it with all his Dead movies:
Night - Humans Shootthe protagonist (Forgot his name)
Dawn - Bikers need i say more
Day - Never seen it but wasnt the guy going to make a zombie army
Land - The whole oppresion thing
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Post by Kan on Aug 12, 2007 14:59:53 GMT
Robot goes crazy and kills everyone!!! Oh sorry, you were saying?
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Post by grigori on Aug 13, 2007 0:39:21 GMT
We'll have to wait and see, Lone.
I was wondering how he'd touch on current events:
Night- Racism
Dawn- Consumerism
Day- Militarism?
Land- Terrists.
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Post by Rakk on Aug 13, 2007 0:59:17 GMT
Judging by the title... Illiteracy?
Maybe have the protagonists/antagonists run up to a sign at a crossroads left is life, and right is certain doom and have them all "Man... I wish I could read... lets go right. I have a good feeling about that."
In all seriousness though, the title is... "special." Hopefully this one will not be a bad SFX piece like his last one... the 3D post-production blood killed the last one for me.
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Post by shaft121 on Aug 13, 2007 7:39:30 GMT
Maybe the title was mispelt. Maybe it's 'Dairy of the Dead' and it revolves around the foot & mouth crisis of now & a few years back?
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Post by Ms. Cleo on Aug 13, 2007 7:58:31 GMT
lmfao The zombie virus derived from mad cow disease *falls down laughing*
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Huh, must be a British thing.
