Posted by Undead Johnny on May 20, 2008, 10:19 pm
Message modified by board administrator May 20, 2008, 10:21 pm
Okay....wow...this was bad. It kills me to say this, but it. was. bad.
If I hadn't known going in it was a Romero film, I would've stopped the DVD about 10 minutes in. And I almost started fast forwarding towards the end. Not cause it was slow...just to get it over.
Bad acting...bad, bad, bad concept (and man, the social commentary point was made without having the whole film have to be the found footage. Especially as they edited it, added music, and used uploaded footage to make the point anyway. All the montages of society and TV and computers and atom bombs, etc...THAT (and the horrible voice overs) were enough to make the point.
And the acting, as I said...BAD. Esp the main girl and her HORRIBLE voice overs.
Even the zombie deaths (like acid to the brain, the shooting thru the head with the head resting on the barrel, etc) NOT GOOD because they were so CGI'd heavy. even worse than Land's CGI enhanced blood (and I really liked Land. I'm one of the few who really dug Land.)
Ugh...and the fricking "don't mess with texas" and the dixie or whatever music after that??? What the fudge?!?! (I noticed our new message boards edit out swear words)
God, this was fricking horrible!
What the fudge happened?
Sure, the beginning of Dawn had some bad acting, Day had some bad acting...but the MAIN actors were always good. Oh, not Diary.
I can appreciate the Romero shots of zombie littered landscapes, and the cool directors doing voice overs for news reports, but that's about it.
I gotta say...if you took away the "found footage" and therefore the whole documentary conceipt and most importantly the voice overs, I think I might of liked it a lot more. And yes, the point he was making would still have come across without the whole conceipt of the found footage/made documentary.
And I don't mind the found footage concept. Man, I loved Cloverfield.
But it's fitting that this was put out by Dimension as it FELT like a Dimension film (and many of you know how I feel about Dimension.)
And it sucks, because Carpenter and so many other of my favorite directors have seem to have "lost it" but Romero has been the one who still has it. I love Romero, but I just couldn't get behind this film as much as I wanted to.
I did like the warehouse stuff with the black national guard guys. And I liked the scene in Deb's house with her brother and parents. Oh, and the re-use of the original newscast from NOTLD. But that's about it. About 10 minutes out of 95. And the final shot and final sentiment. That should have been the film (though the blood tear...)
I don't know, every one of George's movies I've liked more and more with repeat viewings...but all the others I initially liked, so who knows.
And made kinda worse by the fact that I also bought the new edition (like my 10th) of the original NOTLD. While watching this I kept looking over at the NOTLD dvd case. Can't wait to watch that new doc "another for the fire."
Man, very disappointed.
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