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Re: No reviews of Diary of the Dead?
There's a review at dvdmg.com
STOP HIM! He's supposed to die!
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Re: No reviews of Diary of the Dead?
Ive got the movie watched, working my way through the extras, review soon.
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Re: No reviews of Diary of the Dead?
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I'll review the film. It's 90 minutes of George Romero saying "Humans suck. Do you see? Do you SEE? NOW DO YOU SEE?"
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Yes! The man's head is getting so far up his ass about his beloved undead that he's in serious danger of lapping his own body.
He's out of ideas and his "brilliance" diminishes more and more with each new film.
But, this is the DVD review thread so I will say that it looked and sounded great.
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Re: No reviews of Diary of the Dead?
I thought the posse in NOTLD was a much better commentary on the foolishness of humanity.
I found that Diary was a big burn on the cult of the amateur tho, rather than humanity as a whole. It seemed to bring up a lot of issues about how everyone has an undying need to express themselves and that pros are no longer as valuable. This is echoed in the effectiveness of the African American 'posse' as opposed to the national guard.
Is the death scene the hanging? THAT was the highpoint of the movie for me...
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My other problem with the movie, besides the heavy handed message, was that NONE of the characters were remotely worth caring for except the professor. I liked him. The rest were all weasels.
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Absolutely, that was one of my many beefs with this movie. I especially hated Deb, her constant and depressing narration made me wish that **I** had
Warning Spoiler! Click to showstuck a sickle through my head.
And if I heard a character say any of the following words one more time I would have done what I said above...
Downloaded/loading
Blog
YouTube
Streaming video
All that tech talk just screamed
"hey, kids, check out ol' George, ain't it cool that i'm hip enough to know what these things are and am making a *MODERN* zombie flick?"
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Re: No reviews of Diary of the Dead?
I took it just the other way, disdain for all of those technologies.
Also, yes that samuel scene was a great highlight, but the hanging was even more slick IMO.
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