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Post by CT on Jul 29, 2009 11:50:28 GMT -5
HNT, I want some of whatever you were smoking when you saw this one haha!
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Post by abraxas on Dec 7, 2009 14:52:11 GMT -5
Frankly I thought it was the weakest of Romero's zombie films, I hate saying that as I'm a huge George Romero fan. Oh disregard the coment I made in the other Diary thread
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Post by GL on Dec 8, 2009 10:44:56 GMT -5
Don't worry, it is the weakest one. I barely thought it was even worthwhile at all.
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Post by The Walking Dude on Apr 21, 2010 8:14:56 GMT -5
Bloody hell it amazes me how this ones divides. Finally got to watch it without slumber and found it a vast vast vast improvement on the overblown Hollywood crud that was Land ... Vast.
Diary reminded me of a traditional Romero zombie flick.Sort of like he'd let Russ Streiner or Bill Hinzman also grab a camera during Night.
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Post by HNT on Apr 21, 2010 9:25:00 GMT -5
I'm with you, Matt. Considering some of the absolute trash that passes for horror (and espectially zombie) films, I am blown away by how negative the reaction to this rather low budget slight but fun film has been. Sometimes I wonder if we were all around to see Dawn when it came out whether half of us would find sometihng about it that they didn't like?
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Post by GL on Apr 21, 2010 9:56:58 GMT -5
I'd like it (I honestly would) despite the problems with it. It is flawed, like Diary, just this one is too heavily flawed to overcome the few small, relatively minor good parts, whereas that one was a little more even-heeled.
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Post by abraxas on Apr 21, 2010 11:03:02 GMT -5
It certainly doesn't fit in with he other films
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Post by GL on Apr 22, 2010 10:03:15 GMT -5
No, it doesn't. Those were good, if flawed, entries. This one was utterly terrible.
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Post by HNT on Apr 23, 2010 10:06:02 GMT -5
See, I don't really think that there were any flaws to speak of in Night or Dawn. Day didn't have many, but it was a little too talky, and had an insufferably bad and annoying carribean accent that costs it some points. In general, I think those are three of the best horror films ever made. I think This one fits the description that you offer above, namely a film that has some flaws, but enough good going on that it is still worth a look.
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Post by CT on Apr 23, 2010 11:42:00 GMT -5
I didnt like it on first viewing, but I think I was half asleep and not paying close attention so I owe it another look.
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Post by Jen on Apr 23, 2010 11:45:58 GMT -5
See, I don't really think that there were any flaws to speak of in Night or Dawn. As I have said, I don't really think any film is perfect, but I pretty much agree about these two. Pretty much as good as horror gets, in my opinion. I am not as big a fan of Day as some are, but its still really damn good. But I found Diary of the Dead really obnoxious.
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Post by CK (old account) on Aug 28, 2010 7:46:19 GMT -5
I thought Diary was good as a movie but I think Mr. Romero should have gotten a better cast. They werent the worst but I think they did a great deal of overacting. That aside I liked the film it had a good concept Romero showed what a first person perspective film should look like, made up for the total shitfest known as The Blair Witch Project.
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Post by GL on Aug 30, 2010 9:55:38 GMT -5
The biggest problem in this one is the POV camera, since it's impossible to tell what the hell's going on. I couldn't make out hardly anything in here without having to focus on a specific point in the picture and then judge what's normally supposed to be there, then go back and review it again once they make a remark about what's happened. That factor alone makes this one utterly terrible, since a film should be watched once through in a setting without having to go through such labors just to figure out what's supposed to take place. That Blair Witch technique is perhaps the single most despised gift to filmaking that's ever been performed.
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Post by abraxas on Aug 30, 2010 13:06:18 GMT -5
Hey man don't blame the Blair Witch project, it was innovative, if not totally original (Cannibal Holocaust anyone)....blaim friggin Hollywood who ripped it off and continues to rip it off.
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Post by GL on Sept 2, 2010 9:52:24 GMT -5
Blair Witch went further with the technique than CH (you could still tell what the hell was going on in the scene during that film) while in that one you couldn't. That's the point, not in who did it first.
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