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DVD REVIEW: SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD

post #1 of 8
9/9/10 at 1:30pm
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Nick watches the latest Romero. Is the magic still there?

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post #2 of 8
9/9/10 at 1:35pm
I agree entirely with the review!
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post #3 of 8
9/9/10 at 1:45pm
The Van Patten/Morse caption is a Hall-of-Famer.

And, yeah, this movie was some boring-ass shit. I can't believe it got a moderate pass by a lot of folks.
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post #4 of 8
9/9/10 at 4:19pm
So far so good.
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post #5 of 8
9/9/10 at 4:55pm
I... actually liked this one. I certainly thought it was better than Diary.

I rather enjoyed the fact that it felt like a smaller, more intimate tale than the bigger picture stuff that has come before. And it seemed to take elements of the first three (wooded backdrop, survivors looking for a safe haven, military folks out for themselves, the dilemma as to how to deal with the dead), and crammed it all into one film. It felt like a summary of Romero's original work. And I kind of liked it because it felt like putting on an old shirt that you are still fond of wearing from time to time.

Agreed, the CG was terrible, but there were only a couple of places where it really grated (the heads on pikes scene, specifically), but most of it didn't bother me too much.

And the acting on display didn't seem that out of place from anything Romero gave us in the first three films.

Overall, this is one of those times that I agree with Devin's take on the film.
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post #6 of 8
9/9/10 at 5:05pm
Very nice review, Nick. "And it seems he loves the unlimited freedom of CGI in his zombie movies." That gif is a painful analogy for how I feel about Romero's most recent work. It bums me out something fierce that Land just might wind up being the last "good" Romero film. I'm still gonna have to watch this tripe regardless.
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post #7 of 8
9/9/10 at 6:18pm
I liked the film a lot more than Nick, but good review anyway. For me the worst thing about it was Van Sprang. So boring, and just plain bad in some scenes (the overacting when that one team member of his died made Kenneth Welsh look restrained).

Love the final shot to this movie, Romero's best ending since Night in my honest op.
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post #8 of 8
9/10/10 at 6:19pm
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Originally Posted by Disciple_72 View Post
Love the final shot to this movie, Romero's best ending since Night in my honest op.
Yeah me too. This is the only nice thing I can say about the movie really.
Some of the kills were amusing, but the effects were atrocious(like the gif Nick made, and the zombie with the flaming head). Not a good movie. I was really surprised to see so much love for it in the post release thread.
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