I'm Not There

Don't bury dead.  First shoot in head.   So far, all of Romero's zombie movies have been enjoyable but I think I missed the boat on   Diary of the Dead.   I had originally thought this was going to be a sequel to   Land of the Dead  of any of the other films.  Instead, it sees more of a reboot of Night of the Living Dead  with nobody knowing about the panic that just started.   I am not a fan of the found footage horror movie so this was not the film for me.  Granted, the film style preference is a very subjective idea but even taking that aspect out of the picture, it still was not my favorite of the series.  The amount of intentional cuts in the film within a film really took me out of the movie.  Looks like Romero tried to purposefully slow the pace down of the film which did not work for me. The main characters seem one dimensional and interchangeable. What I did like about the film was ...

Looks like God left the phone off the hook. These damn zombies man, they're slowly getting more intelligent and are starting to develop emotions. Land of the Dead , the fourth installment in the Romeroverse shows us the degradation of humanity amidst ongoing death and chaos.  Somehow one man (Mr. Kaufman) was able to control an entire city while he and a select others lived quietly in penthouses.  People are sick and living on the street below the skyscraper while he and his pals enjoy the finer things in life that are delivered to them.  Unbeknownst to them, the zombies are learning to communicate and use tools.  Granted, the military infiltrated their living space to steal supplies that they were not using (cough Saudi Arabia cough) and these particular zombies or "walkers" are seeking revenge.  Even though we don't see intentional killing (aside from the guy that deserved it), we see how the zombies are starting to understand feelings which will undoubt...

A-....a-...alloooooleeeeeeesha! I really enjoyed Day of the Dead  for two main reasons; the characters and the fact that   it shares certain elements with old horror films.  Romero has really upped the ante with all the characters in this third installment.  Rhodes is the biggest a-hole in the entire trilogy, an unnecessarily  misogynist, racist, violent person who happens to be the leader.  His men follow his lead not only because he is in charge but also because they have become so desensitized to the world around them they feel they need to exert power over the rest of the team.  While dissecting them, Dr. Logan mentions that the zombies react out of instinct and are not necessarily evil. To his point, we don't see any zombie in this film act "bad" or "evil" or attack anyone out of malice.  This can be said for the zombie sin the previous films but it is in this one where that fact is outright called out for the viewer to retain th...

I realize there are some things worse than death, and one of them is siting here waiting to die. I had never seen Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead  remake or heard much about it.  I definitely knew it existed but purposefully tried to not find out too much about it so I could enjoy it more on the day when I finally got around to watching it.  that day was today, 15 years after it was originally released in theaters, I take my time with things. I saw right away that this is a film where the zombies run.  I'm a zombie purist and like my un-dead like drivers on the 405, slow and dumb.  Still, I didn't let this take away from how I viewed the film. Written by James Gunn, directed by Snyder AND Johnny CASH in the opening credits? Alright, I see you Zack. I dare say this movie is one of the best remakes to ever see the light of day.  It was different enough from the original but still gave several nods to it via cameos, lines, and imagery.  It also show...

When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the earth.  Admittedly, this film takes a while to pick up but once it does, it's a good ride.  Imagine having an entire mall all to yourself, things would seem awesome despite the chaos and death going on in the outside world.  The people in this film had it so good in the mall that they even started watering plants, ice skating and having fancy dinners while people on the outside were being mauled and eaten alive.  NBD.  That is until a jealousy filled group of assholes on bikes showed up and destroyed what took the main characters so long to build.   They started breaking doors down and looting as if they could go on the outside and pawn jewelry and glassware for supplies. the only redeeming quality about this group of miscreants was that they threw pies in the zombies' faces and that was hilarious.  Overall, this film touche don consumer culture and greed and what idiots humans can be...