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Alright, since it's been a while since I wrote this, I'm going to rewrite it and turn it into an actual review, since the previous thing posted more of a rant. Also I've giving this flim a lot of thought and decide "Hey, it's crappy, but it entertains". Here's the rewritten review.
Before I get to the plot and what works/what doesn’t work, I’ll just say that Day of the Dead is a BAD movie. But it’s an entertaining one with a simple plot, and for that I’m grateful. I've seen zombie movies/ remakes not only worse than this, but also incredibly boring. *coughcough*Dead Next Door*coughcough*
The plot of Day of the Dead (2008) is simple. A bunch of soldiers try to barricade a town that's been infected with a virus that turns people into zombies and soon enough they and a few civilians have to flee and find a way out of the city. Sounds like Day of the Dead to you. Nope. Since Resident Evil Apocolypse was so abyssmal, I'm guessing they wanted to try to make a better movie based on Resident Evil 2, except slap on the name of a far superior movie for the title. The only things I saw that were reminesent of the original was that some of the characters shared the same names and the underground base in the last half hour of the film.
What works in Day of the Dead:
1.) The amount of the gore. It gets repetitive over a while, but it should satisfy any gore hounds out there.
2.) The acting. It's subpar, but it's not as abyssmal I thought it was.
3.) Nick Cannon, while getting the worst lines in the movie, still has funny lines to balance out the bad.
4.) Some of the action sequences were alright too.
5.) Matricide by Humvee.
6.) It's way better that most of the remakes pushed out in theaters today. Don't get me wrong, it's still bad.
What doesn’t work:
1.) THE GODDAMN SHAKY CAMERA WORK. I really hate it when a movie is flimed like the director has Tourettes.
2.) How far it drifts from the source material. Like I said, the two films have less in common than a dog and a fungus do.
3.) The zombies in general. I mean, I can get over the nosebleed before zombiefication(kinda cool actually), the insta-rot, and the running(I don't like running zombies), but the wall crawling I cannot. There not zombies, there just people bitten by radioactive brown recluse spiders!
4.) How they handled the Bub subplot. A vegetarian zombie? Come on!
5.) The cliche "cheap scare" ending.
6.) It's not that scary.
7.) The terrible script writing.
8.) Really bad CGI. It may have a lot of gore, but it's so........................ fake looking.
Final Synopsis: Overall, Day of the Dead(2008) is a bad movie and fails as a remake, but it's still a satisfying one. Steve Miner did alright for a zombie movie, but personally he should stick to slashers. If you love the original Day of the Dead, stay away from this film… if you like bad zombie flicks it may be worth a rent. I give it a 3 out of 10. Let it pass.
Points Lost: -1 for wall-walking zombies, -1 for bad CGI, -1 for a lack of character development, -1 for inconsistencies in the film’s zombie mythology and poor filmmaking decisions in general, - 1 for lame dialouge, -1 for poor script, -1 for drifting so far away from the source material
Lesson Learned: If you see your mom, dad, sister, brother, etc. on the road and he/she is a zombie, run him/ her over with a Humvee.
Burning Question: Why do so many remakes suck this day of age? High expectations?
Before I get to the plot and what works/what doesn’t work, I’ll just say that Day of the Dead is a BAD movie. But it’s an entertaining one with a simple plot, and for that I’m grateful. I've seen zombie movies/ remakes not only worse than this, but also incredibly boring. *coughcough*Dead Next Door*coughcough*
The plot of Day of the Dead (2008) is simple. A bunch of soldiers try to barricade a town that's been infected with a virus that turns people into zombies and soon enough they and a few civilians have to flee and find a way out of the city. Sounds like Day of the Dead to you. Nope. Since Resident Evil Apocolypse was so abyssmal, I'm guessing they wanted to try to make a better movie based on Resident Evil 2, except slap on the name of a far superior movie for the title. The only things I saw that were reminesent of the original was that some of the characters shared the same names and the underground base in the last half hour of the film.
What works in Day of the Dead:
1.) The amount of the gore. It gets repetitive over a while, but it should satisfy any gore hounds out there.
2.) The acting. It's subpar, but it's not as abyssmal I thought it was.
3.) Nick Cannon, while getting the worst lines in the movie, still has funny lines to balance out the bad.
4.) Some of the action sequences were alright too.
5.) Matricide by Humvee.
6.) It's way better that most of the remakes pushed out in theaters today. Don't get me wrong, it's still bad.
What doesn’t work:
1.) THE GODDAMN SHAKY CAMERA WORK. I really hate it when a movie is flimed like the director has Tourettes.
2.) How far it drifts from the source material. Like I said, the two films have less in common than a dog and a fungus do.
3.) The zombies in general. I mean, I can get over the nosebleed before zombiefication(kinda cool actually), the insta-rot, and the running(I don't like running zombies), but the wall crawling I cannot. There not zombies, there just people bitten by radioactive brown recluse spiders!
4.) How they handled the Bub subplot. A vegetarian zombie? Come on!
5.) The cliche "cheap scare" ending.
6.) It's not that scary.
7.) The terrible script writing.
8.) Really bad CGI. It may have a lot of gore, but it's so........................ fake looking.
Final Synopsis: Overall, Day of the Dead(2008) is a bad movie and fails as a remake, but it's still a satisfying one. Steve Miner did alright for a zombie movie, but personally he should stick to slashers. If you love the original Day of the Dead, stay away from this film… if you like bad zombie flicks it may be worth a rent. I give it a 3 out of 10. Let it pass.
Points Lost: -1 for wall-walking zombies, -1 for bad CGI, -1 for a lack of character development, -1 for inconsistencies in the film’s zombie mythology and poor filmmaking decisions in general, - 1 for lame dialouge, -1 for poor script, -1 for drifting so far away from the source material
Lesson Learned: If you see your mom, dad, sister, brother, etc. on the road and he/she is a zombie, run him/ her over with a Humvee.
Burning Question: Why do so many remakes suck this day of age? High expectations?
Last edited by Neyla on Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:50 pm; edited 2 times in total
