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Post by Flesh Eater on Aug 12, 2008 1:04:10 GMT -5
The remake is what I saw before the original. I though it was kickass. While Sarah Polley looks like the south end of a mule going north most of the time, she was somewhat sexy in Dawn. I could do without Mekhi Phiffer, the whole ganster thing aggrivates me.
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Post by blackknight273 on Aug 12, 2008 1:04:42 GMT -5
psst... I like the dawn remake Same here Hopefully this ends everything. Id hate to see any forum get sidetracked with this stuff to be honest
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Post by Flesh Eater on Aug 12, 2008 1:06:43 GMT -5
Same here.... back to more civilized conversation. Poopy heads.
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Post by tannerboyle on Aug 12, 2008 1:10:42 GMT -5
My history with the Dawn remake is as follows...
For almost ten years, I was a Deputy Sheriff with the Cook County Sheriff's Office in Chicago, Illinois. At one point, I was working as many as 9 shifts a week...and considering the fact that I had a gaggle of fraggles on my jock off-duty, I had my hands completely full.
In early 2004, I quit my job and moved to Fort Myers.
Up to that point, I think I surfed the web maybe twice in my life...and the last time I went online was to check out the Blair Witch website in 1999.
On March 9, 2004, I sat down in front of the computer alone for the first time to surf, and the first thing I typed into my search engine was "Dawn of the Dead".
That took me to the trailer for the remake. I knew nothing about any of that shit. I didn't know it had been remade, and would debut ten days later.
I was excited...and since I didn't carry around all that fanboy baggage, I looked forward to it.
When I finally saw it, I loved it. It was different, sure...but it was still great. Better than the original in alot of ways, even.
Later, I started posting at websites, and was surprised to see all of the bad blood about the remake. This lead to flaming in the end.
The rest is history. ;D
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Post by Flesh Eater on Aug 12, 2008 1:13:46 GMT -5
I think the only remake that deserves flaming is the Day remake with the zombie puking something on the cover. What a turn off.
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Post by tannerboyle on Aug 12, 2008 1:15:42 GMT -5
Haven't seen it yet.
The original wasn't exactly a masterpiece, so I'm not all fired up about it.
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Post by Flesh Eater on Aug 12, 2008 1:16:48 GMT -5
From what I've heard, a big fat turd sammich.
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Post by The Dead Walk! on Aug 12, 2008 11:13:35 GMT -5
Psst... I like the Dawn remake too. I think ol' Tanner forgets that fact.
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Post by Flyboy on Aug 12, 2008 12:23:28 GMT -5
I enjoyed the Dawn remake as well. It was a very fun & entertaining movie.
I could've done without the Disturbed songs though.
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Post by The Dead Walk! on Aug 12, 2008 12:51:53 GMT -5
I could've done without the Disturbed songs though. You and me both, brother.
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Post by tannerboyle on Aug 12, 2008 14:43:18 GMT -5
<shrugs>
That sort of music is what's trendy now. That's what the kids are into.
One of the aspects of horror movies that I love, especially when dealing with the ones from Fango's Golden Age, is the fact that they're like snapshots of the time in which they're produced. They take whatever's cool, whatever's going on at the time, and put them into the flick.
Notice that, in F13 Part 3D....that there's a Tommy Chong character. And, in FVJ, there's a distinctly "Jay" type kid. Ditto for the music on both.
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Post by The Dead Walk! on Aug 12, 2008 15:26:13 GMT -5
You're right, but it's still something unfortunate.
Then again, I appreciate how DAWN doesn't feature, say, The Bee Gees or Pink Floyd or ZZ Top. Sure, they had Goblin... but that was soundtrack music and not popular music of the time. The same could be said of NIGHT and DAY, really. I think that's one of the key things that can make a movie timeless (from an audio standpoint).
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Post by tannerboyle on Aug 12, 2008 19:10:24 GMT -5
You're right, but it's still something unfortunate. Then again, I appreciate how DAWN doesn't feature, say, The Bee Gees or Pink Floyd or ZZ Top. Sure, they had Goblin... but that was soundtrack music and not popular music of the time. The same could be said of NIGHT and DAY, really. I think that's one of the key things that can make a movie timeless (from an audio standpoint). Well...in all fairness, Goblin was considered progressive back then. And, they were popular in Italy. Also, in those days, having a pop soundtrack wasn't as commonplace as it is today. If Dawn had come out in 1999 instead of 1979, it probably would've had a pop soundtrack. If GAR could've afforded it...and even then he probably would've gone for broke like Kevin Smith did with Clerks.
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Post by Flesh Eater on Aug 12, 2008 19:13:23 GMT -5
I prefer the library tracks any day over the Goblin stuff. I really don't see what is so great about Goblin, IMHO. I know that Argento probably had more to do with that than Romero.
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Post by tannerboyle on Aug 12, 2008 19:15:16 GMT -5
He definitely did.
Have you ever checked out the definitive book on GAR's work (up to 1986), Paul Gagne's "The Zombies That Ate Pittsburgh"?
It talks all about that shit and more.
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