I didn't like this film

[rogerdemarco]

This & "The Reurn of the Living Dead" came out the same year and "ROTLD" was WAAAAAYYYY better.
The Return of the Living Dead vs. Day of the Dead!
From my blog on MySpace:
blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=277170344&blogID=339353020&Mytoken=DF54FF8F-240A-47B1-A1B2330EB0D1687F143766407

"I was watching my Day of the Dead bonus material dvd and I am so glad that Return of the Living Dead was the better film at that time. To me Day of the Dead was nowhere near as good as Dawn of the Dead. I do not know how Day could be George's favorite. No wonder why Return did better. In Day you had the military personale yelling and fighting with the scientists about how to survive the zombies. In Return the older guys and the punk rocker gang just put their differences aside to fight the zombies. They didnt just sit around and spew stupid comments around like in Day. There was more action in Return than in Day. The effects were great in both films but I like Return of the Living Dead better. George calls it a 'spoof' of his films. I dont think so. Its just a different take on the zombies. Just like in the 1988 zombie classic (to me anyway) Dead Heat. Gun toting zombies. COOL! Another different take on the whole zombie genre. So my main point is that Return is a better film and it is not a spoof."
~ Me

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Quote from another Roger on MySpace:

"I agree. I mean, I like Day of the Dead, but I thought Return Of The Living Dead was more fun watching. To repeat what you said: Day Of The Dead is nowhere near as good as Dawn Of The Dead. Dawn is like one my my favorite movies of all time. I never seen the movie Dead Heat though."

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Another quote from Ddarkvision:
"I totally agree w/ you on all points. w/ day, it was more of a racism fueled vat that boiled over and went bad. the special effects were great in day, and the zombies were really scary looking. however, the soldiers' in day ended up being scarier than the zombies. good call, mr. demarco. Ddark".

[The Dead Walk!]

Have to disagree with you big time here. Honestly I don't even see how you can put both films in the same league.

DAY, to me (and most others likely), is much better on almost every level. Better effects, better characters, better story, better message. It's not that I dislike RETURN, I just don't think of it as a serious movie. It's just a fun one.

And to the dude who said DAY is a racism fueled vat... I don't think so (although racism is evident, it couldn't be farther from what the real issues were).

[Flyboy]

I liked Return of the Living Dead better than Day of the Dead although I do love Day quite a deal.

Return of the Living Dead is in my top five movies of all-time.

[rogueslayer]

If oyu enjoy Return of the livng Dead more thats cool. But if you say Day sucks then we got some problems! ;D

Sept 27, 2008 19:14:24 GMT -5 @rogerdemarco said:

I do not know how Day could be George's favorite.

He probably enjoyed making it more I guess.

[rogerdemarco]

I just didn't like it. "Land of the Dead" was WAYYY better than "Day of the Dead". That's not a personal shot to "Arby", just so he knows.

[Doctor Tongue]

Sept 28, 2008 0:20:16 GMT -5 @rogerdemarco said:

I just didn't like it. "Land of the Dead" was WAYYY better than "Day of the Dead". That's not a personal shot to "Arby", just so he knows.

[glow=red,2,300]I have yet to see anyone but you enjoying Land more then any film from the original 3.[/glow]

[rogueslayer]

Sept 28, 2008 0:20:16 GMT -5 @rogerdemarco said:

I just didn't like it. "Land of the Dead" was WAYYY better than "Day of the Dead". That's not a personal shot to "Arby", just so he knows.

Arby's dead now for the time being....... . He now stands to you as Rogueslayer! Built by just 956 pesos........courtesy of Radioshack! ;D

So how do you feel against Diary vs Day?

[rogerdemarco]

Sept 28, 2008 10:15:02 GMT -5 rogueslayer said:

Sept 28, 2008 0:20:16 GMT -5 @rogerdemarco said:

I just didn't like it. "Land of the Dead" was WAYYY better than "Day of the Dead". That's not a personal shot to "Arby", just so he knows.

Arby's dead now for the time being....... . He now stands to you as Rogueslayer! Built by just 956 pesos........courtesy of Radioshack! ;D

So how do you feel against Diary vs Day?

I aint seen "Diary" Yet. Last good zombie film I seen was "28 Weeks Later".

[rich]

I must disagree on Return of the Living Dead being anywhere near the league of any Romero dead film. The one thing that Return really has going for it though is the make-up effects. I love how the zombies in that film look like the creatures of the old EC horror comics. They look disgustingly great.

The Day story is far superior though, and Tom's effects (when it gets to the yucky stuff) are absolutely unbeatable even to this day.

George A. Romero's Day of the Dead is the absolute definition of Tom Savini's career as a make-up effects artist.

[Doctor Tongue]

Sept 30, 2008 14:22:49 GMT -5 rich said:

I must disagree on Return of the Living Dead being anywhere near the league of any Romero dead film. The one thing that Return really has going for it though is the make-up effects. I love how the zombies in that film look like the creatures of the old EC horror comics. They look disgustingly great.

The Day story is far superior though, and Tom's effects (when it gets to the yucky stuff) are absolutely unbeatable even to this day.

George A. Romero's Day of the Dead is the absolute definition of Tom Savini's career as a make-up effects artist.

[glow=red,2,300]Day has and always will be my personal favorite.[/glow]

[zombiekiller]

Yeah, a lot of people like "Day". It's an okay film, I am not saying it's horrible. Basket Case was horrible, so bad I didn't wanna see it..LOL. Steel's my fave in this film. Just wish he wasn't a bigot :-)