My Movie Journal is Better Than Yours

Notes History

Date Viewed	Venue	Note
11.12.04	DVD	2004 re-make "unrated director's cut". It's unfortunate that this has to be compared to the original. For a re-make it's really good. Of course all of the social themes of consumerism and domestication present in the original are gone, replaced by sprinting zombies and music video cinematography. OK, so the original zombies were slow because they came up out of the ground where they'd been rotting so it didn't make sense when a new death would start stumbling around even though his body is "fresh", but having these zombies still running around after months and months of time bugs me as well. It'd be cool to do a zombie movie where the bodies still break down after death, so quick zombies would start slowing down to the old stumbling pace. In any case, I'm glad I picked this up on DVD, even though the original is still great.