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Holistic Guidance - George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead
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List Price: $24.95
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Manufacturer: The Weinstein Company
Starring: George A. Romero
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0796019811736
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: The Weinstein Company
Manufacturer: The Weinstein Company
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: The Weinstein Company
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-05-20
Running Time: 96
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Editorial Reviews:
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From legendary frightmaster George A. Romero comes one of the most daring, hypnotic and absolutely vital horror films of the past decade (fangoria.com). Romero continues his influential Dead series, this time focusing on a terrified group of college film students who record the pandemic rise of flesh-eating zombies while struggling for their own survival. Intensely gruesome and relentlessly grisly fueled by the directors signature realistic special effects Diary of the Dead is must-see horror that is Romero at his finest (bloody-disgusting.com).
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Summary: Diary Of A Dud
Comment: I likes me my zombie flicks.Big budget,small budget,big screen or straight to dvd.I can find something good and entertaining in all of them. All I can say about this one is...yeah,it's got zombies in it.
I like the"Let's make it a documentary" idea,but I have yet to see it work in a movie.It does not work here either.A group of students are filming a movie in the woods.Upon hearing of the zombie outbreak,they set off in search of answers while filming it all.They run into zombies,groups of survivors and paramilitary looting squads.Bad acting,bad script and no characterization...this one has it all.But what sets it apart is how bored I was trying to watch this.Amazing amounts of boredom.It became a personal challenge for me to watch the entire movie.In fact,I could feel myself turning into a zombie while watching this.Blank facial expression and lot's of moaning and groaning....at the very least,I could feel my life force draining away.
I cant enjoy a movie if I dont care what is happening or who it is happening to.A very bad movie... but at least it had zombies in it.
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Summary: a very good next chapter in the zombie saga
Comment: George Romero brings us the 5th dead movie but this time he has gone back the start of how it all happened.
The story is about a group of film students trying to make a movie but soon they relies they are in the middle of the end of the world in the form of the dead coming back to life so they try to survie and film it as it happens.
The filming is done like Blair witch Cloverfield REC and it's remake this film have action blood and guts and in your face satire that we have become acustom to from the film makeing legend this is an improvement to Land of The Dead even though i enjoyed the last one it felt too mainstream, this one gose back to it's indpendent roots, so all in all a very good zombie movie fans of his films will not be disapointed the only pain the a** about this film is that it trying to be like Cloverfield Blair Witch and REC that type of filming just dose not work on a Geroge Romero film.
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Summary: Romero IS King of Zombie flix
Comment: Initially, I wasn't going to see this because of the documentary style in which the film is told. Well, I did see it and boy, was NOT let down. If you love the Romero films, you must see this one too. It is well made, well acted, well directed.
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Summary: Worth a look
Comment: I'm too much of a Romero zombie fan to give an objective review so I'll just give my impressions.
Despite giving this 4 stars this is a movie that people seem to love or hate so you should try before you buy. If you think that the best romero zombie movie is the first then I think you'll enjoy this. If you think the second one is the best then you I'm not so sure.
This movie seems to follow the Night of the Living Dead and Day of the Dead mold where there's more character development but not as much action as in Dawn and Land of the Dead. This is a plus in my eyes considering that most of the recent zombie movies seem to follow the Dawn of the Dead mold as seen in the remake and in the 28 series. If you have different taste however you'll probably be left wanting for more.
The special effects where very good and work despite the fact that Romero starts goofing around in some scenes as usual. Thankfully he decided to not do something as ridiculous as the elastic zombie in Land of the Dead.
The one big negative I see is that the movie looks too clean for its own good. Had this movie been made earlier with old school grainy film I could bet that it would get a cult following from people who think the original NOTLD is the best movie in the series. Unfortunately the crisp visuals can make follwing the movie distracting and some people just won't be able to relax and let themselves be entertained.
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Summary: Good Idea, Horribly Executed
Comment: My wife and I own all of George Romero's "Of the Dead" movies, including Day of the Dead. However, Day of the Dead is no longer the weakest link in the "Of the Dead" franchise. Not even close. We were considering purchasing "Diary" without watching it first, thinking, "It's George Romero. How can we go wrong?" Suffice to say, we are glad we didn't purchase that DVD.
The idea is simple: college students filming a horror movie get thrown into a real one. However, whatever merit the original idea had gets sidelined by the absolute horror of the script, the screenplay, and the acting.
To follow are spoilers:
Let's get this out of the way first: you can't edit your video during the zombie apocalypse. And you don't edit music into a movie in which your significant other dies. Part of the beauty of other first-person movies like The Blair Witch and Cloverfield was their complete lack of music or editing... well, not quite complete in both cases, but neither had music or, God help us all, voiceover. The voiceover by the female lead was monotone, it was trite, and it was quite bad. Any movie that relies on voiceover to accomplish its aims, whether it be a moral message or simply a scare, will fall to its knees(the best example of this was Lynch's Dune).
With this said, you'd think that at least the script or the acting would make up for it.... but it doesn't. The actors say exactly what they are thinking whenever they think it. The script is full of meaningless, cringeworthy lines. Whoever wrote this movie needs to learn the value of silence in a horror movie. Filling the silence is not always a good thing.
All this would be redeemed, as in Day of the Dead, if the movie had some serious gore! However, it doesn't. There is an incident with a farmer, but that is about it. The zombie on the gurney spilling its guts out is done once again, after being done in Day of. It seems as if they ran out of on hand cash for special effects, however that's another issue - what's with the CGI gore? The acid on the head CGI was absolutely atrocious, and completely unbelievable. Most of the gore was computer generated, and it showed. Advice to the producers: stick with the makeup artists. They served you well.
Basically, this movie had some promise in an abstract sense, but failed to deliver. It had no subtlety, no gore, and no acting. The narration, music, and fortuitous editing sealed the coffin, but this one ain't waking up any time soon.
We will never again watch this movie, unlike the rest of the Of The Dead franchise which have an honored position on our DVD stand.
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