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Summary: Reality in fiction
Review: I think this movie was the greatest that Romero has ever made. Day of the Dead was the third installment of George Romero's walking dead trilogy. Day takes place during an undisclosed amound of time after the dead started to walk. We are witness to the downfall of one of the last vestiges of mankind. It is a very real, and very sobering look at the end of civilization, and how we would destroy ourselves from the inside out.
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Summary: Review of the Romero movie:Day of the Dead
Review: This movie was above and beyond the greatest zombie film ever created. This is the third installment in George Romero's classic Dead Trilogy. Night of the Living Dead came first, then Dawn of the Dead, now comes the greatest horror the world has ever known, the Day of the Dead. A small group of civilians and doctors, along with 7 military soldiers have been set up in a compound underground to do surveilance on the zombies. But things get nasty when conflicts arise between the living, and with a ratio of 400,000 zombies per living human, conflict is always bad. This movie is tops! END
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Summary: Dead End
Review: The final chapter in the "Living Dead" trilogy that director George A. Romero began with the 1968 zombie classic Night Of The Living Dead, continued in '79's Dawn Of The Dead, is a solid conclusion. Day Of The Dead furthers along the timeline of the zombie apocalypse to a time when survivors are very hard to find.At an underground Florida research station, Dr. Logan (Richard Liberty) conducts grotesque experiments on captured zombies to search for a way that the living and the living dead can cohabitate. Begrudgingly sharing the facility with the doctor is military man Rhodes (Joe Pilato) and his underlings. Scientist Sarah (Lori Cardille) and her fellow survivors seek refuge at the compound just in time to see a clash between Logan and Rhodes reach a critical turning point. Let's face it, Day has a lot to live up to, after Romero delivered two nearly flawless previous installments. The other films made giant leaps for the horror genre. But by the time Day was released, things seem less special. Make up effects artist Tom Savini's is, as you might expect, even more detailed and gruesome than in the past. That said, by film's end, the story seems to peter out. Don't get me wrong. Romero's work on these films is genius, but, I just feel after a great set up, the story gets muddled. It's still worth it though... Of all the Dead film's, Anchor Bay decided that Day was classic enough to be a two disc set. The audio commentary with Romero, Savini, production designer Cletus Anderson, and actress Cardille is yet another great disussion about all things Dead. The track is great fun and informative. Along those same lines is disc two's The Many Days of Day Of The Dead, a 39 minute documentary featuring interviews with the cast and crew, gives you perspectives on the entire series. There's also another documentary that offers a more specific look behind the scenes--particularly at the make-up effects. You can hear a well conducted audio interview with actor Richard Liberty. A brief "Wampum Mine" promotional video, the theatrical trailer, TV Spots, and some fine DVD-ROM material, tops off the set. "Day" may not be as good as the other films in the series, but it's still a worthwhile DVD set for fans to own...
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Summary: Great quality DVD. Still a weak movie.
Review: Roger Ebert made a comment on his review of "Day" that stuck out to me about how "Night" and "Dawn" have had elements ripped off from numerous other directors and writers, including Romero himself. Need I say more? This movie is the weakest of the entire trilogy hands down. I've always thought the other films ("Night" in particular) were kind of successes by mistake. I really don't think Romero knows what it is about his own eariler dead films that made them so unique and thought provoking. I can't agree with the comments about the appearence of the "zombies." I thought they looked horrible (in that negative way for zombies.) I could get into detail about my compliants of the film, but I won't as it's been covered numerous times. Savini's best zombie make up work is in the 90's remake of "Night." Some think that comment alone ruins my credibility. So why 3 stars? The DVD quality and extras do enhance this film. I think they invested alot of time to clean up the audio and video. It makes passing this cinematic gallstone alittle easier.
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Summary: Divimax delivers the best edition ever
Review: This is one of the best DVD re-releases I have ever purchased. I have always been a fan of the George A. Romero films, and Day of the Dead has always been one of his best. This DVD is loaded with bonus features. 2 featurettes, Trailers, Commentary, and photo galleries. An absolute must for all fans.
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Summary: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Get Along With Bub.
Review: "Day Of The Dead," the third installment in George Romero's resilient and fascinating "Dead" series (which also includes "Night Of The Living Dead" and "Dawn Of The Dead") is yet another bizaare and unique entry. By now, the zombies pretty much have infested Earth beyond recognition, outnumbering man roughly 400,000 to 1. A group of scientists and soldiers are working feverishing in an underground bunker to either try and reverse the disease (the cause of which, remains unknown) or try to cope and get the living dead to behave, much like a dog. As it goes, the soldiers (led by Joseph Pilato) don't take too kindly to the scientists, as each zombie they wrangle in seems to be going to waste -- little do they know what lurks behind the doors of a somewhat mad-scientist who goes by the name of Frankenstein. Frankenstein is slowly, but surely, learning new things about the dead, err, undead, and even teaches one special zombie by the name of Bub (who incidentally, steals the show) how to appreciate the fine arts of literature, music and gun-play. The movie moves at somewhat of a snail's pace, but when it picks up, it picks up. Tom Savini's delicious (well, disgusting, really) gore effects make a reprisal, and they are absolutely astonishing, stepping things up a bit from "Dawn Of The Dead." Romero fills his movie with much instensity and fire, and really lets you get inside of the characters, before their insides are exposed by the undead. This movie is equally as tight and claustrophobic as the two preceeding it, and will no doubt please anyone who appreciates the stories Romero tells us. As the third part in the series -- which will pick up again later this year, finally, with Romero's brand-spanking new "Land Of The Dead" -- it suffers a bit from sequelitis, and like said before, it moves a little too slow, which is why I'm barring it one star. I still highly recommend it. No one makes zombie movies like Romero, and he sure knows how to tell a damn good story.
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Summary: just admit it
Review: Hey, i'm a huge Romero fan, and this film is an embarrassment to his legacy. If it had been made by any other director- everyone who's been lavishing praise and throwing laurels would say, "this director is clueless, Romero is the master and this guy is just floundering."
This kind of loyalty is an injustice to Romero. "Day of the Dead" wasn't a misstep, it was a disaster!
Please, if anyone has seen this flick before the first two parts of the trilogy, go watch "Night of the Living Dead" it IS a masterpiece and "Day of the Dead" is NOT representative of Romero's work.
So there,
a Romero fan.
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Summary: Locked Down in the Dark, with Dead Folks
Review: Things fall apart; the Center cannot hold.
Dire old poet William Butler Yeats said that; and Yeats never had the delight of fending off armies of the hungry walking dead hankering for a nibble at his Irish flesh, either.
Then again, Yeats never had the cozy comfort of being all locked down tight in a missile silo with a bunch of trigger-happy troopers, either, so what did he know, right? A-ffirmative.
Treat that flesh wound, make sure your M-16 is locked and loaded, and gas up the helicopter---it's time to gather up your buddies and fellow zombie survivors to enjoy the goriest, goopiest, sleaziest and most nihilistic of George Romero's ground-breaking, intestine-chewing Living Dead trilogy.
"Day of the Dead" has never gotten much love from zombie aficionados, and some blast it as the weakest of the three. If you hear a critic say that---take the man's gun and bullets away, chances are he's already infected by the zombies! With this gorgeously remastered and fully loaded Divimax Special Edition from the zombie-lovin' folks at Anchor Bay, "Day of the Dead" takes its rightful place as a fitting capstone to Romero's legendary, sanguine trilogy.
Never mind the chiaroscuro nastiness of "Night of the Living Dead", for my money "Day" is the most disturbing of the bunch.
It works on so many levels. For starters, humanity is now truly under siege by the implacable plague of flesh-eaters, as a handful of soldiers and scientists take refuge from legions of zombies in an underground military base/missile silo deep beneath the Florida Everglades.
Not surprisingly, this deranged little society of survivors is breaking down. Headed up by the crumbling Dr. Logan (played to twitchy-eyed perfection by Richard Liberty), the scientists, including heroine Sarah (played by former soap-opera maven Lori Cardille) and Doctor Fisher (a brief but chewy little role by John Amplas, who played a modern-day bloodsucker in Romero's "Martin"), are working feverishly against time to find a 'cure' for zombism.
Just what is the Good Doctor's methodology for arriving at a cure? Unknown. How well is the research going? Unknown.
Logan is awfully good at having the soldiers capture a zombie or two, and then going to work on the addled flesh-eater in the lab. We see a zombie with electrodes hooked up to its brain stem (the only part of its head that remains), a writhing but animated torso, and the severed head of one of the soldiers, a victim in a zombie attack and now a conscript in Better Living through Chemistry. None of this seems to do much for a cure, but Logan sure seems to enjoy it---that and training his new zombie protege "Bub", whom Logan is attempting to train via simple stimulus.
On the other hand, the military---well, it's not clear what the military guys are doing, other than drinking, smoking, cursing, leering at Sarah, pushing the scientists around, and otherwise displaying bad manners. Oh, and letting off a clip or two in some hapless zombie's face---YEE-HAW! A man's gotta live a little.
The point is that things in our cozy little bunker are quickly falling apart, and the military base's opposite poles---the giggling, google-eyed Dr. Logan for the scientists, and the snarling, trigger-happy Captain Rhodes (played to the hilt by Joe Pilato, who would be clacking ball bearings between his fingers a la Bogart if he had 'em) are none too stable themselves.
"Day of the Dead" has never looked so good with the new Anchor Bay transfer, and as a result the work of two Masters---Romero and special effects guy Tom Savini---is on display. Never have zombies looked so gooey---or so hungry. Romero keeps the pacing crisp, offers some genuinely creepy shots, and plays around with colors (especially in the climactic silo sequence) that would make Dario Argento proud.
Tom Savini keeps the carbonara sauce in ample supply: blood flows like cheap merlot, so this is not a movie for the squeamish---but it's a feast for a gorehound, from the jawless zombie in the movie's freakish intro to the---erm, "dishonorable discharge" of Captain Rhodes in the film's final moments.
The acting is a bit raw across the board, but nobody hurts for enthusiasm, and everybody gets the job done. Richard Liberty, Joe Pilato, Howard Sherman (Bub) and Gary Klar (the shoot-first, don't bother about questions Private Steel) all chew scenery while the zombies chew flesh. It's all good fun.
Two morals to this story:
Moral #1: While it's an OK idea to teach a zombie to appreciate Beethoven (hey, it worked for the little droogies in "A Clockwork Orange"), it's probably *not* such an OK idea to teach him how to shoot.
Moral #2: If the star-pupil Zombie Bub wants to salute you, then it's probably best to be a sport and play along.
Will the last Man on Earth please turn out the lights?
JSG
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Summary: What your doing is a waste of time, and time is all we have
Review: First there was "Night of the Living Dead" then "Dawn of the Dead" and now the darkest day of horror the world has ever known.
A small group of military officers and scientists dwell in an underground bunker as the world above is overrun by zombies. That is about all they do. There are some very cool aspects to this movie. The special effects are first rate, and perhaps the best of all the "Dead" movies. However, this is still the worst of the collection by far. The action sequences are so spread out, though the zombie scenes as mentioned above, are first rate.
George A. Romero is of course a legend, and you could tell watching this movie what his point was. Romero's movies are all based on human nature, and how we would react to this type of situation. In Day of the Dead he shows two different personalities, the analytical, and the "force is the resolution" type of personality. In Day of the Dead, they have to work together despite their conflicting personalities. It does not work, but to what extent does it not work? Enough to almost kill everyone, just like his other two movies, or will they truly find "the cure"?
The cast of this movie is another group of no names, just like the previous movies (minus The Candy Man in Night of the Living Dead); nevertheless, they all deliver in their roles. The physician, Dr. Logan (Richard Liberty), plays his role to perfection. You can tell he is really smart, has good intentions, but is a little abstract (working on what he's working on, you can understand). Lori Cardille plays Sarah, who is a little on the fence, but sides more with the physician. She finds herself caught between love, and reality. Her character is torn, and doesn't see what is obvious to the viewers of the film, and pays for it dearly of course.
There is a lot of conflict in personalities in all Romero's zombie films; however, this clash was not set up as well as the previous two. Also the action was better in the previous two, but the gore was far superior in Day of the Dead. I liked this movie a lot, but I would give Dawn of the Dead an A+, Night of the Living Dead and A, and Day of the Dead a B.
Grade: B
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Summary: hmm
Review: I know im out spoken here, but this movie puts shame to the DEAD trilogy. All the other movies were masterfully made, but this movies, horrible cast, crappy effects, and long, drug out tired old plot put shame to the whole shabang.
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