Day of the Dead (Divimax Special Edition)

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Summary: The conclusion of the series
Review: Here we have the last movie in George Romero's zombie trilogy. Beginning with Night of the Living Dead and followed by Dawn of the Dead, the series wraps up with Day of the Dead. I loved the original, enjoyed the second and mostly went eh to the third. This third movie sticks to same philosophy; focus on character development and interaction and include a few necessary zombie and gore moments. Unfortunately they spend all but about the last 30 minutes of the movie focusing on the characters, with little or no zombie involvement, which would be fine and was in the previous movies. However in order to tell the story and not bore the audience, the actors have to be pretty good and have some decent dialogue. This is not the case. By far I was the most disappointed by the script and acting talent than I ever was before.

Essentially the story is that the zombie epidemic apocalypse is still in full swing. One research group with the support of whatever government is left has been setup in Florida. Their job is attempting to research and study the zombies and figure what makes them tick. The story that the movie spends its time telling is of the internal character conflicts within the group, especially the civilian scientists versus the barely controllable military personnel. Suffice to say that I was generally annoyed by many of the character in this movie and barely felt that the zombies were even involved.

To top it all off, when the zombies really finally become involved is when the character development stops and the end of the movie just turns into the grisliest gore fest yet seen anywhere in the trilogy. Coppice amounts of stomach churning scenes assault you as if to make up for the rest of the movie's lack of gore scenes. Worse than that though is had you even been interested in seeing a conclusion to the plot, well you're out of luck.

Not the worst movie by any means, but the worst of George Romero's trilogy.

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Summary: Romero's Answer to Kubrick's 2001, the Ultimate Nightmare
Review: ... both films ask the question, "what will be the final outcome of mankind?" Or - to phrase this in a more cliched way, "what is the meaning of life?" (Not "life" as individuals, rather life as a "force"). Borrowing from Fredrick Neitzche's only fiction, "Thus Spake Zarathustra", Kubrick, in the Starchild squences at the end of the film, speculates we will give birth to the "Superman", and evolve into gods of our own likeness to live through eternity.

Romero says, "...not s' fast, Plato" in his masterpiece (yes, critics and film snobs, this trilogy is an utter, inspired masterpiece! It's one of the most brilliant philosophical works in the history of the medium!) trilogy our ultimate fate is a descent into hell - literally to be devoured and replaced by the "anti-superman" (zombies) of our likeness. As the exact opposite of Neitzche's Superman-God, the zombies are made in our image but exist as a frail and pale replication of ourselves. The singular mission to exterminate us - the "clean and the good" being replaced with filth and rotting corpses - themselves, the zombies, the "anti-superman". (The zombies do not devour us to sustain themselves, as stated, emphatically, in the film. Their motive then? This is a "tell" or a clue from Romero that he's going after something bigger here.)

The catalyst of either our Neitchian divination - or Romeroian demise? In both cases it's that which distinguishes us from the birds and the beasts, what we now call "science". Neitche would say that the leap from simple tool building and abandonment of religious explanations for natural phenomena is a significant step toward man as God-like (or God, depending on various interpritations) "superman" to exist in the fabled "heaven". Romereo would say our evolution with regard to science is, ironically, a move toward de-evolution and our nightmarish, "hellish" existance. (Space exploration, recall, is speculated in "Night" as the reason the Zombie curse upon us.) Both represent a human metamorphisis; "starchild" and "Zombie". Heaven or hell is represented in these films not as dual destinations based on individual human goodness, rather as alternative fates based on collective human goodness as a species.

Listen - with the intent to understand, the carefully crafted and delivered dialog of "Dr. Frankenstein", and also the Jamaican throughout the film. Notice the significance of the "Bub" character, and note who it is named after. Note the use of Ode to Joy.

There is a reason why this trilogy resonates through the decades, as does its opposite but correlatig vision, 2001. It is not, in the case of Romero's trilogy, the visceral "thrill" of graphic canabalism. It is because both films set out to answer deeper questions that are central to our existance. What does this (life) mean; what is our fate?

Kubrick offers an optimistic vision in 2001. We will evolve into the Starchild (Neizche's "supeman) and bear a new God! Romero - perhaps even more effectively, counters with his somewhat less optimistic vision.

George, if you're out there, at least somebody gets it. And thanks you for it.

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Summary: Romero- and yet, not Romero
Review: When the first scene opened, I was totally blown away. I thought: " My God, this thing will be the best of the series!" Well, by the end, I laughed at myself for thinking that. Now, the movie didn't suck, but it really didn't live up to DAWN at all. You get a bit of zombie action at the beginning, a little in the middle, and then all the rest towards the end. Wow. I expected this from Lucio Fulci (ZOMBIE), but from ROMERO?!? Rent this one first, folks. The zombies look great- pretty scary, too. But you don't see them enough. This may just be one you need to see twice- but it didn't quite have the luster of DAWN or NIGHT. Oh yeah- and the whole " training a zombie to help humans " was imaginative- in a Disney movie.

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Summary: WELL AT LEAST ONE PERSON AGREES WITH ME
Review: This has to be the worst ...of the dead movies. Night,Dawn, Return are classic. But Day of the Dead and Return of the Dead partII suck a big fat one for free on two knees.

If you the amazon buyer likes corny portrails of soldiers, a story line about as fast as a zombie's walking pace then you would like the movie The Tenant as well because they both suck.

Return II sucks too but I'll review that later.

I would call this a piece of trash but I would really hate to insult all of the pieces of garbage that might get called pieces of trash from time to time.

Save your money please or buy ZOMBIE. Now thats a slept on zombie flick. I bought it and really enjoyed it and was pleasantly surprised.

Now see here with some friendly advice you can even get a free recommendation to a real movie. Choose wisely and don't listen to the good reviews. Those reviews were written by some of the zombies in the movie and of course they want you to buy it.



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Summary: Underrated.
Review: Pretty much a very underrated film and yet i love because to be honest? I didn't like night of the living dead one bit or dawn of the dead which both in my opinion sucked... As in Geore A. romero's "Day of the dead ( divimax special edition)" was one of my favorite horror films besides evil dead 2 and nightmare in elm street the second episode. I highly recommend.