Lawrence Booth2 said:if this movie had pulled in 50 million, it would’ve just been some mainstream garbage😉 instead, it's just a 21st-century zombie flick... and stop trying to compare it to the golden era from the late seventies and early eighties... those were different times entirely😁
Totally agree. You can't make a good movie anymore. That's it. It's over. We're doomed as a species.
No, in Night of the Living Dead, he started the whole zombie thing. The hook was simple: zombies are slow and easy to kill, but they're still dangerous. Half the movie happens inside a house while people are boarding up windows. All that arguing about whether to stay in the basement or head to the attic. Brilliant.
In Dawn, he used zombies as a tool to create a masterpiece. That... I mean... that shopping mall, that muffled music playing in the parking lot, then once they get inside and start frantically running through the stores—you get fifteen minutes of just people sprinting through aisles to upbeat music. And all of it mixed with fighting zombies. Plus the conflict with other humans, which this movie actually predicted.
The best parts of this movie for me:
-The fact that the zombies are watching fireworks (kind of implies the government turns people into zombies just by giving them a little fireworks show)
-The way the zombies act like people trying to cross the border into the USA
-That Mexican kid saying he's gonna start a Jihad on that guy
-The main character deciding to head to Canada
-And stuff like that
But the American satire feels played out. It wasn't the backbone of the film like it was in Dawn; it was just a random detail here and there. Too much mindless action. The action wasn't "zombified." It lacked that feeling of "they're slow, but there's so many of them and they're constantly closing in and they're dangerous." It was just "they sneak up on you and you don't know where they'll jump," and that is NOT zombie action.
So yeah. Such a shame.
