THE BEST MOVIE EVER

Rating: 10/10 (28 March 2004)

ok i seriously love this movie ive seen it 4 times and i am going to see it again. I am a huge fan of the horror genre and my type of horror movies are wait for it wait for it THE ZOMBIE SUBGENRE. Now im going to compare this dawn of the dead to the other dawn of the dead. Yes I did mean other dawn of the dead bc lets be honest thats all it really is now.
SPOILERS AHEAD AND SPOILERS FOR THE OTHER DAWN OF THE DEAD.
Yes the other dawn of the dead did have the satiric aspect that addressed abortion, racism, consumers, and politics/science; it just failed to put them in a context that made sense. The whole fran is havin a baby ok so why dont we abort it lasted 2 mins and didnt have any effect on the rest of the original. The new dawn of the dead does have a political/social aspect to it but it doesnt throw it out like a bat out of hell as the other DOTD did.

In this movie it is obvious the apocalypse is here and the human race just dropped a few notches on the food chain. The zombies are vicious, quick, and just want to eat humans, and the zombies have only been around a day since it all started,unlike the original where the zombies have been around for three weeks and society is screwed up but no destroyed.

The original dawn of the dead zombies couldnt believably or possibly have taken over the world or at least we arent shown anything that would make them seem capable or extremely dangerous. Please note the original zombies walked slow, they didnt run like savage beasts for their prey. Remember (in the original dawn of the dead) how the rednecks and the military are just have a fun-fest drinkin coffee, shootin zombies, laughin and tellin jokes. Lets not also forget the biker scene where the bikers are just throwin pies right in the zombies faces just messin around with the zombies and the only time a few bikers get eatin is when they are caught in moments of serious stupidity.
This next part is not as much comparison as it is showing a difference between the two dawn of the dead movies
In the 1978 dawn the movie was focused on a group of 4 friends who decide to land their helicopter at a mall for the time being. The new dawn focuses on a group of 5 people who are forced to run and find refugee in a nearby mall to get away from the hordes of zombies. The characters who enter the mall meet up with 3 security guards and later take in about 6 other survivors. Ok the new dawn didnt want to focus on a small group of friends instead it wants to show a small amount of people strive to make a new society in a mall bc the only other place for refuge is a small island. Both dawns involve an island but the new movie actually involves the island a little more. Back to the characters. The new dawn has characters that fill parts of an every day society just compacted into a few people.
I could go into a lot more but i have said enough so in short the new dawn of the dead not only surpasses the 1978 dawn of the dead, it is possibly the best movie ever and is the favorite in my book
10/10