This movie was so good I forgot I was videoing it

Rating: Null/10 (26 April 2004)

This is the first time I've been back to the cinema in Aylesbury since my date with that girl from the Internet (see my Silence of the Lambs' review) but everyone was really cool about it. Richie showed them his ID and told them it was part of my rehabilitation, and the manager let us in.

We went to see Dawn of the Dead' which had sequel written all over it in my opinion. I was cool about seeing it though, but told Richie that I'd seen the first one and remembered that it was rubbish (see my Dead Poets Society' review). Richie said he didn't really want to watch it either, but knew a few people who did.
Because the seat numbers kept changing I couldn't work out where we had to sit, so Richie sat me down at the front and made a few phone calls whilst I watched the adverts. When they were finished Richie gave me a video camera and told me to focus on the screen, press record and then not move. Richie then tells me he's got to go because there's a mammoth lose in the hospital and to wait here for him, because it's a test.
The film was really crazy and scary though, so I had to concentrate hard on not moving. It's about the dead coming back to life and attacking people and in many ways reminded me of Last of the Summer Wine'. But these undead people have a taste for human flesh and so these people have to hide in a shopping centre to escape.
I kept thinking that a better place to hide would be at the hospital were Richie works. That's where babies come from and babies are life, so that would scare the dead away. Also the mammoth could trample any undead that got inside.
All the people in the film were really nice and friendly and when some of them died it made me feel sad, but the film's colours made me feel happy and kind of drunk. Towards the end some of the ushers came to talk to me but because of the test I couldn't reply, so I pretended not to see them. They got quite angry, but luckily Richie turned up and told them about capturing my fears' and anger transference' so they left us alone.
The good news is that I must be making progress because on the way out Richie told me that the ushers are even dumber than you'. That's progress.
Movie Rating: B+
Rated R for pervasive strong horror violence and gore, language and sexuality.