still thrilling . . . i've seen it again!

Rating: 10/10 (6 April 2004)

Oh yeah. The suped up busses were from romero's idea for dead reckoning. Anyway, we're at such a loss with this movie, really. Look, in the Dead '78, the humans found the mall--it had everything they could ever want, ever imagine ever having. Roger, Peter, Steve, Fran became so over-satiated that they wound up becoming dead from within, dead to themselves (even more aparent in the 142 minute version). Here, like i read somewhere else, the zombies never enter the mall--until the 3rd quarter of the movie and not because of a "former instinct to be in a place once important to them" it was simply to get the humans, i still can't remember their names, I think there's Mike, Ana, Luda, Ken, Andy, CJ. but that's as much as i can remember even after the second viewing--the character's are not as descript. Dead '78 was a film lambasting the excesses of consumerisim and the gluttony it encouraged. Dead '04 is taking a pro-consumer stance, almost blaspheming the philosophy of its paradigm (Dead '78). because look, its rated-R, its fast-paced, almost demanding repeated viewings, its in 2:35.1 aspect ratio enabling universal to market at least 4 dvd versions: a full-screen r-version, a full-screen unrated version, a widescreen r-version, a wide-screen unrated version, not taking into consideration a "renegade director's cut" possiblility. There are over 100 dvds on my shelf in my room upstairs. I'm a consumer. Universal Studios with its Dead '04 wants me to buy four more dvds to fullyt experience Zach Synder's DAWN OF THE DEAD. At least it was still thrilling the second time around! It made its money: where's the sequel!!!? I'm flesh-hungry for more!