Remakes can be good. Who'd of thought?

Rating: 10/10 (6 April 2004)

One enamole that has seemed to escape the foray of modern cinema is the fact that someone could take an already magnificently executed plot and put the just right spin on it as not to come off as redundant. You'd think with all the talented directors in Hollywood this would've happened by shear hit and miss before 2004. But nonetheless, the art of film remaking takes a well-waited turn for the best in "Dawn of the Dead". No doubt inferior than the original, (Just saying otherwise would have me condemend to the fiery depths of Movie hell with the likes of "Fast and the Furious", and "Freddy Got Fingered".) this film does stack up well next to Romero's ingenius 1978 opus of the same name. It rivals it if you will. This in my opinion is mainly in part of the fact that it's more or less it's own stand alone movie. Save for the occasional exception or in-joke. I mean when Ken Foree made his cameo and repeated his famous line from the original I literally jumped in my seat and almost wet myself. The people around me stared at me and presumaby made mental retardation jokes at me later thus destroying my faith in the movie going public but that's neither here nor there. Anyway the bottom line is with a great remake like this finally gracing our presence the catch-22 of the whole ordeal is this will simply inspire more Hollywood remakes. I find "Based on a screenplay..." to be one of those long lost credits becoming trendy again. Well it could be worse. They could remake "Walking Tall" (Hah, ha, Well I gues I walked into that one)