Mar 2019 *
Nah... not even trash. Just epic. I watched again for this month's challenge, and I still love it. This movie changed my fucking LIFE.
I still remember the days when I was just getting into horror movies, and I had to binge all the classics. It was a better time, circa 2005, when Anchor Bay was king, and when you were more willing to blind buy a dvd, because the market wasn't oversaturated with crap. I saw this damn movie and it blew my fucking mind. Romero wrote such an excellent social commentary, with a wonderful cast of characters that really reels you in to the carnage and consumerism and character development, and that's what I fucking loved about Romero. He was such a good writer! He was a better writer than director IMO, but together, he was unstoppable. His scope was so epic, his stories were so damn good, and Dawn is the culmination of his narrative prowess. Everything about Dawn of the Dead is perfect, and I consider it a top-10 movie.
There are only so many movies that have as good a replay value as this movie. I've seen this movie dozens of times, and I still remember how awesome the movie was when I first saw it. I stood up and cheered when Ken Foree turned the tables on the zombies and that shittily-awesome triumphant music played. The movie sets the standards for not only the entire zombie subgenre, but the horror genre itself. It set the bar so high, not even Romero himself could beat it with his successors like Day and Land and whatnot. It's really the culmination of the 70s in many ways. A triumph in filmmaking.
As tommix likes to say, "We must stupp the keeling, or loose the wharr!"
"Mangina!" *Eddie Murphy laugh* - (not) Ken Foree
"Blow all their Puerto Rican and n*gg*r asses right off!" - Rascism trash points
"We whipped 'em. We whipped 'em good."
So many quotes in this movie, it's hard to praise them all...
I still remember the days when I was just getting into horror movies, and I had to binge all the classics. It was a better time, circa 2005, when Anchor Bay was king, and when you were more willing to blind buy a dvd, because the market wasn't oversaturated with crap. I saw this damn movie and it blew my fucking mind. Romero wrote such an excellent social commentary, with a wonderful cast of characters that really reels you in to the carnage and consumerism and character development, and that's what I fucking loved about Romero. He was such a good writer! He was a better writer than director IMO, but together, he was unstoppable. His scope was so epic, his stories were so damn good, and Dawn is the culmination of his narrative prowess. Everything about Dawn of the Dead is perfect, and I consider it a top-10 movie.
There are only so many movies that have as good a replay value as this movie. I've seen this movie dozens of times, and I still remember how awesome the movie was when I first saw it. I stood up and cheered when Ken Foree turned the tables on the zombies and that shittily-awesome triumphant music played. The movie sets the standards for not only the entire zombie subgenre, but the horror genre itself. It set the bar so high, not even Romero himself could beat it with his successors like Day and Land and whatnot. It's really the culmination of the 70s in many ways. A triumph in filmmaking.
As tommix likes to say, "We must stupp the keeling, or loose the wharr!"
"Mangina!" *Eddie Murphy laugh* - (not) Ken Foree
"Blow all their Puerto Rican and n*gg*r asses right off!" - Rascism trash points
"We whipped 'em. We whipped 'em good."
So many quotes in this movie, it's hard to praise them all...
