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Warrior427

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it was ok no where near as good as dawn or night the whole camera thing just sorta threw me off I know he was tring to go back to his roots and everything but I think he could have do better just wasent very exciting

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Posted aug 10, 2008 8:42 am pt

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it was ok no where near as good as dawn or night the whole camera thing just sorta threw me off I know he was tring to go back to his roots and everything but I think he could have do better just wasent very exciting

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Posted aug 10, 2008 8:42 am pt

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The most disappointing entry in the "Dead" series so far.

Although the film is a new angle for the anthology, it pales in comparisson to tiles like `The Blair Witch Project`.

A lazy and forgettable effort...
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The most disappointing entry in the "Dead" series so far.

Although the film is a new angle for the anthology, it pales in comparisson to tiles like `The Blair Witch Project`.

A lazy and forgettable effort from George A. Romero.

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Posted jul 22, 2008 5:52 pm pt

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I enjoyed this movie. I'm a huge zombie movie fan and really respect Romero and his films. I liked how he was changing "his" genre a bit to see how audiences would react with the hand held camera effect. I really hope he decides to...
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I enjoyed this movie. I'm a huge zombie movie fan and really respect Romero and his films. I liked how he was changing "his" genre a bit to see how audiences would react with the hand held camera effect. I really hope he decides to continue making quality zombie films. If you like horror and the living dead you will like this film.

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Posted jul 7, 2008 1:01 am pt

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I'm very picky when it comes to zombie films. Aside from Day of the Dead (remake) and Shaun of the Dead, there hasn't been, for me, a great zombie movie. Which is a shame becouse zombie are probobly my favorite movie monsters. Now, with this...
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I'm very picky when it comes to zombie films. Aside from Day of the Dead (remake) and Shaun of the Dead, there hasn't been, for me, a great zombie movie. Which is a shame becouse zombie are probobly my favorite movie monsters. Now, with this latist film by George A. Romero, by longing for a great zombie movie as been fufilled.

Now, I've heard many complain about this film being a documentery type film much like Cloverfield, but this is truly such a different movie in feel and ton to Cloverfield that it's rediculus that the two would even be compared. I thought the passing to this film was great, the charecters were introduced well and he can really see there differing personalitys coming out as the plot unfolds. My only real complaint was the endig, I felt it was a bit...well, it was like the wrap up to the film was coming and then they just dropped it and your like 'Where's the ending?'

But overall. Great film and may be the best Zombie film to date. Lots of gore and we're treated to the slow moving zombies :)

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Posted jun 7, 2008 2:14 pm pt

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I admit, the writing and character development was a lil spotty... and they decided to use more tell then show to drive the film... but still, the movie had its own feel and trajectory that I liked... lots of good ghoul smashin... and the lil nods...
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I admit, the writing and character development was a lil spotty... and they decided to use more tell then show to drive the film... but still, the movie had its own feel and trajectory that I liked... lots of good ghoul smashin... and the lil nods to Night really made me sqee tho... Most notably, the radio announcement clip that in now infamous from Night was one of the last things heard on the radio... as well as the farmhouse that seemed rather like the one in Night... Admittedly, out of the Dead series, this is the weakest link, but compared to alot of crap in the subgenre, this movie def stands on its own.

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Posted jun 3, 2008 5:21 am pt

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Personally I was hoping that this movie would be a Cloverfield remake of Dawn of the Dead, but i was badly mistaken. For a George A. Romero movie I think he could have done better(it feels like an indie movie). Definately not the worst zombie...
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Personally I was hoping that this movie would be a Cloverfield remake of Dawn of the Dead, but i was badly mistaken. For a George A. Romero movie I think he could have done better(it feels like an indie movie). Definately not the worst zombie movies out there but not the best.

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Posted may 22, 2008 12:47 pm pt

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George A. Romero is responible for making the modern zombie movie look like it does. With 1968´s Night Of The Living Dead he set the milestone that havn´t been reached ever sence. And after one wonderful sequel: Dawn Of...
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George A. Romero is responible for making the modern zombie movie look like it does. With 1968´s Night Of The Living Dead he set the milestone that havn´t been reached ever sence. And after one wonderful sequel: Dawn Of The Dead from 1978 and the less good but not bad Day Of The Dead (1985) and Land of The Dead (2005) he is back to the genre he is best at. Using the right now very poular "Home Video" filming style used in movies like "the Blair Witch Project" and the two recent Cloverfield and REC, the movie is very realistic with nice dialouge and great acting. You can realy tell that Romero knows his Zombie movies, compare his movie to other and you´ve got a masterpiece. the zombie movie has been dead for a while now and if it´s one man who could possibly bring it back to form it would be Romero, but i´m afraid this isn´t the movie. Even though it has great acting and a pretty nice script. The "Home camera" is not like in other movies using it. It´s not shaking as mutch andit allmost feels like a normal movie sometimes, and that´s where the movie fails, some scenes that would be good in normaly shot movies doesn´t realy work so good here, it gets a little... what´s the word? crony seems a little too mutch but let´s say that. Diary Of The Dead is a very good movie and possibly the best zombie movie since his last installment Land Of The Dead. And i´m serious when i say it´s probably better, it´s up there with Day Of The Dead (the original) as a fun, scary and not just a great zombie movie but a great movie.

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Posted may 12, 2008 12:15 am pt

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I thought it was pretty entertaining.

You can tell its a Romero zombie-flick, its got his zombies. Its a pretty full story, the home video style camera work doesn't really get that annoying. It was a fun perspective and can actually...
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I thought it was pretty entertaining.

You can tell its a Romero zombie-flick, its got his zombies. Its a pretty full story, the home video style camera work doesn't really get that annoying. It was a fun perspective and can actually add a sense of realism for us poor desensitized lost souls.

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Posted may 5, 2008 11:09 pm pt

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This is the latest entry into the romero zombiefest. It follows a style used in cannibal holocaust and popularized by the blair witch and most recently used in cloverfield. It tells the story of a student director who while filming a horror film a...
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This is the latest entry into the romero zombiefest. It follows a style used in cannibal holocaust and popularized by the blair witch and most recently used in cloverfield. It tells the story of a student director who while filming a horror film a zombie outbreak occurs. One thing I must say is that the camera movements are not so jittery like cloverfield. It shows how the student tries to document the outbreak. This is a pretty good movie that it worth a viewing. The violence and gore is there but its not so over the top like the horror movies that have been coming out now. The acting is well... its a zombie movie what do you expect. For a zombie movie this one is actually one of the better ones. If you can find it (yes its to the point where you have to actually look for this movie if you want to see it) its worth seeing.

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Posted mar 2, 2008 10:10 am pt

• [+] Premiere
  
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  A giddy kick-out-the-jams entertainment. Diary takes a tack that's not exactly new, but is new to Romero, and as one might expect, the director brings a sharp and uncompromising new perspective to it.

  by Glenn Kenny | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
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  In most horror movies, it's a given that we should root for the heroes to make it out alive, but Diary of the Dead isn't nearly so certain, and so it terrifies us all the more.

  by Scott Foundas | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
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  Gripping, intimate genre triumph.

  by Eddie Cockrell | Read Full Review »
• [+] Rolling Stone
  
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  This one belongs with the leaders of the scare pack. Isn't it time that we give Romero his due? It's hardly an accident that Stephen King, Quentin Tarantino, Guillermo del Toro, Simon Pegg and Wes Craven recognize Romero as a master. He is.

  by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
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  Horror movie Rule #1: The only way to kill a zombie is to shoot it in the brain. George Romero himself laid this maxim down with his first film, the endlessly influential 1968 gutter classic "Night of the Living Dead." Forty years later, with George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead, the venerable filmmaker has done something almost as startling: He has put brains back into the zombie genre.

  by Ty Burr | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
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  A raw, vivid despatch from the frontline, this melds content with frights in classic Romero style. An outstanding exercise in showing the kids how to do it.

  by Kim Newman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
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  Diary of the Dead is meant to scare your pants off, blow your mind out the back of your skull, and then deposit you ungently back into reality, quaking a little, maybe, but still alive and, unlike the undead, thinking.

  by Marc Savlov | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
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  The way Diary of the Dead chooses to deliver its gore, you know you're in the hands of a grown-up uninterested in the excesses of the "Saw" or "Hostel" pictures. I mean, there's gore, sure, and flesh gets eaten. But the way Romero shoots and cuts the shot of a girl's reunion with her parents, one dead, one undead, it's played for keeps--the right kind of gross, with a touch of mournful gravity.

  by Michael Phillips | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
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  The film's take on media and personal responsibility recalls Brian De Palma's faux Iraq documentary, "Redacted," here dropped into a homefront turned guerrilla war zone.

  by Sean Axmaker | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
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  There are zombie movies and then there are George Romero films.

  by Liam Lacey | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
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  All-in-all, the intelligence of the approach combined with good old-fashioned zombie blood-and-gore (as opposed to the slicker, sicker torture porn variety) makes this not only the most satisfying motion picture Romero has made in a long while, but one of the best of his career.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
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  What divides opinion is the film's tone: Are those naive, portentous pronouncements about media, voyeurism and the numbing, pornographic allure of atrocity footage a sly reflection of the YouTube generation's boundary-free narcissism and callow youth, or evidence that Romero - never one to underplay a metaphor - has become a hectoring, tin-eared fogey?

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
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  It's one of the least scary films that he's made - but still entertaining, and very, very gory.

  by Peter Hartlaub | Read Full Review »
• [+] Village Voice
  
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  Visually, Romero's ersatz-DIY experiment isn't as suave as Brian De Palma's similar effort in the recent and risible "Redacted," nor as exactingly engineered as the video convulsions of "Cloverfield," but its scrappy, ultra-low-budget edges are part of its charm.

  by Nathan Lee | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Magazine
  
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  Compared with other first-person motion-sickness horror pictures like "The Blair Witch Project" and "Cloverfield," George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead is weak tea, yet there's enough social commentary (and innovative splatter) to acidulate the brew--to remind you that Romero, even behind the curve, makes other genre filmmakers look like fraidy-cats.

  by David Edelstein | Read Full Review »