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<blockquote data-quote="Iron_Chef" data-source="post: 1436888" data-attributes="member: 4530"><p>Just came back from seeing the new Dawn. Lotta fun, but not as good as the original, which was an epic and one of my all-time favorite movies. The new fast zombies didn't bother me. What bothered me was I didn't care about any of the characters the way I cared about the four in the 1978 original Dawn. The script was definitely not as clever as George Romero's (who got the shortest screen time for his credit in the film, another irksome moment for me as a Romero fan). Still, the new Dawn's lotsa fun, but I wanted to see more of the happenings in the world at large through the newscasts, hear more on the radio, etc. I recommend seeing the film, and find it compares favorably with 28 Days Later, which didn't have enough zombie action in it (technically they weren't zombies, yeah, I know, but you know what I mean), but was a bit more cerebral. Five minutes of gore and five minutes of character development were cut (gore by MPAA to get an &quot;R&quot; rating , the rest probably for pacing or run time). I'm sure these will end up on a special unrated edition in six months or so. The movie was still gory as hell, though, and it takes a lot of grue to satisfy an old gore hound like me. Intestine-ripping/eating was missing (I hear this was a cut scene for the rating).</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Iron_Chef, post: 1436888, member: 4530"] Just came back from seeing the new Dawn. Lotta fun, but not as good as the original, which was an epic and one of my all-time favorite movies. The new fast zombies didn't bother me. What bothered me was I didn't care about any of the characters the way I cared about the four in the 1978 original Dawn. The script was definitely not as clever as George Romero's (who got the shortest screen time for his credit in the film, another irksome moment for me as a Romero fan). Still, the new Dawn's lotsa fun, but I wanted to see more of the happenings in the world at large through the newscasts, hear more on the radio, etc. I recommend seeing the film, and find it compares favorably with 28 Days Later, which didn't have enough zombie action in it (technically they weren't zombies, yeah, I know, but you know what I mean), but was a bit more cerebral. Five minutes of gore and five minutes of character development were cut (gore by MPAA to get an "R" rating , the rest probably for pacing or run time). I'm sure these will end up on a special unrated edition in six months or so. The movie was still gory as hell, though, and it takes a lot of grue to satisfy an old gore hound like me. Intestine-ripping/eating was missing (I hear this was a cut scene for the rating). [/QUOTE]

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