Dawn of the Dead Movie Trailer

[Greyhawk_DM]

Has anyone else seen this?
If so, what did you think about it?

 

[Frostmarrow]

We're just waiting to see. It's probably horrible (as compared to the original movie) but it could be a blast.

In another threaad I gathered that some people don't like the idea of the dead running for they prefer shambling zombies. Me, I don't know. The angry people from 28 Days Later were pretty nasty but not as nasty as the Romero/Savini-critters.

 

[Greyhawk_DM]

We're just waiting to see. It's probably horrible (as compared to the original movie) but it could be a blast.

In another threaad I gathered that some people don't like the idea of the dead running for they prefer shambling zombies. Me, I don't know. The angry people from 28 Days Later were pretty nasty but not as nasty as the Romero/Savini-critters.

A friend of mine told me that 28 Days Later wasn't that good.
I did like the original dead movie..not sure how this one can better the original.

 

[Atridis]

A friend of mine told me that 28 Days Later wasn't that good.

I rather liked it, although it had a couple of glaring flaws.

I did like the original dead movie..not sure how this one can better the original.

I agree with you there. For the most part, I object to remakes on principle. Few have made me reconsider (Point of No Return, anyone? ugh).

In another threaad I gathered that some people don't like the idea of the dead running for they prefer shambling zombies. Me, I don't know. The angry people from 28 Days Later were pretty nasty but not as nasty as the Romero/Savini-critters.

I kind of like the neo-zombies (28 Days Later..., Resident Evil, etc.), although from the perspective of a D&D gamer, they aren't zombies at all, they're ghouls, without the paralytic toxins. The ones in 28 Days Later are closer to wights, without the negative energy.

I hope I'm not hijacking anyone's thread here, but I've always had a problem with the internal logic of the flesh-eating zombies premise. The fact that the zombies don't attack each other is a necessary given - they have some intuitive means of knowing who's undead, who's dead, and who's alive. However, if the zombies go after living people as a source of food, how do they reproduce? Do they kill some people without eating them?

The only solution that I've come up with for my games is a rather gruesome one (spoiler tags, for those who are still eating lunch):

Spoiler

Zombies only eat people who are still alive. If you die in the process of being eaten (a reasonable side effect, I should think), the zombies stop eating you, and you rise as a zombie yourself.

If you're curious, the premise of 28 Days Later is that

Spoiler

the "zombies" are not reanimated dead people. They've been infected with a virus that turns them into vicious, beastial killers, kind of like rabies taken to the ridiculous extreme.

It's a nifty reinterpretation, I thought, but it had a significant flaw:

Spoiler

"The Infected" in that movie don't attack each other which, imho, seriously damages the movie's internal logic.

 

[Wolv0rine]

The biggest problem is, in the original NotLD (even in NotLD 1990) and dawn of the Dead, So much was made about how slow the zombies are/were. A good 80% of what the survivors managed to do, they managed to do because the zombies were slow and shambling. They could run right past them (even pushing a guy in a wheelbarrow or wagon or whatever it was). If the zombies are fast, if they can run and scream and all that... then you lose both that advantage/plot point and you lose a large portion of the 'alien-ness' of the Romero zombies. Those zombies were unmistakable as walking corpses.

As to why they don't eat each other, yes, they only consume warm living flesh. The dead hold no interest in them. Meat's not meat, meat's warm & alive for a zombie. And you rarely saw the zombies eat anyone completely. They more often gnawed on someone for a while then shambled off. Why? I dunno, but but those mid-shamble snacks are all future zombies.

 

[Wolv0rine]

The biggest problem is, in the original NotLD (even in NotLD 1990) and dawn of the Dead, So much was made about how slow the zombies are/were. A good 80% of what the survivors managed to do, they managed to do because the zombies were slow and shambling. They could run right past them (even pushing a guy in a wheelbarrow or wagon or whatever it was). If the zombies are fast, if they can run and scream and all that... then you lose both that advantage/plot point and you lose a large portion of the 'alien-ness' of the Romero zombies. Those zombies were unmistakable as walking corpses.

As to why they don't eat each other, yes, they only consume warm living flesh. The dead hold no interest in them. Meat's not meat, meat's warm & alive for a zombie. And you rarely saw the zombies eat anyone completely. They more often gnawed on someone for a while then shambled off. Why? I dunno, but but those mid-shamble snacks are all future zombies.