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    Dawn of the Dead is Amazing

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jul 19, 2004 | 38 out of 49 found this Dawn of the Dead (2004) review helpful

    Pros: your greatest fears all around you!

    Cons: no negatives

    It is a beautiful morning at the beginning of the movie... when all of a sudden it seems like everything is going wrong. A nurse awakens to a crazy girl in her hallway and a suddenly violent and possessed boyfriend. As she steps outside it seems as... if it is a warzone out there and everyone is running away from zombies. Of course, she has no idea what is going on. She then finds her self in a battle for her life as she tries to escape and make her way to finding other normal people. She meets up with a couple of people and they head over to the nearby mall where they will seek refuge only to find a group of reluctant security guards who only care about themselves. They are eventually allowed to stay, only to find out that their adventure has only begun!! Thousands of people by now are being possessed and many of them are headed towards the mall. The group by then has all of the doors locked and are very safe where they stand. However, as "regular" people risk there lives by going through the mob of zombies to get to the mall the kindheartedness of the people in the mall is tested. Eventually they start letting "regulars" in, only to find out that some of them have been possessed. What to do now?!? Everyone then finds out that it is the bite of these "zombies" that makes them become possessed. Now they all struggle to stay away from the "zombies". Will they get away? Only you can find out. Watch and please..... enjoy this one. Remember to watch it until the very end... even through the credits. This movie is based on a theory that when "Hell has run out of room, the dead will walk the earth..." Read more Less

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    Dawn of the Dead (2004)

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Sep 24, 2004 | 9 out of 13 found this Dawn of the Dead (2004) review helpful

    Pros: Great Zombie Movie

    Cons: Needed a better ending

    As far as zombie movies go, this one is a real rollercoaster. It is paced very fast and keeps you on the edge of your seat. I enjoyed this version more than the original. My overall review is outstanding !!!

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    Dawn of the Dead(2004)

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Oct 19, 2004 | 4 out of 6 found this Dawn of the Dead (2004) review helpful

    Pros: Nonstop horror with realism

    Cons: The world would suck if that happened one day!

    Before catching this version of the movie I rented the classic version, which is one of the scariest movies of all time. I loved the way the movie grabs your attention from the very beginning and keeps you grasped so much the screen, bathbreaks are a... no no. It was creepy, action-packed, keep your heartracing kinda movie. The scene that most stuck in my head was the priest informing all survivors what they have done to deserve hell on earth. Makes you wanna pray that one day we dont wake up to a hellish nightmare. Definetly add this classic to your collection folks, No dissapointments here. Read more Less

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    WATCH THROUGH THE CREDITS FOR THE ACTUAL ENDING

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Nov 7, 2004 | 2 out of 2 found this Dawn of the Dead (2004) review helpful

    Pros: VERY well done. A must see for fans of horror

    Cons: The only bad part is that it had to end.

    For anyone who didn`t watch the ending credits of Dawn Of The Dead, you didn`t see the end of the movie. I keep reading that people didn`t like the end because it left them hanging. It makes me wonder if they stopped it before watching the clips that... continue for about 5 minutes after you think it`s over. What a FANTASTIC movie!!! The best of it`s kind ever made in my opinion. Read more Less

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    Better than Expected

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Oct 16, 2004 | 2 out of 2 found this Dawn of the Dead (2004) review helpful

    Pros: Humorous,but not slap-stick like some zombie movies

    Cons: Needed more committed ending

    Not a huge fan of Zombie movies but along with Resident Evil I think Im coming around. Dawn of the Dead was fun but not to "tongue in cheek" . Gory but not to the expense of the plot(it is a Zombie movie). It wasnt too predictable or confus...ing . Played out more as an action movie which kept the storyline moving more crisply than your average gore-fest. Scene on the mall roof one of my favorite scenes in a long time. Ending needed to be cleaner but I guess thats what imagination and DVD alternate endings are for. P.S On a side note; I dont like alternate endings because when I go to a movie I am committing to whatever the filmakers create prepared to suspend reality for the 2 hours. But when the filmakers cant decide on the final product it taints the experience. Read more Less

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    Dawn of the Dead (2004)

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Oct 16, 2006 | 1 out of 1 found this Dawn of the Dead (2004) review helpful

    Pros: ast zombies, slow humans, painful tension

    Cons: To be seen without prejudice - it is much, much better than what you might expect of a remake.

    Known collectively to its adoring fans as the 'Holy Trinity', George A. Romero's loose zombie trilogy is the alpha and omega of apocalyptic horror. The first film, Night of the Living Dead (1968), marked the birth of the most inventively ...fertile era of American horror cinema, and the last film, Day of the Dead (1985), marked its death throes - but it is the middle film, Dawn of the Dead (1978), which has always been regarded as the Holy Grail of zombie mayhem, unsurpassed in its economy of storytelling, its cynicism and paranoia, its dark humour, its convincing (and often strangely sympathetic) undead, and its intelligent satire of racial tensions and the values of consumer society. Now, with films like House of 1000 Corpses, Cabin Fever, and the recent remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the Golden Age of 1970s horror is re-emerging to bring terror to a whole new generation, at a time when the characteristic anxieties of the 1970s - the immorality of the Vietnam War, the mendacity of President Nixon and the omnipresence of terrorist movements - all have strong resonances in the current geopolitical climate. Romero's zombie films have also risen again from the grave, both in a riot of recent Japanese homages to Romero ('Cure', 'Versus', 'Stacy', 'Wild Zero') and in American movies inspired by video games which were in turn inspired by Romero's trilogy (Resident Evil, 'The House of the Dead'). It is, however, one thing to draw inspiration from the Holy Trinity - e.g. transporting Romero's narrative arcs to contemporary England, and transforming his stumbling, braindead zombies into agile, rage-fuelled automata, as Danny Boyle did recently in the excellent 28 Days Later... - but attempting an actual remake verges on sacrilege. Wisely, 'Dawn of the Dead' redux is no slavish imitation, but a whole new dawn. James Gunn's knowing script has torn the guts out of the original, retaining only the shopping mall setting and a few key motifs and lines, with everything else twisted, mangled and deformed beyond all recognition. Racing in at some forty minutes shorter than Romero's original, the pace is breathlessly fast, but then so are the zombies, who run, climb and attack with infectious abandon - and while the first film already had a deliriously speedy opening, the relative calm of the remake's prologue is interrupted with such a sudden and lurching violence that your attention is not so much grabbed as gripped in a stranglehold. There are far more characters (or, to use the proper term, fodder) shacked up in the mall, yet all are nuanced enough for us to care about, or in some cases applaud, their bloody fate. The gentle relationship which develops between policeman Kenneth (Ving Rhames), and Andy (Bruce Bohne), who is trapped on the roof of a gunshop opposite, is an especially well-drawn innovation, subtle and believable even if their only means of communication is handwritten posters. The script has a deep vein of humour, which is a necessary relief, because overall this is a resolutely gloomy, profoundly pessimistic film, full of disaster and despair - which is just what a good horror film should be. Even the pregnancy of one of the characters, which in the original version symbolised hope for future generations, is here turned into a horrifying perversion that destroys all hope - and the film's shaky handheld coda (intercut with the closing credits) forms a satisfyingly bleak rejoinder to the more optimistic conclusion of the original Dawn of the Dead (and of 28 Days Later...). Yet fans of the zombie flick can rest assured that their world has not quite come to an end - for even if Romero's long-awaited 'Twilight of the Dead' never sees the light of day, there is still Simon 'Spaced' Pegg's self-styled RomZomCom Shaun of the Dead coming very soo Read more Less

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    One of the Greatest remakes!!

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Oct 27, 2004 | 1 out of 1 found this Dawn of the Dead (2004) review helpful

    Pros: The Extras!! the fake news reports are as scary as the Movie!!

    Cons: The Ending wasn't as nice as the Original

    The opening sequence is worth the entire 19.99...truley disturbing...not jump out and "BOO" but "HOLY CRAP" it really seemed very real ..very chaotic and end of the worldish..Plus the full speed Zombies were a really nice touch...

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    No Comparison

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Nov 3, 2006

    Pros: Fast paced, frightening and well written without lots of head-line actors.

    Cons: The end is awful and sometimes the pace is so fast the story suffers loss of substance.

    The remake does not compare with the original at all but it does stand, albeit somewhat shakingly, on its own merits. If you're a fan of the original don't compare them or you'll be disappointed. The end is awful too and really leaves you... wondering at best and sad as well. Read more Less

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    The dead are walking...again.

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  May 14, 2006

    Pros: Truly shocking moments, good characters.

    Cons: Just like every other zombie movie...everyone dies!

    I like zombie movies, generally speaking. It's a freaky thing to imagine corpses walking the streets in search of human flesh. This movie stayed true to the tried and tested Zombie Movie Plot: A few survivors are holed out in a mall/military base.../house surrounded by a large mob of walking corpses who are determined to devour them alive. Through either bad luck or their own stupidity, each person is taken by the evil creatures until only one or two are left. Just when you think they will survive, they too die. What I like about this film in particular were the characters and how you saw them change through the experience. The zombies themselves were also more active than the typical zombies that simply stumble around with their arms stretched. The gratuitous violence and gore was relatively well done. There was even some brief female nudity, a must for any horror flic. Overall I give this film a thumbs up. It was disturbing and intense. As usual the ending was depressing because everyone died, but afterall, it's a zombie movie! Read more Less

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    One of my fav horror DVD's

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Feb 6, 2006

    Pros: shock and gore

    Cons: nothing different about the zombies, but still works for me

    I seen this at the theater but recently seen it again and it was even better the 2nd time around. I noticed a little more subtle things that I didnt catch onto the first time. I like how everything looks eerie in the beginning, the sky looks odd, the... town looks kinda bare. I still like The Evil Dead, but this is a great modern zombie movie. My husband watched it with me this time and he says we're buying it. I guess that would mean it's a keeper. Read more Less

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