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Originally posted by Vodstok
DOTD 04 and 28 Days later were both good. YOU may not have liked them, but that is your opinion. I challenge anyone who hates these movies to give me an objective reason they are "inferior" to Romero's original movies.
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Inferiority is subjective. This is purely my take.
Romeros films do several things very well - each one oozes claustrophobic atmosphere and makes you believe what you are seeing. They also do a great job of adding depth to the characters, or at the very least the performances of the main actors give an implication of depth - they are films about people, their relationships and their reaction to the nightmarish situation occuring.
Compare this to 04 - the characters are wafer thin, with the only attempt to add a "human" element being the stupid baby scene and the rooftop chess game against Andy from the gun shop. Atmosphere is pretty much non-existant, the shopping centre location is completely wasted and that whole A-Team style van building is laughable. What it does deliver is special effects and bog-standard "adrenalin" scenes involving lots of running and things jumping out.
28 Days Later is a lot better as it's a far deeper film, however I felt that the narrative suffered in the second half of the film which left me on more than one occasion thinking "oh, I've just realised what happened" after an event.