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everybody has to just look at it as a separate movie from the original,
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Then call it something different! Fuck this legacy leeching renkae culture for the mall rat audience with the 5 second infomercial attention span who type in text speak and use 'sux', 'gay' and 'retarded' when they try to communicate.
Make your own fucking film from scratch...lose any shopping centre, use your own title and your own ideas.
Are more zombie films good? YES.
But did we need another film called '"Dawn of the Dead" with all the history that title alone brings with it?? NO!
That iconic 70's Indy films are being made in this environment, with these MPAA/Studio compromises and for this up and coming audience of Ronald MacDonald's who think "Dude" is... "the best word ever invented, dude" is a sad state of affairs indeed.
I refuse to give ANY of these films, and those coming up, ANY of my money or any of my time.
Do your own things, use your own titles and stop leeching history and legacy of films that were groundbreaking, that are still classics and whose strengths were part of the time and the market they were made in.
These are re-makes that add nothing, and take away much. So what is the point?
These are not "The Fly" where FX had changed so much since the 50's, where what could be shown on screen had changed so much since the 50's (the re-make was CUT and did not show as much in your face explict gore as the original...it was a step backwards!) and where a VERY personal director would bring something special to the re-make.
There were NONE of the above valid reasons for re-doing "Dawn"..as there was for "The Fly" (and the original "Fly" was a treadmill produced Studio picture anyway...Another big difference compared to these 70's films) and the film is widely available to watch on VHS and DVD. It is not a lost film.
"Dawn" of the dead should NEVER have become a censored, MPAA pleasing, (with CGI computer game splatter replacing full on gut ripping gore, something i have read many times even fans of the film missed..WHERE was all the gut munching flesh ripping gore??? ) Studio System polluted creation......
That was the VERY OPPOSITE of what the original was and for the uncompromised, INDY film making sensibilities it stood for.
And you can add "Suspiria" and "TCM" to the above.
NONE of these need re-making...and it never should have happened.
What they are like as films, how good they may be...i have no idea.
But i really could care less as they should not exist at all anyway.
I won't support them or acknowledge them as part of my movie watching history.