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Gotta agree with His Ungodliness here, though the acting wasn't the weakness for Diary for me:
Diary of the Dead was self-conscious self-absorbed preachy tripe. I found it insulting, personally. The voiceover pandered to what was assumed an audience of idiots.
To tell you the truth, voiceover removed - I would probably have ranked this movie in one of my top zombie films of all time (the direction was great and the use of the hand-held cam was fantastic). But its preachiness and its condescention really put me over the edge.
I hated it. It should have been better than it was, but either Romero is too full of himself or he seriously needed an editor.
With Land of the Dead, I thought that it was just pure, uhm, bad. Silly, over-the-top cheesy dystopia. I just brush it off as being a bad movie.
With Diary of the Dead, I see the glimmer - oh the small small glimmer of a good movie in there... Which bothers me more that it wasn't.
We're horror fans, we're not idiots. I don't need some chick with a voiceover giving me poorly-written expedition. His job was to SHOW and not TELL.
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