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Originally Posted by ChronoGrl
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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See, I didn't hate Land of the Dead either, I guess I'm just not as inundated with brilliant zombie flicks as the rest of you and 90% of the ones I get to watch turn out to be dreck. Diary had a silly premise but the first person camera gimmick was easy for me to overlook because of the zombie story that Romero built. I really enjoyed the flick from beginning to end and was impressed by the fact that it didn't star any "big names". You're both allowed to have your opinions, even if their wro... I mean, even if you don't agree with me. :)
I would still say it's a fun watch and the theater we saw it in reacted fairly positively.
As far as real suggestions go I'll throw a few out there:
Otis (I had really low expectations for this one but it turned out pretty damn good)
Teeth
The Mist
Office Killer (not that new but lesser known and hilarious, Carol Kane is crazy as hell)
Cigarette Burns (the best of the MoH season 1 episodes)
Severance (I didn't love it but it strikes a chord with a lot of people and it's work watching)
Inside
Midnight Meat Train
Tokyo Gore Police
The Grindhouse (watch it as a double feature with all the fake trailers intact)
King of the Ants (not particularly horror and not that new but it seems like nobody has watched it and it's one of Stuart Gordon's best)
Hatchet and
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon were both alright, a bit of fun just like
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer(adored the lack of CGI and Robert Englund hasn't had a bit this good since his Freddy role).