I have the remake of Dawn of the Dead. I had some high hopes of the film to be even half of what the origional was. Instead this was just some mindless shooter. The DvD has some nice aspects, like the TV news report, Last Days Journal, deleted scenes, and making of features.
I liked the remake. Not as much as the original, but it was better than I expected.
I enjoyed the remake thouroughly. Thought it was one of the best films I have seen so far this year.
And, I must say, for a remake, it exceeds pretty much every other remake I can think of, because, after all, the remake is traditionally very crappy, this was one remake that was great!
Yeah, this was actually a blast. I went into it with LOW expectations, but I thought it was friggin fantastic! Nothing could ever beat the original Dawn for it's place as the best horror film (IMHO), but this one did a great job at being a worthy remake.
I thought this was a better horror film than the original, but the original was more of an action/adventure movie [listen to the commentaries and anything else Romero has said about it--he's always considered his movie to be a action flick/social satire and not a horror film.] The original is a better movie overall, but the remake works better as a horror film, and is easily the best horror film I've seen in the last 10-15 years. Can't wait for the DVD.
I thought the original DOTD was slow, boring and goofy as all hell. I'm not sure why everyone else loves it so much. I understand a lot of the appeal is the social commentary Romero was trying to deliver, but I didn't think that commentary was all that deep. It wasn't an earth shattering revelation or anything. And I can't take any movie seriously when it has a zombie/biker pie fight in it.
The remake of DOTD was fantastic. It was a mindless entertainment flick, sure, but if zombie movies can't be mindless, what can? I'd have no problems saying the remake was the best zombie flick I've ever seen.