Topic: Day of the Dead

Teague Chrystie

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A minor correction as I start listening, which there's a good chance you guys discover later on so this will be pointless. Only the exteriors were done in Florida. All the underground stuff was done outside Pittsburgh, so Brian is right in that those aren't Florida caves. Also, according to the commentary, this is the cut down version of the story. They had planned to have an epic, big budget film, and the script for that is out there, but to get the money they had to deliver an R rated version. To get it unrated, the finance people were only willing to give them around a third of that, so they went with what you see.

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The idea that the zombies "are us" also comes up at the end of the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead, directed by Tom Savini (and surprisingly good). There it refers to the surviving humans acting as mindlessly as the undead.

Romero basically split the creative rights to do sequels to the original film with co-writer John Russo. Romero made his films with the phrase "of the Dead", while Russo used "Living Dead". He did the comedy horror series "Return of the Living Dead."

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Hey Sweet I was assuming Teague and Brian wouldn't like Day of the Dead.

And thank god on your sequel talk you didn't get into Return of the Living Dead, Zombi 2, etc. counting unofficial sequels it's pretty much the most confusing series ever.

And please never watch the 2008 remake. It's pretty much a generic shitty zombie movie with the same name.

Last edited by Jacob H (2014-10-07 21:43:29)

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I don't remember much about the remake, except the "Bub" zombie for the movie didn't eat people because he was a vegetarian before he died.

Please tell me I'm making that up.

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I had to make this...

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/223/6/9/day_of_the_planet_of_the_apes__by_xtroid-d7uqwk6.jpg

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I'm pretty sure that Romero and/or the writers didn't really think of this, and I know Trey is fairly right when it comes to discussing the central theme of humanity's inability to learn/accept their inevitable fate as observed by the repeated use of marking time via calendar, but.  Well.

There are very good and very practical reasons for a WOMAN to be marking time.  The first calendars (nicks in a bone) were made by women to count days because we have timers guys don't have and that need to be planned for.  Again, thematically Trey's right, but practically speaking, girl's gotta mark her days.

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Especially if they do/don't want kids popping out.

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The 2008 remake of DAY OF THE DEAD was god-awful.

Don't bother tracking it down... just watch this video to see how bad it is.

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Re: Humans are worse than the Dead:  #TheWalkingDead

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Aaah Good ole Captain Rhodes

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Also loved how the Private had a stripe on his uniform from early Vietnam era hmm

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