The final piece

[sandrock74]

I would think that the effects of a chow down scene would have been hard to manage from a technical stand point, due to how the movie (and the effects) were handled. If you watch the bonus features, they explain how several sfx were essentially slight of hand or carefully orchestrated just off camera.

[SymphonicX]

ahh **** Diary, **** the commentary, **** it all....even if it had 70 minutes of gorey **** I'd still be disappointed by it. I know what you're saying though, nothing demonstrated just how intense things should feel, and a chow-down scene might have helped that - it certainly pushed the point home in dawn...

[Trin]

I think a chow-down scene would've been useful both to satisfy the Romero faithful who want and expect one and to further convey the message. It wouldn't have had to be Jason doing the filming. Enough of the YouTube video stuff was shot by film crews or bystanders watching/filming as others got attacked/bitten. For me it wasn't a noteworthy loss. In the previous movies the chow-down scene served to bring out the horror of the situation. Especially in Night when not only is the character first witnessing this but the viewer is also. For me (and I'd expect most viewers) the zombie chow-down scene is no longer shocking.

[clanglee]

No, no shocking, but it is fun. . in a sick way. And Jason could have waded into an entire horde of zombies chowing down and not been attacked. As long as he had other people around to get eaten instead. Actually. . That might have been a nice ending for jason. He wades into a throng of zombies. . and they consume him while he captures it all on camera. Would have been some neat first person horror there.

[Trin]

I would've liked a good zombie chow scene had it been mixed with good acting on the part of the humans as they watch in horror. For Jason to get eaten by a throng of zombies there would have to actually exist a throng of zombies. Which brings up one of my main Diary gripes. If Jason was so driven to get the video coverage then why was he farting around in the sticks with a bunch of dillholes in an RV? He should've been heading to the urban areas where the real action - the action he was watching on YouTube - was happening without him.

[AcesandEights]

I don't think a 'chow down' scene (sounds like a porn term) would have saved the film. There was far too much that didn't work otherwise. Would it have hurt? Pffft...who knows, but the way most everything else was implemented in the film doesn't give me any hope. /sigh