4 year anniversary

[seanbratton]

4 years ago today Dawn of the Dead hit theaters. I'm wearing my Dawn of the Dead 04 t-shirt and going to head home and watch the movie later tonight. I know there are some Dawn 04 haters but I did enjoy it and will enjoy it tonight!

[capncnut]

<says nothing> :|

[Dead Hoosier]

I saw it twice the first day it was out and four times overall. Don't think I'll be popping it in tonight...I think I've seen it twice a week for the last month on cable!
There aren't very many remakes out there worth a ****, and while some will knock this until they day they die, I'll always be a fan. Nothing touches the original, but GAR himself has never produced anything as enticing as Dawn04's opening sequence...even if it tailed off after that.

[Danny]

^ aye ive said it many times before and i think ill say it many more, and whilst the movie on a whole was a piece of mtv summer money tree trash the opening 15 minutes of carnage was a fantastic piece of cinema, especially the bit were we see her dirving and narrowly miss a car and then almost get pulle dout of the seat by a bus driver. a brilliant bit of zombie movie-age.

[Griff]

4 years ago today Dawn of the Dead hit theaters. I'm wearing my Dawn of the Dead 04 t-shirt and going to head home and watch the movie later tonight. I know there are some Dawn 04 haters but I did enjoy it and will enjoy it tonight!

Perhaps. Or perhaps you'll realize what a derivitive, shallow and juvenile piece of plop it is.

[seanbratton]

It had probably been a year since I had watched Dawn 04 and it was good to catch it last night. As one of the earlier posts had said, it's not the original Dawn, but very good nonetheless.

[bassman]

Disclaimer: I am NOT trying to start another love/hate dawn04 argument...

This thread got me thinking. Do you guys think that in the future this film will have reunions/conventions for it's anniversaries like the original? Of course i'm not comparing it to the original, but scifi/horror films such as this sometimes have these events....think this one will?

[Dead Hoosier]

No. Although I like it, it's not that significant.

[ZombieGrrL]

Wow has it really been 4 years! I would watch it again today if I didn't watch it twice last week..... still the day is young :)

[Mike70]

Perhaps. Or perhaps you'll realize what a derivitive, shallow and juvenile piece of plop it is.

:lol: 3 perfect words to describe dawn04. shallow probably being the most on point of the bunch.


Disclaimer: I am NOT trying to start another love/hate dawn04 argument...

This thread got me thinking. Do you guys think that in the future this film will have reunions/conventions for it's anniversaries like the original? Of course i'm not comparing it to the original, but scifi/horror films such as this sometimes have these events....think this one will?

dear hades and zeus i certainly hope not.

[clanglee]

I like the movie and all. . . but 4th anniversary seems rather arbitrary.

[Neil]

I still remember watch those first 14 (??) minutes on TV as a special advert for the film before its release... Shame those were the best minute of the film :)

[Griff]

I still remember watch those first 14 (??) minutes on TV as a special advert for the film before its release... Shame those were the best minute of the film :)

Which is probably why shamefully they put them on TV and online... I wonder what the box office would have been like had they not?

[bd2999]

This thread got me thinking. Do you guys think that in the future this film will have reunions/conventions for it's anniversaries like the original? Of course i'm not comparing it to the original, but scifi/horror films such as this sometimes have these events....think this one will?

Its a good question and it is hard to say. I am sure it will sort of hold a place at horror cons and such as it is a zombie movie and I think a decent one, but it will not hold the icon status of the original among such groups I think. Perhaps in the future in will, when the generation that thinks it is good and the original sucks takes over things, but I just doubt it. It lacks the substance and the feel overall.

Not sure about everyone else's experiences with some of these films, but the first time I saw Night or Dawn I could, and can, still talk about it for hours. Why this, why that, what would you do, could you imagine this and so on and so forth. I did not do that with the new film at all. Not saying that matters but it did not really have the realism, such bland characters, the original did.