Possible minor spoiler

[TheGovernor]

** MINOR SPOILER ALERT **




Did anyone else notice George's cameo?

I'm 99% sure he was the police chief being interviewed on TV about halfway through the movie...You could see his long, gray hair tucked under his cap and he had on sunglasses.

[DubiousComforts]

That's George. I would have almost missed it myself at the NYC preview, if not for the audience applause.

[Yojimbo]

Did you also recognize GAR's voice narrating at the beginning over stock footage of rioting where he compares and constrasts the crisis with the Orson Wells War of the Worlds broadcast? I didn't catch that until my second viewing.

[bassman]

I thought his cameo was really obvious. Didn't catch the voice over though.....good catch, yojimbo.

[TheGovernor]

I didn't catch it either...

[SoCalLoco]

Romero has two cameos in the movie. The first was a black & white photo of him hanging on a wall inside the hospital.

The second one, of course, is him playing a police chief on the television.

[DeadCentral]

Did anyone else notice George's cameo?

I'm 99% sure he was the police chief being interviewed on TV about halfway through the movie...You could see his long, gray hair tucked under his cap and he had on sunglasses.

You know Gov, most of the folks that did reviews left this out because it qualifies as a ****SPOILER****
something you don't want to disclose because it "spoils" the film for those who have not had the chance to see it for themselves, now maybe i'm over reacting but being a member here for some time , I would be really pissed about someone blatantly throwing this fact out if I had not seen the film yet.
For me it was a pleasant surprise (though he appears in all his films,somewhere in some guise or another) and it was in good taste that I left this out of my review... as you probably should have left this post off the board.

[Harold W Brown]

Horribly distracting cameo, Stan Lee-level goofy, and people are better served by being warned about it than surprised by it.

[bassman]

Horribly distracting cameo, Stan Lee-level goofy, and people are better served by being warned about it than surprised by it.

It wasn't distracting at all, imo. The average movie-goer won't even notice it.

And it's definitely no more distracting than his cameo at the beginning of Dawn. I swear he looks directly at the camera....anyone else notice that?

[Harold W Brown]

He looked like a TV director in Dawn. He doesn't look like a police chief. The first poster points out his long gray hair tucked in the back. Distracting.

I dunno, man, I had my head in my hands through so much of this movie. Just cringing. I thought he pulled Land together decently, but this movie made me feel that his extended breaks from directing made those muscles go flabby. I'm not on some bash George bandwagon, I'm not looking to troll. He's my favorite filmmaker and I was so, so saddened by this movie.

[bassman]

He looked like a TV director in Dawn. He doesn't look like a police chief. The first poster points out his long gray hair tucked in the back. Distracting.

I dunno, man, I had my head in my hands through so much of this movie. Just cringing. I thought he pulled Land together decently, but this movie made me feel that his extended breaks from directing made those muscles go flabby. I'm not on some bash George bandwagon, I'm not looking to troll. He's my favorite filmmaker and I was so, so saddened by this movie.

Maybe you should see it again. I like Land and I think Diary is better. In fact, most people do. Maybe you just didn't want to like it because it's a new style for Romero.

I loved it....classic Romero.

[Harold W Brown]

it's a new style for Romero.

I loved it....classic Romero.

Well, which is it? :lol:

It wasn some new Romero style that did it in - his little touches here and there were buried under awful character types and worse acting. And his ideas felt-half-formed much of the time.

Dunno that "most people" like this one more than Land. All three CHUD reviews (who all liked Land) didn't like this one, and it's sitting at 58% on RT.

I went in WANTING to like it, I promise.

And why was the rich kid still wearing the mummy costume a full day later?

[bassman]

What I meant by "new style" was the camera work. Everything else was classic Romero.

I guess "most people" was the wrong phrasing to use. It seems like a good bit of members here like it over Land. Even some that absolutely loathe Land(looks over at DJ:p). I don't consider CHUD or RT or most sites to be valid, anyway. Usually those reviewers have their heads stuck up their ass, imo.

As far as the actor still in costume:

Remember the pool full of his family and friends? It's set up for the viewer to assume that the sh*t hit the fan for the guy when he got there and ever since he had been crazy. That's why he's still in costume. I mean.....most everyone else was in their clothes throughout the movie and they most likely had a shower in the Winnebago. I don't think I would be worried about a shower if the dead are walking around.....

Not only that, but it set up the chase scene from the beginning to be revisisted."Dead things aren't fast":lol:.

[Harold W Brown]

I don't think I would be worried about a shower if the dead are walking around.....

Except they were webchatting with him after he got there, and he's sipping cocktails with his girlfriend. Clearly there was a break/chill out time. I KNOW he's in the costume to revisit the opening gag (and if I didn't the helpful spell-everything-out dialogue was there right on cue to tell me). But it makes no sense.

[Yojimbo]

That foppish dude probably liked wearing the mummy suit. Plus, I get the impression that he got the his house, got fairly blitzed, crashed, woke up got drunk again, spoke on the webcam, then had to deal with the zombies, then got bit. In this way, it is believable that this guy would still be in the mummy suit.

Sorry that you did not like the film. I actually liked this one a lot, and I initially approached it with a lot of hesitation and suspicion since LAND wasn't as good as I had hoped for. Bad reviews notwithstanding, the majority of the die hard Romero fans feel that Diary is a major accomplisment for GAR. I hope that you might give this film a second chance. Surely, it's not perfect and some of the characters are annoying. The acting isn't academy award quality, but sure isn't worse than the NOLD, and the film itself is truer to the original feel of the series than LAND was.

[bd2999]

Horribly distracting cameo, Stan Lee-level goofy, and people are better served by being warned about it than surprised by it

Eh, Stan Lee and Romero are both deserving of cameos. To be does not matter if they are the corniest things ever. Lee helped bring forth alot of the most popular comic characters in history (although not alone in many cases), and so if he gets a pop in a big budget Marvel comic movie I dont think there should be to many grips. In fact whenever I saw those films people clapped when he appeared on screen.

Romero gets the same reaction most of the time from Dead fans as far as I can tell. I thought his pseudo cameo in Land was corny as the puppet master fellow but I would doubt in any normal role he would be that distracting. I didn't find Savini to be distracting in LAnd either. Its like seeing an old friend again.

[Yojimbo]

Romero has two cameos in the movie. The first was a black & white photo of him hanging on a wall inside the hospital.

The second one, of course, is him playing a police chief on the television.

I totally missed the B&W photo in the hospital. Good spot!

[DeadCentral]

Eh, Stan Lee and Romero are both deserving of cameos. To be does not matter if they are the corniest things ever. Lee helped bring forth alot of the most popular comic characters in history (although not alone in many cases), and so if he gets a pop in a big budget Marvel comic movie I dont think there should be to many grips. In fact whenever I saw those films people clapped when he appeared on screen.

Romero gets the same reaction most of the time from Dead fans as far as I can tell. I thought his pseudo cameo in Land was corny as the puppet master fellow but I would doubt in any normal role he would be that distracting. I didn't find Savini to be distracting in LAnd either. Its like seeing an old friend again.


Well said BD...:thumbsup: