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Originally Posted by MaxJoker
Currently watching Day of the dead on itv4...
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Yes, I stayed up to watch this last night as well! My one overriding thought while it was on was WTF? Especially when the "zombies" (I've put that in quotations as they're not really zombies in the Romero sense, or even the Snyder/28 Days Later sense) started jumping around like Kriss Kross on acid! Since when did becoming a zombie turn you into Spider-Man? (except in Marvel Zombies when Spider-Man became a zombie I suppose!)
However, unlike yourself, I managed to suspend my disbelief long enough to actually sit through the entire movie, which with all the cuts which must have been made only totalled 79 minutes or so (the running time on the IMDB has it as 86 minutes), so I feel I've not wasted too much of my life watching it all the way through!
My overall reaction? Shouldn't have been billed as a proper zombie movie, as compared to all of Romero's movies, the 2004 DOTD remake, and even zombie wannabees such as 28 Days/Weeks Later, this was more akin to an extreme outbreak of swine flu! IMBD users have given it 4.5/10, which is probably about right.
One more thing...before ITV4 started the movie, the continuity announcer even said it was the Romero version of the movie from 1985! Methinks he must have misread that it was based (extremely loosely) on this fine original!