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best movie i've ever seen.

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Romero is well known far-and-wide in the movie world for ejecting half-wit scripts out of his confused mind, at least among those movie-goers who aren't themselves half-wits, but SOTD is so cretinous it even had me shaking my head in astonishment. Was this garbage written by a chicken? No, I insult chickens. It must have been a zombie chicken.Apparently, a zombapocalypse had started, and yet TV talk-show hosts are still cracking bad jokes, and YouTube is still getting "a million hits" for lame clips. Huh? So is it a zompapocalypse or not? The discouraging part is that it doesn't seem as if Romero itself has a clue either. He can't quite make up his mind about anything anymore, and is quite content instead to shoot a bunch of zombinian scenes and stick them together with bad-logic glue, in the hope that nobody notices. Fair enough though: if I were a film-maker and all my fans were daft, I wouldn't try either.We've got a "renegade" group of soldiers (only 4) who move around the country-side with ease, blasting away without worries. Remember: one would at the very least EXPECT martial law to be in place during a zombie plague. Also keep in mind: a state of anarchy must be in place – and yet, considering that talk-shows are still running, it isn't. This silly military unit surrounds a bunch of hicks in the woods for no reason. They wound one of them. The wounded redneck continues to behave normally, as if getting shot in the shoulder is a daily occurrence for him; no signs of pain or even inconvenience. Damn, I wish I had a body immune to bullets. (Worse yet, half an hour later ANOTHER character gets a bullet in the shoulder, and reacts by LAUGHING.) Then, very stupidly, one of the hicks reaches for a weapon – in spite of the fact that they are all surrounded with soldiers pointing guns at them. I shall simply assume off-hand that this particular hick character is based on a close relative of Romero's. Only that can account for such a stupid decision.But before they attack the hicks, the lesbian soldier girl masturbates in the jeep: on an open road, in front of her comrade. Yes, she has her hand down her pants and is going ooh-aah. On a road. In the company of an ugly male companion who is ignoring her. I wonder what kind of mushrooms Romero was on when he wrote these forest scenes, and I have to assume he wrote them on the spot, during the shooting. SOTD is proof that not every movie has to start off with a finished script, or ANY script for that matter. I have no idea what purpose the masturbation scene serves. As a gag? Not funny. To be sexy? It isn't remotely sexy. To define her character? That's not how you define a character, especially in a zombie flick; perhaps in a sex-romp teen comedy.A little later, the group's ineffectual leader has a temper-tantrum that reduces him to the level of a menstruating teenie-bopper; so much for getting us to respect the main character – or to have us take him more seriously than we would a Bugs Bunny character. Speaking of which, the movie constantly teeters on the border of self-parody, which would be fine if only Romero had made up his mind to do a proper, all-out spoof rather than an undoable, messy horror-comedy hybrid. Besides, his sense of humour is a cross between Ron Jeremy and a failed circus clown.So when does the movie hit its highest score on the stupid-o-meter? When a zombie comes in riding a horse. Damn stupid, yes, but just the top of the heap. And this is just the first 30 minutes I've more-or-less covered. If I had the time or had no 1000-word limit, I could run you through the movie's entire list of abysmal embarrassments, scene by scene, page by page, chapter by chapter; a vast undertaking for sure.Just one more, though, before I end this mini-rant: Shamus is convinced zombies should be kept alive – and yet he kills them off without hesitation, and smiling even. Huh? I smell a blatant contradiction, and the stench of some truly undisciplined, retarded writing.

Worst zombie movie yet. The zombies are even less scary then the ones in night of the living dead. But not even that, there are barely any zombies in this movie. This wasn't even a zombie movie really. The story is awful. It was basically a really boring story about some army people going to an island with some dude who is in a feud with another guy on the island, the feud is over whether the zombies should be saved or not. The best parts of this movie happen in the last 15 minutes. My favorite part was when the girl gets bit by her twin zombie sister, I laughed pretty hard. But this is not suppose to be a comedy. I don't know what George Romero is thinking, I am in disbelief that this is his movie.

With Diary being in my mind the worst entry into the Living Dead series, this film outshines that one by leaps and bounds. Survival plays off the same concept as the original Day of the a Dead from 1985. By that I mean, the utterly insane argument over whether or not the dead come back to life could somehow be trained or taught to be useful to the living rather than trying to kill us or us trying to kill them.For anyone whose a fan of this series, they will recall the repeated sentiment from each film that "we must stop the killing, every living person we kill gets up and kills". The idea behind that is that the living must unite to eradicate the dead or in the end there won't be anyone left alive to argue about how to survive. However another sentiment is expressed in the series. That is the idea presented by a scientist to domesticate the dead and teach them to eat something other than human flesh. Of course, there's no common sense in it but there's little doubt that even in the real world someone somewhere would try. Humans have an inability to let go of the past and where Day of the Dead looked at that from a scientific aspect, Survival of the Dead looks at it from an emotional one. Not to mention the seemingly endless human need to feud and fight and argue over whose wrong and whose right.All moralizing aside, in a zombie outbreak I'd personally shoot first and ponder the moral conundrums later. I would rather survive than risk being eaten by zombies...but then that's just me. As for the movie itself, technically it's very well done. There's a solid story beneath what might seem like a silly plot. The acting is quite good, the writing and directing is solid and the special effects are overall very well done. Romero tried very hard to distance himself from the politics of Land of the Dead (2005) and even harder to distance himself from the mess that was Diary of the Dead. He did that and in the end achieved a very well put together and enjoyable zombie movie.Tom Savini returned to help out as much as possible with the special effects after his absence from Diary of the Dead so there's a minimum of CGI here. In fact the last half of the film has some fantastic traditional Savini gore and his hand can really be seen in the final zombie attacks.If you can look past what might seem a silly opening and remember the concepts from Day of the Dead 1985, you will really enjoy this movie in the end. If you can't, or you've never seen the earlier Romero films you may not get this movie at all. However as I said, it is well shot and well put together so either way why not give it a try? You just might find a lot more here than you expect.

I'll keep this short for everyone who actually cares enough to read it: Shocking is how I'd describe finding out this movie was by THE George Romero. Why is that so surprising? Well, the movie is s***, you see. I gave it seven stars, sure. Because it's ENJOYABLE s***. It's one of those movies you hope to God wasn't supposed to be taken seriously. It's honestly got terribly hokey zombie scenes (not just fake, but just overall lousy scenes) throughout the movie. It's a movie about a post-apocalyptic world where hundreds of thousands of people die each day, and yet these characters often have time to look around, find an interesting weapon, and kill a zombie. Highlights include literally punching a zombie a couple times, then throwing it around without it doing anything, Upon throwing over that zombie, the character grabs a nearby flare gun, shoots it into the zombie's torso, and the zombie's head somehow spontaneously combusted. Another character kills a zombie by placing a fire extinguisher nozzle into a zombie's mouth, and using the extinguisher until the zombie's eyes explode out.Sorry, I dragged on. To sum up, sure. If you have 90 minutes to kill, watch it. Otherwise, exert the little amount of energy necessary to change the channel from whatever station is playing this (I assume) made-for-TV movie.