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Uncle Mike

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Did anyone see Shadow of the Vampire beforehand? Truly a surprisingly interesting little film, with Willem Dafoe unnnervingly convincing as the Vampire playing an actor playing the vampire in Nosferatu.

I thought it was excellent. THen I made the tactical error of staying up for Night of the Living Dead, and I'm knackered at work today.

Fool.

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I didn't see this last night, but I saw it a while ago (having never seen any zombie films before - I know, I'm sorry), and I was pretty impressed. Obviously it was done on a shoestring, and the acting was pretty shit almost all-round, but it did have a really threatening atmosphere. Also:

1) The main black guy was the MAN.

2) Even dispite 1), it was really funny when SPOILER he got shot in the head at the end. Ho ho!

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Space Renegade Ulala

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Things I have learned from NotLD/original DoD:

Romero zombies ain't all that. I'd fancy my chances against a bunch of 'em. I'd also recommend everyone gets kitted out in heavy leather - sure, it means you risk Village People/Brando in The Wild One lookalike comparisons but the bastards'll have a hard time chewing through that easily.

Hey, if you wore all that and a bike helmet but wandered around in a shambling, drunken manner, would it fool the zombies into thinking you were one of them? After all, they wouldn't see anything indicating a healthy human being, can they, just signs of poor dress sense...

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Uncle Mike

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The power of zombies is in their ever-growing number, and relentlessness, not their individual powers.

What I didn't like about Night of the Living Dead was the zombies' fear of fire. They should be ever-approaching shambling menace, not wussy oh-my-eyeses, it-hurtses-us losers.

Other than that though - ace.

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Space Renegade Ulala

Space Renegade Ulala

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I reckon I'd be fine against a handful or so, as long as I had a fairly sturdy leather jacket, with essential high collar. That's the key, I reckon.

So, we'll gay ourselves up, and take on the zombie menace, Ulala?

YOU KNOW IT.

Oh, and while you might freak out and whimper like a small child, Idiot, Mike and I are bad motherfuckers who can take on everything. Hell, Mike is a tank in human form - the zombies would run for the hills screaming at the very sight of him.

Speaking of zombies, which braindead cretin turned on the crappy 'Edited by...' function? Hunt them down and shoot them, I say.

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Hey, if you wore all that and a bike helmet but wandered around in a shambling, drunken manner, would it fool the zombies into thinking you were one of them? After all, they wouldn't see anything indicating a healthy human being, can they, just signs of poor dress sense...

Zombies can smell live humans, I just heard Mark Kermode say so, therefore = FACT.

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Rin

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you must be thinking of somthing else.. dawn of the dead is considered to be the one of the best (if not THE best) zombie films of all time.

Really?

I thought it was farcial (haha facial), well too fucking long (haha LONG), pretentious and VERY boring.

Night of the Livng Dead however has inspired the genre more than any other film. And when I watched it last night, it seemed as fresh as a daisy. Fairly well acted with some top-self moments of horror and tension.

That said, it was a few years ago that I last saw it. Wednesday shall tell, I suppose.

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Really?

I thought it was farcial (haha facial), well too fucking long (haha LONG), pretentious and VERY boring.

Night of the Livng Dead however has inspired the genre more than any other film. And when I watched it last night, it seemed as fresh as a daisy. Fairly well acted with some top-self moments of horror and tension.

That said, it was a few years ago that I last saw it. Wednesday shall tell, I suppose.

Just watching it now. HOW FUCKING RIGHT WAS I? EH?

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How many mistakes have you counted so far? There was a brilliant bit in the truck where his face is dripping with blood and then the camera changes and he looks so clean he could've just had a shower. In fact, he probably just had.

This film defines rubbish.

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Mistakes are forgivable due to the films high ambitions and low budget. This IS a classic. Check it out on www.rottentomatoes.com, 100% positive reviews.

Rotten Tomatoes can fuck off. The original IS a classic. Not this.

I don't see how a film that copies all its original ideas and does them even worse is in anyway a classic. It's pure pop. And it's watchable. But it's nothing more than that.

It's funny, though. The totally inappropriate music is fantastic.

Oh and how did they manage to find even worse actors than NotLD? Top work!

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