Post by Kazuya_UK on Jun 27, 2005 5:03:14 GMT -5
Yes I've seen Undead... I kinda wish I hadn't...
Technically it is superb and considering the budget they had the effects are awesome. However, people have been calling it an Australian Bad Taste, but it is nowhere near the quality of that film. There's some good action bits (imagine crossing John Woo with Braindead and you get the idea...
and a lot of cool stuff going on at times, but the storyline is totally messed up (especially at the end) and some of the characters are just so annoying you can't wait to see them get torn limb from limb by zombies! 
Worth watching and you might like it... but I really didn't rate it too highly overall. I might give it another go some time though.
Actually I saw Dawn of the Dead about the same time as playing Resident Evil! As for the new Dawn of the Dead though, I liked it, but it could and should have been far better. They just made some real bad mistakes with the way the story went, and also with the characters. To me it felt like it had no soul whatsoever, whereas in the original it tried to make you care a bit about the characters, and it also had the whole clever "social commentary" thing going on (or whatever you want to call it), which is something Romero always puts in his films. I didn't expect them to try and do anything like that in the new one, but they could have developed the story/characters better then they did.
For pure action and stuff it's quite good, but it just seems empty to me. As far as recent Zombie flicks go, 28 Days Later and Shaun of the Dead are easily the best we've had imho... both British films too! ;D
Kaz
Technically it is superb and considering the budget they had the effects are awesome. However, people have been calling it an Australian Bad Taste, but it is nowhere near the quality of that film. There's some good action bits (imagine crossing John Woo with Braindead and you get the idea...
and a lot of cool stuff going on at times, but the storyline is totally messed up (especially at the end) and some of the characters are just so annoying you can't wait to see them get torn limb from limb by zombies! Worth watching and you might like it... but I really didn't rate it too highly overall. I might give it another go some time though.Actually I saw Dawn of the Dead about the same time as playing Resident Evil! As for the new Dawn of the Dead though, I liked it, but it could and should have been far better. They just made some real bad mistakes with the way the story went, and also with the characters. To me it felt like it had no soul whatsoever, whereas in the original it tried to make you care a bit about the characters, and it also had the whole clever "social commentary" thing going on (or whatever you want to call it), which is something Romero always puts in his films. I didn't expect them to try and do anything like that in the new one, but they could have developed the story/characters better then they did.
For pure action and stuff it's quite good, but it just seems empty to me. As far as recent Zombie flicks go, 28 Days Later and Shaun of the Dead are easily the best we've had imho... both British films too! ;D
Kaz
