Diary of the Dead

Lots of zombie goodness. This is classic. I liked this much more than "Land of the Dead," and I didn't hate that one. Some of the acting is a little "stiff" in the beginning. I don't know what order Romero shot in, but as the characters start out they seemed too much like they were acting and not like they were "real" people. But as soon as the s-hit the fan, they started feeling more like real folks.

Real stupid folks.

But real folks. I guess here's this one meta-complaint about zombie films. In every zombie film (except Sean of the Dead) it seems like even though we can assume everyone knows zombies aren't a natural part of the environment in their "world" - it is not reasonable to assume that their world has no zombie films or fiction. So how is it that none of the heroes know what to do when the zombie apocalypse starts? Sad.

I want to see the zombie film where the disaffected geeks and survivalists are the ones who make it. I'd like to see how their culture of extreme geek and paranoid military protectionist policies play out in a world where the dead get up and eat the living.

Yep.

I'll just sit here by the theatre door and wait....