{"id":2072,"date":"2009-03-04T17:43:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T06:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2009-03-04T17:53:03","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T06:53:03","slug":"review-day-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/04\/review-day-of-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Day of the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having just watched the so-called remake of the Romero classic, <strong>Day of the Dead<\/strong> (US-2008; dir. Steve Miner), I was intending to review it &#8212; fairly and without prejudice, even though Romero&#8217;s original remains what is for me the best of his <em>Living Dead<\/em> films, fan opinion notwithstanding. However, I happened to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moria.co.nz\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=4209&amp;Itemid=0\" target=\"_blank\">this review<\/a> of Miner&#8217;s effort and more-or-less agreed with everything said &#8212; which can pretty well be summed up with this sentence: &#8220;Where Romero created a film about isolation and explosive cabin fever that became a philosophical look at the end of humanity, <em>Day of the Dead 2008<\/em> quickly becomes just another zombie film by the numbers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly I couldn&#8217;t be bothered penning my own condemnation.<\/p>\n<p>So instead check out this fantastic clip of one of Romero&#8217;s 1985 zombies de-zombifying himself:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-RY8xWHYCGU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-RY8xWHYCGU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Now <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> a better zombie movie than the 2008 whatever-it-is.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Note that I don&#8217;t even mention the hyped-up dead, who not only run at super-speed &#8212; except when it&#8217;s convenient for the protagonists that they don&#8217;t &#8212; but manage to defy gravity by crawling along the ceiling and generally acting like ninjas.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Oops! I just mentioned it, didn&#8217;t I! Sorry!<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Source<\/strong>: via Boing Boing and Cat Sparks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having just watched the so-called remake of the Romero classic, Day of the Dead (US-2008; dir. Steve Miner), I was intending to review it &#8212; fairly and without prejudice, even though Romero&#8217;s original remains what is for me the best &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/04\/review-day-of-the-dead\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,14,27,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}