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DroneSoma

When there is no more room in hell...

Revisado en los Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 22 de julio de 2008

...the dead shall inundate Hollywood!

First let me just say, I'm a big Romero fan, after all he's the father, err grandfather, of zombie filmmaking. Last year when I first heard that Romero was making another dead film and I started seeing trailers for Diary of the Dead; I was overwhelmed with excitement. It seemed edgy, gritty, and kind of reminded me of Martin in that it was set out to be more of an experiment in filmmaking and carried itself in a kind of intellectual way.

Fast forward to a few months ago and Dimension Extreme released Diary of the Dead on DVD. First, what is it about the word "extreme" that immediately makes me doubt the intention of its very meaning? Oh I know, Tartan Asia Extreme has sullied the expression on more than one occasion; but that's beside the point. I keep an open mind because both Tartan and Dimension have put out some excellent stuff; it's just every now and then...well you know. Anyway, I'll get right to it. Diary of the Dead missed its mark for me; conceptually Romero gets an A+, as always, but he just failed to deliver in his execution.

Romero makes some of the most prolific, poignant social observations of any filmmaker I know. Subtly masked within their zombie layer his commentary has a way of creeping in and infiltrating barriers that we would normally, perhaps inadvertently, be not in tune with. In this case, sensationalized media, desensitized and habitualized society, was, and I think the biggest, comment made in Diary. "The people need to know" words that echoed repeatedly in my mind while watching this film. It could be construed as irony within a world where the term "people" and what qualifies is quickly becoming debatable. It reminds me of the adage; if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear, does it make a sound? I think the real question Romero asks is does it really matter if it makes a sound? Touché, Romero, touché.

Well with Romero's good intentions aside; the film just didn't pull it off for me. I'm not sure if it was because of a low budget or what but Diary just came off as trite. The innovative third person documentary style came off as overly polished and the camera work lacked the gritty documentary feel. Maybe the HDV video look was not the best way to differentiate between the uses of multiple cameras. It simply blurred them and made it appear that the filmographer was drunk. Simply put it lacked the realism that one would expect from a documentary. However, the biggest flaw was not that Romero didn't keep up with the thread of different cameras; in fact that all pretty much made sense as we would go from one camera as its battery died to another that "coincidentally"(accidentally on purpose) was placed in another strategic location. It's just that it made no sense as to how we, the audience, happened across the masterful, edited copy of the video in question. It didn't jive with me, in fact bugged me throughout the whole film.

There is not much else left to say about the film at this point. The gamble Romero took by using this documentary style as a plot device just didn't hit therefore things like the acting is irrelevant. The effects certainly didn't make up for anything either. The CGI gore just, well sucked. Sorry I couldn't be more constructive there but it just wasn't believable and looked as though it was edited along with the fake made for TV movie that the protagonist shot.

It was certainly a great effort on Romero's part and any fan of Romero can appreciate what he is doing and has done for the horror genre. I think he is definitely, continually going in the right direction with his films. I just think he needs to let go and really get back to his roots a bit more and experiment.

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Kindle Customer

Good Film of Small Scope

Revisado en los Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 13 de junio de 2013

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I take it from other reviewers who know Romero's work better, that there is a message in this, as in his other movies. I noted a number of undigested comments in it on the imperfection of mankind and, what I take is the chief message, that filming the "truth" is worth the price one might have to pay for it, because it serves the cause of the Good, the True and the Beautiful. Too simplistic, I should think, for the average American graduate of high school (or some higher level of education), to take seriously, stated in that unqualified manner. At any rate, I dismissed any message I could make out as an unnecessary appendage to the film.
The film, itself, I enjoyed as a low key follow up to his earlier ones, giving a somewhat different perspective than he presented in those. He did not induce an intense sense of pain and horror, but did maintain interest in the outcome throughout. I leave it to you to read the reviews of true devotees of this kind of film to get the "expert's" evaluation. Speaking only as an outsider, making a foray into the genre simply for a change of pace, like chewing a bit of bread between sips at a wine tasting, to refresh the palate so as to enjoy the next (different) type of wine, I thought it worth sitting through as the second, shorter, minor, feature in an evening's double bill.

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Throda tzen

“Every time we walk in somewhere, someone dies!” [Tracy],

Revisado en el Reino Unido 🇬🇧 el 1 de diciembre de 2015

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In this 2007 horror a group of film students hear bizarre news reports of the dead rising on the radio as they film deep in the woods. The film then uses techniques similar to the ‘Blair Witch Project’ or ‘Cloverfield’ in using ‘found footage’ to tell the story.
The film is quite relaxed in pace, but not slow. However the script and acting are hit and miss [lose a *], the situations false as they drive into empty towns [lose a *] and the psycho babble self analysis they continually sprout becomes irritating [lose a *]. It only gets into gear about halfway through but by then you don’t really care what happens.
The single disc opens to 3 film trailers before going to a novel main menu offering play, extras [2 interviews], scene selection and set up [English subtitles on/off, audio 2.0/5.1, and commentary]. I was expecting more from this but after a promising start soon tired of it and the meeting with Samuel, the Amish guy, was just bizarre. I’d like to give more but the stupid situations and decisions are too many to overlook and the characters just annoyed but the last 20 minutes does regain a *, making this an average ***

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I<3Rock

Disappointing but good

Revisado en el Reino Unido 🇬🇧 el 24 de septiembre de 2016

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If the daddy of zombie films returns to the subject OF COURSE it'll be worth watching!

It's great to watch the master George A Romero return to the subject... even though the end result is disappointing.

The "mockumentary" horror/sci fi theme has been done much better before, and if someone wants to do it again for the 10000th time, they'd better do it well. Sadly, Romero didn't.

The premise is great, but the script is poor and the acting is even worse - stiff and amateurish. Hell, if a friend of yours unexpectedly shot themselves in the head wouldn't you scream in shock/despair? None of the act or scrit has any real human emotion or realism - NOT a major fault in most budget horror films, but i personally felt a "realistic" zombie film like this need it!

The final result is that you don't feel that drawn to the characters or story, and more than once you'll think "come on! I cant believe this person didnt do this etc etc...".

Having said that: I love the apocalyptic & claustrophobic nature of a good zombie film, so in the end it was worth watching.

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Steven

Mediocre

Revisado en los Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 3 de julio de 2008

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I am not big on being trapped in first person view for an entire movie. The acting was okay. The plot was decent, for a zombie movie. There are parts in the movie where the humor, that Romero puts in many of his movies, takes you out of the movie and makes the whole situation feel very fake.

"Everyone is dying around us, we only have limited power, let's use it to keep YouTube up."

The remake of Dawn of the Dead is the new standard for zombie movies (although not perfect itself). Since then, Romero has not really even come close.

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Lokii

Diary is the poor cousin....

Revisado en el Reino Unido 🇬🇧 el 18 de mayo de 2019

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Diary is the poor sousing of the original Romero trilogy but it has a place in the modern digital world. This reinvents the experience seen through the eyes of the characters, telling the story from a first person perspective. The camera use is good and the story interesting. It is modern Romero.

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Chris W.

Average Zombie fun, Could have been better, could have been worse.

Revisado en los Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 4 de junio de 2008

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I liked this movie. It was a Romero zombie film. Was it perfect, not really. Was it good, well, yes. The zombies were great, the acting was pretty good. ALl in all it was a good movie. Nothing to write home about but nothing to make fun of.

Remember, this was the first days of the outbreak. There werent zombies all over yet. There were pockets here and there. The students might have never seen zombies but they happened to hit zombie central.

The story was good, as stated before. If you want to watch a good zombie movie watch it. If you are expecting perfection, go elsewhere.

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Y. Nomura

George is losing his touch, hopefully because of budgetary constraints

Revisado en los Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 13 de febrero de 2014

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All I can say is I LOVED all of Romero's Dead movies even including Land of the Dead but this one seems to have been made on the money left over from Land's budget, and that's sad since Land was such a kick-ass Dead flick!

I'll even go as far as to saying that the next installment in the series, Survival of the Dead was WAY better than this cheap excuse of a Romero Dead flick. If you haven't watched it, you haven't missed anything important. For die-hard Romero fans only. Zzzzzzz.

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Ben D

Average

Revisado en el Reino Unido 🇬🇧 el 1 de marzo de 2010

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This film has great visual effects for the zombies. Speaking of zombies, who were the idiots acting in this movie? i felt the poor acting dragged this film down from a 4 star rating to a 3 star rating. i know in romeros films acting is always a bit campy but this could have done with decent actors to make it feel more "real". but if you are a romero fan then it is still a must have.

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Murat Yildiz

Mittel gut

Revisado en Alemania 🇩🇪 el 23 de octubre de 2020

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Der Film ist gut Aber der war zu viel geredet

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