I went into the movie looking for a reason to not like this movie, but I found nothing. The Night remake was good, but this one was even better.

This is definitely interesting. At first I was bothered by the running zombies. I thought it was going to be stupid like 28 Days Later where the zombies don't pile on and eat the brains of their prey, but I was wrong on that. The zombies are definitely hungry in this movie. I'm a Romero purist and I like his way of doing things, like the slow moving groaning RE-style zombies. But the growling, screaming, running zombies fit this movie perfectly and it wouldn't have worked if they didn't run. And it does make sense that the freshly-killed people would run since they didn't have a chance to rot or be immobilized.

What this version kept in common was the materialistic instinct of the people and the zombies. That's important because it's what gave the original so much personality. The survivors don't live it up as much as you'd think (I'd be raiding the registers and watching all kinds of movies and playing with laptops) but you can still tell that even in the middle of the end of the world the people still are drawn to consumerism, like when they're all trying on new clothes (I think it's during the Disturbed cover.) The zombies are drawn to the mall too, and Ken/G-Unit points it out. It's dripping with satire how they all herd together as zombies to file into the mall and take whatever flesh they can get their hands on.

Originally posted by metCloud
With that said, Is the new one exactly like the old one (storyline that is)??
Nope. The few things in common with first one are zombies and a shopping mall. Aside from that they're very different.

Originally posted by metCloud
If the gore is reduced at all I will be pi$$ed!! Oh and CGI???:shoot:
No! It's really gruesome. There's a headshot by the black cop Ken (not G-Unit! ) with a shotgun from close range and the guy's head from the lips up flies all over the wall. There's a lot of zombies getting hit by trucks and their heads popping like grapes and all that great stuff too. From what I could tell, they only used CGI when they absolutely had to.

I can't stress enough how sick some of the headshots are. You just have to see them to understand.

Originally posted by metCloud
BTW- Did George Romero have anything to do with this on?? or did Hollywood gank this classic too?
No. His name is credited as writing the screenplay that the new screenplay was based off of, but that's it. I read in an interview that he's indifferent to the project anyway, because no matter what Hollywood does, the original Dawn is still there for all to see.