Just watched it.. its not good people.

I hated Diary too. What I don't get is the not eating animals thing, was it George's idea for that? I first remember it from DotD remake where they wouldn't touch the dog. My only problem with that is that the basic need to feed, and the memories of human life we get from LotD etc. is that they would be more prone to eating animals than humans.

here is why you are wrong.

1. your opinions are based on all his previous movies. you half admit that if not out right.

2. who cares if you want to get to know characters. A writer will let you know what the writer wants you to know. in this case most of the things your worried about knowing dont matter.

3. Characters were awesome and original. im sorry you didnt get there entire back stories.

4. what makes you say everyone's motivations are all over the place. i think all they want to do is survive and the other is rivalry.

5. your right about the horses in the sense of who cares if they eat horses but the thing is thats what the film was saying too.

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i agree, it isn't the worst zombie movie ever, but it is romero's worst in my opinion. I even liked land and diary of the dead, which a lot of hardcore fans hated. But yeah, if he is going to continue making zombie movies, he better start going down another road than what he did with survival, or he's going to turn into a
c-movie syfy channel director.

and i'm not bashing at all. i LOVE the first 3 and think they are all 3 in my top 5 zombie movies of all time. and like i said,i even though land and diary were great, but this one just got a little too stupid and got that low budget feel to it really fast. at least with diary he had great practical effects and the handheld camera route he went kind of changed things up a bit.

I'd like to see him have at least one more try at another "dead" movie, just to see see if this was due to budget cuts and bad acting, or if romero is starting to slip up.....

It just seemed so bizarre to focus on something as insignificant as a family feud in the mist of a zombie apocalypse. The majority of the time it felt like the zombies were a mere side attraction, every character was completely desensitized to the fact the living dead had risen and were eating their flesh, I mean zero tension, no sense of dread, no panic and certainly no survival instinct displayed by anyone, surely the undead warrant at least some fear.

Like you I tried to immerse myself in the plot but every time I attempted to I was distracted by some irrelevant corny line or bit of slapstick, I mean the part about that woman being a lesbian? Or the joke about the pussy river? Or well pretty much everything. After a while I just figured George had decided to make a go at a comedy/parody of sorts, such a strange mix of scenes though, the characters go the whole time acting like immature clowns and then the next minute try to pull the films mood to serious, it just comes across as confused. The film suffers from a real identity crisis. What I don't understand is that if you're going to spend all that money and put all that effort into making the film why not take it seriously. It could have been so much more, they had the budget and some pretty good effects artists, the idea of an island is good also, as seen in 'zombi 2', so why waste it all. Either establish yourself as a light hearted comedy or a serious horror, don't interchange the two and try to be everything or else you end up with this disjointed rubbish.

The payoff at the end was pointless, the acting was wooden and the the overall feeling of the film was lifeless and cheesy. I really look to salvage the best out of every film I see because I know how spoiled and obsessed with perfection a lot of people are when it comes to films, but it really was an uninspired empty experience to watch. The passion has gone.