"He is exploring ideas of if the Living Dead can regain any function of their previous normal existence and/or if ingrained instincts still exist. "
He did that in a much more interesting manner with Day of the Dead and with Bub.
I don't understand what you mean from above. There was no "scientific experimentation" going on. All you had were some irish rednecks who didn't want to kill their kin.
"As well as how pockets of surviors set up new communites. Its interesting. "
Really, is that what you thought this was? It was more a bunch of redneck kin who lived in a small community with a dictator patriarch that was taken from a countless number of bad western movies.
"What is he supposed to do? Oh look...its another slow horde of zombies, and oh look, we're another group of survivors doing the exact same thing in all the movies. Look at 'Day of the Dead' that plot was quite different that 'Dawn' and is where the experimentation with zombies started."
Look at the Walking Dead on AMC, that took an old format and made it fresh and intriguing. Sometimes George Romero should focus on the talents of the LIVING actors, and not just teh zombies.
"there is in fact no real Zombie apocoplypse it is perfectly valid what Romero is doing here. "
That makes no sense, his goals should be to entertain us with art (yes movies are considered art). If he cannot entertain or move us, then be prepared for criticism. The saddest thing is a often a fanboy who cannot accept a critique from fellow fans (Yes, I own all of George Romero movies, on top of the 10 other Zombie DVD's I own) on calling it what it is, a crapfest.
Some of the basic parts of the movie were horrible. This includes the lack of atmosphere that Romero is known for (the trilogy had some excellent atmosphere), the horrendously bad props department (really, everyone in the movie had pre-WWI pistols in modern day, Gun-loving AMERICA?)
But the worst of it is the horrible acting, with guys that definitely seemed more Canadian than American. I was waiting for the "eh's" to break out.
And yes, before calling me a stereotyper, I was raised in Winnipeg and Toronto.
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