{"id":13825,"date":"2018-10-19T18:36:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T22:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.9deuce.tv\/blogs\/?p=13825"},"modified":"2018-10-19T18:36:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T22:36:59","slug":"diary-of-the-dead-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.9deuce.tv\/blogs\/diary-of-the-dead-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of the Dead (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fifth of the Romero zombie films and I would guess a polarizing film.\u00a0 Yes, it is like a found footage style, but with actual good camerawork.\u00a0 So the camerawork isn’t actually a problem when viewing, but I guarantee that it instantly turned away a large number of viewers.<\/p>\n

When some college kids see the videos on the news and on YouTube, they decide to head home to be with their families.\u00a0 Of course, they hit some snags along the way.\u00a0 They have one girl who hurts herself and they go to the hospital, with bad results.\u00a0 Then they meet up with this group of black dudes, and that goes pretty well.\u00a0 They were well supplied in this warehouse.\u00a0 It was pretty interesting.\u00a0 Then they go to one of the girl’s parents home, with expected results.\u00a0 At some point, they meet some national guards, who we will meet in the next film.\u00a0 Finally, they make their way to a rich friends mansion, and that’s where the final act plays out.<\/p>\n

This isn’t that bad of a film.\u00a0 It has it’s annoying college kid cliches at work.\u00a0 The professor is by far the best main character because he drinks, tells cool stories, and he knows how to use weapons.\u00a0 I’m surprised that he wasn’t black because that seems like a Romero staple, which I would have totally been pleased with.\u00a0 Most of the characters are annoying.\u00a0 I didn’t mind Tracy.\u00a0 She was the best of the female characters, I thought.\u00a0 The group at the warehouse was a cool idea.\u00a0 The uploaded video footage was really good stuff.\u00a0 Everything played out as one would expect.<\/p>\n

This felt almost too cliched for Romero, but he took the tired college kids in horror movie cliches, added zombies, and he made it watchable.\u00a0 He proved once again how good he is at making low budget competent films.<\/p>\n

Rating: 5.5 – I didn’t love this, but I would rewatch\u00a0it if I was bored or doing a Romero marathon.\u00a0 The characters were irritating, intentionally so, I think.\u00a0 The story was fine.\u00a0 Just lower your expectations and enjoy the good scenes.<\/p>\n

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