 Forced myself to finish watching this damn film for this review. You can't even latch on to one of these characters Yeah, maybe Ving Rhymes Hello and welcome to another edition of dead wrong We tackle a movie that gets a lot of love that we hate And we're just basically gonna tell you that you're dead wrong Before we get started. What are we drinking? Fire in the sky rye IPA so today? We're gonna be talking about 2004's dawn of the dead remake Yeah, a lot of people really seem to like this movie gets a lot of praise even IMDB gets 7.3 out of 10 it has a 4.3 out of 5 rating on Google reviews Jesus rotten tomatoes has 76% Which is high for rotten tomatoes. So kind of tough. Yeah, so higher across the board So let's find out what do people like about dawn of the dead remake Well, the only way to do that is to look at some reviews. Take a look at an IMDB review here Dawn of the dead is one of the best zombie films ever made. Oh boy. It combines a decent storyline Good acting nice cinematography. Whatever the fuck that means Good dialogue good soundtrack and it's genuinely scary Oh, where do you begin with that? Well, first of all one of the best zombie films ever made that's highly debatable dawn of the dead Zombie day the dead night living dead. Those are all classics this in my opinion doesn't rank Anywhere near those no 28 days later. It doesn't even come fucking close even amongst all of those movies There's so much debate as to which is the best one a remake of a Romero movie and then you're calling this the best ever How dare you it has a good storyline? Well, it doesn't really have a storyline at all It's just people trying to survive. There is no real story in this movie at all Yeah, there's no arc with the characters. You just get planted in the middle of mayhem Yeah, there's no there's nothing to even say and not to say the original has anything much more than that But it expands on all that stuff the human condition a lot more than this movie That's the story in this case. There is really no story. No nice cinematography Well the cinematography in my opinion this movie actually isn't that great at all In fact, it's kind of just mundane and boring and I actually really hate that whole saturated look They give the movie with the super green everything's or super blue like everything is super saturated doesn't feel Realistic mm-hmm, and if you want me to be sucked into the movie and feel like I'm there with these characters and sympathize with them Well, it's got to feel realistic It's got to feel like it's a real place and a real setting who's that 2000s trend of everything was super saturated good dialogue Everything that all the characters say is useless and pointless. I thought Dialogue in this movie is horrible because you didn't learn anything about the characters through the dialogue The dialogue didn't move any story for it. In fact the dialogue hurt this movie because he was so poor Yeah, the only actor that was able to do any of this dialogue justice was being rhymes Everybody else who's like you can tell they're reading a shitty script There was nothing there for the actors to work with the dialogue didn't drive the story forward It didn't create anything for the movie. It did nothing for it good soundtrack Well, there isn't really a soundtrack to this movie. It's just using shitty contemporary songs Forcing them into spots in the movie that where do they don't fit? No, it's like a square pig in a round hole I don't think it fucking works. The music doesn't elevate scenes No doesn't do what it's supposed to do in a horror movie at all the director Whoever was in charge of that. I was like I like this song. I'm gonna put it in mm-hmm. Why why does it suit that scene? It doesn't matter. Yeah, I just wanted in there and the actual score was the most generic boring run-of-the-mill shitty Contemporary horror movie score just to satisfy the action. Yeah, that's all it was Yeah, you're completely right. The music was just there to enhance the action But as far as drama all that kind of stuff it did nothing it doesn't invoke emotion either. It's genuinely scary This movie isn't really scary at all. In fact, it's like 99% action not scary So here's a Google review five-star Google review. Let's see why people like Donna the Dead remake Well, this person says the same thing. This is the best zombie movie ever made Why tell me why why is this the best zombie movie ever made from the torqued up exciting start? Featuring the awesome Sarah Pooley's escape to the action in the mall setting even the end credits Featuring disturbs manic rock anthem. It's nothing but awesome for zombie horror and action film fans It's well-directed gory delight. Well, I think you got one thing right and Action film fans. Yeah out of that entire thing. That's the only thing he got right Sarah Pooley I thought she was kind of shitty in this movie. Yeah, she's pretty bland I didn't root for her at all. I didn't root for anybody but being the main character. I should be behind her She's just the lamest vanilla person on the planet. It was got no character Her demeanor doesn't change throughout the entire fucking movie. The whole mood is yeah, that's it. Huh, huh? What the fuck is going on? Torqued up exciting start of the movie and that's a lot of people do talk about the Beginning of this movie how it kind of hits you in the face right away. That's one of the best Intro is to a zombie film. Yeah a lot happens right off the bat, which is fine. Yeah, but it doesn't stop Yeah, exactly and then you don't get to learn about the characters because it's all action And there's no character building or world building because it's just all action It's a perfect example of starting at the top Yeah, and then you can't go any further than that you can only go down by the time 20 to 30 minutes comes around in the movie you're spent I Was finished. I was drained. I couldn't watch anymore And I forced myself to keep going because there's too much action. Yeah slow it down a bit Rotten Tomatoes 76% here's what one person said no matter how much the genre has been beaten to death in the years since its release Snyder's remake is Enduringly scary Thrilling and incurably watchable time after time But can we talk about some of the verbiage this guy is using first Incurably watchable the hell is that guys is fucking wanking off Oh, look at the way I use words incurably watchable. No, I wanted to shut this off half hour in Yeah, I forced myself to finish watching this damn film for this review You can't even latch on to one of these characters Yeah, maybe Ving Rhymes Enduringly scary. Well, I don't think this movie is scary whatsoever Thrilling well, maybe it's thrilling because the action is so yeah high torqued Yes, this movie is maybe a little bit thrilling, but it's definitely not scary and it's not incurably watchable Thrilling is not the same as suspenseful this movie has no suspense at all You can have an action film with tons of suspense. You have to do it properly This movie doesn't take its time to play out things slowly enough to create suspense No, to where you're on the edge of your seat and you care the characters suck You don't care about them. You don't learn about them. You're not behind them You don't root for them No And there's too many of them as soon as there's a moment where things calm down and there's a point in the Movie where you have a chance to possibly Learn about these characters. They introduce more characters Yeah, just like well came out there's these other people and then there's more so but there's just way too many characters to care about Then they try to introduce Emotion into these scenes with these people who are bitten the one scene this movie tried to really evoke emotion with was when Trashcan man Gets bit they tell him that they want to kill him. Yeah, he turns right and there's so much wrong with that scene He's the only good actor in the movie besides being rhymes. He is legitimately believable as a man who is Fearing turning the whole way. It's done. It's like, okay They're trying to evoke emotion for a character. You were just introduced to yeah They didn't take their time. So you don't really care about him like if he was there from the beginning Okay, you're with him for the whole ride the other character who wants to kill him There's no moral struggle like yeah, this sucks that we have to do this I hate the fact that we might have to kill this guy. It's like we have to kill him Yeah, and he's supposed to be like the the leader leader the hero of the movie and There's no moral struggle. What a wasted scene that guy's daughter You don't feel their bond. So you don't really care that much about her being upset either. There's no fight Yeah, there's she just crumbles and fight like you're gonna fucking shoot my dad. Yeah, really Going to hide somewhere like there's no fight. Yeah, you know with that and that's what a zombie movie really should be About is that fight for keeping your humanity speaking of the characters man like there's this way too many Unbelievable characters. Yeah, like that sarcastic guy. Nobody is like this man Yeah constantly think of a character trait for this guy. Well, he's sarcastic. Okay, and that's all he is He's nothing but a sarcastic man. This whole existence is being a sarcastic man Like no, there's nobody like that in real life. Yeah, nobody talks like this in real life It doesn't even have a comedic effect. There's so many unrealistic things in this movie. Yeah, it's a zombie movie Zombies are unrealistic, but it's what people do in response to the zombies, right? Everybody knows how to shoot a gun. Mm-hmm right off the bat the old woman that shows up knows how to shoot a gun Yeah, our main character here, you know uma thurman light She knows how to shoot a fucking gun right away. Yeah, like in the original the SWAT team has to teach The other people how to shoot. Yeah, because that's the way it would really be Yeah The only person in this movie who has any business knowing how to fire a gun is Ving Rhimes Yeah, because he's a cop. Yeah, and maybe the security guard guys may give him some maybe Yeah, you can give him the benefit of the devil the mall in this movie makes no sense in the context of what is Happening and what is going on. Yeah, like just that line that they say we're going to the mall Why would you go to the mall in this case? Yeah in this case? Why would you go there? It makes no sense and they're on foot to and there's all this mayhem going on I wouldn't want to go there. Don't you think the place would be packed with zombies? Yeah, they're lucky that it isn't could be or should be it should be in the original The only reason they go to the mall is for a pit stop They stop on the roof where there's no zombies They know there's no zombies because it's the roof and it's a quick pit stop and they decide this isn't a good place Mm-hmm to kind of get our bearings. Yeah, and they're actually go there Yeah, just seek it out and go why the mall in the original movie, too There's a narrative about the mall All the human condition side of everything. Yeah, right the consumerism and everything that dawn of the dead Speaks about zombies in the mall. That's just yeah people consumers Yeah, exactly and this movie doesn't do that and this movie doesn't use the mall setting to its advantage at all No, I think the mall setting actually hurts this movie Immensely could have been done anywhere else. Yeah, and should have been yeah It should have been done anywhere else even in the original they go to certain stores, too Yeah, certain stores have their own little charm and character. Yeah, they use the mall for their own purposes They don't do any of that in this you don't see them raiding anything You don't even see him fucking getting food all the things they do in the original makes sense this movie None of it makes sense I found the movie only started to get good and get its own identity is when they left the mall But by then the movies ten minutes away from being over so it doesn't matter okay It's finally doing its own thing. It's finally has its own identity and then it's over the original had a mall Let's do a moment. Yeah, let's do it, too Missed the whole fucking point have to understand why the original was in a mall Yeah, this movie basically to me just seems like they saw the success of 28 days later Breath of fresh air in the zombie genre. Yeah, let's just put the fast-moving 28 days later zombies In dawn of the dead and we have our remake and there was no thought behind it It's so unoriginal the zombies in this movie, too Which should be a huge aspect quite throwaway and the stupid noises they make which is this new modern Your vocal chords change too when you're a zombie and they shrink by 80% Turn into a pterodactyl the zombies have no character in this No, good one like a zombie movie There are zombies have like a kind of a character like a design that you know Okay, that's 28 days later zombie. That's a dawn of the dead 78 zombie you kind of know mm-hmm These zombies got no character at all. They're just generic the whole movie is just reeks of being generic and that's on me, baby Oh What the fuck is up with that some shitty CGI baby like oh god You want us to take this movie serious zombie baby does not work in a movie We're actually supposed to believe this to some degree. Yeah or care Yeah, so those are all the reasons why we think dawn of the dead 2004 is a bad movie and doesn't even come anywhere close to the original Yeah, and we just can't wrap our brains around people who wrote these reviews We're saying it's as good as the original. It's the best zombie movie ever It fails on every level every single level except for the action And it's not even a good action movie at that. No, there's a million other action movies I would watch before this movie. I had such a hard time watching this the second time around Huh, I turned it off the only thing I like about this movie well two things I like the fact that being rhymes is able to kind of like make chicken salad out of chicken shit with the dialogue Yeah, and When they're playing the game where they're shooting this celebrity looking zombies. Yeah, he's like Jay Leno It's like I like that because I would do that. Yeah, it's like something I would do It's a relatable kind of this only relatable thing about this movie is that one little scene. Yeah besides that Fuck off this movie sucks. I didn't want to finish it and I did just for you So what do you guys think dawn of the dead 2004 are we dead wrong or are you dead wrong?