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Damn You, George Romero!!!


For giving zombies "life" in the movies. The first couple of zombie movies were interesting, but as time went on...? This movie is TOTALLY stupid, disgusting and BORING!! I watched it, yesterday, on AMC, and I couldn't wait for the words "The End" to appear! Enough with zombies!!!

"You can't HANDLE the truth!" Jack Nicholson, "A Few Good Men."

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Huh? This is not a zombie movie in any way..?

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"Huh? This is not a zombie movie in any way..?"

It's not? Hhhhhhhhmmmmmm? Oh, maybe I'M the zombie then.

"You can't HANDLE the truth!" Jack Nicholson, "A Few Good Men."

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It does have aliens and slug/snail thingies that possess people and make them act a bit like zombies though..

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Thank you!! I admit that I DID doze-off a little, due to the HIGH commercial load. It SURE looked like a zombie movie, though. Hard to believe that Elizabeth Banks ("30 Rock") was in it. She's a borderline A-List actress, isn't she??

"You can't HANDLE the truth!" Jack Nicholson, "A Few Good Men."

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...This was made in 2006 and she didn't start working on 30 Rock 'til 2010; and Romero is not affiliated with the movie...

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"...Romero is not affiliated with the movie..."

Thank you, I know. However, he IS responsible for this whole zombie resurgence, isn't he? We got zombies on AMC, and vampires (galore!) on HBO, enough already!! Why doesn't HollyWeird bring back The Mummy, The Wolfman and The Invisible Man?! The Frankenstein monster? Heck, Elvira?

"You can't HANDLE the truth!" Jack Nicholson, "A Few Good Men."

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Oh yes, bring back Elvira! I love her big, round... uhm.. eyes..?! :D

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I wouldn't quite call this a zombie movie and The Walking Dead is from a comic; but yeah, he's definitely had a lot of influence on the genre.

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Thank you, starcraftbw88, I NEEDED the positive reinforcement. I know that I dozed-off, quite a bit, during (and after) the onslaught of commercials on AMC, but it sure LOOKED like a zombie movie, to me. C'mon, ENOUGH with the zombies and vampires, and let's move on, already!!

"You can't HANDLE the truth!" Jack Nicholson, "A Few Good Men."

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I think it's agreed upon that he's responsible for making zombies popular with his original Dead trilogy (Night of, Dawn of, Day Of), but the resurgence in their popularity I think has to go to 28 Days Later (even though technically they weren't zombies), and also to the remake of Dawn Of The Dead.... And Romero had nothing to do with 28 Days, and nothing to do with the remake of Dawn Of.

"You're going to need a bigger boat." - Chief Brody

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"...the resurgence in their popularity (zombies) has to go to 28 Days Later..."

ENOUGH ALREADY! Put a sock in it!! It's ALL derivative. Doesn't ANYBODY have a new idea? Same thing with vampires. Been there, done that!!

NOTICE TO MITT ROMNEY: A BAD DAY FREELOADING, IS BETTER THAN A GOOD DAY AT WORK.

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Question: If you've had enough of zombie movies..... Why would you go see one? If you don't appreciate that niche of the horror genre, is it not just easier to avoid it?

"You're going to need a bigger boat." - Chief Brody

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also, this is not a zombie movie.

"laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone." - Dae-su Oh

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"...Why would you go see one?"

I haven't "gone" to see a movie, since "The China Syndrome," in the pre-VHS era of movies. The just seem to find me! I DO plan on going to see "Les Miserables," on Christmas Day, though. Please tell me that this Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway blockbuster does NOT have zombies in it!!!

NOTICE TO MITT ROMNEY: A BAD DAY FREELOADING, IS BETTER THAN A GOOD DAY AT WORK.

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"The Invisible Man"

Didn't Hollywood already try that with "Hollow Man"? As I recall, it didn't work that well.

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Apparently your TV only gets one channel and has no "OFF" switch.

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My TV? WHAT TV? I have to live with these "things." They're all around me, all the time! My plumber, my cable guy. The pool man. They're zombies! My therapist doesn't believe me, I think she's a zombie, too! Good luck with the police, I KNOW that they're zombies!!! HELP!!!

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Wah...

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Apparently op's forced to watch "zombie" movies, and then come on a message board to complain some more about zombies.

Secretly I think OP loves zombies.

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It's depressing how many people fell for this troll thread.

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Yes, I am clinically depressed, and I STARTED this board.

George Zimmerman: Trayvon should NOT have brought a bag of Skittles to a gunfight.

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