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Then T2 which is one of the best action movies of all-time. Then Aliens which is overrated but still excellent. Then True Lies. Then the quality drops significantly. Titanic isn't very good and neither is Avatar.
Even with a low budget, it's not too difficult to get great practical effects for zombies. The modern zombie aesthetic, often achieved with a little make-up and a lot of CGI, just doesn’t look like it used to. It used to be about half devoured bodies; now they look like Stephen Sommers’ mummies. When a zombie gets shot, it used to be effective and convincing; nowadays they want zombies to explode like grenades. The power of a zombie film is in its grittiness but too many zombie films these days look cartoonish. A zombie has to be flesh, not plastic.
Romero’s DOTD sends mixed messages. On the one hand, it’s a serious step back from LOTD in terms of budget, and it shows. That’s not a bad thing though for clearly Romero’s creativity peaks when he has smaller budgets. Like you said, it was his chance to win us back by going slightly retro, both in terms of the story and the filmmaking. On the other hand, DOTD wants to appeal to the Internet user, the daily YouTube uploader, the ‘modern’ film viewer. He tries to be satirical about such people though, about the ones who record events and pretend they do so for the sake of mankind when in fact all they want is to get famous. Yet the very tools he uses for that are the ones he attacks in his story. It’s weird. I don’t think Romero’s Dead films will ever reach the heights of Night and Dawn again.
Damn that Arnie/Cameron partnership.
Aliens
T2
True Lies
Avatar
Titanic
I'm surprised I haven't seen much of his work.
I loved the part with Jamie lee Curtis as the wife in search of excitement, that alone and the involvement of the whole family is prove enough that it would never be suited for any Dalton movie of the 007 variety. I would say.
to sell me on zombies rather than fishsticks this time.
My reaction? This:
To be honest I'm not sure.
As for Aliens, this was quite a roller coaster ride. While the first one by Ridley Scott as a straight horror tale, the sequel was stricly kick ass adventure. Those colonial Marines were harbingers of the macho guys in Predator.
I'll save my musings on the tetralogy for a separate thread and a separate time, but for now, I'll go all you Alien fans a step further and boldly admit I like David Fincher's Alien 3 second best!
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The asthetic question is interesting. I'm tempted to say 60s because there are some amazing looking Westerns from that decade, and some of the Bond films from there look amazing too.
I'm probably gonna have to go with the 80s though (which I think is the best decade for films). 80s action films and slasher films have an overall asthetic I just love. The amazing looking practical special effects, the slightly grainy screen, the music, the sound effects, etc. It's hard to describe so I'll put it this way: watch the original Die Hard and then the last two Die Hard films. It just feels really different, you can really tell when you're watching an 80s action movie even if it's not actually set in the 80s. There's just a sort of vibe you get from them, an overall asthetic that I really like.
One of the reasons Licence To Kill is my favourite Bond film is because it has this asthetic, this 80s action movie atmosphere.
The Godfather
Shaft
Dirty Harry
The Sting
The Omen
Star Wars
Jaws
and so on and so forth ...
With love!
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Yeah, 80's.