[quote=“DexPac”]
I don’t know I guess maybe running zombies is just something that’s never been done right.
The only reason it worked in the Dawn of the Dead remake is because Snyder still kept the
movie about the living and kept the focus off the Zombies. My main problem with the running
Zombies in that one was that they didn’t just run, they ran faster than most normal people.
They came across as super humans rather than undead humans, but only sometimes. I feel
if you’re going to go that route with it, then don’t call them Zombies, call them Sci-Fi Mishap
Super Humans.
And for the record slow rotting zombies have been around since long before Romero. That’s just
what Zombies are. They’re Mummies, without all the toilet paper.
As far as Big Daddy in Land of the Dead, I liked the idea he represented, I just didn’t like the way
the idea was represented. I love the thought that zombies can evolve and “learn” through instinct
almost like a wild animal, I just think Romero rushed it. It all happend way too damn fast. It should
have just been left with the zombies figuring out that the fireworks are a distraction thing and that
should have been it.
[/quote]I think the slow moving zombies work effectively, there is a level of exterior action that opens the film visually. But if you you have the fast moving zombies, which I’ve grown weary of, I mean that’s just absurd; but the point is the characters run away from the action, so there can’t really be any close-quarter action as in the original Dawn Of The Dead, which makes for better entertainment, I mean just look at the end sequence, it has humour and its action-packed.
But with the fast running zombies the characters have to shy away from the action into interior settings, so the whole thing will just be talking heads and very little action. The entirety of Act II in Zach Snyder’s Dawn Of The Dead deals with the characters reacting most of the time, until they device a plan to flee the shopping mall, which in my opinion made no sense whatsoever, why would they risk going into the open when they can stay indoors in a safe place? The electricity will be down in most places anyhow, so to me the second dosen’t work at all, at least in my opinion. Slow zombies make for greater action and suspense, and the running zombies, well they’re just boring.
