George Romero's App of The Dead Shambles Onto iPhone

[WINDOWCLEAN2]

I can imagine Fox getting all over this already: "New iPhone app allows you to take pictures of your loved ones then shoot them to death."

Fox News...when can we launch the Spanish Inquisition against them?

When no-one expects it?


OT: I'm still waiting for a themepark dammit! Land of the dead?

 

[vrbtny]

Time to photograph some of my most hated School teachers....

 

[Jared]

I guess they can make apps out of anything these days, lol

Might be worth looking into

 

[Kenjitsuka]

Absolutely one of the funniest app's so far

 

[squid5580]

Anyone seen the film? Was it any good?

I'm afraid not... Don't get me wrong, it's a definate improvement on "Diary" but it just lacks spark and the zombies aren't nearly dead enough. In his attempt to leave behind the pressure and prejudice of the high-production film industry in favour of a more intimate and independant approach, it seems poor old George has fallen behind in the very genre he created...

I loved Diary. Sure it wasn't a Dawn or a Day or Night but it wasn't nearly as bad as Land. Or the godawful remake of Day (or Dawn I can never remember which one was which, the one with Bud). But this one was silly. At least I could relate to the characters in Diary. This was just a series of over the top zombie slayings by a bunch of morons. And can you explain to me how they got the heads on the poles? Very disappointing Romero. You completely forgot the morals and just went for laughs.

I acctually prefered Land to Diary. Land was a fairly good end to the series with the plot coming full circle: in Night it is the irrational fear of communism and insurgence, only by looking out of the window can you see the ghouls. In Dawn it's commercialism, of course. And Day is a nice shot at the military with, no doubt, the best zombies in the series. Yet in Land, the zombies have become us; there is no more warning to be made because we are one and the same and the final shot really brings it all together.

Diary on the other hand was just... eugh. A bunch of young college students in a pitiful pop at the media, which was needless as far more was said about media influence in the other films of the series.

Don't get me wrong, if you like it that's good. In many ways it's a good film... it just didn't work for me and I feel very much the same about Survival.

Well at least we found some common ground with our mutual dislike for Survival.

To me Diary wasn't about the media. It was about us being spectators. It reminded me so much of this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRKVH25gpYQ (sorry I don't know how to imbed it here)

Where I felt like yelling at the guy at holding the camera. PUT IT DOWN AND DO SOMETHING YOU JACKASS. Where we as the human race would rather watch some bad shit go down than try and stop it. Diary for me said we have lost the everyday hero. The ones with the guts to step up and risk getting hurt or inconvenienced have become rare while the rest of the population is the audience. To me that was the most important message out of all of them. Well maybe on par with the anti racism message of the original Night.