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ShawnD1 · 03-29-2004, 01:57 AM

I just saw the old version of Dawn of the Dead and I thought it was non stop laughs. Everybody was upbeat throughout the whole movie. None of the characters ever seemed to be bothered that zombies were going around killing people.

-The rednecks are taking turns shooting zombies like it's target practice.
-Soldiers are taking each others pictures.
-The black cop hits the "out of order" coffee machine and it starts making coffee for him.
-A zombie stands on some boxes near the helicopter and the blades chop the top of his head off, but it looks funny.
-The pilot shoots zombies in the chest (which is ineffective), then the white cop pushes him aside and shoots the zombies in the head for him. That happens twice and the look on the pilot's face is just priceless each time.
-In all of the mall scenes with zombies, there is pleasant music playing in the background.

The people stuck in the mall were not trapped like prisoners as much as they were living like kings. They loot the bank then pose for the security camera. They take anything they want from the stores (such as the black cop having a giant bag of coffee). They play the arcade games as long as they want.
The only part of the movie where there seemed to be any threat was when living humans were trying to take over the mall.

Was this movie supposed to be funny or were people just scared easier in the 70s?

muno · 03-29-2004, 02:13 AM

No, I don't believe it's intenteded to be a comedy. But it's not a 'horror'-flick either.

It's a kind of a �-class gore-splatter, which doesn't even try to be realistic, but isn't trying to be funny either.

I find the movie amusing, and entertaining, to a level that I think it's good.
The first of the trilogy (night of the living dead) I think was supposed to be scary, the two sequels were just for entertainment.

Of course, it could be that the movie was ridiculing something, and was supposed to be funny, and that I'm wrong.

//edit:
imdb lists it's genre as comedy.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077402/

So I guess it was a comedy then.

//edit2:
Haha, imdb lists the remake as 'drama'

Guess movies are what everyone makes for themselves. Where others see tragedy, others see humor...

noisedude · 03-29-2004, 04:33 AM

i thought the original was a satire on consumer culture, that even in death the zombies carried on doing what they remembered from life i.e. wandering around shopping malls...?

Warthog · 03-29-2004, 04:34 AM

Any movie where they blow the shiznit out of zombies is a comedy to me. First one was hilarious, second one was also.

Warthog

vass0922 · 03-29-2004, 04:58 AM

I believe the first Evil Dead was intended to be a horror but ended up being more funny

Evil Dead 2 they said to hell with it, and just intentionally made it a comedy

ShawnD1 · 03-29-2004, 05:18 AM

I didn't think Evil Dead 2 was funny. 3 was hilarious though. In that big battle at the end, there's one part where it looks like something throws Ash a skeleton, he grabs it, punches it, then throws it down.
It's so stupid that you can't help but laugh.

muno · 03-29-2004, 05:21 AM

Evil dead wasn't funny, I was scared ????less when I watched it something like 10 years ago (I was like 11 or 12 at that time).

The d00ds in the cellar freaked me out.

I thought the third one was a comedy. Didn't they make the second shortly after the first, and the third like decade after?

Detritus · 03-29-2004, 09:39 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by noisedude
i thought the original was a satire on consumer culture, that even in death the zombies carried on doing what they remembered from life i.e. wandering around shopping malls...?

Yeah, the whole Dead series is a commentary on society and culture...