Day of the Dead [Blu-ray]

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Release date: 2007-10-02
Blu-ray
Director:George A. Romero
Actors: Terry Alexander, John Amplas, Don Brockett, William Cameron, Lori Cardille

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This movie is an absorbing symbolic depiction of the initial public response to HIV/AIDS--emphatically making unreasonable demands on scientists, who respond by overhyping the immediate value and scope of their work, which all scientists do anyway. Dr. Logan has a plausible strategy. An army of Bubs trained to protect live humans and shoot undomesticated zombies in the head could in principle have solved the whole problem and saved humanity since other zombies would not attack them (zombies only go for live and recently-dead people). But it's unworkable for reasons which become obvious. This sort of thing has a technical name: "Proof-of-Principle". Sometimes, more-conscientious scientists phrase their proposals as efforts to study obstacles to solving a problem rather than as efforts to solve the problem. And sometimes the outcome is good, if the obstacles are few and solvable like the thermoinstability of DNA Polymerase which made PCR impractical until they cloned the thermostable polymerase from ocean-floor hot-springs organisms. Too often it's an excuse for relegating obvious critical impracticalities to the world-changers of the future.

Among the worst offenders of "Proof-of-Principle" and the closely related "Even-if-it's-useless-it's-still-basic-science" argument today is the collective of industrial and academic scams called Gene Therapy. It's based on the plausible-sounding idea that we can genetically program cells in our bodies to make good proteins, by putting artificial DNA into them, the way we program cells in flasks to do. Without screwing things up worse. Even though we have almost no ability to modify the genomes of live multicellular organisms except in a random, non-directed fashion. We can control which genes go in but not where in the genome they go. It gets less and less plausible the longer you go on.

Anyway, the exchange between Captain Rhodes and Dr. Logan also sums up the point of the trilogy nicely: "Civility must be rewarded, Captain. If it's not rewarded, there's no use for it. There's just no use for it at all!" That's George Romero's total essence in one line, including other movies like THE CRAZIES and MONKEY SHINES.

This movie contains at least FOUR world-class character-acting demonstrations: Joe Pilato as Captain Rhodes, G. Howard Klar as Steele, Richard Liberty as Dr. Logan, and Howard Sherman as Bub. These make up for poor work in the protagonists' roles. In fact the good guys are the main problem with this flick. They're too good; except for token weaknesses there's nothing objectionable or even less-than-saintly about any of them. You never wonder what they're gonna do or say next--it's always the most good-guy possible thing. They face the facts, intercede for others, spare their enemies, and martyr themselves. Mr. Spock himself was not so goody-goody. Where are the ambiguous, flawed good guys who made the previous two chapters of the trilogy so interesting??? The protagonists of DAWN have no problem waging lusty semi-comedic war against the biker invaders, and even Ben (the black truck-driver in NotLD) kills his (live) enemy in righteous anger. In this one we get John the pilot instead. The only black character is also the superstitious anti-rationalist who wants to find a desert island and loaf, without even keeping a calendar. A veritable noble savage. Pardon me for being PC but I expect something less ham-handed from Romero.

So it's a flawed masterpiece but everyone interested in medical technology and society should see it. In fact all students of any health-care profession should see it. Oh yeah, the torn-to-pieces-by-zombies scenes are very effective too, and Tom Savini should get an award just for the make-up on the elderly female zombie who gets loose and bites someone. She is about as scary and repulsive as anything I've ever seen on screen.

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Day of the Dead (Divimax Special Edition)
Loved this version of a classic zombie movie, very exciting from the very start! Like the idea of people trying to domesticate a dead person, if you can't stop them, use them....great!

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Keep in mind I'm reviewing the dvd not the film.

As for as the dvd goes I say it was great transfer. The first disc contains the film and commentaries by Romero, Lori Cardille, Tom Savini, and Cletus Anderson. There is also another commnetary by fellow Day fan Roger Avary.

Now the second disc it contains all the trailers and tv spots(as I know). Poster, Advertising, Behind the Scenes, Production stills, Memorabilia galleries, and also a zombie make-up gallery included(shows how nasty those Day zombies are up close!). A interview with Richard Liberty(before he died), a Wampum Mine Promotional Video where Day of the Dead was filmed and of course the 39 minute The Many Days of the Dead doc(Very informative it is!)

There is also a 31 minute behind the scenes production footage with Tom Savini. Shows you the transformation of the extras to the gruesome zombies they become in Day.

The only reason I knocked a point of is because of that. Since this is the Ultimate Edition of the Day you would think they would get all of the production footage with Savini which is 4.5 hours long(which could be found at ebay at times) but, nope they only got 31 mins of it.

Oh well. I recommend this 2-disc special of Day of the Dead only if your a fan of the film or the Dead trilogy in general.

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