Thursday, June 10, 2010

I Find It Hard To Believe You Can Shoot That Gun With A Rotting Trigger Finger

The 2008 remake of legend George Romero's Day of the Dead (1985) was abysmal. Nick Cannon is the bane of my existence. Really, dude? Being married to Mariah "5150" Carey wasn't enough of a horror story for you? You had to go and ruin one of the best-loved zombie movies of all time?! Of course it wasn't entirely his fault-- the acting and CGI were absolutely terrible.

It's funny that as technology gets better, special effects are sometimes worse than they were in the 1980s. In the original Day of the Dead, Captain Rhodes gets shot by a zombie then dismembered by a horde of the living dead. The best fuckin' part is when Bub (the gun-wielding brain-slurper) salutes the captain as his guts are strewn across the hallway.

I'm gonna go ahead and overlook the highly unlikely use of a firearm by a rotting sack of skin in light of the pure awesome that is this scene!

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