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Originally posted by Vodstok
I must concur. What about the dipshits in Day of the dead? As far as we know, they have been killing zombies professionally for at least a year, yet they still fire automatic weapons wildly into their bodies....
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i think they did that for fun ...
not much point looking at that movie too closely though.
one thing we're going to face as long time horror fans - is that horror filmmakers dont age well.
they make their name as eager, young, hungry filmmakers that take the reigns of their movies with entheusiasm and gusto - desperate to make a name for themselves.
once they do that they're asked to recreate the same old things by expectant fans like performing monkeys ..
i can see things from the fimmakers perspective to some extent - or the rock and roll star who wants to grow in other personallly rewarding directions and away from the old standards they've played 10,000 times ..
but it isnt what the fan wants -
so they end up bitter and dissapointed with the horror genre and fans and make some half assed cynical uncaring attempt at a horror movie to pay the mortgage.
on the other hand i feel for the fans ... the horror film industry is 99% talentless shit so when a jem comes along we pray for them to keep shining so we'll have something to look forward to.
its a no win situation really - which makes me appreciate even more the rob zombies, the sam raimis, and the tarantinos, etc who love genre films and probably always will.
we lost romero, carpenter, burton, and many others ... we should be damn grateful for the guys still trying to carry the tourch.