DAWN OF THE DEAD--SPOILERS!!!

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488.00??? Food stamps??? lol


I think the original cost between $125,000 and $150,000 to make...AND it is one of the movies that ALL horror movies are measured against...


NOW I WANT MY FOURTH INSTALLMENT!!!! PEOPLE IN PA...CALL ROMERO!!!!!:banghead:
 
Actually I saw on the CNN website that Dawn '04 only cost 23million to make...?
And the current gross from the last weekend is 51.5million.
 
To counter just shooting every zombie you see....they would eventually start piling up and make a staircase right to the roof. Think the fort scene in Starship Troopers.

I think it as mentioned...but the Zombies can't work door handles, but the little girl at the beginning got into the house.
 
I think the original cost between $125,000 and $150,000 to make...AND it is one of the movies that ALL horror movies are measured against...
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I'm sure the original "Night of the Living Dead" cost ~$100,000, circa 1968.

I believe the original "Dawn" cost $750,000, circa 1978.

The new Dawn reportedly had a 50+ million dollar budget, but I believe the others here are right that it cost ~23 million in the end.

People don't want to give Romero money because he's a no-compromises filmmaker, and fiercely loyal to Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania in general. Whether you agree with his social commentary or not, you have to admit that his stuff is better than 95% of the gobbledygook coming out of Hollyweird.

I like the new Dawn, but the original is a masterpiece.
 
Wait, zombies can't work door handles? If she got to the door fast enough, she might have had enough muscle memory to do it. After all, the gunshop guy mechanically "wrote" on the marker board and held it up after he zombified, probably because he had done it so frequently in the last few days. Why, I'd wager that the zombie-girl could have skated backward if she'd died in rollerblades.
 
boxofficemojo.com lists the cost of Dawn '04 at 26mil. for production and 20mil. for marketing. With a current U.S. gross of 55.9mil.

As for Romero's 4th 'Dead' film (Twilight of the Dead/Dead Reckoning/Land of the Dead) I've read that he can get a 10mil. budget from FOX with studio interference or a 4mil. budget from Anchor Bay without interference.
 
question from the moderator

Uh, are you guys still pretending to keep it gun-related in here?

pax
 
If you think about it, as much as a shotgun might rule the roost in close range, I think since there are sooo many boogeys out and about, it would be about ammo, ammo, and then some more ammo.

I think a 4 person fire team would be the ticket:
-2 shotgunners (pump or semi) to keep off the real close zombies. 100rd load-out
-2 .22lr rifle shooters for thinning out the crowds from a secure area. 2000 rd load out.

and all of them with highcap pistols and maybe an ice pick mounted on half-a broomstick for when you're just plum out of ammo, slung on a backpack full of ammo.

-some cliff-bars and honey for quick easy food. Lots of vitamin B to calm the nerves and Water. That's it.

Thinking Too Much About This,
Paco
 
i loved it especially since i have such a sick sense of humor. the "don't worry be happy" muzak at the mall was freaking classic. i loved the qoute about 9mm and .357 magnum. definate buy on dvd when it comes out. as for guns i'd take my ar-15s and my revolvers and my m94ae in .357
 
I wonder how good a nailgun would work? If ANY head trauma would kill them a nailgun might be the king of the close range rapid fire.

I don't have much experience with them...how often do they jam/malfunction?
 
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Dark Horizons writes that Zack Snyder has apparently convinced the suits to let him release an unrated version of Dawn of the Dead with 25 minutes of extra footage. One of the special features on the disc will be a video diary of Andy the gunshop owner.
 
My last-ditch backup gun would be another shottie.

Ving was in trouble more than once due to ammo problems with that 870. What's the capacity on those Saiga box-fed 12ga autoloaders? I think that might be just the thing for reminding zombies that they're dead.
 
Just found out that the DVD release will include an extra 25 minutes with "Andy", the gunshop owner. :D

That segment it will cover his writings in a diary, documenting what has happened and what he did to survive. :cool:

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Did some math,

As long as the ammo held out, if Andy fired an average of two shots a minute, he'd be able to take out about 960 zombies a day, given 8 hours of daylight (more with frequent rest & reload breaks). This would have resulted in far fewer zombies whenever they had to sally.

While they certainly wouldn't get them all, a couple days of this would drop the number of zombies around to the point that they could cover for the occasional one that happened to be covered from the rooftop.
 
And once you thin 'em out, you can go get Andy, a few rifles, a boatfull of ammo and some other essentials, and then return to the Mall rooftop for some more systematic extermination and some basic firearms training for the non-shooters in the group (although they all seemed to pick it up pretty quickly on their own:rolleyes: ).

960 per day per shooter, with let's say 5 shooters, is 4800 zombies a day. Assuming you've got the ammo for it, of course. Give them a month on the Mall supplies, that's 30 * 4800 = 144000 zombies in a month. First off, there's no way they had enough ammo, and even if they did I doubt they'd really keep up that pace with all the dysfunction they were enjoying, but if by some miracle they managed to kill 100,000 zombies before they left, I don't know how much better off they'd be. If the shooting and carnage attracted more zombies, it might be a greater challenge to bust out of there. Not to mention the smell :barf:.

Best bet was probably to make a run for it, clearing a corridor as they went, which is pretty much what they did. They just needed a bigger boat, was all.
 
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