At least Dawn of the Dead was more or less based on the original film. I know Day of the Dead is probably the least well known of the original series, but this looked nothing like it.

I also don't remember a vegetarian zombie in the original.

No great loss to me. I don't generally go see much modern horror films. They seem to be more about cheap scares and over the top gore than outright horror.

To be fair, they weren't zombies, and they weren't super-humanly fast. They were regular people infected with an extremely contaigious virus that made them extremely homocidal, no faster or stronger than they were in life, they did were better able to ignore their pain.

I gotta say it looks like a very dumb movie, but it's got zombies in it, so I'll watch it, then complain about how bad it was. I'm far more interested in seeing Diary of the Dead. Hopefully it'll be better than Romero's last flick, with it's "Zombie Moses" and one of the worst decisions made by a human in history:
There's a horde of zombies walking away from you and your well-armed, decently-trained group, do you

1. Kill them.
2. Let them go so they can continue to regain their memories and re-learn how to reason so they can more efficiently eat the flesh of the living.

Man...that looks horrible.

Am I the only one that is seriously tired of the "Man, white people....blah, blah, blah."?

I think that was played out in the late 80's. Ah well, people will probably still pay to see this flick, which is unfortunate.

Yeah, but did you look at the CV of the guy who's writing the script? Walker Texas Ranger, Murder She Wrote, and Jake and the Fat Man. I'll hold off completely bashing the guy because he wrote a couple of episodes of Jeremiah and some Babylon Five.

Haha, Straczynski didn't just write "a couple of episodes" of Babylon 5, he created the show.

To be fair, there's been enough variation of the zombie formula that rage infected humans can count as zombies. The zombies in the earliest zombie movies weren't even always dead. Just drugged, cursed, and/or hypnotized. My opinion is that it's just easier to classify 28 Days/Weeks Later as zombie movies. I'm lazy.

I watched it, and I regret it. The "zombies" were poorly acted, and not very convincing. You can tell a movie has a very low budget when most of the blood was CG. Some of the actors did a decent job with what they had to work with. Only watch if you've got absolutely nothing better to do for an hour and a half.

Does that predate "I Am Legend"? Yeah I know they aren't dead but don't the survive on blood??

Come to think of it prob more like vampires. Ya know can't be touched by sunlight kind of thing. But not really dead/undead.

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Sadly enough, the vegetarian zombie made more sense than most of the regular ones. If the virus causing the zombification let the zombies remember a little bit about themselves, then it makes more sense for a die hard vegetarian to refuse to eat people than it does for a zombie to eat their loved ones.

Although, he still could have killed them without eating them. So it's still a fail.

28 Days Later and its sequel 28 Weeks Later came out before I Am Legend. The Dawn of the Dead remake came out between the two Later movies and also featured fast zombies.

Anybody seen Zombie Strippers yet?

I haven't seen Plane of the Living Dead/ Plane Dead yet, but I assume those zombies aren't fast.

Straczynski is a great writer. I recall Joss Whedon being listed as the director for this at some point, apparently that's no longer the case... a shame. Anyway, there's every hope of this being an awesome movie. The book is my favorite from recent years, gripping, smart stuff.

What book? Day of the Dead was never a book, it's a remake of a George Romeo movie from the 80s.

Yeah, but Matheson referred to them as vampires in his book (technically, a new species of man). They could run, but they were not super-humanly fast or strong.

They became shuffling zombies when Vincent Price made the book into The Last Man on Earth in 1964 and then they morphed back into vampire-like creatures when Charlton Heston made The Omega Man a couple years after that.