Just what I expected

best movie i've ever seen.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

It's possible resetting his whole game by picking up and moving to Canadian -- with one exception, all the actors are Canadian, as the funding came from there -- cause Romero to do a "reboot" with different, or more *precise*, sort of narrative lines than (I've seen him) use before.Why include a clan-squabbling story line? Because it's an effective backstory, a human life-detail that other characters could run into whether they like it or not, is why. It's like why have a lesbian soldier or a commanding officer who's smoking habit, for once and oddly at that, seems to be a defining characteristic rather than a simple way to kill screen time.I don't know why this movie's so effective, but ... I do. Really, I do, in fact. What happens is this: every scene -- and I mean pretty much *every* scene -- is an "update" on what's been brewing with these characters; what's been going on since you've seen them last, what's new about their "character" or personality that hadn't been revealed before, etc. All this while the world's fallen and there's (almost) nothing left but zombies.Cute touches: the attachment to internet devices and pride therein, to be defended against nay-saying disparagers; kids who forget something vital but are too late and well on their way to go back for it and feel like an idiot to no real purpose; the fact that the mostly-male survivor contingent is (wait for it) gun-carriers.This last might *seem* obvious, but then it doesn't dawn on one until well after the movies over. Yes, the hunters they run into (so casually racist there's no need to belabor it in the dialogue of the characters -- "We FELT LIKE IT, that's why!") are one-note hillbillies, but then again, being a good marksman is but a single virtue. Huh. Lacking that, you'd have no chance. Would you want to leave humanity *only* in the hands of gun-carriers? It's an interesting question the film asks: already, it's too late, it's over. ("Six days after ... " the intertitle announces, which is either/or a cute joke for fans or the series -- or, "no really" -- Romero's specifically and carefully marking time as his narrative unfolds. After all this time, since 1968.)Good show! Watch the trailer, and decide for yourself. If you think you won't be disappointed, trust me, you won't be: it's only if you can't even get through those 2 minutes 'cause this ain't your cup of tea (not to be taken as contemptuous, snark-attable "grindhouse" inept crap, but a movie to be watched with characters you can care about), there's your answer!

Yet another wonderful outing from the man, George A.Romero. I was pleasantly surprised with this movie, unlike so many others, who seem to think that George Romero's "Of the Dead" movies of late, should all follow the formula used by nearly all other zombie movies of the last decade. Fact is, and should always be, that George Romero makes the movie he wants to make. Sure, continuity is all over the place, from film to film. Who Cares! Its Fantasy, Fiction, Make Believe! None of which should necessarily be logical, or make perfect sense. Fact is George made the movie he always wanted to make, more or less, he just threw zombies in the mix. I thought the whole concept of this movie was fresh for the zombie genre, what with, families that had been feuding for generations, an isolated island, twins who both get turned, and plenty of humor throughout. Every minute of this movie felt to me like an authentic George Romero zombie classic, and I can only hope that he keeps making the films he wants to make.

With this entry in the living dead series, George Romero has absolutely hit the bottom. The best thing I can say about this movie is that it made me realize "Day of the Dead" wasn't so bad. The first evident problem of "Survival of the Dead" is that it comes across as being really cheap, from the low rent cinematography to the laziness of using CGI for gore effects. I could almost swear I was watching a TV show, not a feature film. The next evident problem is with the screenplay. There was promise with the idea of two armed groups at odds with how to handle the zombie problem. But not much is done with it, and the movie is mostly people talking with occasional shooting of zombies in the head. The direction is also pretty clumsy, such as the fact that while civilization has fallen apart, there is still electricity and TV broadcasts. If Romero decides to continue this series from this low point, I would strongly suggest he looks for some fresh talent to join him and construct a strong script. It would probably result in investors giving him more money to work with.

Dawn of the Dead (1979) is on my top 3 movies of all times. I also love Day of the dead. Both of those movies has zombie-logic. You would pretty much do the same thing if you were in that situation. I would definitely land my chopper on the roof of a super mall and clean it out from zombies and live there. If I was one of few surviving military guys I would definitely stick around in the bunker until we felt safe to resurface the world.But Survival of the Dead biggest problem is the lack of reasonable logic which makes the movie crumble because you just can't put that aside for the gore effects, they're not that cool.Let me just give you one example of the logic in this film.Alright so the man got banned from the island, he then go about making a YouTube promo for anyone to come live on his island. Someone finds it and they head straight over to any harbor mere minutes away from their current location. Stoke of luck because there the banned man stands waiting for them but he wont take them to the island he promised, he wants to rob them of all the money they have (you need lots of money when 99% of humanity is gone) so the banned man and his band of bandits start shooting at the people, I think they also kill one guy. So the people shoots back and after a while the banned man is the only survivor of the band of robbers so he jumps on the boat the other people got over. Not mention a word about the recent shoot out but they are all super friends now. So off to the island they go, just outside Delaware where everyone speaks Irish for some reason.What?Of course you should set logic aside watching movies but there's a limit to how much your brain can take before it gets very confusing and you can't enjoy the story because the illogical stuff gets in the way.