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It’s no Zombieland but still a fun little movie to watch on a rainy day

Diary of the dead isn't a master piece of a zombie movie by any means, but I think it's one of Romeros last zombie movies that I found to be a enjoyable flick. If you're a fan of Romero I would say pick Diary of the Dead up, it probably wont become your favorite Romero flick but I think you will at least find it enjoyable.

This is one of those movies where it youre supposed to be seeing through a home video camera being filmed by an anateur. The video camera shakes all the time, making you think that it's a normal person shaking the camera as he walks.

While at times it is hard to keep up with the film, it is still a great story and has good special FX. A different approach for Romero.

I have not open this movie because I have seen it it’s great WilliWhite

Not bad. Good George Romero zombie flick. If your a zombie fan then check it out.

I like all George A. Romero movies in this series.

Diary of the Dead is George A. Romero's return to his low-budget roots, and consequently seems like a re-imagining of his saga about the dead coming back to life and feeding upon/converting the living. The events of this film are concurrent with those of the classic that started it all, "Night of the Living Dead", but since the films take place in vastly separated time periods, it is unlikely that this film is intended to be occuring simultaneously with that one. The story begins with a group of student filmmakers making a horror film about a mummy with their professor, but are interrupted by reports that the dead are coming back to life and attacking the living. Together, the group embark on a winnbago and take a trip from Pittsburg to make their way to their respective homes to learn the fates of their families. Along the way, they encounter all manners of horrors as the dead have taken control of the country (and as the characters later learn, the world). The film is shown from the point of view of a series of cameras that the characters are using to record everythinng that is happening to them. Rather than bringing the audience closer to the characters, however, this technique makes the camera wielders unpleasantly detached. Several times throughout the film, the primary cameraman, Jason Creed, chooses to go on filming rather than helping a friend in need, making him less and less likeable.Also, his repeatedly mentioned obsession with showing their plight to the world, usually through video uploads on Myspace, become increasingly megalomaniacal, killing his supposed purpose. The film's blatant critique of how the world now relies on means like Myspace and Youtube and other internet sources such as blogs is so overwhelming that the film frequently forgets to also be an entertaining horror film. Night of the Living Dead and its superior sequel, Dawn of the Dead (still the best of the series and a masterpiece in its own right) succeeded as great entertainment because they were entertaining and the social commentary was more of an undertone. In this case it smothers the storyline. Give this one a miss unless you really feel the need to see every film in this series, as I did.

Forty years after Night of the Living Dead, but only three years since the last jaunt into George Romero's zombie territory, comes Diary of the Dead. Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead will probably never be topped, even by the man behind them. I'm probably sinning, but I'd give this one third place after those two, and just barely ahead of Day of the Dead. But there's not really room for comparison, this film and the other four are basically from different worlds, the first world's existence culminating in Land of the Dead, after which this new vision was a welcome change. George Romero is undeniably good at finding the most gnawing problems of a certain time period and converting them into socially minded zombie films. His subtlety has waned with age, but here in Diary of the Dead, his relatively overt message is less grating than that of 2005's Land of the Dead. The story moves from place to place sloppily at times, and the motvies for going to certain places just seem like they were written in to set up certain zombie deaths, many of which were actually pretty creative this time around. The sense of humor in this movie is pretty good, not all of the lines are delivered perfectly but for lesser known actors it's forgiveable, most of them did better than some actors with years of experience. All in all, I would recommend this to other people to watch at least once, it's not revolutionary to film or even to the zombie genre, but it's a decent watch and has some very clever moments strewn throughout. It could do with less in your face commentary but it could have been much worse. The special features are OK, nothing too wonderful the most notable on the disc were a few deleted scenes, some cast confessionals of which Tony stood out, and some Myspace user-created short films, one made by and starring Teller from Penn and Teller fame, that was just special.

Romero's zombie films have been some of my favorites since I was a kid. As I grew up I started to understand the meaning behind each one. With this film I was intreged to hear that it was going back to when the zombie uprise started. After seeing the film I was sort of disappointed. This "Dead" film dealt with the manipulation of the media and also the number of access points that people have today to get ahold of news such as blogs or internet sites. This is a big issue in our society today but seems to be over done with shows like The Daily Show. I was not a fan of the some of the camera shots and the deaths. I have seen better from Romero. This is still a must have for anyone who is a fan of Romero's films.

To me, George A. Romero can do no wrong! But that's me, I love everything he does. This wasn't one of his more popular films, nor was it his best. But, I still thoroughly enjoyed it! This film got a lot of mixed reviews. I recommend it, if you like a good zombie flick. If you're a fan of his work, I definitely recommend it! Also, two of my personal Romero favorites are Dawn of the Dead (2004) and Bruiser.

This is Romero's fifth zombie flick, though it breaks away from the previous "trilogy" (plus "Land of the Dead"). And, lemme tell ya, I LOVE zombie flicks, particularly Romero's... That said, this was abysmal...The previous movies tackled deep issues such as race, consumerism/capitalism, the degradation of the family unit, the military-industrial complex, homelessness and even sexism/misogyny (in the remake of "Night of the Living Dead", which Romero wrote), using zombies as metaphors with subtlety, wit and humor. The media is already a self-parody (where "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" are the news shows with the most dignity and insight), so it hardly needs to be mocked, especially in such an obvious manner. Anytime someone breaks out the old "Who's really the monster?" line, I start groaning. Furthermore, whereas Savini used real blood and guts in previous productions, this one is fakey as can be with an overuse of CGI (AARGH!!!). Heck, there aren't even enough zombies in it for my taste. For that matter, the zombies weren't even used as the analogy here...the media WAS the media. If you want a really good zombie yarn, check out any of Romero's previous four entries...

George A. Romero's, is great director, when he made another zombie movie. I could not wait, to get it. The movie goes back to night living dead, people don't belive it's happing but it is. But the kids want's to tape what's happing, as they are travling to show the world what's happing and to help the other people, to know what's happing. It's very great movie, worth getting. You will be happy with movie. Plus worth the money...

I had seen diary in the theater earlier this year and was very impressed by the fifth movie in the dead series, although not a traditional zombie movie,unlike it predecessors, diary takes a new approach to the genre. A good and entertaining film, i would give this film 5 out 5 stars.

Definetly not his best movie! Wouldnt reccomend buying this movie...

If your a horror buff like me you will enjoy this movie. I watched it twice and caught a lot of things U missed while watching it the first time.

This movie was so bad, I only gave it a chance on the Romero name. What a mistake. Bad acting, bad effects, minimal story and that's for a zombie movie, and general idiocy. It took quite a leap for me to accept the goofy guy who must film in cloverfield, but really this makes no sense at all. Instead of a clueless guy running around with the camera, diary is obsessed with moralistic views shoved in your face, like we have not been swimming with cameras for years now. Total crapp.

Greta acting and plot! A little scary bu that's to be expected Id. Zombie and gho are cool.