"PERFECT, BABY. PERFECT" Do you ever wish you'd kept count of the number of times you've seen a movie? I watched Dawn of the Dead again yesterday and it still gets better every time. I listened to the Tom Savini commentary which wasn't the most coherent but a lot of fun - 'Hey, do you remember that guy? He was the brother of that guy... you know, the one with the sister...' - But he did mention something that has been troubling me for years. Just after the sequence were Peter and the other survivors are playing arcade games Savini says "Imagine the world coming to an end before the VCR..." He then notices that there is indeed a 'state of the art' Betamax player in the movie - its about the same size as the trucks used to block off the mall. But I always figured that if Romero's trilogy had a flaw it was the updating of the story to reflect the time it was filmed. Night of the Living Dead was filmed in 1968 and set in 1968. Things have got worse in Dawn of the Dead but at no time are we supposed to think that ten years have passed since Ben got blown away by rednecks. Day of the Dead was made seven years later and again everyone seems very much in a 1985 frame of mind... It's a shame. I worry that if Romero ever gets part four off the ground it will very much reflect the 21st century and be full of high tech crap - use CGI by all means (I like the undead to be as messy and fucked up as possible) but wouldn't it be ballsy to just go back and say hey - 'lets set the new movie in the early seventies' or even set it now or a few years from now but lets keep the original time frame and have no major technological (or fashion) developments since the early seventies when things began to seriously fall apart. Be tough to keep it serious but if someone pulled it off wouldn't the fact that it was a real retro horror movie make it fun? Probably never happen though... It's too easy to make crap like Resident Evil. Mike is blogging to: Plan Nine