The original Day gets a lot of shit for being the weaker movie of the original Dead trilogy, but I for one always enjoyed it. I actually enjoyed it more than Dawn the first time I saw it. While that changed over time, I still think it's underrated, though I know there was a lot that Romero couldn't fit in due to budget problems.

Which here is why I can't hate on screenwriter Jeffrey Reddick too much. In interviews he made it clear he wanted to make the movie Romero couldn't make. He seems like he was just a fan that got a great opportunity to update a film he loves. Obviously, the only way this could end is by script doctors and Friday the 13th Part 2 director Steve Miner taking a huge, heaping shit all over what Reddick tried to do.

The movie sucks. The effects are awful. None of the commentary from the original is in there. There's no mystery or experimentation, the Bub/Bud thing is pointless and completely idiotic.

It's not even on the level of the Dawn remake. Dawn '04 at least was fun - it was fast, dumb, and like The Captain says, didn't pretend to be something it wasn't. It didn't have the original characters in it, and really they can be seen as totally separate movies.

In Day '08, we get Logan, yes...as a character on screen for 2 seconds, some idiot that let the virus out. No whackjob hacking people up. Rhodes is there for half a second too, and while I like Ving Rhames, there's nothing for him to DO, exactly. He could be called Mr. Potato Face and it would make as much sense. He's just another person to be fed to the zombies. Like, well everyone else.

Nick Cannon is annoying. The love story angle BS is annoying. Mena Suvari does ok (I actually spent a lot of the movie deciding whether she was cute in this - I think it was the hair), considering, but nobody has any stock in this at all. Most of all Mr. Miner, who besides a few decent set pieces just lets the camera roll as he cashes his check.

Why are there headshots? Why do you have to shoot them in the head? There's no indication these things are actually dead, really. If it's a virus that effects the brain, wouldn't the brain have to be alive? And why does Nick Cannon know to shoot them in the head? And why doesn't he shut the fuck up?

Ugh, this movie can suck my ass. It took everything the original and the remake of Dawn did and laughed and jerked off on camera and put it in a DVD box.

I'm going to give one credit for Mena for trying a little, and a little credit for Reddick's original script. Unfortunately what ended up in my DVD player was an atrocity.

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