I agree. The characterization of the zombies falls off in Night after that first guy, but I agree.

That was an inspired ending. Both items, really, that and the crackly radio…..and the tag clip of a raging pyre after all is said and done.

In Night, the authorities have it pretty much all mopped up at the end. They are very calmly just cleaning up stragglers. NOTLD was a One And Done. Only after it becoming a cult hit, did Romero go back to the well.

He also did an "added scenes" version of NOTLD where he got the original zombie back to play a weird preacher who ends up getting turned into the original zombie….Dreck.

You'll find several folks here who mention the same thing. it IS irritating….Also, I don't get why they don't get people who have an affinity for the subject to write these things.

Man, I tried to like Martin. I think it was an interesting idea, but I couldn't get behind it. My horror loving buddy was all over it, but it did nothing for me. Also, The Crazies is a fucking terrible movie. The remake was what it should have been

They thought he was a zombie. He was skulking around in a clearly fucked up house. The sheriff was callous and tired and got the sniper to shoot, through a boarded up window and took him out. I always assumed that they couldn't even see if Ben was black.

It hurts me that someone thinks Return(which I agree is fun) is on par with NOTLD. Also, in NOTLD, the world goes back to normal. Ben dies in a shitty accident, but the rest of the world goes on.

I am Legend dudes were more vamps than ghouls

I think it fed the "Wolverine is subjugaated by dumb yokels" The only group that could ALL be powerful enough to push Logan around is Hulks. I don't embrace the Hulk Incest idea….but I see why it was chosen

This is true. I still think it's accurate.

I'm going to look into Joe Don Baker's claim, but to me, the only time someone ever said 'zombie' in a Romero movie, was Dennis Hopper "Zombies, man. They freak me out"

In fact, they sort of eschewed brains. To hard to get at. Big on the arms, were Romero's zombies.

I think there's something to a shared experience being substantially different than a solitary one.

I concur top to bottom. The amount of ads here is harsh.

Romero's very first zombie gives the rules for every other Romero zombie. The Cemetary zombie didn't just use a tool. It didn't have a tool, tried to break her window, realized it NEEDED a tool, went to find a tool, and came back with the right kind of tool. That was a very fresh zombie, but Romero's zombies had…

I agree. I think he lost interest in making zombie movies(and he had said he never had that much interest anyway) and that's all they kept bringing him. His last three movies were fucking awful. I wish someone had tried to give him something good.
Also, much of his casting sucked.

He DIDN'T invent the modern zombie genre? I agree that revolutionizing film making is a stretch, but plausible.

Yeah. I hate that it somehow got infused into Romero's work. If 10 people are asked to do a zombie imitation, 8 of them are going to say "BRRAAAiiinnnsss"

The first time I ever saw NIGHT screened in a big theatre, the theatre erupted with laughter only once. Barbara was telling her story incoherently on the couch, and it cuts to Ben loading his rifle. I had seen the movie a dozen times by then, and that moment had never struck me funny, but it was funny when I was in…