YMMV / Day of the Dead (2008)

• Ensemble Dark Horse: Trevor and Nina are among the few characters that audiences liked (or at least found tolerable) for actually coming up with semi-decent plans, and for being skillful enough to prove their worth against the zombies.
• Ethnic Scrappy: Salazar. The dumbfounding part is that all his lines were adlibbed by the actor himself.
• Narm: Pretty much any time the film attempts a "serious" scene. The zombies are also cringe-inducing in just how cartoonishly Uwe Boll-esque they are.
• Special Effects Failure:
  • The superhuman zombies, represented through speeding up their movements in post-production. What results is an almost comical, extremely jerky movement style that doesn't remain consistent with the rest of their movement (neither does their strength: a zombie that can violently fling a human away or tear one apart with its bare hands can be fended off by shoving it with a lamp). In particular is a zombie in the hospital who suddenly shoots onto the ceiling to crawl across it, causing bad CGI floor tiles to fall faster than gravity, and then drops back down.
  • Then there’s the CGI blood...dear lord the CGI blood looks so fake.
  • The scene where the zombie is attacking the military car in the middle of the woods is a painfully obvious day for night shot.
• The Scrappy: This film's take on Dr. Logan is loathed both by fans of the original film who see this take as a disservice to the character, and average zombie fans who despise his unnecessary douchebag attitude and all round cowardice feel throughout the film.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: With the overall bleak and hopeless feel of the film, combined with how insanely moronic most of the characters act throughout, it’s hard to care about anything that happens.

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