Any body seen The Crazies Yet?

Thinking about checking this movie out. Any body seen it yet, or heard about it? I heard it was a remake of an old George A. Romero film and being that I'm a huge fan of Romero I thought I'd go see it. Keep spoilers to a minimum please, or hidden.

Saw it and enjoyed it very much.

Never saw the original but i'm a Romero fan, and Timothy Olyphant is a damn good actor.

It's geting great reviews so definitely worth checking out. And yes Timothy Olyphant deserves more leading roles after the jaw dropping series Deadwood.

I liked it a lot.  The acting was good, story was good, everything was just all around good.  Draws you right in, which is extremely important.  It was a bit predictable at times but isn't every movie?  It's pretty creepy too, definitely worth seeing.

I'm thinking about watching the first version before watching the remake. I usually tend not to like remakes that much, but I gotta admit the trailer looked pretty cool.

I saw it last night. Pretty good, although somewhat slow at times. Still worth seeing without a doubt. I'm a Romero fan, but I never saw the original. Maybe that's why I liked the remake, nothing to compare it to. The acting was good. Also, I have a crush on Danielle Panabaker so bad.


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I thought the end was sort of cool. The subwoofer in the theater was loud and my whole body shook when the nuke went off. I was a little pissed that Danielle Panabaker was barely featured. I think she's a really good actor and so hot. 

Who thinks Timothy Olyphant's character, David, will get sick since he pulled an infected bloody knife through his hand in the baby's room scene? A set up for a sequel? Probably a straight to video sequel. 

There were some really cheesy bits, but on the whole I really enojyed it and it scared the crap out of me a couple of times! I say go see it!

I wasn't interested in seeing it at all, but I had just gotten out of The Ghost Writer (excellent movie, by the way) and ended up just seeing this right after with my brother and his friends.

I was thoroughly surprised.  I thought it was quite good.  The most important fact was that, for the most part, the characters were believable.  Of course, this isn't taking into account their looks, but rather their actions.  Their actions made sense.

SPOILER: However: the film, like most recent horror films, applied the Hot Girl rule.  Unless every character is to die, one of the survivors must be a hot girl.  If there is more than one hot girl, their survival generally goes by character (as in 'their character', not 'the character'), as only a few hot girls are allowed to live.  If they are more stuck-up, then they've gotta go.  If they are not 'with' (or don't connect with) any main characters, they are probably going to die, as well.  So when the only hot girl is nice and relatively intelligent (and married to the main guy), it's quite obvious she's going to live.
EDIT: I didn't think the other girl was 'hot'.  But, even if you believe she is, the rule still applies.

Nevertheless, it was a quite tense and enjoyable film.  I recommend it.

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EDIT: I didn't think the other girl was 'hot'.  But, even if you believe she is, the rule still applies.

If you mean Danielle Panabaker, you have to see her in the Friday the 13th remake. The movie wasn't that great, but she was SO HOT in it. Btw, I agree she wasn't that hot in The Crazies. 

For those of you waiting to see the original first before seeing the remake, don't bother -

the original is GREAT, but it is heavily dated, and it's kind of distracting nowadays.  Funny thing about it - I've always considered the original Crazies to be Romero's "fast zombie" movie - like an early version of 28 Days Later.  

anyway, great movie, but you're not going to get anything additional out of the remake by seeing the original first -