rented the remakes of Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead last weekend.
First one was lame and pointless. While the female lead in the original was a bit of a weakling, and I could see how that would not play with modern audiences, they went so far the other way in making her a badass in the remake that she became a clumsy political statement.
***Mild spoiler***
Also, her comment that we are no better than the they because she saw a group of rednecks lynching zombies was absurd.
Dawn wasn't weak but still entertaining, though it's been a long time since I saw the original. This one seemed to be more along the lines of what we have been talking about on this thread. If you are trapped in a mall when the end comes, what do you do? Before I saw it, I poo-pooed the purists who demand a slow, shambling zed, but I was wrong. I don't know exactly why, but sprinting zombies just doesn't do it. It makes them less other-worldly and less scary somehow.