http://www.buzzsawmag.org/2010/03/08/the-crazies-improve-with-time-like-wine/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:35:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.buzzsawmag.org/2010/03/08/the-crazies-improve-with-time-like-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-2218 Josh Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:08:10 +0000 http://www.buzzsawmag.org/?p=3052#comment-2218 I think it's incorrect to say that the remake of the Crazies "reworked to near perfection" the storyline of the original. I was happy with the remake and find it an effective, well-shot, well-acted suspenseful horror film, however what you fail to recognize is the intention of The Crazies (1973) and the intention of Romero's work as a whole. The original film is a critique of the Vietnam War, two of the male lead characters being veterans. In the original, the military is shown to be generally inept and brutal. The difference with Eisner's version is that they remove the possibility of a cure and makes it seem like the military solution which isn't the most morally sound plan, justified. It's seems to me, with the time as similar as it was back in 1973, to include some of the political satire present in the original film. I think it’s incorrect to say that the remake of the Crazies “reworked to near perfection” the storyline of the original. I was happy with the remake and find it an effective, well-shot, well-acted suspenseful horror film, however what you fail to recognize is the intention of The Crazies (1973) and the intention of Romero’s work as a whole. The original film is a critique of the Vietnam War, two of the male lead characters being veterans. In the original, the military is shown to be generally inept and brutal. The difference with Eisner’s version is that they remove the possibility of a cure and makes it seem like the military solution which isn’t the most morally sound plan, justified. It’s seems to me, with the time as similar as it was back in 1973, to include some of the political satire present in the original film.

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