Day of the Dead (Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]

This is my favorite zombie flick of all time. This movie differs from the other Dead films in that it isn't about a group of people trying to survive. Instead it's a movie about a team of scientists trying to find a cure to the epidemic, but the military group assigned to assist them is wondering what exactly is going on since they're slowly dying off trying to protect the scientific team and themselves. There's no outside communication and any effort to find civilization ends in failure. With no outside communication and being left to fend for themselves, we slowly watch as two sides succumb to insanity and eventually destroying each other.The one character I absolutely loved in this film is Captain Rhodes. I don't think I ever seen another film that can capture the spirit of the character. Captain Rhodes is the only character in this entire film who made actual sense. The head scientists, Dr Logan, also known as Frankenstein for slicing up the zombie specimens wanted to train zombies in a manner similar to how one might train kids. We slowly learn that Dr Logan has a serious mental problem and his experiment is delusional but by that time it was too late for everyone to realize. Captain Rhodes allowed Dr Logan a benefit of a doubt in his experiment. Throughout the film we see Captain Rhodes becoming increasing agitated but the Captain wanted the experiment to proceed since the scientists are so sure of a solution.Right from the get go Captain Rhodes appears arrogant, cocky, and hard headed in terms of trying to get him to see the scientist's side of the problem. However, after watching the film a few times over the years what I accepted is that Captain Rhodes is always asking the right question which is: exactly what are the scientists doing? Throughout the movie Captain Rhodes gave the science team enough shadow of a doubt to allow them to progress and come out with a possible solution even though his men are increasingly frustrated. We see various meetings between the military and the scientists and in each interaction the scientists don’t really explain any sort of progress or offer any type of solution. Each interaction with each other turns up more questions and doubts until eventually their anger and frustration turns them against each other. I too always questioned exactly what the scientists intentions were. Not once did any side actually came up with anything remotely possible and even Dr Logan's trained zombie concept seem flawed in many ways. We also see the military men putting themselves in great danger as they capture specimens for the scientists and then days later having to do it all over without any indication of success from the last one they got. I would totally understand the frustration.I also think Captain Rhodes was the last senior officer in the rank. His closest NCO is Private Steel who doesn’t seem to take his job seriously. We see Captain trying to invoke discipline in the ranks in the first big interaction with between Sarah and the military men. So I think Captain Rhodes is at a major disadvantage because he’s in charge of men who might die for something he doesn’t get yet no one seems to be taking their duties seriously including the scientists and the low ranking military men. He doesn’t have any sort of discipline structure since he lost 5 men that probably included the senior most enlisted sergeant NCO ranks and the senior officers rank that included Major Cooper that we know for sure. Meanwhile on the science team side we see them losing ranks between Logan and Sarah who seem to have conflicting ideas on where to take the research. Sarah is trying to be traditional while Logan is trying to be practical since he knows even with a cure they can’t defeat the millions of zombies out there since they’re out numbered 400,000 to 1. So every group is broke but no one wants to cooperate or work towards a common goal.The thing I most dislike about this film is that at the end Captain Rhodes not only turned into a murderous buffoon but also a traitor and coward to his own men. He died in the most horrendous manner possible in the entire film. Not only that, he died from the very experiment that he allowed to continue with a smart zombie known as Bub. Throughout the entire film, Captain Rhodes did not kill a single zombie. He only killed unarmed scientists and killed his own men by abandoning them.Whenever I watch this movie, I secretly wish that Captain Rhodes turned out to be the hero. I honestly wish the could remake this film but instead change the point of the movie where Captain Rhodes turned into a complete idiot and got everyone killed.Overall a great movie to see Captain Rhodes interaction. I bought the collectors Blu Ray edition and wow, it is a major upgrade from my old dvd copy of the film. Absolutely love it. Now I only wish they released the Ultimate Edition of Dawn of the Dead on Blu Ray.

It's great

Being a massive Romero fanI double dipped x3 on Day of the DeadTwo versions actually have "there own" exclusivesare they all worth owning (That all depends)I personally would say no the Original first blu ray put out by Anchor Bay is a cheap BR in terms of PQI love Day as much as the previous two films so i have all three (Need to sell the Anchor Bay version though)Try watch the entire horrible first season of Fear the Walking deadGreg Nicotero dug out the original Day of the dead script and hand it into AMC and they copied alot of Day of the dead to make there "New" #1 So-called hitGonna try and give the run down to each disc and all the extras they come withAnchor Bay/Starz home video blu ray (Released Oct 02, 2007)Bonus Features:***Audio Commentary with Writer/Director George A. Romero, Tom Savini, Production Designer Cletus Anderson and actress Lori Cardille**** Audio Commentary with Filmmaker Roger Avary**The many Days of Day of the Dead,***Fast Film Facts,**Behind the Scenes,***Audio Interview with Richard Liberty* Gateway Commerce Center Promos**Trailers,**tv spotsAnchor Bay put out maybe 6-8 classic horror films on Blu Ray before just giving up and being lazythis is one of them!The Original first blu ray of Day by Anchor Bay is the weakest of the 3 the PQ isn't at HD standardsArrow Home Video (Released Aug 27, 2012) UK Import --Note it's Region Freew/ Double-sided sleeve art choose from 4 optional covers!This Amazing Edition Contains2 disc , 4 sleeve art options, double sided fold out poster,'For Every Dawn There is a Day' Collector's BookletDisc 1 Blu Ray Contains:*Theatrical FeatureAudio 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono****Commentary with the F/X Team including Greg Nicotero, Howard Berger, Everett Burrell, and Mike Daek(Arrow Exclusive Commentary track!)****Joe of the Dead (1080p) a cool featurette on Captain Rhodes (Joseph Pilato)***Travelogue (1080p)Disc 2 DVD Contains:***The many Days of Day of the Dead,***Behind the Zombies Footage,**Romero Zombography,*Photo Album of the Dead,**Souvenirs of the dead,***Night & Dawn Trailers,***The Audio Recollections of Richard Liberty***tv Ads of the dead,***Wampum Mine Promo(Arrow took all the previous extras from the first blu ray and threw them on a second disc (dvd)The PQ on this version is 5x's better everything looks crisp and clean you also get a proper DTS Audio trackDOTD Collector's Edition Shout Factory (Released Sep 17, 2013) region (a)one major problem with this version is lack of any HQ AudioDTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 (Mono)it's not the worst mono audio track but, not a fan of mono!Special Features and Extras*****World's End: The Legacy of Day of the Dead (1080p; 1:25:26) exclusive documentary (This alone makes this BR a Must have)***Behind the Scenes Footage,**Wampum Mine Promotional Video,***Underground: A Look Into the Day of the Dead Mines (1080p; 7:37) features Ed Demko, along with Skip Docchio, who was Facility Tech on the film.***Theatrical Trailers & TV Spots,*** Still Galleries include Behind the Scenes, Locations, Posters and Lobby Cards, and Miscellaneous,*****Commentary with Writer/Director George A. Romero, Special Make-Up Effects Artist Tom Savini, Production Designer Cletus Anderson and Actress Lori Cardille.**** Commentary with Filmmaker Roger Avary. (This is the Anchor Bay commentary, ported over from the deluxe edition dvd then the anchor bay blu ray)Scream Factory does a bang-up job just with there exclusive documentary alone makes the Scream Factory version to be a must haveOver all go out of your way to own the Arrow Home Video BR and the Scream Factory BRthey are both must havesthe arrow home video version is still pretty cheap you can get it direct from arrow or amazon.uk for less then $20.00 us 9.5/10

Just as described

Excelente película, ojo, no trae subs ni audio en español

Edición espectacular con los testimonios de los actores y la inmaculada mano de George A. Romero, cuya producción, escenificación, maquillaje y puesta en escena del género zombie, jamás fue superada. Ni siquiera "The walking dead"

Bien

Does not work on Europe players, not mentioned in product details :(