10 Biggest Mistakes Zack Snyder Has Made In His Movies (So Far)

10. Intensity Over Depth - Dawn Of The Dead

Competent remakes are difficult material to discuss, because there will always be two sides of the discussion: The side that thought the remake was a drastic improvement over the original, and the side that thought it was far far inferior. Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead encourages such discussion, largely because of the cult status of George A. Romero's original. Perhaps it was already a mistake to do a remake of a classic as your first feature film, because the error Snyder made in adapting this material would probably be barely noticeable if it wasn't a remake. But when held up back to back with the 1978 classic, it reveals several missteps in adaptation. The primary mistake is in the focus on action over character. While holding up a very solid character-driven first act, Snyder then proceeds down the 28 Days Later route and creates essentially, another generic Zombie film. It's always futile to advocate for slower Zombies in our zombie movies, but the slower shambling of the zombies in the original gave Romero more time to focus on the inevitability of death and create a more ominous atmosphere. Snyder leaves no room for that contemplation, or even the macabre humor present in Romero's cheekily gruesome finale.