If you could make one change to the film, what would it be? *spoilers*

Ironically, while the gore effects would have been cool, I think it adds to the "Fun" of the film that the zombies and blood look the way they do. I think it would have been a darker film with zombies that looked like those in "Day".

Plus, when we lose some of the protagonists, their make-up is infinitely better than most of the rest of the zombies, so it really makes them pop when they turn from hero to enemy.

I love to love my Lisa.

I hear ha on the pie scene, but that was a real motorcycle gang (The Pagans) that Romero hired for the shoot. So while you are enamored by gritty biker movies, Dawn provided the real thing

I'd have written it this way: Roger makes it up until the climax, when one of the bikers shoots and mortally wounds him, but not before a dying Roger injures said biker before expiring while talking to Peter. Peter, grief-stricken, loses his composure for once and it is Stephen/Flyboy who has to rein him in. Peter eventually kills Roger's killer and then, carrying his friend's body to the makeshift living quarters, tells Francine to escape with Stephen/Flyboy. As the couple leave, Peter looks at Roger's corpse, saying: "I'm coming, man - I'll be with you soon." He then takes out his pistol and shoots himself in the head, killing himself just as the zombies break in, while the remaining ones take on the biker gang, who then flee from the mall, leaving it open to the undead once more.

You're a Moron! Those two characters are what grounded the movie and kept it real from a human standpoint. They weren't running around like super heroes like Peter and Roger. As viewers we really see everything through Stephen's and Francine's eyes. Regular people thrown into turmoil and impossible situations.

Then you're going against the logic of the movie you MORON. It's noted a few times in the story that once you're bitten you only have a few days. The motorcycle gang doesn't appear until a few months down the road.