George A. Romero's Land of the Dead

[BH14]

I always liked Leguizamo.. He is absolutely hilarious when he was doing standup... I also liked a lot of his movies such as "S.O.S. Summer of Sam", "Carlitto's Way" Benny from the Bronx, "Spawn", "Whats the Worst Thing that Could Happen", "Empire", "Spun", "Casualities of War", etc. Now, i like his character in Land.

Its the main character in land who seemed like he had no emotion. I thought Asia Argento did a good job as well. I didnt care much for Hopper but he had like 2 mins of the movie so its hard to judge him fairly.

[jedicow]

Originally posted by BH14

Its the main character in land who seemed like he had no emotion.

i think that was done on purpose. they never got very much into his backstory, other than him shooting his brother, so i think he acted emotionless because he was trying to hide his pain.

[Chainsaw Guy]

Well i was in new york when i saw it and it was on the first day and me and some guys were talking about if there was gonna be a Tom Savini cameo and we were right over all I liked the idea of 2 story lines with the Humans and the zombies. But there was these stupid fucking girls behind me who would jump everytime a zombie would come up

[MrShape]

Seen it twice already. Great zombie movie. Romero's back in fine form with this film. It got the usual Romero staple of horror, humor and social commentary that the other dead films do. And a lot of cool looking zombies. I'll reserve full jugement until I see the uncut DVD (assuming Universal will let him release it). That final zombie chowdown inside the Green looked like it had been drastically cut down. I know some people complained that "zombies don't swim", but it you watch, they don't swim. They just drop to the bottom and walk until they reach land. It was interesting to note that Land involved elements from George's orginal Day Of The Dead script (you can read it at www.homepageofthedead.com. Check it out, it's alot different then the one that actually got filmed.) that he had to ditch and rewrite to make less expensive. In that script, there were people living outside the compound in complete squalor while those inside lived in relative comfort, a concept he finally explored with building in Land.

My sole real complaint was Big Daddy. The actor who played him didn't do a very good job. I kept comparing him to Howard Sherman's performance as Bub and he came up lacking. Way too much screaming, and he figured stuff out too fast to be believable as a zombie. This guy needs to go back to zombie school. On the other hand, Number 9 performed very well (a hottie zombie chick with part of her face missing, who'da thunk it?) Maybe she should have been the lead zombie?

By the way, did anyone notice that the R-rated print of Land is way gorier then the supposed "uncut" DVD of the Dawn Of The Dead remake?

[crazy raplh]

O haven't see it yet but I will I am staying in a town that has no movie theatre but I want to sooo bad.

[Kinski's Ghost]

It was pretty entertaining but it didn't feel like a Romero movie at all. The evolving zombie theme could have been handled better. They learned too fast. The zombie "leader" was a bit annoying as well. Worth seeing though!

[Deposable]

Originally posted by jedicow
i think that was done on purpose. they never got very much into his backstory, other than him shooting his brother, so i think he acted emotionless because he was trying to hide his pain.

Thats what I thought too. The character has seen so much violence and evil he is immune too it. He's not like a robot because he has friends and trys too help them.

Originally posted by Kinski's Ghost
It was pretty entertaining but it didn't feel like a Romero movie at all. The evolving zombie theme could have been handled better. They learned too fast. The zombie "leader" was a bit annoying as well. Worth seeing though!

It felt pure Romero. After over 5 years of having Zombies take over the world. they should have just stayed the same way.

I know all zombie movies are generally funny without meaning to be, but is this supposed to be a comedy? Maybe a take-off like Shaun of Dead? And has George Romeo made any other comedies, assuming this is a comedy?

[The_Return]

Originally posted by darknessprevail
I know all zombie movies are generally funny without meaning to be, but is this supposed to be a comedy? Maybe a take-off like Shaun of Dead? And has George Romeo made any other comedies, assuming this is a comedy?

Have you made any other retarted threads, assuming this is a retarted thread? [Cause it is]

fuck you. i asked a legitimate question. and if you think this is so retarded why the hell did your reply to it.