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| Rating |  | | Date | August 05, 2005 | | Summary | Movie OWNS | Content
 | One of the greats has come back to make a GREAT movie. I loved it. i cant wait till it hits the shelves at the movie store. the zombies look awesome, the actors are perfect, and the story is a nice tie-in to the previous films by the MASTER of the genre. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 05, 2005 | | Summary | Astute Social Commentary? Nah, Just A Lousy Zombie Movie!!! | Content
| In this movie we once again have a horde of Zombies who have developed "intelligence" or something akin to this.This was George A. Romero's first mistake. I don't know about you but when I go to see a zombie movie I expect them to be brain dead and eating living human flesh. Even the pitiful "Shaun Of The Dead " realized this. So now you have "smart zombies' who organize an uprising against the Upper Classes. I seem to recall reading about something like that in one of my Sociology Classes at College. It seems that Romero wanted to make a movie which included "Social Satire And Commentary" but all he has done is put too much plot in the way of a (potentially) good Horror movie.Watching this movie made me wonder if Romero has been reading too much Karl Marx? Just a thought. As the man once said 'If you want to make entertainment spend 20 million bucks. If you want to send a "Message" go to Western Union". I give this movie 5 stars because somehow Mr. Romero has managed to live off his reputation alone for the past 30 years. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 03, 2005 | | Summary | It hurts... | Content
| I'm a really entusiastic fan of George Romero, I love his movies since... I can't even remember when this all begun to me, the problem is, I am used to see him as an outsider of what hollywood stands for, his movies were explicit disturbing and strong, something I never seen anywhere else, and, well, it's really painful to admit, but I think he gave himself to the industry, at least in this "Land". The movie is not bad, and being a fan I only can be suportive, but there is something wrong about it, it looks like a regular hollywood movie, and this was not what I was expecting, don't get me wrong, it's far superior than most part of movies out there, but still lacks some raw cruelty that the other zombie movies have, specially in the end. I hope the dvd version could be more like a Romero movie, I hope so. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 03, 2005 | | Summary | How the Other Half...Dies | Content
| I've got two reviews, Soldier. You can smoke 'em if you got 'em while you read:
REVIEW#1: Is the "Zombies-crashing-through-the-barricades-haul-your-a**-into the Dead Reckoning NOW, Soldier!" version. "Land of the Dead" is some seriously bent, proudly trashy, flamboyantly bloodthirsty good times---nothing profound, not a zombie epic, perhaps---but it's like a big, juicy steak. If you like a nice saucy side of carnage with your Zombie Apocalypse, you've come to the right place, pardner. Chow down!
REVIEW#2: This one assumes you've barricaded the gun-shop and you've got some good hunkering-down time.
Alright, think about this one: the Zombie Apocalypse has arrived. Maybe it was some green goo that hitched a ride on the new Neptune XIII probe that just crashed to Earth.
Or maybe it was some weird cosmic dust that passed through the atmosphere; or maybe it was a biochemical spill the Military didn't quite cover *all* the way up. Maybe, just maybe, some wild-eyed eco-freaks got a little too rowdy in the Monkey House section of the local Super-Dooper-Secret Biowarfare Research Laboratory.
Maybe, even, there's just no more room in Hell. And, well, you know the rest.
Who really cares about Cause, when the Effects are shambling all over town, trying to take a chunk out of your hide when all you want is a little peace, a little quiet, maybe a halfway decent smoke break.
So anyway, you're a total uber-bada**, let's say, or maybe a survivalist, or you're just packing heat and keeping a cool head when things go south and the Dead Rise and start looking for some truly 100% American ground beef. You rally some bikers and soldiers and street thugs and seriously scared civvies to your side, you build up an arsenal (the Zombies aren't gonna use shotguns and M-16s, anyway), and you clear out some space. Make a safe zone.
Soon you begin to realize it might be a juicy idea, once you've got some breathing room, to fortify central Pittsburgh, barricade the bridges, trip-wire the whole area, spike with some guard towers, and settle down.
And when the smoke clears, you and your main Posse---the guys with you from the start, or maybe just the really scary critters---you start thinking: Hey, we made this place. We've got a little fortified City. As for Law & Order---well, the Constitution, the President of the USA, even the old US of A herself---all that has gone the way of the Dodo & the T-Rex.
You're the Law, the Big Kahuna, the A-Number One. You set up your digs in the most lavish downtown skyscraper you can seize, fortify it, trade in the kevlar and camo for some Armani suits, and dispatch the peasants (all the scared normal folk who don't want to be eaten, ie, outside Fortress Pittsburgh) to the dead zone to bring back food, booze, guns, and cigars.
As for your Living Large skyscraper---Fiddler's Green---, whaddya do? You do what any power-hungry dictator would do, given half a chance: you Charge Admission.
That, zombie-hounds, is the guts and glory of "Land of the Dead", the blood-and-guts return of the Grandmaster of the Zombie Splatter Spectacular, George Romero. It's a wild world of Haves & Have-Nots, but this time the Rich *are* just like us. They're still human; the Have-Nots, on the other hand, just want some flesh for chow. So yeah, it's very Biblical: the Meek have inherited the Earth, along with a very nasty appetite.
Throw in evolving zombies, a not-so-subtle post-9/11 subtext, bottle-rocket pacing, a storehouse of quotable quotes (from Dennis Hopper's "Zombies..they give me the Creeps, Man" to the hulking Manolete's "So let's DOOOOO some-THEENG"), a scantily clad Asia Argento in a cage with two really hungry zombies, and a class-clambering John Leguizamo and a full-bore rampaging Dennis Hopper---and you've got good times.
It's too short by far, and it could have reached for more---but this one is brazen, bloody, irreverent, wantonly trashy, and totally politically incorrect.
This one is way overdue. Dig in.
JSG
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| Rating | | | Date | August 02, 2005 | | Summary | The Dead Quadrilogy... | Content
| I must admit. I was really excited to see this movie. I have been a big fan of the original dead trilogy for a long time and dreaming of the day when the fourth dead film is released. Going in to the theater, I wasn't sure what to expect. I am only 22 and I suppose slicker and more fashionable zombie movies of the day I had seen prior to LOTD just turned me off to it. One of the problems I have with it is the whole zombies remember how to do things bit. It was ok in Day of the Dead because they didn't go too far with it. I had heard this movie would be about a lot of that, and I thought "if they do it right and don't go too far, it will be good." Sad to say, they went too far. Another problem I have with it is it feels choppy and not very flowing. The progression of the film follows a pattern that is hard to get used to: speeds up, slows down, crawls, speeds up, crawls, etc. Perhaps an unrated version of the film might help fix this. Overall, it's my least favorite of the Romero Dead films. The gore is fantastic, the zombies look great but it wasn't the Dead film I had been waiting for. Maybe I'm just too demanding. If I were a zombie that could think and act, I would have gotten my hands on Dead Reckoning and plowed my way to food. |
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