Comments on: Land of the Dead

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 02:25:15 +0000

This was a good movie, along with Romero’s other films, but because it used alot of special effects, it weighed the film down a bit.

Like the Romeros’ others films, this one is about humans against humans, namely a secure city that has a enforced class system or ghetto people and rich socialites living in a skyscraper, while the zombies are across the river.

a continuation the the “learning” zombie from Day is “Big daddy” a zombie leading the others to use weapons, cross rivers, and chase down humans.

It does have gore, namely some uncensored scenes of zombies feeding on soldiers, construction workers, and both the rich and poor.

The worst part overall is the ending.

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By: CCF

CCF — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:28:36 +0000

I was highly disappointed by this film, but it isn’t the worst zombie film out there.

By: BerserkerXL

BerserkerXL — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:05:14 +0000

I did not thing that Land of the Dead was the greatest movie. I also did not think that it was the worst movie that is why I gave it 3 out of 5 because I felt that is was an average movie.

By: Lurple

Lurple — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:11:30 +0000

I agree about finding the focus on zombies evolving and learning odd, but Romero started that in Day of the Dead and I guess he’s sticking with it. I haven’t watched Diary yet so I don’t know if he continued down that road.

Personally I think Land of the Dead does fall into a pretty average category. It’s not great or horrible. There are certainly worse zombie movies around.

If I have to name a few fairly recent ones I’ll point at Uwe Boll’s House of the Dead or the recent Day of the Dead movie, which Steve and I are apparently going to have to disagree on. But there are lots of other zombie flicks that are worse (and better) than Land.

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By: Monkeyface

Monkeyface — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:10:27 +0000

You make some really good points Steve. I didn’t care too much about this movie myself and to me it just didn’t feel like a Romero movie. I loved the remake of “Dawn” for the action, but it also had character to it and the feel that Romero had a say in things even though he didn’t. “Land” seemed like the Hollywood remake to a film Romero never released. Throw in some over-paid actors for good measure and you have a shoot-em-up action film. I disagree on your comments about “Diary” though, as you will see in our review in the next couple days.

By: Retroman Steve

Retroman Steve — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:09:45 +0000

I can’t believe you guys are giving this movie a passing grade. This was one of the worse zombie films I’ve seen only getting topped by the disaster that was Diary of the Dead. George Romero much like another filmmaker named George has lost his edge and forgotten great storytelling and character driven drama.
The original Night and Dawn and to a lesser degree Day represent the pinnacles of zombie filming so I had expectations Land would follow in the same vein. However Land felt like a direct to DVD release that was controlled by a studio head and not a creative genius. I didn’t care about these character, there was no broad sense of lurking doom just a couple shock gross out moments. I see the social commentary George was trying to make but it was sooo heavy handed..and then totally over the top in Land of the Dead. What made Dawn of the Dead great was the more subtle subtext of consumerism and great characters and this impending doom you could sense in the atmosphere of the film.

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