Just watched land of the Dead

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What a mess of a film.

Did the makers watch any of the first three films ??

Dunno where to begin with what was wrong with this movie.

No character development. A plot most 80's straight to videos would have been ashamed of. A cartoon baddie in his high tower..........


The zombies had more character then the heroes.

The future of mankind depenRAB on one truck it seems ??

For some reason the zombies suddenly decide to attack a previously well defended city.

The zombies also start getting a bit smarter but this is not really explored in the film.

This was a dreadful waste of a golden opportunity to round off the series. I don't think they missed a single horror movie cliche.

I was sorely disappointed by this movie as I was really looking forward to it.
 
I enjoyed it but I did think it could have done with an extra 15 or 20 minutes as the film felt a little rushed to me and could have had more depth in it as with the other Romero Dead films.
 
Did the makers watch any of the first three films ??

The maker was George A Romero so yes, very likely

'The zombies had more character then the heroes'

Day of the Dead was the same - you rooted for the zombies just as you root for 'Big Daddy' here. Loved the zombie brass band


'The future of mankind depenRAB on one truck it seems ?? '

The truck was an armoured scavenging vehicle which made it important for their future survival. There were some other defences but no one expected the zombies to get across the river remember.

'For some reason the zombies suddenly decide to attack a previously well defended city.'

As you say it's because they're starting to get smart thanks to Big Daddy - it's the basis of the whole movie. The supposedly distracting fireworks which had served them well suddenly lost their appeal.

'This was a dreadful waste of a golden opportunity to round off the series. I don't think they missed a single horror movie cliche.'

Romero invented many of the cliches (people under seige in a horror setting) even if he is guilty of repeating them for the fourth time. If you think of Hopper as a Republican and the zombies et al as disenfranchised imigrants or terrorists or whatever, it's topical too. I admit it does feel like a too-brief set up for another movie. I'd still rank it alongside Day but way behind the other too.
 
Totally agree. Romero is a legend. Land of the Dead, although not being nearly as good as the trilogy, was still awesome. I would have loved to have seen less character development and more mindless violence though. :)
 
What do you mean less character development ?? there was none.

Romero invented the genre but seems to have taken a back seat on this one.

Dawn of the dead was the best and they didn't carry any of that through to LOTD.

It had a very strong B movie feel to it even though they had a decent budget.

It didn't move the franchise on at all. The only promising theme was the zobies getting smarter and they didn't explore that at all.
 
Of course you've got Romero trying to be intellectual and using the zombies and fireworks as a as an allegory showing that people are not being distracted by all the pretty crap they are being fed, but when you wrap it up in such a shite film it really doesn't work.

All he needed to really complete the cliche was one character looking to another at the end and solemnly saying "But who are the real monsters here?"
 
Personally I think all these Zombie films are all the same these days, Land of the Dead didn't seem any different from Dawn of the Dead/ Resident Evil...ect...

I find them really boring and predictable to be honest, the only one I have really enjoyed in a long while was Shaun of the Dead, and thats only because the makers noticed that all these types of films are the same, so they made fun of them to highlight it with Shaun of the Dead ...... :D
 
As a zombie flick fan (they scare the crap out of me yet I can't stop watching them...) LOTD was pretty mediocre IMO but Shaun of the Dead was an utterly fantastic way of breathing life into it, making a zombie comedy - brilliant idea!! And they carried off superbly, laugh my socks of every time I watch it!!

Agree that LOTD needed more gore though.
 
Was an okay film, I agree it wasn't nowhere near as good as its predecessors tho, always liked the characterization and feel of the other films, like it was really going on and the world was in chaos, was abit lacking in this one which felt like it'd been toned down to a run of the mill gorey pop corn movie, others had abit more depth to them this just didn't feel like a Romero movie, Agree with NatalieP that Shaun of the dead was by far the best of the zombie movies to come out!. :)​
 
Shaun of the Dead was ace but Romero's the man for zombie gore. No one's mentioned Brain Dead yet which sits nicely between the two camps.
 
God I was looking forward to this. I was so disappointed. It just seemed boring and kind of ridiculous. It did nothing to scare me, unlike Romero's previous offerings. :(
 
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