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Mrzi me da vaskrsavam stari Ghoulov topik na ovu temu, dok je film jos uvek bio tek glasina..

Elem, ovih dana je pocelo snimanje. Romero je vec na terenu i snima lokacije. Okvirna prica je vec dobro poznata. Budzet je 15 miliona $. Glavne uloge u zavrsnom poglavlju Romerove sage o zombijima imace: Asia Argento, Dennis Hopper, John Leguizamo i Simon Baker. Kameo pojavljivanje bi trebali da imaju scenaristi filma Shaun of the Dead, a tu ce po svojoj prilici biti i Tom Savini.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418819/

Još da Romero uspe da snimi dobar film. Krene li stopama kolege Arđenta, biće aaaaargh, a Bruiser (Henrijeva pravda) nimalo nije utešan korak.

Evo ih i prve fotke sa snimanja: http://www.moviesonline.ca/gallery_details_movie.php?movie=Land%20of%20the%20Dead

Za one koji ne svracaju redovno na http://www.screaming-planet.com/ ili se nisu putem nekog drugog sajta informisali...

Quote from: "Milosh"Evo ih i prve fotke sa snimanja...

Osim pravopisa, zar ne bi bilo, što kažu, korektno da se kaže da je ovo link sa Skrinimg pleneta? Ili vi svi furate iste sajtove? Ako je to slučaj, onda se izvinjavam.

nemo se izvinjaes!

www.screaming-planet.com rula.

One of the stars of that film is John Leguizamo, who plays a zombie hunter named Cholo. IGN spoke to Mr. Leguizamo this weekend at a junket for the upcoming Assault on Precinct 13. He was eager to discuss the Romero flick as well.

"It was amazing, man. I felt blessed... I just finished... I'm hoping that that's his masterpiece, man. I've really got a lot of high hopes for that flick. I love the man. He's incredible. He's 68 years old and he's [got an] ageless career. He's at the top of his game. We do all-night shoots, exteriors... He's smoking, drinking tons of coffee...

"I play a zombie killer. It's an apocalyptic world. It's very political too. It's very operatic, man. It's a very ambitious piece. It's an action movie, it's political. It's got a little bit of comic relief as well. The zombies have taken over and there's only certain patches of right wing people controlling everything... Then there's the working class people, which is me and Simon Baker coming in to try and help to get supplies from the zombies. [We are] minimum wage men. (Laughs) It's a weird thing. I've got my own hypothesis too about [the politics]. I think it all has to do with, in that situation with the war in Iraq and all that and our sense of, it lightens things up, when you can't take death so seriously, it lightens it up. It plays with that, sort of, our anxiety. I know I've got a lot of anxiety. I think it has to do with right-wing, neo-conservatives controlling things and corporate power..."

As has been Romero's trademark, the film promises to have a sense of humor, including some amusing cameos. "Those guys from Sean of the Dead are in the movie. As zombies, yeah." (Laughs) Romero's beauty is that there's always a sense of humor. There's always a bit of a wink to things."
 
Beyond politics and humor, there will also be plenty of gore. "I've never worked in a movie where there was so much f***ing [gore]? They put, like, real guts in mannequins and then they pull at spleens and intestines..."  

Some of the recent zombie films, including 28 Days Later and the remake of Romero's own Dawn of the Dead, have forgone the slow-moving zombies for speedy, more threatening ones. Romero has no plans to make his zombies in Land of the Dead any quicker. "They're slow. He will not do fast. He has his really strict theories about zombies. He created it; he's part Cuban, and zombies and voodoo and all that comes from the Caribbean."

Leguizamo says that he has enjoyed some of the updates, but sees the slower zombies as more realistic. "I think that was cool. It has its own fascination, but zombies can't be fast. They're dead people. They're corpses. How are they going to move fast when they've got rigor mortis, you know what I mean? They're a lack of logic in those movies. The mythology of zombies, which comes from West Africa, they were dead people who died and came [back]."

EARTH SHATTERING NEWS!!!

vidi niže:

    EARTH SHATTERING NEWS!!!    

  AND GOOD, TO BOOT!!!    

UMESTO DA IZGARAMO ČEKAJUĆI DO HALLOWEENA, PREMIJERU NAJNOVIJEG ROMEROVOG ZOMBI FLICKA  ČEKAMO JOŠ SAMO 2 MESECA!

TAČNIJE, DO 24. JUNA!!!

YIPPIEEEE!!!

tako barem kažu:

Our scoop has been confirmed over on Universal's official website http://www.universalpictures.com/ that George Romero's Land of the Dead was moved up to a June 24th release from it's originally planned October 21st date!

PRAISED JEEBUS!

       

neki se već hvale po forumima da su film vidjeli na divxu



jel to moguće

JUPI !!!
               

         

Quote from: "Zeljko"neki se već hvale po forumima da su film vidjeli na divxu



jel to moguće

Kako da ne, ripovan s mog dvd-a koji mi je licno poslao Romero kao preporucenu posiljku  

i ja mislim da je tako  

Prica se da se DVD rip filma LAND of the DEAD pojavio u SVETEHNICI  - pola sata pred upad specijalaca!

zato su i upali  

Quote from: "Zeljko"zato su i upali  

Da - Univerzal je poslao svoje ljude da saniraju potencijalno opasnu situciju...
Doduse, postoji verzija po kojoj je jedan od clanova narazao pomenuti film i napustio prostorije SVETEHNIKE neposredno pre upada.

Znaci> there's still one copy on the large!

fakat ne mogu smisliti te bolesne pataloške lažove i hvalisavce    

inače ja sam čuo da je CD overburniran na 940 MB tako da je veći dio filma LotD neupotrebljiv... pomoću specijalnih programa  spašeni su neki dijelovi filma... tačnije 9 minuta obećavajućeg početka  

radovi na daljnjem izvlačenju podataka je u tijeku

Romero je ipak u Beogradu ,evo u nasem novom broju total filmu  land of the dead..

Deco, prvi trejler se pojavio DANAS!

Ovde:
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/georgearomeroslandofthedead.html

danas su obznanjene još neke nove sličice iz filma, kao i POSTER:

bacite pogled  ovde

http://www.horrorchannel.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=515&mode=nocomments&order=0&thold=0


POSTER JE GENIJALAN!
ŽELIM GA!


(cunt wait, such a huge fan!   )

Alan Jones intervjuise Romera. Romero osipa paljbu po Bushu. Fantazija!

http://www.nocturno.it/mostraScheda.php?tabella=news&gruppo=Interviste&idRecord=20050506122921

Shot on location throughout November and December 2004 in Toronto, Canada, I arrived in the final week of production ...

Hmmm, ko bi rekao da su PUCALI na ALANA DŽONSA, uvaženog publicistu, tokom puna 2 meseca!?

Nije lako biti publicista. Malo-malo, pa neko dobije zelju da vas upuca.

http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=20230

 stvarno dobro izgleda tih 14 minuta
ali kako hvali film bojim se da ga ne urekne    

Cannes 2005

danas se pojavio prvi rivju filma.

SAJT KOJI JE TO OBJAVIO JE UBRZO CRASHIRAO ZBOG OGROMNOG BROJA POSETA!

TAČNIJE, AKO NA NJEGA ODETE, DOBIĆETE SAMO OVO:

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Međutim, ko ume da traži – naći će!
Dakle, evo šta je tamo pisalo pre nego što je rulja pohrlila (nadam se da će tako biti i na dan premijere, za samo 3 nedelje!!!):

Land of the Dead
Non-Ruining / Non-Spoiler / Non-Revealing Film Appraisal

It's great to feel vindicated.

What am I talking about? The feeling I got after a recent viewing of a rough edit of LAND OF THE DEAD—George Romero's better-late-than-never entry in his ground-breaking zombie series.

I know that commenting on an uncompleted film is not altogether cool, and if I'd thought that LAND was not up to snuff I wouldn't even bother. HOWEVER, rough cut or not, missing footage and absent insert graphics not withstanding, I was overwhelmed so much by what I saw that I feel the need to come out and proclaim LAND OF THE DEAD as being one of the best genre movies I have ever seen. It is that good. Dare I say,it is that GREAT! In more ways than one, LAND is everything (and more) than what I expected.

So, why is it that I feel vindicated? Simple enough: When stacked against last year's DAWN remake, a film I have stated often enough as being just plain crap, LAND shines through as an example of solid, imaginative filmmaking. It truly is. LAND is inventive; LAND is smart; LAND has tension; LAND is bathed in atmosphere, LAND is populated by gripping characters; LAND possesses a tale that emerges from out of these characters and their situations; in a word: LAND has soul. What's more, LAND has feeding scenes galore! Ones unlike anything seen before.

Unlike the DAWN remake, LAND was obviously not made with an eye toward outguessing and appeasing studio pencil pushers and the content they believe sell tickets. It also doesn't pander to moral watch groups who point their holier-than-thou fingers at everything but their own cultish religions that in my opinion are the TRUE sources of unrest in the world. Instead, LAND says and does what it wants and lets the chips fall where they will. It also strikes me as having been made from a filmmaker's credo, with priority set at what will make for a fulfilling movie going experience. Once again, George Romero proves to be my filmmaker hero.

In some ways, too, LAND goes beyond even all this.

I'm talking about the zombies. They are unlike anything we have seen to date. They have developed into a new order. They have advanced (and if you consider "running" an advancement, I suggest you just go back to your sensory nullifying video games NOW). While I will never root for the zombies, I couldn't help but wonder if the ones here aren't in some way more "human" than the humans in control in LOTD.

Again, I don't want to reveal anything. Just let me say that the parallel to the US and its questionable "war on terrorism" is in full play and on display for those who want to see it. (And for those who don't, like all Romero "message movies", it is easy enough to ignore with plenty more things going on for you to sink your teeth into.)

And as misguided as the DAWN remake was to have almost no gore, LAND goes out of its way to deliver the goods (though how it will be edited down remains to be seen, and even if it is and gets reinserted later, we will get real additions, unlike the false promise of the "unrated" DAWN remake DVD—what a joke that was!). And not only THAT, the majority of the zombie victims are just the members of society who need a bit of zombie induced, flesh removal humility to teach them that in the scheme of things we are all equal.

Don't get me wrong, LAND is not a perfect film. Notably, there is one performance by a "legendary" actor that I found extremely lacking and somewhat on the phoned in end of the spectrum. But I'm not looking for or expecting a perfect film (as I wasn't with the DAWN remake). Despite it not being a perfect movie (and what film is?), it makes up for its flaws by being a movie that has been made with heart and by a filmmaker who understands and adheres to the CRAFT of filmmaking. Even in the shabby state I saw the film this came through. Because of this, I was mesmerized from start to finish. Not only that, LAND has stayed with me. It's with me now. When people ask what is wrong with cinema today, this is my reply: Films are no longer made in a way that they stay with you. They evaporate the moment you walk from the theater, this being good for business as you are soon ready for another quick cinematic fix. Not so with LAND.

So, how does LAND fit in with the series as a whole? In this writer's opinion, while NOTLD is a groundbreaker, I don't find it the be-all end-all as I do with DAWN. And though I like DAY, I can admit that it has many shortcomings. For me, LAND fits in between the peerless DAWN and the classic NIGHT. It is that good.

Furthermore, although twenty-years since the last entry, it miraculously feels part of the series in the way the new Star Wars movies can only dream.

Personally, I dislike films that try to be trendy, drawing inspiration from other current films. LAND is a breath of fresh air in that it feels both retro and modern. It tells its story without trying to persuade viewers that it's hip and for you to be hip too then you'd better get with the program and dig it (as with films such as Tales of Riddick and Bad Boys II). There are no "cutting edge" crane maneuvers or post production shenanigans like in unwatchable films of the S.W.A.T. variety. It is just solid, unobtrusive filmmaking from start to finish. Yet, even so, it is unmistakably Romero through and through.

That George was able to make a film of such high quality on a pathetic budget that I believe to be insulting for a director of his caliber is a testament to his talent. What he has done with fifteen million is proof enough that those obscene budgets many productions get these days are just that: obscene. I've read where people hope this film's success will bring George a budget of 50 million for his next film. Honestly, I hope it doesn't. While a bit more could have seen to it that the movie was shot in Pittsburgh, I for one don't want a hundred million dollar zombie film. That's not what they are about. Zombie films—and I'm talking about Romero helmed zombie films—are personal reflections of the world we live in made by a man who has fashioned a unique and fitting metaphor for the life into which we have all been thrust. LAND is this.

With all that said, I'm simply happy to report that LAND OF THE DEAD is a welcome and wholly satisfying entry in George Romero's zombie series. Now just go and see it!

ŠTA REĆI?
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE!
AND YET...

   

Sajt je oživeo!

www.landofthedeadmovie.net

Pascu u nesvest od uzbudjenja!
Kako sad da covek posle ovog texta ima strpljena? I ovako mi nije bilo lako.
   

pre par sati je bio na HRT1 Intervju Asie,Hupera i Romera povodom flma Land of dead,gledo sam ga pet minuta,zakasnio sam ne znam kolko je trajala emisija..

Elem, pogledah ja trejler, i ovo obecava!  Na stranu muzika iz RE i to sto je trejler izmontiran kao da je u pitanju 90 minuta non-stop akcije, rekao bih da je to uradjeno da se privuce i sira publika, ona mladja koja ne zna za Romera ali je gledala 'Dawn of the Dead' rimejk recimo... Jedina stvar koja me malo brine je trajanje filma koje je ispod sat i po, to mi ipak deluje premalo, valjda ce biti materijala za jednu produzenu director's cut verziju i to ne u smislu: vise krvi, sudeci po trejleru bice krvi sasvim dovoljno, nego: vise likova, dijaloga...

A posto je u pripremi i nastavak 'Dawn of the Dead' rimejka, mozda dobijemo i dve nove trilogije koje bi se paralelno snimale. To naravno zavisi i od toga kako 'Land of the Dead' prodje u bioskopima. U svakom slucaju bilo bi lepo iscekivati film pod naslovom Planet of the Dead, zar ne? Ali da se ne zalecem...

Nego, zna li neko kad je otprilike premijera kod nas? Dobar deo Evrope ce film videti u avgustu, a Britanci cak u septembru (ako ne i kasnije), bojim se da se ne nacekamo...

MORE HAPPINESS, KIDZ!

MORE GLOWING REVIEWS!

COULD IT BE?

GAR's Masterpiece - Truly., 14 June 2005

Author: obiemookie from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
Just got back from the "industry screening" of Land, with GAR in attendance (5 rows ahead of me).

Not to give out any spoilers, because I won't...but this film rocked. Does it have a different feel than Night, Dawn, and Day? Of course it does...why? Because of the fact that it's 2005, and movie making has changed over the course of the years. And also, this wasn't an independent film in the same way the other three were.

BUT, what they got away with, gore-wise, was absolutely incredible. My buddy and I were laughing with glee through the entire flick at all of the violence. Let me put all doubts to rest: This IS a George A Romero zombie film. This is NOT a rip-off...it's the real deal. Head shots, decapitations, zombie biting people with the typical fleshy ripping...intestines...the works. I was SHOCKED at the amount of gore they managed to get into the film. I spoke with the Production Manager after wards, and he assured me that the gore in the film is NOTHING compared to what's going to be on the DVD. Oh, and on the way out, I got to shake GAR's hand and tell him that this is an incredible film. Honestly, it's this generation's "Dawn". (And yes, that means it's more fast paced etc etc, which some purists might be ticked off about). And when I say this is this generation's "Dawn", I mean THIS is the zombie movie people will remember years from now. It totally blows the other recently released zombie flicks (including the Dawn remake) out of the water.

The acting was excellent all around...and I mean all around. There were no bad performances. Even Dennis Hopper and John Leguizamo, who both were put down on the message board for being in the film, were amazing. Hell, even the zombies kicked ass.

Anyway, that's all I'll say. You guys will either love it or hate it. I loved it.

Final word: Watch for the priest zombie. You'll know what I mean when you see it...hilarious. And watch for the arm scene...a hand upheld in a foggy mist...you'll understand when you see that too. Also, watch for the hilarious departure of two of Dennis Hopper's assistants...his personal assistant and his butler. LOL funny.

Land of the Dead (2005)
Starring Simon Baker, Dennis Hopper, Asia Argento, John Leguizamo, Robert Joy

Directed by George A. Romero

A preface: This legit review comes in from our good pal, The Hellboy. If you recall, he hails from our days at Creature-Corner; the bastard got himself into a screening of Romero's fourth 'Dead' flick, so here are his thoughts...spoiler free. - Rotten

If you're a serious horror fan, the name George A. Romero is synonymous with biting social commentary presented in a horrifying package. He's a legend - a rare artist who has created a mythology that stands the test of time and continues to influence filmmakers around the world. Yesterday I saw Romero's latest, Land of the Dead, and it is both a return to form and a homecoming for millions of rabid zombie fans.

I'm not going to go into spoilers here, but the story involves the denizens of Fiddler's Green, a fictitious luxury community carved out of the debris of Romero's post- Zombie Apocalyptic world. Fiddler's Green was founded and continues to be lorded over by Kaufman, played by Dennis Hopper in a great, though slightly restrained, scene-chewing performance. He employs a variety of rough individuals to bring supplies into and take "garbage" out of his elite world. Among these mercenaries we meet Riley Denbo (played with the proper amount of idealism by Simon Baker), his friend Charlie (Robert Joy), and Cholo (John Leguizamo in the film's best performance).

Cholo wants to make his move "Uptown" to a life he feels he richly deserves, but when he steals the "Dead Reckoning" - an armored assault vehicle designed by Riley - and threatens the city, all hell breaks loose. Literally. The greatest thing about this film is that after a break from his Dead world of twenty years, Romero has gotten everything so RIGHT. He knows the rules he set up, but he's confident to push the envelope as he did previously with Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead. I wish I could say that about George Lucas and Revenge of the Sith.

The film has the best acting performances of any of the Dead films, and the cameos have a refreshingly proper feel. Huge kudos to Greg Nicotero and KNB EFX, who lovingly give horror fans what they expect and want from a Dead film, along with a few things we may have never seen before. I can't recommend this film enough - I can't wait to see it again when it opens with a suitably crazy crowd. It's a great movie for the summer.

Oh yeah, Ryan - Asia Argento? She's great. I think she may have a future in this business. (INDEED!)


A ZA KRAJ, JOŠ LEPŠA VEST:


During our reporter Oversights' interview with the producers of Land of the Dead, Peter Grunwald & Bernie Goldmann, it was revealed that this could be the beginning of a new Dead trilogy!
"The original conceit for this script was that it would start, if successful, a new cycle of George Romero Zombie films. We talked about that even before the script was written. Not in the way that years pass between Night, Dawn and Day, but in the sense that this film establishes a new set of characters, slightly different world, you can go from chapter to chapter, from Land to a new one and a new one, and taken as a whole, the new films, would be one big story. Obviously our hope is that, that will happen."

So everyone needs to get into the theaters to see this bad boy if we want more Romero! See it twice! Take your Mom!!

     

                         

joj, joj, petak je tako blizu a amerika tako daleko...

damn!

ipak, malo mi je lakše dok čitam najbolji prikaz filma koji se do sada pojavio, i to od meni-uvek-pouzdanog i pametnog verna:

ovde:
http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=20542

I Harry se oglasio... i njemu se sviđa... mnogo!

http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=20544

Good for him, ali to je apsolutno, beskrajno irelevantan podatak. Njegova vrednost, bar za mene, teži nuli. Sajt mu je izuzetno koristan, ali on kao kritičar je bezvredan. To je otprilike ko da si reko: komiju se mnogo sviđa film. Dakle, više razlog za zabrinutost nego za slavlje.

ovo mi je bacilo suze na oči...

Quote from: "Ghoul"To je otprilike ko da si reko: komiju se mnogo sviđa film. Dakle, više razlog za zabrinutost nego za slavlje.

   

meni je trajanje filma jako sumnjivo. nesto tu ne stima. mnogo stvari se najavljuje u ovim kritikama a ne znam kako to moze da stane u jedva sat i po. plasim se da sve ove odusevljene kritike nisu neki dogovoreni pokusaj da se Romero rehabilituje...

I mene malo brine minutaza, ali moguce je da ce ovaj film biti nesto kao produzeni uvod u novu trilogiju ili sl. Evo sta sam Romero kaze:

according to a recent interview with Sci Fi Wire, he mentioned:

"I mean, if this opens strong, I might be in a situation where I have to do another one of these or will be asked to do another one of these right away...in which case I've sort of left the characters, you know, the truck and those characters, [intact]. I'd want to almost make it chapter two of the same movie, if that happens, and just sort of finish the story."

A zna li neko kad film krece kod nas?? U Tuckwoodu medju svim silnim trailerima nisu ni pomenuli LoTD.

Mislim da je Romero u jednom intervjuu rekao da film traje 88 minuta. IMDb  prezentuje podatak: 93 minuta... Uncut verzija ce imati dodatnih 6 minuta produzenih-alternativnih scena i samo jednu potpuno novu scenu koja je izbacena iz bioskopske verzije zbog ritma.
Obrni - okreni> 90-ak standardnih minuta. Malo.
U gotovo svim prikazima koje sam do sada citao ljudi se zale da film prekratko traje - da su hteli jos.
Ali ima tu jos jedna stvar: primetili ste da se vec prica o nastavku - i to direktnom nastavku. Ako se LotD gleda kao prvo poglavlje, neke stvari i mogu da ostanu otvorene...

Bojim se da smo osuđeni na premijeru na divxu (ako se pojavi odličan!), i reprizu u bioskopu tek najesen-zimu, ako smo srećni.  

Već sam kazao da me KRATKOĆA tog filma najviše brine, naročito u kontextu složenog zapleta i broja narativnih tokova-likova.

Romerovi filmovi DELUJU, pored ostalog, i zato što daju utisak jasnog, izgrađenog, komplexnog sveta, kome je dato VREME & PROSTOR da diše.

DA DIŠE!

NIGHT funkcioniše u 96 min. zato što ima tih 6 likova u jednoj kući, i jer za 1 prost siege movie više i ne treba.
DAWN i DAY imaju veći opseg i likova i lokacija i dešavanja, i vrlo komotno su smešteni u svojih 138' odnosno 120'. Nastavak ili nenastavak tu ne znači NIŠTA!
LAND, koji navodno ima još veći SCOPE – naguran u pišljivih 88' (sasve špicom!) – to me ozbiljno brine. Par minuta KRVI više ne znači mi mnogo u filmu fakin G.A. ROMERA. Moj strah je vezan više za njegov tretman likova i priče. Takođe, ne znam kako ću da prihvatim te 'pametne' zombije, i pokušaje buđenja 'simpatije' prema njima. Zombiji koji odjednom postaju metafora za sirote, jadne, masakrirane, underprivileged, oppressed, za stvorenja koja zaslužuju 'suživot' itsl... To su suviše radikalne, i neubedljive stvari...

I WANT TO BELIEVE!
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE...
BUT...

Quote from: "Ghoul"ovo mi je bacilo suze na oči...

eh da je samo to


inače minutaža je najveći problem... slučajno sam pogledao očekivajući barem 120 min kad ono      

Quote from: "Ghoul"To je otprilike ko da si reko: komiju se mnogo sviđa film. Dakle, više razlog za zabrinutost nego za slavlje.

onako čisto informativno... jel ti prestaneš kad misliti o meni    
da li moga vadiš iz usta (mislim na moga nika)  

Mislim stvarno
prvo ne dolazi kod nas?  
a onda je jos i kratak  
Da se covjek nije zajeb'o pa pomislio da je ovo 1985. i da je normalno snimati tako kratak film?  

IH, jebo te Komi, tek sad skontah da si ti Truba...sta ce ti to ba?

Rotten Tomatoes kaze: 30% na osnovu 10 kritika (za sada); 7 negativnih i 3 pozitivne: Hollywood Reporter, Variety i CHUD.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/land_of_the_dead/

iz ove gomile rivjua izdvojio sam izjave koje me najviše zabrinjavaju (jer se bojim da ima istine u njima – pitanje je samo koliko):





Like the abridged version of a much better Romero film.

So many near brilliant ideas are introduced, only to peter out.

Of course the first thing to go, in this abbreviated version of Romero's vision, is the character development and the horror.  You may jump a couple of times, but you will never be scared in this film.  Why?  Because you don't care about a single character in the movie.

The movie's entertaining, but it's empty. Don't go in expecting any of the depressing, disturbing, substantive Romero you knew from the first 3 Dead films. Land of the Dead is a light, fast, comedy/action/horror movie, with almost no horror and almost all comedy and action.


a mildly entertaining pastiche with few original notes that both rehashes and brings up to date elements of his previous films.

in this picture, he impresses more as a craftsman and sensational stylist than as storyteller.

Romero has made a self-conscious horror flick with state-of-the-art special effects and stylish look that's much less scary than the former installments, albeit one with a stronger sense of humor.


Romero, who's credited with inventing the zombie genre, might have become a victim of his own reputation.

What elevates this film above the routine is the stellar casting and production values.


the ending is a little flaccid. The movie revs up and sort of peters out. It needed to end a little bigger


Land of the Dead performs a dual feat: it acts as a great film standing alone, and as a marvelous cap to a monumental series.


Romero's lackluster return to the zombie genre fails to exploit creative concept of evolving undead
stilted, proselytizing dialogue and contrived situations that, boiled away, suggest a somewhat-shocking apologia for 9/11
The first film remains a landmark civil rights picture, the second an insightful if overlong skewering of our consumer culture, the last an inquiry into racial/gender castes and the role of zombie religions like Christianity (undead saviour, communion through intake of flesh and blood of the same to be born again)--but they were all fascinating because the subtext was subtext while the text was people trying to avoid getting eaten by waves of their ex-neighbours and relatives. Land of the Dead's subtext is more misanthropic: it's not that a main character will say "We don't negotiate with terrorists" as the zombies, under the leadership of ex-gas station attendant Big Daddy (Eugene Clark, playing a character from 1950), do a million-ghoul shuffle on the human stronghold of Fiddler's Green--it's that Romero implies that we're already zombies and the brief flickers of defiance we do exhibit are doomed to be snuffed-out by the maddening din. Not a bad idea, if no longer as subversive as it once might have been; it's a shame that the execution is so bad.

Land of the Dead by itself is a tremendous disappointment--the work of a legendary filmmaker crippled by his own legacy that has already said everything this film has to say on any topic, and with more effectiveness and focus by half again

Land of the Dead rushes through its fleeting 93-minute running time at the breakneck pace of a video game. That leaves insufficient time for Romero's gift for metaphor, and limits character development to broad strokes.

This time, Romero has more money to play with, and the resulting movie is slicker and smoother than his rough-hewn earlier efforts, and thus feels safer. One also gets the impression he was filming on a rigorous tight schedule, since this one lacks the spontaneity of his earlier work, some of which had a documentary-style that lent credibility and realism to his macabre fantasies.


With LAND OF THE DEAD, Romero attempts to establish zombies as a victim group. I kid you not. You see, zombies just want what everyone else wants; a nice home and community to live in, surrounded by friends. The finer things in life, even though you're dead. It's a preposterous premise and provides the movie with no solid base.


Also wasted is Asia Argento
   

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