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Posted: 6/21/2005 6:43:15 PM EDT
I saw the unrated preview tonight. What an awesome movie! Closer in tone and entertainment value to Dawn than Day, although Big Daddy lends more than a passing reference to Bub. A bit of haves and have nots commentary that doesn't go overboard and some excellent dead pan lines from Dennis Hopper.
The action is tight and the gore is excessive, just the way I like it. The characters are well drawn and acted. Charlie's preference for old school weaponry is particularly well done. Oh, and Tom Savini with a big blade! ****1/2 out of 5 stars. |
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WOW, I didn't have high hopes for that movie. Can't wait to see it now.
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Any good firefights?
Err, ONE sided firefights? Would suck if zombies knew how to use weapons. ben |
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Man its getting grim.
First we just had to deal with zombies and the infection. Then we had to worry about them gaining higher mobility and running zombies. There was one documentary that hinted at zombies retaining a sliver of their former intelligence , but I never expected to evolve to the levels now being reported. Now they have applied that evolution against us. Was Omega man a prophetic piece? I am thinking belt fed is the only way to go now. |
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It was a preview showing, not a trailer. The movie's about an hour and a half long! |
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Sorry, no joy in that department... |
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Many zombies gunned down most spectacularly. As for zombies with guns, well, we still got an edge there ... but it's shrinking! |
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I saw the making of LOTD on IFC the other night. Zombies can't shoot very well. Also, IFC will be showing NOTLD and Dawn Of The Dead on Thursday night.www.ifctv.com/ifctvflash/media/ifc_pulp_flash/dead.html They are throwing Dead-Alive in as well. Don't really care for that one. |
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Dead Alive was Peter Jacksons finest film ever. Makes LOTR look ghey. Meet The Feebles runs a close second followed by Bad Taste. (I know those were just movies and not factual documentaries like we appreciate, but sometimes we need movies to take our minds off the impending threat) |
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I have to friggin wait till FRIDAY!!!!! Grrrrrrr.......thanks for the early review, DN!!!!!! I am looking a bit more forward to it now.
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Dark Nite, thanks for your review!
Desertmoon, I really want to read your review before seeing it. Very entertaining! I've gotta' ask though.... did you like "Team America"? |
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Bub did all right. And how can one not appreciate the lawnmower scene from Dead Alive? |
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One of the themes in this movie is how the zombie threat is evolving. Their IQ is slowly increasing... |
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sorry for the edit. |
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I have seen better movies! No. Really. Still, it's awesome to have the Romero aesthetic back in a zombie movie. I liked the Dawn remake a lot but it's in another place from the Romero universe. And don't get me started on the retarded Resident Evil movies. This movie is downtown Romero-ville! |
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hahahahahaha "necrobiology"! |
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Land of the Dead is getting good reviews from Ebert and the NYT!
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Okay, I saw it this afternoon. It was fun, but I was a wee bit disappointed.
I was hoping for a horror movie, not an action film. Too many explosions, WAY too much full auto spraying (hard to believe that you wouldn't have to conserve ammo) and an overwrought soundtrack. My biggest problem, if this makes any sense, was that the scale of the thing was just way too big. A lot of the real horror element that the first three films had came from the whole rat in a trap feeling. It's hard to convey that sense of helplessness with you're dealing with a whole city. You couldn't care about the characters very much. And Big Daddy just didn't look, well, very dead. But Asia Argento is hot, and the Simon Pegg/Edgar Wright cameos were cool. It was well worth seeing, and I'll certainly buy it when it comes out on disc, but it's not the film I hoped it would be. |
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It ws ok but Im not going call it the most powerful one.
The head zombie "muthafucking Raqeem" kinda ruined it. |
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Did anyone else notice Tucker from DOTD 2004 was the zombie with the butcher knife in LOTD?
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I definately would not give it 3 1/2 stars.Maybe 2 at the most.Did you notice how many zombies went down from just body shots?When they would shoot one up close it was always a head shot like you're supposed to do,but when they would shoot the M60 from the armor truck then just chest shots would kill them.False info like this is going to get a lot of people killed when the infestation comes to your town.
Remember,only head shots kill. |
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This is probably the most flawed documentary yet. Zombies do not commuicate. They do not have leaders. They do not think. I'm starting to wonder if Michael Moore is the real director behind this documentary.
***SPOILER WARNING*** Some words from IMDB.com:
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I could have done without the social commentary. Also, the 'future' Pittsburgh took away a lot of the realism and scare of it.
I think a lot of the pucker factor from the previous zombie documentaries came from the fact that all was normal, then the zombies came. The initial confusion and paranoia is what is terrifying. The undead were nothing more than a fact of life in this one. Also, they kept slamming that rich asshole who built Fiddler's Green... I wonder if those who hated him so much would have rather took their chances outside the fence rather than living on the streets inside the fence. Yeah he was a rich, corrupt idiot... but what's the options? I didn't see anyone else building a zombie-safe haven. |
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movie blows. Why would you climb off a tower to fire full auto at the chest of a zombie.
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I think you hit it right on the head.I felt like I was watching... A Movie. |
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OK flick, but it was too pat for most of the stuff. Not scary at all, and the gore was just window dressing in most cases.
And you would think that after dealing with a world full of undead, the troops would remember one important fact: SHOOT THEM IN THE HEAD One shot, one dead zombie; none of this full-auto BS. And this is coming from someone that really likes to rock and roll |
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I think for shock factor the next one will have to go for zombie/human sex scenes. Maybe a zombie will "evolve" an urge to get busy with his rigor mortis stiffy and go after some human squeezebunnies. Or maybe some lowlife human loser will capture a former-hottie-now-zombie and tap some zombie ass. Yeah, that would be cool. |
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Cool how? That would turn my stomach. Necrophlia? Gack! The pictures of the evolution of meth addicts gives you soem idea of what it would be like having sex with a zombie. |
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Cool like in giving birth to a zombie in "Day of the Dead". Cool like in seeing Ray Liotta being fed his own brain in "Hannibal". Cool like in seeing an obese guy tied to a table and force fed until he dies in "Seven". Cool like in watching puppet-sex in "Team America". Cool like in seeing a guy take a shit in a store in "Jackass". Cool like in seeing Tom Green stroke a horse's penis in "Freddy Got Fingered". You know, like Bukkake-cool. Tubgirl-cool. Don't you know cool? |
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I liked it. I thought it was a good mix of zombie movies and Mad Max.
Spoiler Warning And quite possibly the most optomistic ending I have seen for a zombie movie. |
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Good movie: I'd give it a 90%. Romero meets modern movie making. Top notch stuff. Good moves on only using a few special effect. Remember, they are special, not to be used in every scene. I really like the fact he avoided using them where he could have or where others would have. Good acting and excellent make-up and non-graphical special effects made it glow and polished the movie nicely.
Romero is not a lazy ass like everyone else in Hollywood. |
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Just got back from seeing it. Wasn't as good as I thought it'd be. It wasn't bad, but I don't think it was true "Romero" zombie awesomeness.
The fact that it had somewhat of a plot was certainly not in keeping with the other movies: Get the big pimped out truck back for the big mean man in charge. Save the pathetic low-lifes that are the ones who keep the walled in city functioning. I thought the whole thinking zombies would be stupid, but it wasn't too terrible. At least they didn't have them talking or anything. Burnt-faced retard sidekick with amazing marksmanship = dumb I already said in another thread that having modern technology and weapons is frickin' stupid and definitely a serious continuity flaw in this movie. I mean, the guy had a frickin' GPS PDA. Overall... it had zombie, human eating-goodness so it wasn't a complete wash. .5 |
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