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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron_Chef" data-source="post: 2356630" data-attributes="member: 4530">I just saw Land of the Dead and did not like it very much. I am a huge Romero Dead fan but this movie is just not up to snuff. The Dawn of the Dead remake was better and that was terrible by comparison to the Romero Dead films (including the Night remake from '90 directed by Tom Savini). Yes, Land has tons of extreme gore (mostly the fake CG kind), lots of jump out of your seat scares and great zombie make-up, but it ends up as just a bad retread of Ghosts of Mars, one of the worst movies John Crapenter ever made. I was frequently bored in between the zombie carnage. All the characters in Land of the Dead suck. They are stupid, behave illogically, and are annoying. There's no one to root for like Night, Dawn or Day. Filling up the cast with name actors was a terrible mistake. I don't want to see Dennis Hopper or John Leguizamo or Asia Argento in a Romero zombie film. Hell, I don't want to see them in anything. The "hero" (Simon Baker) is painfully bland and and utterly forgettable. The "Big Daddy" zombie is just like the idiotic leader of the Ghosts of Mars, growling and screaming and who cares? It's dumb. They should have brought "Bub" (Howard Sherman) back from Day of the Dead if they were going to have a smart zombie leading a "zombie revolution." Tom Savini reprises his role as the evil biker "Blades" from Dawn (1978) but is only onscreen for maybe 30 seconds (it's a nice cameo, but I'd much rather have had him be "Big Daddy" zombie than the giant retard/gas jockey they ended up casting). There is a lot of bad dialogue. Star Wars bad. Like the hero saying "I'm looking for a place with no fences." N fences? How the hell you gonna survive with no fences to keep out the zombies? Or telling his people not to shoot the (moving away) zombies because "They're just looking for a place to go, just like us." Groan! The soundtrack is just loud and I can't remember a single piece of music from it, unlike the other Romero Dead films. Bring back Goblin!The timeline doesn't make any sense vs. the rest of the Dead films; too much high technology! None of which would have been invented if the zombie plague had started in 1968 with the original Night of the Living Dead. Land of the Dead is just too big in scope with too many (useless) characters, it has none of the claustrophobic terror and urgency of its predecessors. The social commentary is forced and obnoxious. I just don't understand how the city could have been secured and how all those hundreds or thousands of people inside could have stayed alive on a diet of little else but Pepsi and Spam...I'll probably end up watching it on DVD if there's an unrated version (hopefully with a better ending!), but it's just nowhere near the level of Romero's other dead films. Hey! You got your Road Warrior in my zombie movie! Just like those old Reese's peanut butter cup commercials, Land of the Dead is more of a lame post apocalyptic Mad Max action movie than a proper horror movie. I'm going to place some blame on Universal and studio interference, but nearly everything hinges on the rotten video game like script which is Romero's fault. Land is still far better than garbage like the Resident Evil series, but no classic. Doubtless it will please gorehounds and unsophisticated lunkheads who enjoy seeing machineguns and explosions... And the zombies don't run, which is the way it should be. Part of the fun of watching the original Dead films is putting yourself into the film and saying "What would I do if zombies came?" -- I can picture myself in all the other Dead films but not this one.Running zombies = no chance to live and no fun trying. Slow zombies = a slim hope to survive and fun trying!Anyway, go see Land of the Dead, if only to support Romero and zombie movies in general. Just don't expect any miracles onscreen.</blockquote>

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