Land of the Dead

Yoska

Ok, there's a Living Dead thread already but I since I haven't made a thread in a while I went and made a whole new one with more defined topic.

Land of the Dead just got a premiere (I wouldn't even say so, the small theater was only half full ) in Finland and left mixed feelings. My friends hated it but I kind of like it. The ending was anticlimatic for sure, it was rushed and a zombie movie and messsage of tolerance don't really blend together so well. The movie had the most sympathetic zombie ever on screen though - the scene with the drill made me feel so sorry for the poor guy. Overally I would give the movie seven out of ten. The beginning was alright, quite Madmax like. The middle was really good, if the director had spended a half hour more here it would had been great. I can't help it but it felt like (is it just me?) that Romero tried to include some society criticism, of the world's current state, and yet in my mind he never really succeeded in it. The most biggest surprise was, a spoiler up ahead!, a lot of people survived, even all those filler characters and main zombies. It's a bit weird thing to say but it just didn't feel right .

Solar Knight

I do have one question about it: Did they have Bub (smartest. zombie. in a movie.)? Be great to see that guy again~!

Hobo-Ou

Sorry, no Bub this time around. But you get a zombie Savini.

I respect Romero for taking the movie in the direction that he did. Granted some of it was lame, and like you said rushed, it was still nicely executed.
It was so much that Romero hinted at social and political commentary, it was more like he shoved it down your throat. So much so that he got his messages across, but unlike his previous movies, he lacked the subtly in explaining them.

I think far too many people expected something wonderful from the grandfather of the modern zombie movie, only to have their expectations shattered. But I mean come one, it was his first zombie movie since Day in 1985. It's quite easy to fall out of the game.