Land of the Dead
 

...uh, holy shit.

The release date has been moved from Oct. 31 to JUNE 24!!! :D

I couldn't believe it... I don't think the studios have pulled such a surprising move. Usually they push the stuff back, but release it way ahead of time??

Nice.

http://www.landofthedeadmovie.net/

Very cool... I love Zombie films...

Fucking awesome.

I just noticed this too while browsing into the future at IMDB. 6 months is a pretty long time to leave it on the shelf if it's fully finished, why not bump the date up?

can't wait!

When I saw a commercial for this on TV I let out a "HOLY SHIT!!"

I can't wait either!

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June is a great month for movies.

looks good, can't wait
love a good zombie movie
/me goes off to watch Shaun of the Dead again :P

holy shit! I hadnt heard, batman begins and land of the dead in the same month... the geek in me is having a heart attack!

George Romero just plain kicks ass...

The make-up looks fuckin awesome too...

Yes! The perfect excuse to watch my Trilogy of the Dead again!

I cannot wait for this movie!

i predict this is going to be the greatest zombie movie ever. been waiting for this for a long, long time.

Yeah this has pretty much come out of nowhere for me too. As long as Romero had final cut on this then I'm confident that it'll be decent. I'm worried that this was moved up suddenly because some distro had a slot to fill and gave Romero a "finish in a week or it'll never come out" ultimatum.

My two biggest fears about this film:
1. after 28 Days Later and the Dawn remake I'm worried it might feel like a regression to return to Romero's original plodding zombies
2. Romero continues on his "thinking zombie" plot begun in earnest with Day of the Dead(which wasn't all that good honestly). The beauty of zombie flicks post-Romero is the arbitrary nature the antagonist zombies. Even the "when hell is full the dead will walk the earth" legend we're left to think this is the completely naieve attempt of the surviving humans to understand the complete paradigm shift they're caught in. If zombies are given a capacity for rational thought then they're reduced to simple ghoulish vampires.

'ckin' awesome. Sure, I'm slightly worried about what Locobot shot forward, but I'm mostly just excited to see it.

By the way, the unrated trailer is awesome compared to the tv spots. Mostly the same footage, with gore thrown in. Wonderful.

Is there something incredibly special about this movie? When I saw the commercial I just thought it was another dumbass zombie movie. What makes this one so great.

The king of the zombie genre directed it after 20 years. He is the one responsible for the dead trilogy (night, dawn, day) and he had I believe a 15 million dollar budget for this film. George Romero + 15 million + Zombies = potential for greatest zombie movie ever.

Man, he put zombies on the map.

Anyone see it yet?!

I'm goin tonight, hopefully, if I can convice others that Romero Zombie flicks are worth sacrificing a night of partying.

If not... f it, I'll still see it. Too good to pass up! I can't f'n wait.

Well, i saw it, and i gotta say, after 20 some years of waiting, I'm left with kind of an "eh" feeling about it. While its definitely the worst of the 4, the simple fact that its brings gore back to the horror genre puts it above 99.9% of all other horror flics in my opinion. But the stroyline and the zombie action just didnt have the right feel about it, a completely different vibe to me then the others. I don't wanna give anything away, mainly cuz Im too lazy to use the spoiler tag, so I'll just say its an above average gory zombie flic that wasnt worth the 20 year wait.

I hope it's nothing like Day of the Dead. I just rented that last week, and it sounded like someone spliced in the soundtrack from "Big."

wasn't what i was hoping for...not bad but not great.

looking forward to this. Cant beat a good gore movie. Zombie movies especially.

just watched it

it was alright. not a bad sequel, not exactly disappointing. but not spectacular.

i don't want to ruin it for others, but i had some problems with some of the things that happen (i'm not gonna be specific). the end was left wide open with plenty of breathing room for a sequel.

going tomorrow...

I liked it a lot. I like the way, like Night, Dawn and Day, it isn't just about zombies, it's a sharp satire of some aspect of Western culture. Night was about racism. Dawn was about rampant consumerism. Day was about the spiraling military-industrial complex. Land is about classism.

Plus there's plenty of gore, and several very nice shots, and several good one-liners from Dennis Hopper.

ok, i never saw any of the others.... what's the zombies from? virus? demons? aliens? or something else?

I enjoyed it pretty well, way better then the last movie I shelled out 7$ for. (Mr and Mrs smith)

I'll give it a 6.5 / 10

I thought it was great, for pretty much all of the reasons that Gilda listed.

Spoiler: About a quarter of the way through, I was thinking Savini HAS to be in this movie somewhere... I gave out a cheer when I saw him pop up a short while later. :thumbsup:

Just saw this last night and I loved it. These movies are unique because after Night, it's no longer about the initial outbreak of zombies. By now, everybody knows how to deal with the zombies and they're not all freaking out all the time.

I think I'm gonna go see it this afternoon.

oh and mexicanonabike, it's alot of different things in different zombie movies, but in Romero's, it's a virus. Or radiation from a satillite from venus (see Night of the Dead).

Actually, I thought it wasn never really explained, and I kind of liked it that way. Romero's zombie movies have been all about the characters, not particularly the zombies, and that's why his films are so good. It doesn't matter why the zombies are here, it just matters that they are here, and how are you going to deal with it? What I remember from Night is that the Venus probe thing was just a theory spouted off on the radio.

Either way, they never really go into details about the cause of the zombies because, really, who cares?

The characters in all 3 movies continually speculate about why zombies walk the Earth. The most commonly used, and most soically critical, the way Romero likes it, is that when there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the Earth. It all fits in with his commentary on modern America, which is what these movies are all about anyway.

God I wanted to smack Riley (Simon Baker) by the end of the movie. I loved most of the other characters but him I just wanted to turn the corner and be torn apart by a zombie horde and go away.

Well yeah, sometimes I mix up those zombie movies.

I'd have to go with the whole not enough room in hell idea, it's more solid than any scientific evidence.

Anyone who likes good zombie stories should check out the comic Walking Dead. The first couple of story arcs are available in trade paperback. Like the best zombie movies, it isn't about the shock factor, but how the people involved are dealing with this new world. Featured characters are regularly added and killed off, and there are some truly wicked twists now and then, such as when melting snow drips off of a sign, revealing important information that was written there. Those reading the comic will know that to which I am referring.

I'm gonna have to agree there. I just recently picked up the first trade and I really liked it. The only thing stopping me from going out and buying the next two is that I know I already got them as a birthday gift next time I make the trip back home to SA. Good stories, strong characters, and great art. Oh yeah, and there are zombies in it, too.

Sadly, I compared LotD to The Walking Dead and found it lacking. Unfair of me to compare a 90 movie to three trade paperbacks, as the comics have alot more time to cultivate characters and draw you in, but there you have it. Every once in awhile in the movie I found myself wondering why a character was doing somthing. 90 minutes didn't seem like nearly enough time. Didn't Daw and Day run closer to two hours? I think I was more attached to the characters in the Dawn remake (I can't even believe I'm saying that!)

I guess what I'm really trying to say is I agree with Gilda and El Pollo, The Walking Dead rocks.

cool, i just bought one of those trades, just haven't gotten around to reading it...

I love him.

He's in everyone of them too...:) and most people don't even know who it is. :p

I had heard Simon Pegg and Edgar Winter, Star and Director of "Shawn of the Dead" respectively, were in the film as zombies. I even saw them listed in the credits, but I never caught sight of them. Sigh. Guess I'll have to wait for the DVD.

a coworker told me that (about the Shaun guys), but i didn't remember seeing them either.

apparently they were the "take your picture with a zombie" zombies...

edgar:

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simon:

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pictures from http://www.twitchfilm.net/

simon looks like bub.

Thanks Grendel! You rock!

glad to help... thinking about catching this again this weekend...

I didn't like it. Not at all.

I love George Romero. Dawn of the Dead is one of my favorite movies. I love them all. I am a horror geek. However, I didn't like the movie. It lacked the feeling of all the other movies he did. I liked the Tom Savini Cameo as a zombie, that was cool, but I think it could have been alot better.

Hmmmmmmmmm......No
 

I love George Romero. Dawn of the Dead is one of my favorite movies. I love them all. I am a horror geek. However, I didn't like the movie. It lacked the feeling of all the other movies he did. I liked the Tom Savini Cameo as a zombie, that was cool, but I think it could have been alot better.

Maybe I'm being harsh, but I thought this movie was terrible...

'Course, it may be just because I had high expectations, but I kinda doubt it.

Spoiler: One of the things that bothered me most were the gaping holes in the plot. Examples?

*One zombie somehow decides that he is going to learn to speak - suddenly, all the zombies in the area understand zombie language

*Although zombies had never before tried to walk across the river, they suddenly decide to do so. That's alright, I suppose, now that we have a genious zombie, but when he jumps in, he jumps in alone. All the others just kinda hang out and mourn the loss of their leader. <fast forward 3 seconds> All of them exit the water at the same time - only moments behind their genious leader

*In a city presumably of at least hundreds of thousands, they have but one vehicle capable of doing anything productive?

*I believe this is pretty much a direct quote, forgive me if I'm wrong - "The same things that were keeping the zombies out are trapping us in" Uh - Dude, it's a river on two sides. Can noone swim anymore?

*On that same note, if you are fortifying a city against zombies - relentless zombies - would you have but one thin piece of plywood as a wall? The guy hacked through with a butcher knife with ease - I would think that one would be a bit more concerned with the sturdiness of the material.

*The empathy for the zombies - instead of killing the same zombies that just ate an entire city full of your friends, you decide that maybe they aren't so bad after all - they are "just looking for a place to stay" (and more of your friends to eat, might I add)

*Finally, what is the deal with Canada? Apparently, noone lives there. Sorry Canadians, you're but a figment of your own imagination....

There are more issues, but I have spent enough time thinking about them - it just seemed very much like the old horror movies in the way that they tried masking the absense of any continuous plot and poor acting via gratuitous gore....

And to think, I was a huge fan of the remake of Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, and 28 Days later....

As in many horror movies, old and new, there are many plot holes. But what strikes me, now that I think about it more, is not the holes, but the genious soical commentary worked in the film. As just one example, and there is a small spoiler here, are how the zombies are hypnotized by the fireworks. While they watch and are lulled into a stuper by the fireworks, the living go about looting the towns and killing them without a struggle.

Now if the zombies represent the American masses as they have in past Dead movies, and the fireworks represent patriotism, then you get a bleak but honest message about modern America. As Americans, of which I am one, are lulled into apathy by the government's abuse of patriotism and honor, they go about ruining our lives and the lives of others, looting our freedoms ansd killing at will.

Now I might be reading too much into it, but Romero's other work has been full of this kind of message as well. And if this is his intent, to me the man is pure genious. If not, I have bored you all to tears for no reason.

Ya, he had how many years to write a great zombie flick and this is the best he could come up with!

Damn, I've been looking forward to seeing this, but now I'm not too sure.
Ah, well, I'm probably gonna go see it anyway, I even went to see Alone In The Dark just to see how bad it really is

There are just as many plot holes in his other films, so... this is nothing new.

For what it is... a zombie flick, it's damn good and is better than the majority of the other "horror" movies that have been released in the past 15 years - that's all that matters.

Hopefully these recent releases in good horror flicks will drive away the other bullshit we've had to endure or some how accept as "horror" (The Ring, and other various PG-13 BS).

finally got around to reading this (read it all today, in fact). the one i read today is Volume 1 (Days Gone Bye), and it's fantastic. i'm gonna have to pick up the other trades soon.