Land of the Dead **WARNING: SPOILERS!!!**

[ViperGTS]

WARNING!!! DO NOT READ THIS THREAD IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE LATEST GEORGE ROMERO INSTALLMENT OF THE "DEAD" SERIES!

Alright, so I took the lady friend over to the theatre and we watched Land of the Dead.

I have to say, I was GREATLY dissapointed. As a zombie fan, I did NOT like to way Romero handled the idea of zombies evolving.

In fact, it's the opposite way around. Zombies, according to theory, would decompose over time, tot he point of being no more than puddles of mush after so many weeks.

The movies by Romero is opposite this. It shows how zombies would, if given the time, learn how to try to be human again, learn to act a group with a collective mind and goal, learn to adapt.

Zombies (again, according to theory) would not possibly be able to do such things. The virus that infects the body destroys the human brain to the point of leaving nothing more than the stem, thus enabling the "carrier" to act solely on instinct. The main instinct of all living beings is to find food, herego, zombies' only motivation to move or act is to find food.

In the movie, the zombies kill. Yes, they do eat sometimes, but they kill for the sake of killing in many scenes.

Here's my breakdown.

Creativity: 8. Romero's ideas and inspirations are very original and in many cases funny.

Acting: 9. Very good casting. Voice tone and inflection was very well done.

Special effects: 10. Amazing gore and blood, and very wonderfully nasty. I love the belly button ring being ripped out, yummy.

Sound effects and soundtrack: 9. The music went well with the theme.

Realism (if you wanna call it that): 2. Awfully written and terrible plot. Goes against decades of zombie theory.

Ideas?

 

[penny lane]

I was dissapointed too.

The story was somewhat interesting, but what I can't understand is why John Leguizamo's character would want 5 million dollars? Where on earth is he going to spend it? And how did Big Daddy zombie become intelligent? And another thing that really annoyed me was when one of the characters is supposed to stay on watch for Leguizamo at the pier...he goes into a shack and listens to music on his headphones. WTF? You're supposed to listening for the zombies!

The only redeeming thing is George hasn't lost his touch in the gore department. My favorite was the headless priest zombie. And it was fun to see Shaun of The Dead's Simon Pegg making a cameo appearance as a zombie. Tom Savini also plays a zombie in the film.

 

[ViperGTS]

The kid watching out for the $5 million drop off can be forgiven, since he's just an idiot punk kid getting high. (By the way, you don't get high when you need to see the heads you're shooting at.)

As for Daddy Zombie, that's what I mean. Theory states that zombies would become less intelligent over time. I can understand that a carrier might have a few memories left over from it's last life, like the trying to operate the gasoline pump at the station, but only if there were no food anywhere to be found, thus no motivation to do otherwise.

Also, acting wish a common goal is a characteristic of organized, intelligent beings. ZOMBIES HAVE NO BRAINS. Period.

Thirdly, I noticed alot of carriers were killing for the sake of killing, as mentioned earlier. One example is the punk biker guy grabbing a human by the shirt, pulling him close, looking at him spitefully for a moment, then hacking him in half with a huge knife. Wrong. The carrier should have bitten his face off without hesitiation. The only reason zombies exist is to feed on human flesh.

And...guns?! COME ON!!! Zombies aren't even supposed to be able to see well what with their rotting eyes, letalone be able to aim a gun (or even figure out what it's supposed to do).

Ugh. I'm disgusted with this movie.

 

[Oddjob0226]

Did Marshall, Will and Holly get back home?



I'll be back.....