OMG "Land Of The Dead" Another Romero zombie flick announced (thanks Koogs)

- It's about time we had a Land FAQ on here
- ZOMBIES ZOMBIES ZOMBIES
- The zombification process: death via zombie bite or any death?
- (My) last word on zombie creation and locomotion
- If a zombie plague happened today, it wouldn't really be that serious!!!
- I wish the world were taken over by a mass Zombie epidemic.

I'm excited about this. I just watched Day of the Dead for the first time a few weeks ago, it was much better than expected.

George knows what he's doing though right?

Romero's "Dead" trilogy is possibly the only "official" film trilogy (that wasn't shot concurrently... actually, strike that even) that's consistently top-notch.

The NY Times spoke with writer/director George Romero while he was filming, where he revealed a little bit more on the story, here's a quote from the column: "The fat cats live in a high-security complex called Fiddler's Green, which the director is conjuring inside BCE Place, an indoor office and shopping mall here with a futuristic, vaulted ceiling that makes it look like a true cathedral of commerce. On the outside, zombie hordes roam almost unimpeded throughout the earth. People are aware of what's going on outside, and they're willing to listen to a government entity calling Fiddler's Green a safe haven, but it's not really providing everything they need. So some of the protagonists have to go out into the real world to get things like food - and deodorant."

The plot as summarized above sounds alot like ZARDOZ!

If Tom was still doing the sfx for Romero there might be some hope for this trainwreck.

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/georgearomeroslandofthedead.html

!!WARNING!! FEATURES NU-METAL!!

looks good even if the trailer is 75% footage from first 3 films and slowly dissolving text.

Judging by his clothing and whatnot in the previews I've seen, I'm guessing he plays one of the Fiddler's Green consurvivortives or something. Sweet.

Basically, it's Asa Argento and a newly sentient zombie army led by an African American undead gas jockey (!) vs the GOP elite.

From the first post-credits shot--a pan from a burnt out diner sign
reading "EAT!" to a cemetary--it's zombie fun city.

Rather mixed reviews for Diary of the Dead. Anyone seen it yet?

I read that it's a very 'political' film, with hardly any zombie stuff at all. Can only be a bad thing.

Beaten to the punch with the handheld reportage thing by Cloverfield as well.

zombies have gone the 'Aliens' way for me personally. With the rehashing of the same old formula (abeit a great one initially - Dawn and Day the best) nothing fresh seems possible for this genre anymore.

Diary might surprise me and I'll definitely be excited in checking it out but after the disappointment that was Land (wtf at trying to make the zombies CLEVER ffs), I fear the worst.

Nobody seems to 'get' the zombie experience anymore imho.

I saw it tonight... I was disappointed. It ticked the boxes of things that you would expect from a zombie movie without adding anything new to the genre.

I agree that it may be a problem with the whole idea of 'zombie movie' that it is hard to do anything original - but then I enjoyed Shaun of the Dead, the 28 Later films and the recent Dawn of the Dead remake.

I was neither upset nor amused to see the inevitable bad things happen to any of the characters in the movie; you might not expect superbly scripted characters in a zombie film, but is it too much to ask to care even slightly about their fates?

The political message was crude and over-played. The attempted send-ups of the horror genre might have been amusing in a world without Scream. The handheld camera approach is adequate but doesn't add as much to the film as I had hoped, and it is definitely badly timed coming so soon after Cloverfield.

you didn't like the SUPERTRUCK???

isn't it supposed to be a zombie movie about bloggers? bloggers vs zombies?

http://www.myconfinedspace.com/watermark.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2007/03/mwu0j8.thumbnail.jpg
FUCKIN' SUPERTRUCK, DOG!

Some of the characters used the internet, but as far as I recall there were no bloggers.

At one point there is a movie posted to Myspace, and they watch videos on Youtube - there might be a brief mention of blogs at the start.

Reading a zombie blog for two hours may have been more fun than watching this film.

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i saw diary last year. it's fuckin' pathetic. truly truly sad.

SUPERTRUCK TS: THE ONE FROM LAND OF THE DEAD VS THE ONE FROM STRIPES

supertruck in Land is possibly the weakest addition to a zombie movie ever. try going all terrain in *that* thing.

ironically i think Stripes became tiresome after supertruck had been introduced. The first half is great thou.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZCR9PWG5L._AA240_.jpg
Altman had the sense to bust out the SUPERTRUCK early in this

(wtf at trying to make the zombies CLEVER ffs)

they did that in Day of the Dead.

but more importantly, there is only one true supertruck

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/73/185165685_66cd7f82ef_o.jpg

ironically i think Stripes became tiresome after supertruck had been introduced. The first half is great thou.

-- Ste, Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:05 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

sad but true

they did that in Day of the Dead.

yeah you're right but it was handled a lot more convincingly in Day, Bub had purposely been conditioned by the doc and even then he was still flopping about on instincts.
In Land it was so much more ridiculous, especially the moment when the 'lead' zombie tasked the butcher zombie to hack down the fence. gawd.

I enjoyed Land just fine, even though it was of course not a patch on the first three.

actually if I had to pick one irritating smart zombie moment from Land, I'd go with the whole SUDDENLY THE FIREWORKS DO NOT WORK thing. overall I felt like it was a decent idea with a middling execution saved by the power of Hopper and Supertruck.

Has anyone seen Fido? (speaking of smart zombie pets)

the only good part of Diary of the Dead was when (***POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT IF YOU ACTUALLY GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THIS MOVIE***) (***BUT AT THE SAME TIME, IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT YET AND PLAN TO, THIS WILL PROBABLY INCREASE YOUR ENJOYMENT TENFOLD***) that one dude who fled to his big mansion was admitting to killing and eating his family, and he was trying to act all 'crazy', and I suddenly realized that it was very very funny to imagine Michael Scott giving that speech.

also, the line "it used to be us against us; now it's us against them. only... they are us".

wow Diary is laaaame

so rough

sucks i was kinda amped

Still haven't seen Diary because, well, I don't think I've heard anyone say anything good about it, and Land was underwhelming, but I'm still somehow excited that another installment (Survival Of The Dead) is on its way.

I actually really liked Land of the Dead ... I thought the zombies learning things was entertaining. Closed captions use the word "ululating" at one point.

I keep meaning to revisit it, as I only saw it once in the theater. Perhaps I will have to arrange a marathon...

the zombies learning were probably the best part of that movie.

I cant dislike any film that has John Leguizamo and the Mentalist teaming up against zombies.

SWANGY!!!!!!!

I don't believe it features the Mentalist, but does this count?

http://spawn.home.sapo.pt/Images/Movie_Spawn_3.jpg

the speed freaks that got kicked out before I moved into my old studio space left a vhs copy of Spawn behind ... it wasn't very good.

I have fond memories of watching Spawn as a 16 year old, in a hotel room in Huntington Beach on my first trip to America, experiencing my first (or second or third) Subway.

It wasn't as good as Con Air. Although that would have been improved by the presence of Leguizamo, who I can basically watch him in anything, although I was too young to know that at the time.

I started watching Diary of the Dead but the dude with the camera started annoying me too much through plain silliness, as well as the special effects and general vibe seeming more like a Resident Evil game than anything else (and not in a good way).

PS. DIRK!!!!!

I keep referring to it as "Dairy of the Dead"

Now that I would watch.

Me too! ... would make the most sense if it was British.

Just remake Apaches with zombies. Done.

Witness with zombies.

Yeah, more appropriate. Apaches is already more terrifying than any of the Dead flicks.