Undead Gore Rocks the Casbah in this Hardcore Zombie Flick
Added 1/9/2010
One day, they rose.
The next, the world fell.
Now, humanity barely survives.
And the undead have gotten smarter.
Zombies abound in this recent blockbuster by George A. Romero and, as always, the man who invented the zombie genre shows us he still has what it takes to turn out a good flick.
Simon Baker does a great job playing the hard-edged yet soft-hearted hero, while John Leguizamo steals the show as a kind of crooked hero-turned-bad guy.
What I enjoyed about this flick was the idea of a walled-in society, a city-turned-world of its own, with its own hierarchy, running down from rich to poor. I suppose that even if the dead walked the earth, we'd still have the same problems we have today with the rich getting richer and the poor poorer.
Blood and guts fill the screen of this feature: graphic, wet and sloppy. There's no shortage of stomach-turning moments here.
I liked the idea of some of the zombies getting smarter instead of just roaming around looking for folks to eat, and the idea of them trying to regain their former humanity was well done. However, the "human-hearted" zombies also made the creatures feel a bit too human, for my taste and the undead lost their edge as a result.
The story was simple, but fun.
Not a bad effort, this one.
Language warning: Cursing and blasphemy
A.P. Fuchs
Canister X
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Romero...Legacy Lives on!!!!
Added 12/28/2009
When it comes zombie horror flicks....All hail george romero...one thing he does and does well is the exploitation of blood and gore...and thats a good thing..although "Land of the Dead" falls short of a believable story...its all made up to you with the excessive brutally and havoc that Romero knows all to well how to put together.
PRO: More than Enuff Zombies, Blood and Gore, excessive brutality...and more stuff to make your stomach quench.
CONS: The movie is fairly short with a Run time of about Hour and a half.
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Zombies get smarter...
Added 12/20/2009
Keeping up with the zombie story line since Night of the living dead and Day of the dead etc. The zoms are getting smarter and looking for their place in the world. One for the shelf.
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very good and fun horror pic
Added 11/28/2009
while not quite on a par with NIGHT and DAWN , "LAND OF THE DEAD" is smart and fun . a solid cast and typically good writing and direction by ROMERO make this outing pretty much comperable to the very good DAY . don't know why this one devides folks so ? (the zombies can reason ?) . it's a "talkie" for goodness sakes . get over it .
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As A Zombie O.K. But Also With Some Loopholes As Well
Added 11/27/2009
This was one of the standard George Romero zombie movies with the usual shambling somewhat slow zombies that in the movie would eat living humans in very gory and bloody ways to satisfy any longtime zombie fan but some of the storyplot is pretty weak as well. The one part I felt was a little weird was when you had the group of disgruntled scouts who when one of them is denied a position in the upper echelon of the cities important class decides to steal the armor vehicle and try and blackmail the leader of the isolated city into giving him money was somewhat idiotic, yes for an isolated city surrounded by the walking undead there has to be some way to maintain a sense of trade an commerce between the living people in the city for certain possessions but come on. I mean even if the people trying extort the money get away where are they going to go and spend the money on in a world almost completely taken over by the undead? The acting from the main characters is very decent though and Dennis Hopper as always gives a great show in his movies but at the end it's pretty much what anyone who looks at the cover knows, and that is it's a flesh-eating zombie movie for anyone who wants to see the blood and gore of people been eaten an the like but don't expect to much more from the movie itself such as a great storyline or the like...
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Undead Gore Rocks the Casbah in this Hardcore Zombie Flick
Added 1/9/2010
One day, they rose.
The next, the world fell.
Now, humanity barely survives.
And the undead have gotten smarter.
Zombies abound in this recent blockbuster by George A. Romero and, as always, the man who invented the zombie genre shows us he still has what it takes to turn out a good flick.
Simon Baker does a great job playing the hard-edged yet soft-hearted hero, while John Leguizamo steals the show as a kind of crooked hero-turned-bad guy.
What I enjoyed about this flick was the idea of a walled-in society, a city-turned-world of its own, with its own hierarchy, running down from rich to poor. I suppose that even if the dead walked the earth, we'd still have the same problems we have today with the rich getting richer and the poor poorer.
Blood and guts fill the screen of this feature: graphic, wet and sloppy. There's no shortage of stomach-turning moments here.
I liked the idea of some of the zombies getting smarter instead of just roaming around looking for folks to eat, and the idea of them trying to regain their former humanity was well done. However, the "human-hearted" zombies also made the creatures feel a bit too human, for my taste and the undead lost their edge as a result.
The story was simple, but fun.
Not a bad effort, this one.
Language warning: Cursing and blasphemy
A.P. Fuchs
Canister X
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Romero...Legacy Lives on!!!!
Added 12/28/2009
When it comes zombie horror flicks....All hail george romero...one thing he does and does well is the exploitation of blood and gore...and thats a good thing..although "Land of the Dead" falls short of a believable story...its all made up to you with the excessive brutally and havoc that Romero knows all to well how to put together.
PRO: More than Enuff Zombies, Blood and Gore, excessive brutality...and more stuff to make your stomach quench.
CONS: The movie is fairly short with a Run time of about Hour and a half.
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Zombies get smarter...
Added 12/20/2009
Keeping up with the zombie story line since Night of the living dead and Day of the dead etc. The zoms are getting smarter and looking for their place in the world. One for the shelf.
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