Land of the dead, fan or foe?

hi all i just want to say straight off the bat, i beleive that george romero is the master of zombie films but in my oppinoin he dropped the ball with Land of the dead, it goes against all his other movies with the zombies evlolving into almost humans and the people deciding not to fight back in the end WTF? im sorry if this sounds like a hate post on George Romero but i thought the movie was a bit too far gone, i hope to hear your comments/ responses Cheers, Gareth

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Permalink Reply by Andrea Schledewitz on September 6, 2009 at 1:44pm
i think Romero did just fine in Land of the Dead. why does he have to follow the same zombie laws as he always has? Land of the dead doesn't in any way deal with any of his other movies, so the zombies don't have to be the same. I agree with you that i like Romero's other zombies better, but i think he used Land of the Dead as a way to escape from being typecast, and to explore some different possibility.
Permalink Reply by Brian Mark on September 6, 2009 at 3:01pm
Well Garet, I thought the same thing when I first saw it. Then I watched it again. That is when I noticed that Big Daddy and his evolved followers NEVER stopped to eat people, they just seemed to want to avenge their re-dead undead brethren. And Big Daddy and his followers left the city at the end.
Permalink Reply by matthew trebilcock on September 6, 2009 at 3:24pm
unfortunalt thye did stop to eat some of the people. i u remember when they overran the vehicle depot. and also when the humans were trapped against the electrified fence, the heros came in dead reckoning and blew the zombies to hell with the six shooters on top.
Permalink Reply by Brian Mark on September 6, 2009 at 7:42pm
But not all the zombies were the evolved ones. The evolved ones consisted of Big Daddy, Boyd the Butcher, the Cheerleader, the motorcycle guy with the knife (he just cut up humans, didnt bite them at all) and a couple of other zombies. None of them stopped to eat-they only bit to kill. The evolved zombies survived-remember at the end? U see big daddy leading them out. The ones u are refering to are the non evolved zombies who just followed Big Daddy and his undead posse.
Permalink Reply by Shiny Pete on September 6, 2009 at 3:26pm
I think the whole concept of decaying zombies being able to learn and lead a rebellion against people that killed their....undead people is just not possible. They are decomposing. As soon as a zombie becomes a zombie they lose all abilities to think and reason and feel so how could they possibly feel outraged at other zombies being killed? Why would they care? Why were they trying to act human in the beginning? They are rotting and their brains are turning to mush. Learning and emotions don't seem very plausible at that point. And there is no reason to let the invading zombies go at the end. Eventually they are going to want to eat someone and that's what everyone was trying to avoid.
Permalink Reply by Brian Mark on September 6, 2009 at 7:46pm
Ok, zombie outbreaks have never happened, so there are no rules as to what they can or cannot do. And virus' mutate and evolve.
Permalink Reply by Zombieologist on September 7, 2009 at 9:52am
shhhhhh dont tell them that.... and there are rules and different variations of zombies, trust me just look at my name
Permalink Reply by Jessica Malcolm on September 6, 2009 at 6:06pm
Land of the Dead was a decent idead, but horribly executed. I was hoping for more of the high speed zombies from Dawn of the Dead (2004)..Now combine that with zombies who are developing reasoning skills,...now that would be a serious problem.
Permalink Reply by Brian Mark on September 6, 2009 at 7:47pm
Romaro dislikes fast zombies. He prefers the slow ones. And the 2004 Dawn of the Dead WAS NOT by Romero, it was based off his screenplay, though I do admit that I liked it.
Permalink Reply by Zombieologist on September 7, 2009 at 9:50am
If you watch romero's earlier film day of the dead, it also has a "smart zombie" in it. If you listen to the dialoge in land of the dead they imply that they can make themselves usful and learn. Also Romero's movies always have a deeper meaning. In land of the dead it was corruption and survival of the social classes. All the poor people who had to fight for everything lived in the end while the rich died.

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