they were interviewing john leguizamo and he said they used real animal guts for the gore...not sure if he was joking or not.
Just got back. I didn't like it so much. Couple of things I noticed if you are a fan of the series:
*spoilers*
Bub the Zombie from Day of the Dead is in it. Watch the bar sequence with the pit fighter zombies.
The Tom Savini biker zombie from Dawn of the Dead is in it.
Asia Argento is kinda hot in a suicide girls kinda way.
*spoilers*
Bub the Zombie from Day of the Dead is in it. Watch the bar sequence with the pit fighter zombies.
The Tom Savini biker zombie from Dawn of the Dead is in it.
Asia Argento is kinda hot in a suicide girls kinda way.
I agree, but it's worth noting that Romero had to cut most of his ideas for Day of the Dead due to lack of money. Land of the Dead actually sounds more like the original Day of the Dead script than the Day movie did. I'll know for certain once I see it today.
I don't think that's the reason for the good reviews. Over at Homepage of the Dead, zombie fans are complaining about the lack of gore compared to the previous movies.
Just saw the movie today with a friend. I thought the movie was pretty good since i love these type of things, but once it hit the end i was pissed. The movie ends in a way that makes you taste ash and leaves you mouthing WTF. Im gonna go rent night of the dead now 
Watch "Day of the Dead" at the end when the Colonel gets it. Look at his face and see how nauseated he really looks. When filming that scene the refrigerator where the guts were stored broke down for the entire weekend and they came in the following Monday to shoot. The cow guts were fermenting all weekend long. George A decides to film the scene with the guts anyway. The poor bastard was literally gagging the whole scene!
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I though I saw what looked like Bub in the trailer.
Looks like the great Bub has found a nice career doing video game voiceovers. Hubba Bubba
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Looks like the great Bub has found a nice career doing video game voiceovers. Hubba Bubba
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There's a Bub cameo in the bar scene, and there's also a Tom Savini cameo as the zombified leader of the biker gang from Dawn of the Dead.
Originally posted by: Nebor
I'm let down and dissappointed. The ending was just the kick in the face to top off the lackluster movie.
What happened in the end? I saw it but don't remember anything spectacular.
Actually I was wrong about seeing Bub. Turns out that it was really Simon Pegg from Shaun of the Dead, which is just as cool IMO. See pic at bottom of the page:
http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2005/landofthedead/
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Originally posted by: Nebor
I'm a huge zombie movie fan. They're my favorite kind of movie. I was psyched for this. Saw it opening night.
I'm let down and dissappointed. The ending was just the kick in the face to top off the lackluster movie.
*SPOILERS*
What was so horribly bad about the ending? The lead guy got away with an awesome truck and the hot chick. Its the way movies are supposed to end. Did you want the zombies to all be destroyed or something?
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Originally posted by: Triumph
Originally posted by: Nebor
I'm a huge zombie movie fan. They're my favorite kind of movie. I was psyched for this. Saw it opening night.
I'm let down and dissappointed. The ending was just the kick in the face to top off the lackluster movie.
*SPOILERS*
What was so horribly bad about the ending? The lead guy got away with an awesome truck and the hot chick. Its the way movies are supposed to end. Did you want the zombies to all be destroyed or something?
Zombie movies don't usually have happy endings. In this case, the ending wasn't really happy, or sad. The world is still ruled by zombies, one of which is very intelligent. Won't he continue hunting the humans? It was too vague towards the end. How come all of a sudden the zombies are able to think? And howcome Cholo isn't really the flesh eating kind of zombie at all? But just an undead version of himself, carrying out his goals?
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Look at how Dawn of the Dead ended. The guy and girl leave the mall in a helicopter, and that's the final shot. We don't know where they're going or what happens to them. And I love that ending (that's why I hated the remake) Or in the original, everyone dies, but we don't see what happens to the world outside of this small sphere in which the story takes place. That's pretty vague So this one is in no way a departure from the previous movies.
Regarding the thinking zombies, you're completely missing the point of this movie. It is an evolution of the ideas presented in previous movies. Why do the zombies come to the mall in Dawn? Because they continue to act out in death what they were programmed to do in life. They're like computers, only capable of doing what they've been programmed to do - no true independent thought. But you can program a computer to appear to be thinking. I don't think the leader-zombie was so much thinking but rather acting out his programming to a greater extent than other zombies. Cholo's actions at the end of the movie were completely in line with this concept.
You could also think of Land like a sort of nature program. If you go to the jungle for the first time, you're going to see a bunch of monkeys jumping around in the trees and screaming and eating bananas. Doesn't look like much. But when you spend time examining and watching and learning about the monkeys, certain traits begin to appear. They're a somewhat organized society, with a hierarchy between the members, and each one has their own idiosyncracies. They use tools. They communicate. They groom each other. You get the idea. Land is a similar look at the zombie world. The other movies dealt with simply surviving the zombie attacks. Now that a safe haven has been created the zombies can be examined from a safe distance. That's how I see this movie. These traits may have always been there, but it's only now that the living can begin to see them.
Regarding the thinking zombies, you're completely missing the point of this movie. It is an evolution of the ideas presented in previous movies. Why do the zombies come to the mall in Dawn? Because they continue to act out in death what they were programmed to do in life. They're like computers, only capable of doing what they've been programmed to do - no true independent thought. But you can program a computer to appear to be thinking. I don't think the leader-zombie was so much thinking but rather acting out his programming to a greater extent than other zombies. Cholo's actions at the end of the movie were completely in line with this concept.
You could also think of Land like a sort of nature program. If you go to the jungle for the first time, you're going to see a bunch of monkeys jumping around in the trees and screaming and eating bananas. Doesn't look like much. But when you spend time examining and watching and learning about the monkeys, certain traits begin to appear. They're a somewhat organized society, with a hierarchy between the members, and each one has their own idiosyncracies. They use tools. They communicate. They groom each other. You get the idea. Land is a similar look at the zombie world. The other movies dealt with simply surviving the zombie attacks. Now that a safe haven has been created the zombies can be examined from a safe distance. That's how I see this movie. These traits may have always been there, but it's only now that the living can begin to see them.
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