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offline thecrimsonguard from ∞ (United States) on 2005-06-21 12:55 [#01639628]
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go see it this weekend. 2 times if you gotta. check out
the game on this site too its amusing for a while.

Land of the Dead

thank you.


 

offline laniatus from United States on 2005-06-21 13:00 [#01639643]
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You're welcome.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-06-21 13:36 [#01639728]
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this is one of those films that I'm kind of scared to go
see.

not because it's supposed to be scary, but more because I
hope it won't disappoint, Romero being great 'n all.


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-06-21 13:47 [#01639747]
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i don't think he's so great. i've seen three of these films
and only night was "good". i enjoyed dawn of the dead
because it was so cheesy. day of the dead was unwatchable.
so what's so great about him?


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-06-21 13:55 [#01639761]
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man, "dawn of the dead" is a incredible! fucking hell!


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-06-21 13:57 [#01639765]
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yeah it was fun, but it was fun in the way that die hard is
fun. am i missing some integral part of the puzzle that
makes these classic cinema and not popcorn zombie movies?
;)


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2005-06-21 13:59 [#01639767]
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tons of thinly veiled social commentary.


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-06-21 14:00 [#01639768]
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if that's true, i must be an idiot and i'll have to rent it
again.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-06-21 14:03 [#01639774]
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most obvious one: a mall filled with zombies..?


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-06-21 14:05 [#01639777]
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yeah, i definitely remember picking up on that. i thought
that was kind of funny but not deep or interesting.


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2005-06-21 14:06 [#01639778]
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yeah, romero basically invented modern zombies as a metaphor
for droves of depersonalized beings... a thoughtless
canibalistic collective.

then he applied that analogy in gruesome different ways.

i'm sure alex p could expand on romero much better than i
can.


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-06-21 14:09 [#01639783]
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i didn't realize there was another side to that movie. i
guess i stand corrected. i usually "get" the meanings of
movies or even read into them finding more "meaning" than
they intended. i guess i missed something with this one.
will watch again.


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2005-06-21 14:11 [#01639787]
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are you talking about the 1978 dawn, or the 200(whatever)
one?


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2005-06-21 14:12 [#01639788]
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... cause, i don't think the newer one commentarys as much
as the older one.


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-06-21 14:13 [#01639789]
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the original, of course. nerdy film buffs scoff at remakes!
scoff!


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2005-06-21 14:16 [#01639794]
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i like the remake. in fact, i liked it a lot. very fun
slasher flick.


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2005-06-21 14:17 [#01639795]
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i don't think anyone could consider the two dawns to
actually be comparable movies. one is an excellent social
commentary and friggin awesome. the other is just friggin
awesome.


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2005-06-21 14:18 [#01639796]
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oh man, but i hate John Leguizamo so much.

i hope he dies in the first three minutes.


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2005-06-21 14:28 [#01639800]
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Woah!


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2005-06-21 15:06 [#01639860]
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ditto.


 

offline thecrimsonguard from ∞ (United States) on 2005-06-21 15:15 [#01639877]
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His movies look cheesy b/c when they were made the movie
studios didn't have or invest a lot of money in visual
effects departments. many of the gags/bits they created
were usually done on site...with whatever they could muster
up for a shot. the contents of the exploding head in the
apartment building according to tom savini were corn cobs
cheez wiz and fake blood held in condoms...and then they
shot it up with a shotgun. and at the time they were the
coolest things you might have ever seen in a movie.
Probably because they weren't done in some computer lab by a
group of geeks with over grown calculators. Tom Savini's
entire career started up from his work as a special effects
guy by working on these films.

its in a way hard to compare the remake and the original
versions. i favor the original since...well its original.
you can always go back and make something better. esp with
all the advances in make up and CGI when its used to enhance
a shot not be the shot...due to the work that guys like tom
and george did on the original films.

the story in the remake is weak. hardly any social
commentary on Todays culture at fucking all. running
zombies? okay its not the first time i've seen them i think
Return of the living dead was the first time, but that movie
was more comedy than anything...good in its own right. since
the dead haven't technically come back to life. we can't
prove if they'd run. but something tells me they'd be slow
bastards. at least in the original you cared about the
characters, in the remake they were just zombie food. the
original out weighs the remake in many respects. it just
comes down to the viewer. if you're younger you probably
like the new glossy version. if you're an old fart like me
well you like the original since it was the shiznit.

to whomever said day was unwatchable. go fuck off. yea
there was a lot of dialog but the gore level in that movie
was off the fucking scale. fleshed out the series in my
opinion, its the first trilogy i totally dig.


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2005-06-21 15:20 [#01639886]
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the thing is, the original is simply a classic well done
film, the remake wasnt a completely badass zombie movie, i
dont consider it a remake even really. the best part is all
of the homage shots, tons of t2 and alien refrences.

and that huge heli shot at the beginning that shows the
whole city in ruins, and then those cars blow up..... holy
fuck was that cool to see in the theaters. and the ending
kicked ass as well.


 

offline thecrimsonguard from ∞ (United States) on 2005-06-21 15:27 [#01639904]
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slasher flick huh? these are zombie movies epohs


 

offline thecrimsonguard from ∞ (United States) on 2005-06-21 15:31 [#01639908]
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the remakes ending wasn't kick ass. lots of homages to other
zombie flicks. fulci's for example. i thought it was really
lamish. but thats just me.


 


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