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Land of the Dead Trailer is out!
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Hellraizah
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Awesome. I thought this movie was planned for like... 2007.
Coin Return
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Fuckin rad, I can't wait for this!
Haha, I like the shot of Big Daddy firing the AUG. I guess the zombies aren't too dumb anymore...
Marty Chinn
Member
Meh... that trailer made me lose faith in it.
Reminded of this one: http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/undead/
Has nothing to do with the Dawn remake. I was rather dissapointed that the rumours of the Dawn remake's director getting a shot at X3 didn't come to fruition becaus I thought he handled the large group dynamic really well in Dawn.
I don't really get the premise of Land though, I mean once zombies start "thinking and communicating" are they still zombies at that point?
I don't really get the premise of Land though, I mean once zombies start "thinking and communicating" are they still zombies at that point?
LinesInTheSand
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god
that looks horrible
that looks horrible
dynamitejim
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teiresias said:
It's a theme that's been in both Dawn and Day of the Dead. There are a very few who can put things together, but the rest are just mindless instinct playing "follow the leader".
VistraNorrez
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Looks Awesome, shows why Romero is the master.
This has nothing to do with the Dawn Remake, and thank god for that.
This has nothing to do with the Dawn Remake, and thank god for that.
VistraNorrez
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That's just what they think, apparantly they were wrong.
Flizzzipper
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Someone who has read the script tell me how the zombies are in this one. From the looks of the trailer they are going the bub route and learning shit?
Coin Return
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I've read some of the script, the leader of the zombies is
To teiresias: I highly suggest you pick up the box set, its easly one of the top 3 dvds I own.
Big Daddy, hes the big black zombie you see firing the gun (In the script he only has 1 arm). He is the one who leads the zombies underwater and to the shore of the city, and thus chaos ensues. The other zombies arent as smart as him, but as said before they play "follow the leader" and pick up melee weapons and such. Thank the lord that they are slow shamblers, the way its meant to be!
To teiresias: I highly suggest you pick up the box set, its easly one of the top 3 dvds I own.
Mike Works
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You've got to be kidding me,Coin Return said:
you're praising Romero that he's made the gun toting, squad tactic using zombies slower, "the way they're meant to be"?
Coin Return
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He has always played with the idea that the zombies were getting more inteligent in his films, I suppose this is his end result. Whether or not he pulls it off without being comical remains to be seen.
LinesInTheSand
Banned
how can fans of the old movies say this looks great?
it looks like romero took a look at Resident Evil and the Dawn of the Dead remake and fused them into one craptastic shitfest.
it looks like romero took a look at Resident Evil and the Dawn of the Dead remake and fused them into one craptastic shitfest.
The script was crap, the trailer makes it looks like "Dawn of the Resident Evil 2005 XTREME featuring music by Korn" degenerate crap fest, JESUS WHYYYYY. But Then again, the original trailers in 1979 and so on were pretty much typical of what was being made at the time
I shall be going in with non-existant expectation. This is coming from someone who has a dedicated, labelled, sorted in alphabetic order zombie section in his dvd collection. I own just about every releese, re-release, r1, r2 uncut version of night/dawn/day, the remakes (Night 1990, which is a pretty damn competent remake), the shit italian knockoff (City of living dead! with teleporting zombies :lol) except for..
RE1&RE2 and Dawn 2004, who was such a horrible mess I wanted do set fire to the theater while screaming insanities.
I shall be going in with non-existant expectation. This is coming from someone who has a dedicated, labelled, sorted in alphabetic order zombie section in his dvd collection. I own just about every releese, re-release, r1, r2 uncut version of night/dawn/day, the remakes (Night 1990, which is a pretty damn competent remake), the shit italian knockoff (City of living dead! with teleporting zombies :lol) except for..
RE1&RE2 and Dawn 2004, who was such a horrible mess I wanted do set fire to the theater while screaming insanities.
LinesInTheSand said:
I think the main reason for that is the higher production values.. It looks too slick. I KNOW its gonna be WAAYYY better that the crapolla RE movies, and better the Dawn Remake. Having said that, I wish Romero nixed the armed bus/truck since Remake beat him to the punch. The last line does rock though :lol Unrated version on DVD hopefully.
You MUST have Zombie2 then, best zombie movie bar Romero's work.. Zombie vs Shark fight, Splinter through eye, Fat Zombie later ripped off in Thriller video = awesomeness!
demi, just pm me the urls, i'll do the post tomorrow. I will now open a whole can of worm, and i'm certainly doing to venture deep into nerdom...
What made the original trilogy zombies work so well is that they were so passive. They had no emotions. No anger, they didnt act like monsters. They were just there.. dead, roaming around. It made the movies effective because you felt more "atttached" (to a certain degree) to them since they still had a piece of humanity inside of them, to a certain degrees. But they were there dead. They were.. just there, slowly walking around and randomly eating stuff. There was no real way to escape them. They werent making angry faces or anything. They just came at you, thats what made it more effective. It felt more realistic
The more angrier, more monsterish like zombies of the Resident Evil 1 and Dawn 2004 were too much monsterish. The whole feeling of the original movies is just gone. They are so aggresive and they dont feel any different than other movie monsters. They become faceless (even when doing those stupid screaming and lame ass angry faces). And incredibly cheesy.
I dont know if you guys understand what I meant. The fact that they were just there, roaming around with no emotions, or anger, gave the original movies a much more psychological side (I'm not saying that they had any special deep meaning), then in like Dawn 2004; having those "OMG LOOK AT THOSE ANGRY ZOMBIES WHO ARE JUMPING THRU WINDOWS AND PUSHING FURNITURE AROUND WHILE MAKING MEAN SOUNDS! OH THAT FAT ZOMBIE SURE LOOKED PISSED'" moments that just reeks of an action flick instead of horror movies.
The fact that now the zombies are so aggresive monsters that look straight out of mutant movies (complete with the mean groaning and angry faces) instead of being just zombies, lifeless, bleak, and still humans like us.
What made the original trilogy zombies work so well is that they were so passive. They had no emotions. No anger, they didnt act like monsters. They were just there.. dead, roaming around. It made the movies effective because you felt more "atttached" (to a certain degree) to them since they still had a piece of humanity inside of them, to a certain degrees. But they were there dead. They were.. just there, slowly walking around and randomly eating stuff. There was no real way to escape them. They werent making angry faces or anything. They just came at you, thats what made it more effective. It felt more realistic
The more angrier, more monsterish like zombies of the Resident Evil 1 and Dawn 2004 were too much monsterish. The whole feeling of the original movies is just gone. They are so aggresive and they dont feel any different than other movie monsters. They become faceless (even when doing those stupid screaming and lame ass angry faces). And incredibly cheesy.
I dont know if you guys understand what I meant. The fact that they were just there, roaming around with no emotions, or anger, gave the original movies a much more psychological side (I'm not saying that they had any special deep meaning), then in like Dawn 2004; having those "OMG LOOK AT THOSE ANGRY ZOMBIES WHO ARE JUMPING THRU WINDOWS AND PUSHING FURNITURE AROUND WHILE MAKING MEAN SOUNDS! OH THAT FAT ZOMBIE SURE LOOKED PISSED'" moments that just reeks of an action flick instead of horror movies.
The fact that now the zombies are so aggresive monsters that look straight out of mutant movies (complete with the mean groaning and angry faces) instead of being just zombies, lifeless, bleak, and still humans like us.
Flizzzipper
Member
I see what you're saying and I never really thought about it but I agree
Ash Housewares
The Mountain Jew
Asia looks hot, but why the RE music? yuck if anything we want to distance this movie from the RE movie
WordAssassin
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What the fuck? They call them zombies? What the FUCK?
I thought the whole thing was they weren't called zombies in these movies? Doesn't Romero know this? Didn't he INVENT this genre? They even joke about never calling the undead "zombies" in Shaun of the Dead as homage.
Other then that, yeah, I agree with some of the more negative posts in this thread. It looks too slick (because of the high production values), the zombies don't look as scary, and they're intelligent now?
It's Romero himself, so I know it's gonna be good. This all just seems so...odd though, because...it's Romero himself, doing these un-Romero things.
Also, there IS going to be a sequel to Dawn of the Dead 2004. NOT a Day of the Dead remake, but an actual sequel to a remake. Has that ever been done before?
And I second the idea that the slow, lifeless, wandering, non-threatening zombies are WAY WAY WAY scarier than the running zombies. It's like, you can do whatever you want, hide, run, whatever, they're still coming. And they're just staring blankly at you the whole time...
*shudders violently*
I thought the whole thing was they weren't called zombies in these movies? Doesn't Romero know this? Didn't he INVENT this genre? They even joke about never calling the undead "zombies" in Shaun of the Dead as homage.
Other then that, yeah, I agree with some of the more negative posts in this thread. It looks too slick (because of the high production values), the zombies don't look as scary, and they're intelligent now?
It's Romero himself, so I know it's gonna be good. This all just seems so...odd though, because...it's Romero himself, doing these un-Romero things.
Also, there IS going to be a sequel to Dawn of the Dead 2004. NOT a Day of the Dead remake, but an actual sequel to a remake. Has that ever been done before?
And I second the idea that the slow, lifeless, wandering, non-threatening zombies are WAY WAY WAY scarier than the running zombies. It's like, you can do whatever you want, hide, run, whatever, they're still coming. And they're just staring blankly at you the whole time...
*shudders violently*
WordAssassin
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One of the great things about the Zombie Survival Guide is that it exploits the fact that zombies can't think or problem solve. I mean, aside from just breaking it down, if you get them on the other side of a door that opens TOWARDS them, they're sunk. That involves pulling, they can't do that.
These new "zombies" are running and climbing fences and jumping through windows and climbing ladders and shit. Rediculous. They're corpses! How can they do these things? Up until recently....they couldn't.
These new "zombies" are running and climbing fences and jumping through windows and climbing ladders and shit. Rediculous. They're corpses! How can they do these things? Up until recently....they couldn't.
WordAssassin
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rc213 said:
Just watched that, what the hell is it? Now zombies are from outerspace, and they're hunting us, and being fought by angels?
WTF?
Ash Housewares
The Mountain Jew
WordAssassin said:
sounds like Highlander 2
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RUN!!!!!
I have no problem with running zombies, I just consider them to be Crimson Heads from Resident Evil.WordAssassin said:These new "zombies" are running and climbing fences and jumping through windows and climbing ladders and shit. Rediculous. They're corpses! How can they do these things? Up until recently....they couldn't.
Here's the file from Resident Evil GCN that details the transformation:
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