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[Suerte]

Watch it here!

Nice.

 

[themadcowtipper]

I will see this, it could have the worst reviews ever and I would, just because the original Night is my all time fav movie.

 

[LittleTokyo]

It actually looks like a decent zombie flick. When will it be in theaters?

 

[Funky Papa]

XL sized direct download

 

[shuri]

Is it me or the whole dead reckoning aspect is completly ignored? It was such an important part of the script, thanks god they played it down. I still think its gonna be good. Hopper hams up every movie he's in.

 

[Odnetnin]

Um. It looks like any asshat current gen zombie movie. Especially with that girl kicks zombie butt in her knickers

I expect it to suck.

 

[shuri]

Yeah when I saw the half naked girl I went WTF. I just hope that it wont turn out to be RE3

 

[Willco]

It's Romero you ungrateful fucks.

 

[ManaByte]

It's Romero you ungrateful fucks.

Yep. This is the guy who fucking INVENTED the modern Zombie movie.

Zombies biting you and you becoming one? That's Romero.

The only way to kill one is to blow their head off with a shotgun? That's Romero.

When you bash a Romero zombie movie for looking like a zombie movie, you just make yourself look like a retard.

 

[themadcowtipper]

I shall allow him to make a shitty Zombie movie, what the man had to go through to get one made while sttudios were pumping out Zombie movie left and right...I still think it will kick all flavors of ass

 

[Willco]

I still think it will kick all flavors of ass

Damn straight. If this movie sucks, I'll eat my cable modem. And my wireless router. And how the fuck can Asia Argento in her bra be a bad thing?

Bunch of goddamn pussies!

 

[Coin Return]

Damn straight. If this movie sucks, I'll eat my cable modem. And my wireless router. And how the fuck can Asia Argento in her bra be a bad thing?

Bunch of goddamn pussies!

Right on! This movie will fucking rule. Too bad it will get raped the next week by War of the Worlds.

Edit: Another glowing review!

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20418

I know its AICN and they splooge over everything, but damn it if it doesn't get me pumped!

 

[Willco]

Right on! This movie will fucking rule. Too bad it will get raped the next week by War of the Worlds.

Dude, it's going to get sandwhiched by Batman Begins and War of the Worlds. It'll be lucky to crack the Top 5 in the box office.

But who cares? It cost two cents to make and I'm going to see it.

 

[Matrix]

Looks f-ing kickass.

 

[Prince of Space]

Zombies, man...

 

[VistraNorrez]

Zombies biting you and you becoming one? That's Romero.

That's not quite true. The zombie bites only kill you from diseases they carry. Anyone who dies from anything in the Romero movies, as long as the brain is intact, comes back as a zombie. The Dawn of the Dead remake made it so that someone would only come back if they were bitten, which seems less intense to me.

 

[Willco]

That's not quite true. The zombie bites only kill you from diseases they carry. Anyone who dies from anything in the Romero movies, as long as the brain is intact, comes back as a zombie. The Dawn of the Dead remake made it so that someone would only come back if they were bitten, which seems less intense to me.

That's only true in Night of the Living Dead. In order to be reanimated as a zombie in the sequels, you need to be bitten by a zombie. Unfortunately, the one gripe I have with the trilogy is that in Night of the Living Dead, it works off the assumption that radiation from that crashed satellite will reanimate any dead corpse. Romero quickly dropped that for the sequels.

 

[shuri]

Is “Land of the Dead” perfect? No, of course not. I wish it could have been 30 minutes longer. Romero creates such an interesting world that I wish we could have had time to savor it more but I’m guessing he was hamstrung by a tight budget and schedule. “Land” moves like a freight train – speeding and, at times, rushing through its plot. “Dawn” was a sprawling epic that took its sweet time with only four primary characters to focus on. “Land” has twice the scope and five-times the characters but is shoehorned into what seems like just over half the running time.

That really really worries me.

There is just so much jam-packed into this film: cage matches, corporate politics, pot-smoking skateboarders, pimped-out dwarfs, spectacular missile strikes, hot lesbian action…it goes on and on! It’s almost too much for one movie

Oh god. No no no no no

 

[blahness]

down with super fast zombies!! give me the stumblers!

 

[Willco]

Oh god. No no no no no

You're a pussy. That sounds so fucking awesome.

down with super fast zombies!! give me the stumblers!

There are no super fast zombies in this.

 

[blahness]

There are no super fast zombies in this.

i know, i was voicing my support for this movie in a retarded way... the original dead movies are some of my favorite movies of all time

 

[Bob White]

Like zombies? Then go buy Time Splitters 3. TS 3 has the best in game zombies.

......please go buy it.

 

[Odnetnin]

Like zombies? Then go buy Time Splitters 3. TS 3 has the best in game zombies.

......please go buy it.

I can think of a more deserving franchise. Buy Resident Evil. Fuck this FPS shit.

 

[VistraNorrez]

That's only true in Night of the Living Dead. In order to be reanimated as a zombie in the sequels, you need to be bitten by a zombie. Unfortunately, the one gripe I have with the trilogy is that in Night of the Living Dead, it works off the assumption that radiation from that crashed satellite will reanimate any dead corpse. Romero quickly dropped that for the sequels.

No, Romero's even said himself that's how it works. Though there is one inconsistency in Day.

 

[Willco]

No, Romero's even said himself that's how it works. Though there is one inconsistency in Day.

It's how it works in Night of the Living Dead. It never happens like that in the other two.

 

[VistraNorrez]

It's how it works in Night of the Living Dead. It never happens like that in the other two.

I don't think you need to be bitten to become a zombie, you just have to die. You don't see that because no one ever dies otherwise in the sequels and has a chance to rise. Actually maybe the army leader in Day (the one Rhodes takes over for) did, I always got the impression zombies didn't kill him. Have to check that though.

 

[Kuroyume]

The part of the trailer where the zombie sticks his hand in the corpse's mouth to pull out his guts f'ing rocked.

 

[Ash Housewares]

Damn straight. If this movie sucks, I'll eat my cable modem. And my wireless router. And how the fuck can Asia Argento in her bra be a bad thing?

Bunch of goddamn pussies!

no shit, golly gee how can they not recognize hot awesomeness as it burns their eyes?

I already have every RE in the main series, I'll buy TS3 soon...

I need an Asia Argento avatar...

 

[gigapower]

Best movie of the year.

 

[Slurpy]

Damn.. I need to catch up.

EP3, Cinderella Man, Batman Begins, War of the Worlds, and Land of the Dead are all must sees for me. Have we ever had this many quality blockbusters in this timeframe?

 

[demi]

I'm watching it for the Pegg/Wright cameo

 

[evilromero]

Romero's last few films have been terrible. I am a bit skeptical he can pull this off.

 

[shuri]

And wasnt he fired from the set of the original RE? Or was it for a commercial for the original resident evil? Or his script kept getting rejected?


halp!

 

[DaMan121]

Well lest face it, all his movies without zombies have been... average at best..

Martin: interesting
KnightRiders: Meh
Creepshow: His segment was boring
Monkey Shines: eh.. great sex scene thouhg
2 Evil Eyes: His segment was boring as bat shit
The Dark Half: One of the better King adaptations.. but eh
Bruiser: LOL crapola

 

[dynamitejim]

And wasnt he fired from the set of the original RE? Or was it for a commercial for the original resident evil? Or his script kept getting rejected?


halp!

He made a commercial for RE2 that only played in Japan. The people at Capcom loved his RE script, the people actually financing the movie did not (probably because it would've been more expensive).

 

[ManaByte]

Damn.. I need to catch up.

EP3, Cinderella Man, Batman Begins, War of the Worlds, and Land of the Dead are all must sees for me. Have we ever had this many quality blockbusters in this timeframe?

Cinderella Man isn't exactly a blockbuster, but...

1981 had a re-release of Star Wars in April, Raiders of the Lost Ark in May, Superman II in June, and it was capped off with a re-release of The Empire Strikes Back in July.

1982 had Star Trek II, Tron, E.T., Blade Runner, and another Star Wars re-release that summer.

2002 had Spider-Man, Episode II, The Bourne Identity, and Minority Report.

 

[LakeEarth]

He made a commercial for RE2 that only played in Japan. The people at Capcom loved his RE script, the people actually financing the movie did not (probably because it would've been more expensive).

Damn, they gotta release that script. If you can find all 9 versions of the Alien 3 script this should be eventually leaked.

 

[Ash Housewares]

Cinderella Man isn't exactly a blockbuster, but...

1981 had a re-release of Star Wars in April, Raiders of the Lost Ark in May, Superman II in June, and it was capped off with a re-release of The Empire Strikes Back in July.

1982 had Star Trek II, Tron, E.T., Blade Runner, and another Star Wars re-release that summer.

2002 had Spider-Man, Episode II, The Bourne Identity, and Minority Report.

sci fi nerd...

redefine blockbuster would you?

 

[ManaByte]

sci fi nerd...

redefine blockbuster would you?

Cinderella Man Domestic Total as of Jun. 8, 2005: $23,366,510
Production Budget: $88 million

That is not a blockbuster.

 

[Odnetnin]

Well lest face it, all his movies without zombies have been... average at best..

Martin: interesting
KnightRiders: Meh
Creepshow: His segment was boring
Monkey Shines: eh.. great sex scene thouhg
2 Evil Eyes: His segment was boring as bat shit
The Dark Half: One of the better King adaptations.. but eh
Bruiser: LOL crapola

He did Monkey Shines? I was looking at it yesterday for a horror fix. Ended up picking up the Japanese Grudge 2. Not bad. Might pick it up.... :lol

 

[Tedesco!]

I don't think you need to be bitten to become a zombie, you just have to die. You don't see that because no one ever dies otherwise in the sequels and has a chance to rise. Actually maybe the army leader in Day (the one Rhodes takes over for) did, I always got the impression zombies didn't kill him. Have to check that though.

In Romero's original script for Day, it was revealed that death did not cause re-animation. Basically, in order to become a zombie, you had to be bitten by one.

 

[dynamitejim]

In Romero's original script for Day, it was revealed that death did not cause re-animation. Basically, in order to become a zombie, you had to be bitten by one.

From Romero's "Outpost #5" (a short little story he wrote for his website):

The gangrenous infection spread rapidly. The resulting condition was invariably fatal. Victims normally died within a day or two. Three at the most. They died as a result of the infection. It was not, however, a result of the infection, that in another day or two...three at the most...they began to walk again. All who had died in recent months, if their bodies were reasonably intact, had begun to walk again. Science could only speculate on cause. Theologians, as well.

 

[shantyman]

Night is my favorite of the three, and I always thought it was all recently dead became reanimated, no matter the cause of death. That makes it much scarier.

 

[VistraNorrez]

Creepshow: His segment was boring

There was no Romero segment. He directed everything, and Stephen King wrote it. Which segment was boring? I enjoyed them all, the Crate being the best.

By the way I wouldn't really judge is later output as what he is able to do. After Creepshow (and really for almost all his films, including Dawn) he never got to make what he really wanted. He was always somewhat limited, especially in the last decade. Budget reasons, and the fact that he never had quite the hit of Dawn again. I would say Land is the most freedom he's got on a film since Dawn, so here's hoping he knows how to use it.

 

[Jacobi]

The trailer looks promising and I like the idea of a land of the dead

 

[VistraNorrez]

In Romero's original script for Day, it was revealed that death did not cause re-animation. Basically, in order to become a zombie, you had to be bitten by one.

First of all you are going by something unused, misstep number one. Secondly, you misinterpreted that. Day was originally meant to be the last in the series, and so Romero wanted to give it closure. So he decided at the end a dead body would not rise. That's all.

 

[themadcowtipper]

There was no Romero segment. He directed everything, and Stephen King wrote it. Which segment was boring? I enjoyed them all, the Crate being the best.

By the way I wouldn't really judge is later output as what he is able to do. After Creepshow (and really for almost all his films, including Dawn) he never got to make what he really wanted. He was always somewhat limited, especially in the last decade. Budget reasons, and the fact that he never had quite the hit of Dawn again. I would say Land is the most freedom he's got on a film since Dawn, so here's hoping he knows how to use it.

Also studios don't like the way he films movies, not very much is planned out.That really hurt him more then anything..

 

[Willco]

Night is my favorite of the three, and I always thought it was all recently dead became reanimated, no matter the cause of death. That makes it much scarier.

I did like that concept and it certainly is true in Night of the Living Dead, but not in the sequels.

 

[shantyman]

Night of the Living Dead is easily one of my top 5 films ever. I personally think it is orders of magnitude™ better than the other films in the series. Watching it at night... It is a scary experience.

 

[themadcowtipper]

Night of the Living Dead is easily one of my top 5 films ever. I personally think it is orders of magnitude™ better than the other films in the series. Watching it at night... It is a scary experience.

It is my favorite film, I guess it is also why I want to film a movie in Black and White. I always thought you could almost take the Zombies out ot Night and it would still be a very intense movie, because of the Atmosphere set. I think the Black and White and the tight spaces had alot to do with that .