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I have heard soooo many bad comments about the first R.O.T.L.D flick...
Not even gonna mention the moans about Part II...
Don't even mention that Part III was a love story....

Personally I think that the first movie is by far the best zombie movie ever!!!  Or even the best trilogy (Romero's Dead trilogy comes a close second!)
There are somme cool ones around like Night/Dawn/Day of the Dead, Braindead.... But R.O.T.L.D is the coolest....

What is everybody elses thoughts???????

Romero came first and did it the best.

Return 1 is a five slime classic - funny, scary, and energetic.  Too bad Dan O'Bannon hasn't been able to write and direct more movies.  People with real talent seldom do.

Return 2 is a skull in my book.  What makes it worse is that its from the writer/director of the excellent five slime aquatic zombie thriller Shock Waves.  Insultingly unfunny, not scary, and stylistically it just sits there and dies.

Return 3 is an excellent b-movie the bothered to have a script that went through more than one draft.  God bless Brian Yuzna.  He won't ever win an Academy Award, but he certainly loves giving the fans intelligently thought  out thrill rides.  Four slimes.

I must agree that uncle George was the first and best. ROTLD was pretty good, but the franchise ran out of steam after that.

I loved Return of the Living Dead for so many reasons. The mixture of horror and humour is fantastic, the laughs hitting their peak when zombified cops start calling for backup. For 80s nastalgia, it's great, with it's dated punk features. It's also got a nice balance, being cheesy without being bad, like most of the best horror flicks I remember from those years.

My favourite part, however, has to be the ending, when the heroes are assured that the military has a plan for just such an emergency. Then we see the nuclear shell slide into the breach, and a couple of seconds later, Louisville goes up in a mushroom cloud.

I don't know how many movies I've seen where I thought that would have been the practical solution to some deadly organism that threatened to spread uncontrollably. The best thing about ROTLD, is that it backfires completely.

I've only saw the first one and I loved it, that's all

Chadzilla and I are on much the same wavelength.  I loved the first "Return of the Living Dead," hated the second, and found the third to be a worthwhile (3 slime in my book) film.

My favorite zombie film changes every so often, but it is usually Dawn of the Dead, Return of the Living Dead, Night of the Living Dead, or "The Beyond."  Other good ones include "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie," Zombie, and "Day of the Dead."

Andrew

I think everyone's in agreement here, you can't go wrong with the first one. Great zombie flick. 5 slimes.

I liked the sequel a little more than Chadzilla, but not by much. For the most part it's just ridiculous, and boring. It can't decide whether it wants to be a serious horror flick or a parody, and that ruins it. There are a couple of scenes worth seeing from both spectrums, though, such as the cut-in-half zombie crawling down the hospital corridor (really cool effects there), and the obvious nod to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" at the end made me chuckle. 1 1/2 slimes.

Part III is worth a look, though it definitely has that made-for-direct-to-video quality to it. Nevertheless, the story is what's important and that's what makes it better than the sequel. Some really cool make-up as well. 3 slimes.

The first is a classic of zombie films and probably my favorite movie of all time. I have watched it and the workprint version too many times to count over the years. It is one of those movies I can recall almost every line to. I like it for the simple reason that it changed the whole idea of what a zombie was usually catergorized to be; a slow moving dumb creature. In return we see them use tools, run, and speak. Also it shows how a situation can become worse and worse as time goes on. I recently tried to pick up the picture disc record but lost because the price was way too much on ebay for it. If you get a chance buy the soundtrack on cd or record. I have it on both because I'm a fan of pretty much anything concerning the movie. You can't go wrong with it if you enjoy punk music. The sequels in my opinion were both weak. Part two failed with comedy and a lot of the jokes are very childish. Part three just doesn't even belong in the series. There was this great site I use to know that had everything you could ever want to know about return of the living I believe it was:

http://members.tripod.com/uneedamed/

Hope this works if not I'l try again with another post on this thread

I think that the Return of the Living Dead trilogy sucks major ass.  It should be burned.  Its not even the good kinda bad.  Its the bad kinda bad which is really really sucky.

Bad+"bad"="good".

Not just cool, it's awesome. Now if MGM would understand this and release the dvd's. Or give them to Anchor Bay.

And I can see that in France, we had the best poster for this movie.

The other ones looked like bad comics covers.

http://members.tripod.com/uneedamed/posters.htm

I don't know.  The UK one looked neat, so did the Italian ones.  But that's me.  I have no real taste.

That's a definite advantage, Chad. Neither have I.

I agreed with you Emma  those films really suck  bad all three and to you guys who like it. It don't come first  to George Romero's zombies trilogy his films comes first  it comes close about nowhere around those films. So stick to original guys they are more better to watch.

I agreed with you Emma  those films really suck  bad all three and to you guys who like it. It don't come first  to George Romero's zombies trilogy his films comes first  it comes close about nowhere around those films. So stick to the original  guys they are more better to watch.