on Land of the Dead

[Master Blaster]

Yeah, that sucks. Oh well, I guess he's entitled to a turd or two. His short for Two Evil Eyes was an utter crapfest as well. Still, I'm sure we wont give up on him just yet.

[Adrenochrome]

There's always someone that never gets the first three films.
The kind of flick you're after  is Dawn of the Dead REMAKE.

[blkrider]

I think Romero's best film was the first one...after that he got too dragged down in the heavyhanded and overrated "social commentary" BS.  DAWN was still a good horror film but DAY was a big disappointment [it had the best zombie scenes but the zombies didn't get enough screen time.]  He hasn't made a good movie in a long time so I'm skeptical that LAND OF THE DEAD will be any good--still, at least he'll  either get a chance to make the movie he wants to and get back to the spirit of NIGHT and DAWN or else he'll finally be given enough rope to hang himself.  If he realizes that he's a horror film director and that movies are a poor medium for sending "messages" the film might be pretty good.

[Master Blaster]

You gotta admit, social commentary aside, the "Choke on em" scene was classic. Joe Pilato improvised that line so he will forever more go down in the Blaster book of badasses.

[blkrider]

Not to mention he was probably literally choking on the rotten guts that were being poured all over him! [I don't know if you saw the documentary on the DVD but the refrigerator's motor had gone out and the guts had been sitting there a while and they stank to high heaven!] I'll be the first to say that DAY had some of the best gutmunching scenes and the best special effects...I just wish that scenes like that had taken up more of the movie's running time.

[Master Blaster]

I havent seen the documentary but I did hear about that. Dude was a friggin trooper. Back in the day I used to fish for catfish sometimes with rotten chicken liver. Just a little container of it stinks all to hell. I couldnt imagine how bad the buckets of chum that poor bastard had to endure smelled.

[blkrider]

It was so bad that people had to wear masks when they were working on it before the cameras started rolling...poor Joe Pilato couldn't wear a mask, though!

[Adrenochrome]

If you slow that scene down, you can see a zombie on Joe's right side pulling out a blood soaked rubber chicken. I'm not making this up. :)
In the commentary Tom Savini mentions this.

[trekgeezer]

Their reporter becomes a zombie for the film.

I was a middle-aged zombie

[Master Blaster]

I'm going to have to look for that. That's awsome. Anybody that works a rubber chicken gag into a dismemberment is alright in my book.

[mr. henry]

oops, didn't see this thread...i started another one LAND OF THE DEAD...

here's what i wrote:

my buddy just got back from TORONTO where he has been filming the MAKING OF LAND OF THE DEAD for the DVD release of ROMERO's fourth DEAD flick. DIAMOND DEAD looks to be dead...thank god. marilyn manson is about as scary as the NEW ozzy. glenn danzig or kerry king would be another story altogether!!!!!!!!!!!! land of the dead is definitely in effect in the great white north.

LAND OF THE DEAD at IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418819/

- mr. henry
www.310am.com

REOPEN THE COBAIN CASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ask me about it at alienstepin@hotmail.com
or read TOM GRANT's website!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"When the pigs try to get at ya
Park it like it's hot
Park it like it's hot
Park it like it's hot"
- S N double-o P, D O double-G

"why do you want to shoot squirrels?"
"because they're gay"
-cabin fever

"to be is to do" - Socrates
"to do is to be" - Jean-Paul Sartre
"do be do be do" - Frank Sinatra
- kurt vonnegut

"there is truth in your fiction and fiction in your truth" - ANIMATRIX

- mr. henry
www.31am.com
wherever you go, there you are

[mr. henry]

BTW nice dr.THompson reference

- mr. henry
www.310am.com

REOPEN THE COBAIN CASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ask me about it at alienstepin@hotmail.com
or read TOM GRANT's website!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"When the pigs try to get at ya
Park it like it's hot
Park it like it's hot
Park it like it's hot"
- S N double-o P, D O double-G

"why do you want to shoot squirrels?"
"because they're gay"
-cabin fever

"there is truth in your fiction and fiction in your truth" - ANIMATRIX

"to be is to do" - Socrates
"to do is to be" - Jean-Paul Sartre
"do be do be do" - Frank Sinatra
- kurt vonnegut

[Prophet Tenebrae]

I'm a bit concerned about the whole notion of the zombies becoming intelligent and such-like. I mean, really I thought that bub was pushing it too much. It's just far more preferable to have the living dead as mindless... eh... zombies, rather than some kind of intellectual nemesis for the dull witted inhabitants of horror films.

I also agree that the social commentary aspect probably went too far and so on. It's a bit boring to see the "oh, despite the fact humanity teeters on the edge of utter destuction everyone is still trying to f**k everyone over" I mean, it's been done so many times, it would actually be practically original if people just played nice and wasted a lot of zombies.