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 Jun 25 2005, 11:19 am
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I haven't seen Land of the Dead yet (but I'm always up for a zombie flick), and I noticed the one zombie that seems to be the leader. They called him "Big Daddy" Zombie on Attack of the Show. Anyways, my point is that is it possible that this zombie is the cop from the 2004 (I think it was '04) Dawn of the Dead movie? (though, this could be a spoiler) Anyone else noticed this?
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Actully while there are some slight connections to the series in a whole, they are really NOT sequals or even prequals to any of each other but invidual movies. (Well except that crappy Dawn remake.)
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Unless it's Cemetary Man. Granted the VHS cover I read said it was like Evil Dead 2 so my expectations were high, but I hated that movie.
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ACWraith wrote:
Unless it's Cemetary Man. Granted the VHS cover I read said it was like Evil Dead 2 so my expectations were high, but I hated that movie. I read Cemetary man sucked eggs and that in the last half hour of the movie, the zombies are not even around anymore. Some zombie movie, lol. | |
Ahh, I played hookie tonight from work and went to see Land of the Dead.
Pretty good, the whole movie was good in my opinion, especially the gore. Much better then that sad excuse of a remake for Dawn of the Dead. | |
Actually, Night, Dawn (not the remake), Day, and Land are a direct series of sequels to each other... puzzlingly enough, the Return of the Living Dead movies are ALSO sequels to Night of the Living Dead, but are not related to the Dawn/Day/Land trilogy... it was a case of two men with very different visions for the series sharing the rights to the first movie, and each developing their series separately.
The reason that there's so many differences between the movies in Romero's series is that in each case, he was trying to say something about the politics and situation of the day at the point the movie was made. This is also why there's such large gaps in between them... he didn't want to make another "Dead" movie unless there was something he wanted to say. Each one stands on its own, but they really are a series. | |
I like the one where they're held up in the farm house with the little girl who turns into a zombie (Night of the Living Dead?).
But I never really liked the one where they're in the military base, starting with that nightmare about the hands in the wall (original Dawn of the Dead?), I thought it was boring. I love zombie flicks. :) <font size =1>braaaaiiiinnssss...</font> EDIT: I think I saw the newer Night of the Living dead from '90. Idk how similar they are to one another. | |
I found night of the living dead and day of the dead funny. I laughed through most of it. Those zombies are so slow and stupid. Except for that one zombie that gets a gun.
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The military base one is Day of the Dead, the original Dawn of the Dead was where they were in a supermarket. I liked the ending to that one, where they showed all the zombies breaking out into the ice rink and slipping on the ice while this really upbeat music played in the background.
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It isn't one of the best zombie movies. I don't suggest buying it. It is an ok rent. There isn't much zombie action. It is mostly a small group of people fighting amoungst each other, with zombies in the background.
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Its still a pretty good flick none the less, watching how the humans work together and then later fight with themselfs, when you know they gotta have better things to do.
Thats what made Dawn and Day of the dead so good, it was like watching an ant farm, couldnt take your eyes off of them, wanted to see what they did next. Besides, the gore is top notch. Edit: On a side note, I was watching some of these movies the other day and noted some scenes where people got town apart. Would humans even be physally strong enough to (1. Rip you in half (2. Crack your skull open (3. Pull your toghn out (5. Pull your head out with the entire spine? It seems to me they give the zombies too much strength, if anything, they should have less because of the rott and decay. | |
Why do the zombies attack the humans in the first place..And on DAWN OF THE DEAD, what was the reason for them coming back to life again?
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In Night of the Living Dead 2 and 3, the result is from like biohazard researh performed by the goverment.
In the second one, I believe a govt. truck drops one of the capsuls holding a frozen zombie and it leaks loose and the myst from the container reanimates the bodys. In Living Dead 3, some idiot who runs a storage building, shows a kid some of the containers he holds for the govt, and some of them get open. In a drastic turn of events, the people manage to stop the zombies that got free and they burn them. The fumes go up into the air, become rain, and rain down on the cemetery, where the rain leaks down into the ground and reanimates the dead. In Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the dead, there is no ryme or reason to exactly why the zombies were around. In Living Dead 1, which I guess was actully a movie people were seeing in Living Dead 2 (confusing..) some sort of rock fell from space, causing the corpese to reanimate somehow. As a whole, there would never really be a good excuse for Zombies anyways. After a certian level of decay, the zombies wuoldnt be a treat anymore. It would have to be like that 27 days later thing, for it to even be a real probelm. I read somewhere that Hitler and a serial killer both expermitned with the living dead before, and I can bet you a pay check, that I am sure our govt has at least CONSIDERED it. | |
Land of the Dead is NOT a sequal to the '04 Dawn of the Dead remake. Land of the Dead is the sequal to George A. Romero's dead movies. Those being Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead.