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Land of the Dead(2005)

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HD DVD Video Picture Quality

Seen zombies like never before!  Behold, Land of the Dead on HD DVD! Not the greatest movie to experince HD DVD with but it does look pretty darn good. Alot of dark scenes but the detail and color is very good. This was my very first High Def horror flick and I was very impressed. If anyone says that HD DVD and Bluray are not great improvement in picture quality, just watch the standard DVD after watching the HD DVD and there is no doubt that the HD DVD version is a huge improvement! The cool thing about this release, is that it’s combo disc.  Meaning it has the DVD and HD DVD version.  Good way to compare the two formats.

Movie Review

“The Legendary Filmmaker Brings You His Ultimate Zombie Masterpiece”

Well I’m not sure the above statement is accurate. LOTD was a pretty so so movie and certainly has flaws. I’m not sure Romero needed almost 20 years to create this. It’s only an hour and a half long(unlike Dawn and Day which push or break 2 hours), the story is VERY simplistic and well lame, the zombies and gore were good but what makes Romero’s zombie movies better than the rest is usually the story and the satire within. There is a bit here(The rich live in a high rise called Fiddler’s Green and the poor live below where it seems everyone is safe from the zombies) but there is no real build up or explanation to how this has all come about.

Firstly, it’s cool that the rich live in Fiddler’s Green and the poor live below but how did this come about?  People are in business suits but where the hell do they work?  Dennis Hopper’s character, Kaufman, is the owner of this High Rise and seems to say who gets in and who doesn’t, he has lots of money but what exactly does he do with it?  Where do people spend the money?  How does the money make him rich? To me, I don’t see how this class system would evolve the way it appears it has. 

Also, the main point of the story is that the rebel cgaracter Cholo, steals a tank like vechicle from Kaufman after he won’t allow him to move into Fiddler’s Green. Kaufman hires Cholo’s personal enemy Riley to get his ass kicking machine on wheels back before Chmolo unleashes it’s power upon Fiddler’s Green.  See what I mean?  Someone gets mad because they won’t let them move into their building, steal a weapon on wheels and then threaten to blow up the building unless he is paid millions of dollars... which somehow has value in this zombie filled world?!?! Stupid... been done before and well at least before it made economical sense.

Oh yeah by the way there are zombies in the movie! See how I almost forgot about them with respect to the plot?  So did Romero.  There are lots of zombies and killing but it all seems like a weak side attraction to the awful story.

So for the zombies... they like fireoworks, they are getting smarter and faster, they are remembering their past lives and applying it to death and destruction of the living.  Gas Jockey kills with gas and fire. Clever!  Of course they do eventually get into Fiddler’s Green and kill the rich(which was fun to see), but it just doesn’t have any impact on the viewer really. It’s nothing like the zombies attacking in the mall in Dawn.

So yeah it’s an ok movie, lots of gore and cool zombies but that’s about all their is. Very disappointing overall.

Henry's Comments

 "What the fuck happened to the title Dusk of the Dead... Night, Dawn, Day and Dusk is how it’s suppose to go. Not Land!"