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WTF is up with ppl calling this a great film?

posted 10 years ago by Jad777
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Have people's taste suddenly decayed to the point of non-existent?
I've read a couple of threads claiming this movie to be great? Seriously?
Romero's last great film was, Imo Day of the Dead(1985) subsequently Each one in the series got progressively worse.
I hoped and prayed he'd find his magic again but eventually came to the grim reality the dead series, now stinks and is buried forever.
It is unbelievable some people think this is in the same league as George. A Romero's earlier work.
They have to be high, crazy or dumb.

" First you wanna kill me, now you wanna kiss me. Blow. "

[–] Naughty-God 10 years ago

I'm not a zombie addict, and I don't think GR is all that great of a director, but I do credit him for being the Grandfather of all things Zombie in relation to film, television, and now video game culture that it thriving off of the genre.

As for this film, I found it more engaging than The Walking Dead.

[–] namaGemo 10 years ago

His last three are trash, with Land being only remotely entertaining. He lost his lack for creating characters that you want to like. Everything started becoming about little jokes, and they weren't funny.
Another thing that killed it all, thinking zombies! The point he's making has always been people are the real enemies, not the dead. So he tries to make us care about corpses? I didn't like Bub, but the idea he could do things didn't bother me as much because Frankenstein was teaching him through reward.

That said, once I saw big daddy with his screaming and firing the gun, and being emotionally wrecked because other zombies are....dying again, it just ruined it for me.

Big daddy, the Jar Jar Binks of the zombie world.

[–] corgi37 9 years ago

Poor old George is stuck in another era.

[–] apriloish 7 years ago

Land of the dead by itself is still better then the majority of horror that has come out in years especially walking dead which is a soap opera

[–] apriloish 7 years ago

land of the dead in no way shape or form is trash diary is a ok movie an survival is a passable movie as for romero an thinking zombies thinking zombies arent scary yes thats true but hes interested in telling stories not horror films

[–] Heart_Wrencher 9 years ago

I still feel the man is a genius and has incredible ideas. But something gets lost in his translation into film. The execution is all wrong. It's like when a baseball pitcher has great stuff but he's not hitting his spots. He's no longer a pitcher. He's just throwing the ball. When it comes to film today, Romero is just a thrower.

[–] ElectricWarlock 9 years ago

I don't think it's a bad film, just a bit dull. Tomboy was the only character I was really interested in. All the rest were either annoying (like the teenager) or just so boring I felt indifferent towards them. I liked the story but the characters weren't all there.

[–] SteveDayreturns 8 years ago

Just bringing Jar Jar into the conversation makes you a total fool.

The dead in Romero's world have ALWAYS used tools such as rocks, guns, boards, and such. With Land, he decided to go and explore this. Was is it 100 percent sucessful? No! But, it was different and was less cliché than Cgi, running zombies. Diary wad a good film saddled by some cheese acting but it was effective. Survival does have flaws but it maintains the message Romero has pushed since night. Perfect, no. But it has grown to be a better film than its initial response.

[–] movie_nazi 8 years ago

Diary wad a good film saddled by some cheese acting but it was effective. Survival does have flaws but it maintains the message Romero has pushed since night. Perfect, no. But it has grown to be a better film than its initial response.

Wow, you should be a lawyer that specializes in defending kiddie rapers. How you can defend the two pieces of turds called Diary of the Dead and Survival of the Dead is beyond me. Both had terrible writing, atrocious acting, and amateur directing. I love GR and his original three are great films but these last two ARE NOT him! This is a man who isn't even trying anymore and if he is then he has not recognized that he was WAY past his prime to attempt to make more films. It's probably why Savini didn't want nothing to do with his last two films.

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[–] megoobee 8 years ago

Well said movie_nazi

[–] katholiday1962 7 years ago

This was one of Romero's best!:)

I honor the dead with Easter-egg's! Survive... "The Walker" / www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EIsv6QmEHk

We were sure to include Easter-egg's like, the space-probe and cement spade from the first NotLD film… Michonne's Katana can be seen hanging on the kitchen wall... As well as COREL'S pudding on the kitchen counter! We even threw in a couple of vintage Mustangs

[–] apriloish 7 years ago

All of romeros films have weak acting an low acting moments theres nothing wrong with a low budget zombie film from him an diary feels like his work what hes doing is making movies he wants to an using zombies to tell it thats what hes doing

[–] movie_nazi 7 years ago

All of romeros films have weak acting an low acting moments theres nothing wrong with a low budget zombie film from him an diary feels like his work what hes doing is making movies he wants to an using zombies to tell it thats what hes doing

Puncuation is your friend. I have re-written your response to be more comprehensible.

All of Romero's films have weak acting and low acting moments. Ther's nothing wrong with a low budget zombie film from him and diary feels like his work. What he is doing is making movies he wants to and using zombies to tell it, that's what he's doing.

Now for my response:

There is nothing wrong with using zombies to tell a story and that is not my chagrin with the last two films. My main issue with the films is that the stories tell nothing. There is nothing interesting in either one of them. To top it off wth having an awful script you also have not so great acting as well.

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[–] apriloish 7 years ago

i never said i like the films but diary is very much him diary is a ok movie survival is garbage

[–] namaGemo 7 years ago

Great response. This guy attempts to trash me, because I thought the characters in the last 3 films were horrible, especially Diary and Survival. He acts as if my bringing up Big Daddy and a Jar Jar reference somehow makes my comments invalid.

Meanwhile, Big Daddy was annoying to many people, just as Jar Jar was, as many felt Jar Jar ruined the entire film.

As you said, him defending these last 3, and ESPECIALLY the last 2 is embarrassing. There was nothing new. Diary was Blair Witch, and Survival was Day.

I doubt there is anyone who is/was a GR fan that will EVER claim the last 3 were better than the first.

[–] movie_nazi 7 years ago

As you said, him defending these last 3, and ESPECIALLY the last 2 is embarrassing. There was nothing new. Diary was Blair Witch, and Survival was Day.

The fact that he jumped on the handy cam bandwagon is embarrassing. For one, with the exception of perhaps Cloverfield, all those home cams movies suck! I especially take issue with those GD Paranormal Activity films which are pure garbage and for Romero to try to emulate that just shows just how far he has fallen. He was never an emulator, he was an originator! How many zombie movies existed before he? NONE! Now it to the point that zombies are now their own genre in both horror movies and video games!
George buddy, I do not know your personal situation and perhaps you never intended to make more films and personal financial situations may have forced your hand and I cannot fault a man for wanting to feed himself and his family. But make no mistake, the legacy has been tainted.

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[–] namaGemo 7 years ago

Agree again on those Paranormal films. I roasted those damn things on imdb, and it was incredible how many people think they were actually scary. NOTHING happens for 90 minutes, and then the last 2 minutes, it's a rap.

Everytime a see a movie that starts or with handheld cameras, I get a knot in my stomach knowing I'm not going to be seeing anything worthwhile. Usually, you start off with 15 minutes of boring introductions from people you won't care about, because it always starts at some event or outing. There is no time to really know a character because someone is sticking a camera in their face, so the commentary is always reactionary.

I wanted to like Cloverfield, but all the characters, especially the b!tchy girl who later blew up, just drove me nuts.

[–] movie_nazi 7 years ago

Everytime a see a movie that starts or with handheld cameras, I get a knot in my stomach knowing I'm not going to be seeing anything worthwhile. Usually, you start off with 15 minutes of boring introductions from people you won't care about, because it always starts at some event or outing. There is no time to really know a character because someone is sticking a camera in their face, so the commentary is always reactionary.

I wanted to like Cloverfield, but all the characters, especially the b!tchy girl who later blew up, just drove me nuts.

Honestly, I have never been a fan of those handy cams or "found footage" films especially The Blair Witch Project. I suppose if you go REALLY old school with Cannibal Holocaust I would go as far as say it is OK. I also kinda liked The Last Broadcast but Blair Witch I always hated.

Cloverfield was very well done but I would be lying if I said I was a fan of the film. I haven't seen it since it was released nor do I own a copy (have over 1, 000 films) but I do remember not wanting to curse out the makers of the films so there's that.

BTW The Cloverfield "sequel" , not done in handy cam, is actually not bad. I would recommend.

Survival of the Dead (2009) - 3 outta 10 stars

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[–] namaGemo 7 years ago

I think Cannibal Holocaust is about the only "found footage" film I actually thought was decent. It's in my collection. What I found interesting about it was that while meddling a film about how evil people are, they actually dismembered and killed animals in the film. It seemed like life imitating art, yes, in that order.

And I thought the "somewhat of a sequel" to Cloverfield was decent. The ending was a little to much to take in the last 10 minutes after the build up trying to figure out if Goodman was nuts or not, but a better effort than the first film imo.

I also gave Survival a 3/10.