Why people hate LOTD

[MinionZombie]

to whom it may concern, mr m.zombie and mr c.cnut: Yakshemash.

[xopher]

First, I had to laugh my ass of when I saw this: http://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Dead-Land...053038&sr=1-11 It a double feature: Dawn Of The Dead (2004) and Land Of The Dead in an affectionately packaged two-dosc set. Specially made for the people of this forum >:-) But then I found my self saying WTF!?!?! as I stumled oacross this: http://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Living-De...2053038&sr=1-7 It's a filmw called Dawn Of The Living Dead. Why do people do this? Taurus Entertainment tried to highjack Day Of The Dead, then Creepshow, now somebody is making Dawn Of The LIVING Dead? I'm kind of thinking that's a little shady. If I was George Romero, I don;'t know if I'd be mad as hell, or arrogant as hell about this kind of stuff.

[MinionZombie]

Interesting that the duo-dvd cover focuses on the Land - the superior film IMO. I think "Dawn of the Living Dead" has been around for quite a while, that'll be a new DVD release. Interestingly, that title was the working title for GAR's film ... blatantly somebody trying to cash in, kinda like "Zombi 2" in Europe.

[bassman]

Interesting that the duo-dvd cover focuses on the Land - the superior film IMO. I actually just saw this same dvd set in the store the other day and thought the exact same thing...

[MinionZombie]

I actually just saw this same dvd set in the store the other day and thought the exact same thing... *high five for the hive brain!*

[DjfunkmasterG]

Interesting that the duo-dvd cover focuses on the Land - the superior film IMO. Superior film? Hold on let me stop laughing at that statement. Damn i spit ice tea all over my monitor. That was some funny sh1t MZ.... Thanks for the good laugh this morning.

[MinionZombie]

Was absolutely waiting for that response. And yet not a hint of irony to my statement *high fives bassman*

[bassman]

yeah booooiiyyyyy!

[DjfunkmasterG]

You're both stoned if you think Land is superior to Dawn 04. The production value of DAWN 04 clearly outshines Land in every detail (Cinematography, CGI, Acting, Story)

[bassman]

Something about all this seems awfully familiar. But yeah, I do. And no...I'm not stoned.

[suicide22]

Don't get me started on that movie please.

[bassman]

Don't get me started on that movie please. Dawn04, right? Yeah....it's that bad.

[MinionZombie]

Something about all this seems awfully familiar. But yeah, I do. And no...I'm not stoned. Nor am I baked. Besides, Yawn-o-rama'04 had $12m extra in its budget. Story was cack, because the script was abominable, and the acting was at times pointless, again down to the shoddy script ... like Ving-a-ling being such a badass "f*ck all ya'll" moron-crowd-pleaser, characters introduced and then killed off within 10 minutes in a scene which is supposed to be emotional and tug on people's heart strings. The characters make retarded decisions, that daft bitch screws up said f*cking retarded plan by being a complete retard and going after that f*cking dog. And I'm sure the production of Yawn04 was far less troubled and interfered with by the studio, than Land got. As for the cinematography, I'll take the cold, brooding dark of Land over the videogame, uber-colour-contrast-jizz-fest of Yawn04. *tag teams with bassman*

[Trin]

I watched Land again and I now better understand why I hate Land. It's because the first 15 minutes were wonderful and the movie went so far downhill afterward. The first fifteen minutes exceeded all my expectations. We got to see intelligent well prepared characters venture out in the zombie-infested wasteland. They had a plan and knew how to handle themselves. The conflict between Riley and Cholo was intriguing, the guy shooting himself when he got infected was excellent, the fireworks brought an interesting twist to things. Moving on, the city setup and defenses seemed good, the interplay between the sociatal classes was interesting, the Riley/Charlie and the Cholo/Kaufman relationship development was interesting. There was a lot to like. Things just went to hell at some point. The movie stopped making sense. Cholo ransoming the city for money. Riley getting caught up trying to bring him in. The whole Slack character. Big Daddy being a zombie who didn't feel any need to feed. The movie wasted a lot of time setting up events that weren't worth portraying. And then culminating in a city that was virtually undefended against a relative few zombies. Clearly the group of people living inside the protected area were not capable of having created that protected area. All the intelligence of the first 15 minutes were forgotten in the last 30 minutes. Shaun of the Dead did a good job of pointing out where the zombie movies before it were unrealistic. Land should've learned from that. Dawn '04 was an entertaining movie, but it required running zombies to be worth anything. It's like setting a home run record by taking steroids. Sure it's fun to watch but everyone knows you cheated. And after reading MZ's last post I agree with his comments entirely.

[DjfunkmasterG]

Nor am I baked. Besides, Yawn-o-rama'04 had $12m extra in its budget. Story was cack, because the script was abominable, and the acting was at times pointless, again down to the shoddy script ... like Ving-a-ling being such a badass "f*ck all ya'll" moron-crowd-pleaser, characters introduced and then killed off within 10 minutes in a scene which is supposed to be emotional and tug on people's heart strings. The characters make retarded decisions, that daft bitch screws up said f*cking retarded plan by being a complete retard and going after that f*cking dog. And I'm sure the production of Yawn04 was far less troubled and interfered with by the studio, than Land got. As for the cinematography, I'll take the cold, brooding dark of Land over the videogame, uber-colour-contrast-jizz-fest of Yawn04. *tag teams with bassman* The girl going after the dog was the worst part about DAWN 04, but everything else was far better in execution than any one moment in Land. Land was a complete mess, like Trin said the first 15 minutes of Land was decent, but the remaining 75-80 minutes was total crap. When they introduced BD's howling... Thats when I said... total crap fest. From that point everything else in the story was just unwatchable. Lets not talk about retarded decisions... you didn't see anyone in Dawn 04 saying "They're just looking for a place to go." Referring to the zombies. In Dawn 04 they used them to play games to pass the time (hollywood squares anyone?) Not just let them wander around when they still posed a very large threat. Ving Rhames is supposed to be that character, he played as he saw it. His sole purpose was to try to get to his brother, when in a situation like that you sometimes forget that other people need your help because you are only thinking about you and your family. You complain about a character being introduced then being killed off in 10 minutes. They at least put enough emotion into that scene to make it passable. The only emotion Land had lasted 10 seconds when you see the zombies eating all the people stuck behind the fence. I can't debate cinematography with you because as a filmmaker, like you, everyone has there likes and dislikes with cinematography... but everything else... is fair game.