Land Of The Dead: Deusdaecon Reviews
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ธ.ค. 2012
- A look at the downfall of George A Romero starting with Land of the dead
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Rest in peace, George Rmoero. You will be missed.
It would be fitting if he came back as a zombie...
Rest in Peace, Mr.Romero. You've left a legacy that will not be forgotten.
I agree that the "they are just looking for a place to go" line was atrocious. My jaw dropped at this point, really, just looking for a place to go? one of them just went all Sub Zero censored fatality on some poor guy for crying out loud.
I read this comment at the exact moment these things were happening.
As soon as the issue of money came up, I said to myself "Well, this movie is shit." That and all the wasted ammo... The only thing I liked was the idea of zombies being mesmerized by fireworks, I thought that was a pretty good idea.
TH-cam: no music allowed mate
Deusdaecon: I AIN'T HAPPY
They're shooting like 20 bullets towards one zombie. Jesus calm down and use one per or two per and save the bullets.
In "Resident Evil" they would have ran out of ammo quite early....^^
I would just like to thank George A Romero for all the master films he produced.
His passing on July 16th is a real tragedy, and an end to a true horror film producer and innovator... We need a little tribute mash up Mr Shaw please..
RIP George, we love you man XX ..... ZOMB OUT DUDE ......
Fun fact: "Kaufmann" is a German word and, translated into English, means: "Businessman". More subtlety... ;)
Not exactly. According to Google Translate it's 'Merchant'.
Subtlety
Glass breaking
@@Nooziterp1Correct. The literal translation is "buy/purchase man" so a merchant or trader essentially.
Thanks for the kind words, always appreciated, and if you think the social commentary is overboard in Land you should see Diary of the dead.
i must be the only one who liked this movie
I remember reading once that this movie was not originally intended to be an "of the Dead" film, that the original title of the movie was "Dead Reckoning". The name "Land of the Dead" was slapped on it toward the end of production because the studio thought that would make it sell better. If it's true, it goes a long way toward explaining why this movie doesn't fit well with the others in the series.
You have it correct
The character this guy called the love interest is Asia Argento the daughter of Dairo Argento.
Young Asia argento was yummy.
At 6:04 He says that he’s running out of signs but I’m more worried about him running out a windows
Fortunately I had a glazier standing by at all times
The thing that bugged me the most about this movie was the shitty CG headshots. Especially after the Dawn remake did them so well.
Yeah, as both movies had budgets so similar…
35:35, George A. Romero is the George Lucas of zombie films
I'm honestly not sure, it truly baffles me, but i suspect one of the main reasons was hero worship of Romero, with reviewers and the directors who spoke about the film less talking about land of the dead more simply glad that Romero was back on horror. And we'd soon get another classic like Dawn but i think their encouragement back fired cause let me tell you no one is defending Survival of the dead
I do wonder if this is a case where he's just out of practice/touch, or if it's a sorta George Lucas situation where his past movies were great because they were a group effort. Films created by a team of talented individuals who helped balance out Romero's shortcomings. But now since he's world renowned as a legendary filmmaker who gave birth to the modern zombie movie genre, he became surrounded by blinded "yes men", so he had no one to call him out on his ideas, bad or good.
To be fair on the "starboard" comment. That's pretty typical even not at sea, in the marines we referred to port and starboard even in the Abbrams and M88A2.
Also note that the girl in time index 9:04 is actually George Romero's daughter firing the M-16
My problem is that Romero made the zombies TOO human. Don't get me wrong, the human-like elements in Dawn and Day where great! But now we have them forming plans, using firearms (yes I know Bub did, but it's highly suggested he was a soldier in life. I doubt Big Daddy got rifle training to that level), basically BEING human. I get what he was going for, but he fumbled.
Not only this but Big Daddy fired his rifle just after it was immersed in water. I don't know much about firearms, but surely they don't work when full of water.
@@Nooziterp1 Well gunpoweder contains its own oxidizer so they probably would work. But yeah, water can cause some damage to the gun
9:00 the blond with the machine gun is George Romero daughter Christine
According to IMBD it's Tina Romero. Christina?
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To be fair, in the original NOTLD corpses come to life because of an extraterrestrial event, not bites and scratches. So, when the old man hanging from the light comes to life, it may be because of the meteor shower years before.
yeah but day of the dead establishes that what was causing the dead to rise had stopped because people die in the film with out bites but also without head trauma and don't come back as a zombie, Romero talks about this in the dvd commentary of day as well
I still have a warm spot for this movie, I'm fine with you hating it by no means it's great at all, in fact snyders Dawn was better than this. But I really liked the main heroes of the story and they really grew on me.
Once Asia pronounced Ah- Cee- Ah Argento was casted in this movie it was doomed from the start.
I liked this movie but also this review has some good points. omg I was hoping for a reviewer to mention the fence zombie scene. RedLetterMedia omitted it for some reason.
Im so angry to find your channel this late
I love this movie... And your review is the Best ive seen
Saludos desde México
Thanks so much for your kind words, Its really appreciated.
Gotta love that all the mourning zombies in the world can't make you sympathize with the undead, but all the egregiously horrible people in the world can push you a bit closer to it.
It really grinds my gears that this movie received tons of positive reviews. Even from Roger Ebert.
A decade later I still love this film and the awesome review.
I was like 18 when this hit theaters. Didn’t know it was coming out….”dead reckoning” script had been in production hell. Was so pumped when my friends asked me to go. The car was silent on the drive home it was so bad….
Love how his name is Cholo, which basically means a man of Mexican heritage. Surprised Hoppers character wasn't named Whitey Caucasian
I didnt know that, but if that is the case then it is wildly inaccurate because John Leguizamo is Colombian
To be far the zombies were just chilling around not really harming anyone until the humans showed up
I still really like this movie tho. I think that the intro was really creepy, and set up the tone for the world, and as for the fireworks or "skyflowers" I really liked that. Because zombies are attracted to sound, and in this case get mesmerized by the explosion of color and sound in the air.
I love this movie. It not be smart or whatever, but it's zombies, guns and murder bus. All I need for a good time.
**This Review is spot on**. LOTD is Romero's worst major effort and one that essentially signaled the fact that he has lost whatever it was that made him a cut above the rest.
Thats all true however I would say LOTD was the initial herald to his true destruction which was Diary of the dead cause that is STILL one of the worst films I've ever seen.
Than you never saw survival of the dead.
diary came out in 2007 Romero died in 2017, dont spread blatant false information, and its very blatant because Romero is actually on camera in diary
thats your opinion, I have given mine, but you don’t exactly inspire confidence in your position when you deny basic facts in a feeble attempt to back it up.
I enjoy this movie, but I admit it has a lot of flaws. It's good for turning your brain off and watching something.
Also, pretty sure they established that 'Mary Sue' and 'Sniper' were established as idiots.
Oh, and 'Love Interest' is played by Asia Argento, daughter of horror director Dario Argento.
Just found your channel. You are now my favorite movie critic. Going to get caught up on your old vids and look forward to new ones.
thanks for watch i really appreciate it, glad you enjoy the content.
I disagree with the zombies not being as creepy at the beginning even though how you showed the comparison of the original was creepier . It was still funny how you put it.
Fair enough it is mostly personal opinion really
I really like this movie with a passion, but yeah, I see your points and I respect it.
You're running out of signs?
You're running out of window glass.
I don't hate it. What gets me is that Romero worked on the script and story ideas on and off for many years. What we got just seemed thrown together.
tanks do have a blind spot as far as the guns are concerned by standing to close , but theres no excuse for not crushing them though.
Good review, entertaning yet insightful. Hope to see more. And yea, that ending phrase about Zombies wanting just a place to go or some shit like that. Probably the stupidest thing said in any fiction.
Okay so I have a few notes:
1. That Revolution thing made me think that it was supposed to be a thing but changed halfway through production
2. As someone who ever tried airsoft, why didn’t the shooters actually changed to semi automatic, (when they emptied a whole magazine as you said)
3. When you said “and no one talks like that” I could not hear what Dennis hopper was saying
4. Also what was that guard who tried to kill John Leguizamo’s character (can’t spell his name), wearing? He looked like a Mussolini cosplayer without the hat
I like how one of the recurring criticisms of _The Walking Dead_ is how people manage to let zombies sneak up on them when Romero preceded that stupidity by fives years. As for Romero losing touch, there did seem to be something off given how despite spending the prime of his career filming in Pittsburgh, he filmed his final films in Toronto, Ontario where he lived for the last years of his life.
I will say this: if someone took this script and made some adjustments/improvements, this could work as an allegory for what's going on now during the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.: the rich, bunkered up and protected, pushing lower classes out into a dangerous world and risk their lives just to help them make more money. Then, instead of the zombies out for revenge, they could just be treated as a natural threat. Of course, the Kaufman character would have to be a Trump proxy and I can't imagine someone writing a character like how Donald Trump actually behaves.
If that's what you take from my simple review of a movie fair enough. All I'll say is I don't agree with the politics of this movie and they are forced and used in a heavily propagandized way which is a big problem with this film but its not the only one I talk about.
I just found your channel, and that's why I'm posting now and not when it went up, but I'm enjoying your commentary immensely. The reason I'm posting is because I'm a native of Uniontown Pennsylvania, the town they are raiding for supplies in the opening scene and I have always hated that scene, not just because we have never had in my lifetime, since possibly the 20's or 30's, and "Oompah" band and don't even have a gazebo in a public park. Romero is nominally a native and should know that, but he had to make my town even more of a hayseed hick-ville than it actually is all to fit his heavy-handed narrative.
You have a lot of windows for sign throwing in one room.
Loved your review! It seems as if Romero spent too much time on social commentary and gore and forgot about character development and plot. You're right. I had no compassion for the zombies and felt bad that the people, regardless that they were rich, were turned into fodder. Good review, bad film.
It's 2019 and i forgot video resolutions went down this far
well this video is nearly 10 years old
27:09 Speaking of video games, I actually had more fun playing the Xbox Land Of The Dead game than I did watching the movie.
I wonder if this is set in a world where everybody has bad eyesight? that would explain the huge wasting of ammo, and that guarding standing about 1ft away from the guy he was meant to shoot as if he couldn't possibly do it from any longer range.
Asia Argento? Yikes.Looks like this movie had one legit predator.
But Mary Sue was right to let them go? The point was they were contempt to 'live' as they were, doing what they remember from being alive. Then after the humans gunned them all down, which they didn't need to do, as they were distracted. That's when Big Daddy rounded them all up to get revenge, but since Mary Sue didn't care to live with the shmucks and their revenge is over. They agree to let them live, thinking they'll live in peace.
I mean, sucking at close range is a legitimate tank weakness. Even 'anti-personnel' measures are limited depending on their position and the tank's shape, or limited in how often they can be used (in the case of mines).
Aww man, why you show a clip of Rhodes, he's the best antagonist of genre.
yes i do, Day of the dead is my favorite zombie film.
idk if i can pick my favorite zombie film it's a tuff choice between Dawn of the Dead Zombieland & Resident Evil extinction,and i probably made a lot of people roll their eyes at that last one.
Today = Present
6:24 a zombie that looks almost exactly like Bub from Day Of The Dead
That opening silence was my sunshine in a bag.
Romero got way too ham handed with the social commentary in Land and that ruined the film for me. Did he really think that people would buy the idea of money still having value in a apocalypse?
Hello long time fan here. When will you review the rest of Romero of the dead movies.
We miss you - plz come back to youtube
it’s not currently part of the plan, right now I’m 2 and half scripts through writing for lovecraft month, I’m planning to have all four released over the course of a month (the way it should be) and that’s what’s taking all the time, I’m also on twitch 5 days a week if you want to check me out there as well
Now that I think about it Romero's zombies have always been a bit different then how zombies are mostly seen recently. Even in the first movie they weren't completely mindless, they were afraid of fire. So even back then they had at least some some form of thought or at least fear, unlike how zombies are mostly seen today.
When I think zombies, I think mindless completely. Zombies that have no sense of survival, so they'd walk through fire or fall in water, because they don't actually notice it. Yet Romero's zombies seem to just turn into a different from of humans as the movies have gone on, so much that it really doesn't matter that they are supposed to be zombies anymore, like in this movie.
Well to be fair, in the first movie they where based more on the ghouls of Arab mythology. Just minus the supernatural powers
I'll say this. I enjoyed this movie very much. However I do agree it could have been better.
I love land of the dead but I admit the other movies after this did suck..
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Survival of the Dead was shit lol
I love that you're 50% quieter than the movie. I really like going deaf.
My dog Harriet and l love your channel.
I think George Romero was restrained from showing much of his traditional style because the other z movies that plaqued the big screen and tv showed less. So he had to follow guidelines from the studio in order to be director for this film and following films
universal only distributed the film and had no creative control, the production companies were atmosphere entertainment MM AKA one guy called mark canton, and the other Romero-Grunwald productions, which I'm sure you can tell Romero himself half owned, so I honestly can't see that explanation panning out, and more importantly of all the things i would call Romero and this film in general, "Restrained" is certainly not one of them, if anything it had too much of Romero's "style".
25:00 to be fair the same can be said about their fear of fire in Night of the Living Dead.
Id disagree because the fear of fire thing was just used once or twice in pretty minor ways, here its the used as a literal barrier against the zombies until its deemed no longer useful to continue the story.
@25:15. I was taking a drink as you said that and I spit that sh*it everywhere, as started lmao.
I'm shocked how "Mary Sue" is so dumb when he's played by the freaking Mentalist-
The Xenomorph is just looking for a place to live.
The Predator is just looking for a place to live.
Jason Voorhes is just looking for a place to live.
Freddy Krueger is just looking for a place to live.
Jason already has a place to live, he just doesn't want anyone else there.
Also:
Michael Myers is just looking for a place to go.
The Thing is just looking for a place to go.
Chucky is just looking for a place to go.
All the fun of Nastalgia Critic, without the baggage!
According to one of my professors, the thing about money is that it only has monetary value when majority of people agree that it has monetary value. Example: gold only has monetary value when people agree that its valuable. Dollar bills are just a type of fabric/paper yet people agree it has monetary value so then it does. In feudal Japan before they used coins they used rice for exchange because it could be grown by some people and and eaten by everyone. Because not everyone grew rice, it was valuable because it was actually useful for survival: food. Money has actually no practical use like that and yet has value all because we all agree it has value. If we didn’t all agree it would have no value except maybe for burning or arts and crafts.
Male version of a Mary Sue is a Gary Stu so I've heard...
Mary sue is funnier
I always felt the Romero films are not meant to lead into the other as sequels, but are each a stand alone take about the living dead from a different angle. Perhaps I am wrong, but I do not feel the "rules" of one film were meant to inform those that came after. Anyway, enjoy the videos but I wish the audio editing was better as they go from quiet to speaker shaking in an instant.
this is pretty much the forth video i ever made so the audio setup wasn't ideal, i can at least guarantee all new videos have balanced audio.
Romero could never make direct sequels because he lost the rights to the studio who gave him the money to make those films, so he couldn't use the same charactors. In the opening montage of Land he wanted to use clips from Night ,Dawn and Day but couldn't because of property rights.
John Leguizamo and Dennis Hopper???? What is this Super Mario Bro's 2: Super Mario Land of the Dead?
God I wish, that would've at least been enjoyably bad.
Yeah in a world where every shot counts and accuracy is of the most importance, you wouldn't use automatic weapons. You'd be using large caliber semi-automatic guns to conserve ammo and have some nice stopping power. Undead or not, a .45 is going to slow you down from the sheer force of the bullet.
This comment may be a little late, but one thing I can say is I think George Romero may have started to lose it with the franchise around the time of Day of the Dead. While that film I think is the best of the series, most of the ideas and non subtle messages from LOTD were in his original script for Day of the Dead, however were cut out due to a reduced budget.
Wait. How would the survivors know what a jihad is? I’m pretty sure that term wasn’t popular when the apocalypse happened in the first movie.
11:20 in all the Romero films if you die for any reason you return. The original had some hints that a radiation a satellite brought back was reactivating the primitive part of the brain. The Zack Snyder DOTD said that only the vote turned them into zombies
17:30 within the economy of Fiddlers Green money has value. Cholo mentions something about buying an apartment inside the tower.
18:40 within this little world the materials and labor would still cost money, in a different way. The money would pay people to go out and scavenge the materials and people to assemble the battle tank. Money would serve the same purpose it does today, actually more so because it would now be in limited quantities.
Why am I defending this movie? Well, I actually like the money mechanic in this world because money’s value in real life is also just as imagined.
Except if you watch day of the dead (a film taking place before land) you can see dr logan get shot not in the head and never returns as a zombie, with the commentary of which stating that what cause the zombies to rise had actually stopped occurring by the time day came round.
and yes money has value in fiddlers green, but its established that outside of fiddlers green, there is no civlisation, theres also no guarantee it would be used elsewhere and logic would dictate people would use things with real value not pieces of nicely designed tokens as a trading commodity especially because as you pointed out money is in such short supply, so in the scheme of things out side of fiddlers green money itself is inherently worthless.
I love the subtlety running gag
ok that girl aiming was PISS POOR. your telling me she aimed from the hip and killed him. im sorry im calling bull shit
Watched a few of your reviews and like your style... good work. One suggestion. Your volume levels on many reviews are inconsistent. For example, your sign-crashing noise and some of your comment segments are much louder than other parts; it can get pretty annoying.
Yes I'm aware of the volume issues of the older videos it was because i was still getting to grips with the software, I at least like to think the sound levels are consistent with videos I do now.
This was the first Romero film I saw so I have a bit of a soft spot for it.
Love how they tried to set up these poor people to do a revolution that never took place. They just got lucky when the zombies showed up and killed all the rich people.
See I know that this film is full of more holes than Swiss cheese, but I still got a soft spot for it, probably due to the fact I would take this over Diary or Survival. I think of the social commentary less like the US government and more along the lines of a Medieval kingdom. You’ve got the ‘king’ (who may or not be Koopa) at the top in his high castle, the lords and ladies (residents of Fiddlers green) below him but still in fancy Livin’. the Knights (guards) who may not live in the castle but still have it better off than the peasants in the streets due to their services, not to mention most of them ride motorcycles and armoured cars like war horses and chariots, and the peasants at the bottom living off scraps. All of this taking place in a Walled off area completely controlled by the king himself. And even the main cast kinda resemble an almost D&D affair. You got the White Bread hero protagonist Fighter, his Friend the marksman archer with a disposition of some kind, the female rogue and literally some companions they are given for story purposes. As for the Zombies? You could see them kinda as Orcs, but they don’t really play too much of a part in the whole medieval thing. Not to mention Cholo steals a Siege Weapon which he uses to threaten Kauffman in his “Castle”
Obviously me saying all this doesn’t make it an objectively better movie, but it’s still something of a Curiosity to me as a middle ground between George’s Best, and George’s worst. As a reminder that he may have made both in his life, but it’s the good we can see in his career that made George such an amazing Director, and may he inspired many upstarts like me for years to come, and may he rest in peace.....
But COME MONEY WOULDNT BE WORTH ANYTHING OUTSIDE OF PITTSBURGH!!!
I always hated this movies intro. Its supposedly set in my hometown of Uniontown Pennsylvania, but we don't have a gazebo like that in any of public parks here. Do your damn research George! Lol. Love your reviews, sir.
I watched this review everyday lol. Hope you can review Zack Sunders Army of the Dead someday. It felt like a spiritual sequel or prequel to Land of the Dead.
Nice literally means "accurate." Wouldn't it have made more sense to say there's no such thing as good shooting?
People complain about Day, but it was much better than this!
Its simple compared to his earlier movies, but i liked this one regardless.
What you're saying is that is was based upon hype instead of substance. It would be great to see a zombie movie that is intelligent, loaded with character development, and intrigue. Your review was scathing but brutally honest. Gotta check out survival one of these days!
Distract Zombie no more like distract Charlie
Do you like the original trilogy which is Night, Dawn and Day of the Dead?
Great review
Return of the living dead 1,2,3..Dellamorte Dellamore...
Night life/zombie academy...Death road...
Team Dan O Bannon >Romero.
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I am tempted to agree but BRUH... dawn of the dead 1978 was pretty impressive, legendary even, especially if you're old enough to remember those times and realize how spot on the characters were.
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The "smart zombies" idea never sat well with me, it undermines the whole series and makes no sense.