I can't f-ing wait!
“Land of the Dead” is fun, thrilling, scary, meaningful, touching, intelligent and, yes – oh yes – violent, bloody and amazingly, wonderfully, imaginatively gory. It’s almost as if the gore in the film was so over-the-top, so brutally fantastical in its violence, that the MPAA didn’t even know what they were looking at…as if they had no idea of what was being torn apart into bloody shreds of flesh on-screen. "
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At this point, it’s worth noting that each of Romero’s previous “Dead” films served as sly social commentary on the decades in which they were made. The turbulent ‘60s of “Night,” the consumer-driving ‘70s of “Dawn” and the Reagan-era militaristic ‘80s of “Day.” Unfortunately, Romero didn’t direct a “Dead” movie during the ‘90s, so “Land” benefits from having two decades to comment on: the corporate, yuppified ‘90s (represented by this film’s Upper Class) and the terrorized post-9/11 world we live in now, reflected in “Land’s” Lower Class. The clash between these two worlds and times works extremely well."
"There is just so much jam-packed into this film: cage matches, corporate politics, pot-smoking skateboarders, pimped-out dwarfs, spectacular missile strikes, hot lesbian action…it goes on and on! It’s almost too much for one movie."
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http://aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=20418and trailer link:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/landofthedead/large.htmlMost people only remember how violent Romero's movies are. They tend to forget to watch for all of the subtext. Romero is actually making a statement about the times that we live in with every single one of his "Dead" movies. I can't wait to see and hear what he says about the climate today!