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Originally posted by Posher778
Everyone hates the ending.

maybe i'm weird -but i loved the ending.

i took LOTD to be a criticism of America in the post-9/11 world of 'kill 'em before they get us' mentality. . . so the fact that we're made to feel some sympathy for the Dead is a real political blow to the RED-WHITE-and-BLUE waving, gun-toting, pro-Bush America.

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Originally posted by The_Return
I think this is an awful idea, Land had easily the worst characters of all the Dead movies...why bring 'em back? I say Romero should make Dusk of the Dead or somesuch, as in an unrelated film.

100% totally agreed :mad:

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Originally posted by Zero
maybe i'm weird -but i loved the ending.

i took LOTD to be a criticism of America in the post-9/11 world of 'kill 'em before they get us' mentality. . . so the fact that we're made to feel some sympathy for the Dead is a real political blow to the RED-WHITE-and-BLUE waving, gun-toting, pro-Bush America.

I really don't see any of that. I tried to review the movie in my
head to get your point of view but I couldn't. I just took it as a zombie movie. Which is fine. Maybe I'll have to watch it again with politics in mind. But it has zombies and we all love them zombies!
:)

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Originally posted by The_Return
City of the Dead could get confused with Fulci's City of the Living Dead. Not by mainstrem audiences of course, but by true horror fans and film buffs. I think Dusk or Twilight of the dead would be the best titles...

But then, of course, TWLIGHT OF THE DEAD was an alternate title for CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD -- the day the film opened in Los Angeles, half the ads had TWILIGHT for the title instead of CITY! (It may have been a retitling for a cut version, beause the TWLIGHT ads were rated R; the CITY ads were unrated.)

So, using either title for the Romero sequle could cause confusion for hardcore horror buffs.

Actually, I don't see the problem with making a direct sequel to land. Although I like the concept of using the zombie phenomenon as the only link between the films, it never hurts to change pace, and the idea of a zombie road movie, with the characters crossing the country in Dead Reckoning, provides the opportunity to try something different.

there's also the book City of the Dead by Brian Keene that he mentioned is possibly being optioned as a film..

actually it's a hell of a lot like land of the dead.

eh, this might be stupid but did anyone else think that when the fireworks "hypnotized" the zombies that it was symbolic of Americans just blindly following along with their government?

No, that didn't occurr to me, but now that you mention, it seems pretty obvious. Good catch!

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Originally posted by subjugator
eh, this might be stupid but did anyone else think that when the fireworks "hypnotized" the zombies that it was symbolic of Americans just blindly following along with their government?

not to me at all ..
i saw it as how people blindly ooh and ahhh at fireworks no matter how many times they've seen the damn things over and over again.

if there was power they'd all be gathered around a TV set.

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Originally posted by urgeok
not to me at all ..
i saw it as how people blindly ooh and ahhh at fireworks no matter how many times they've seen the damn things over and over again.

if there was power they'd all be gathered around a TV set.

if you had your way, they'd all be watching pokemon

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Originally posted by Nyarlathotep
if you had your way, they'd all be watching pokemon

gotta catch 'em all !