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Internet War Criminal said:
Couldn't agree more

I suppose I could agree more, but that's because I fully noped after Land and never bothered with the last two.
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I remember watching Survival of the Dead during its TV premiere before it was in theaters (long story short as to how, the films distributor owns HD Net Movies and they aired it their first.) And I still feel like I wanted a refund. Diary was so inconsistent in tone that if it wasn't for the fact I'd saw Survival for free, I'd would have stopped watching him entirely.
 
I grew up watching the Dead Trilogy and Day is my absolute favorite. I couldn't even finish Survival of the Dead and to this day still haven't finished it.
 
BrunoMattei said:
I grew up watching the Dead Trilogy and Day is my absolute favorite. I couldn't even finish Survival of the Dead and to this day still haven't finished it.
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Day is absolutely great. It has some of my favorite gore ever featured in film. I don't blame you for not finishing Survival as it was a fucking slog.
 
I might have seen the first 20 minutes of Diary, I don't entirely remember if it was a youtube tube, but I know I didn't see much more than that.

I don't know how you could make it through Land, then Diary, and then even bother starting Survival...

And yes, Day is the absolute best movie in the trilogy. It's the best zombie movie of all times.
 
Internet War Criminal said:
I might have seen the first 20 minutes of Diary, I don't entirely remember if it was a youtube tube, but I know I didn't see much more than that.

I don't know how you could make it through Land, then Diary, and then even bother starting Survival...

And yes, Day is the absolute best movie in the trilogy. It's the best zombie movie of all times.
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Land I saw on Demand years ago, then rewatched it about a year ago, I was bored both times. Diary I saw with my dad and I remember my dad falling asleep during it lmao.

I'd go as far as to say the only fall from grace that is equal to Romeros is Dario Argento with Dracula 3D, which is still one of the worst films I've ever seen.
 
The Cunting Death said:
Land I saw on Demand years ago, then rewatched it about a year ago, I was bored both times. Diary I saw with my dad and I remember my dad falling asleep during it lmao.

I'd go as far as to say the only fall from grace that is equal to Romeros is Dario Argento with Dracula 3D, which is still one of the worst films I've ever seen.
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I'm not brave enough to watch Dracula 3D or Survival of the Dead so maybe I can't compare the lowest of the lows, but Land is lightyears beyond Mother of Tears. I've seen Land of the Dead twice without shooting myself... I wouldn't take the same chance with Mother of Tears.
 
I watched Land in the theater too, dreadful experience - I remember the collective "WHAT?" the audience let out during the "They're just trying to find a place" line at the end..
TBH, Day could have been as bad if they'd had enough budget to stick to the original script.
It felt like Romero was trying to shoehorn all the crap that got removed from the Day script back into Land.

It was hilarious how a bunch of zombies could pile into a massive river and come out on the exact other side without being washed out to sea.. I only watched it once on release weekend, but wasn't one of the finale gore scenes something as tame as a girl having her belly button piercing bit off?
 
The Cunting Death said:
For the most part I liked his first episode of Masters of Horror, although the ending was a letdown and it would have worked better as its own movie.
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I didn't really count tv show episodes, it's kind of cheating, but yeah I agree. Ghosts of Mars and The Ward were shockingly trash, however.
Tor Lugosi said:
I saw Land of the Dead in theaters. I don't remember much about it beyond feeling really bored and finding the 'smart' zombies idea stupid.
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The most "exciting" part of it was trying to spot the Simon Pegg and Nick Frost cameos for me.... It was that bad.
Slimeball92A said:
TBH, Day could have been as bad if they'd had enough budget to stick to the original script.
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Which is ironic, because I thought the rejected Land script was much better than what ended up on the screen...
 
not saying Land of the Dead is a perfect film but how can anyone not like this

 
Okay, so Skinamarink was the kind of weird slow horror that I always end up liking. It didn’t even bother me that the director was being lobsteriffic (™️ Rick Sullivan) and shouting out Chantal Ackerman, Stan Brakhage, or David Lynch. I love the idea of being lost in a familiar space that gradually becomes unfamiliar and I think that this movie does a slow burn well. If you absolutely hate plots that aren’t super plotty, or creepy things that just kind of happen with no rhyme or reason, then I 100% get not liking it. But it was a lot of fun for me.

I can take or leave plot, really. Maybe it’s because of my love for the crazy dagos and their crazy dreamlike setpieces, but it never bothers me when a horror film isn’t brick and mortar in terms of the story. If it grabs you in that nightmare place, all the better. I also have a lot of respect for a good idea, and whether that idea is pulled off amazingly or poorly, sometimes that doesn’t matter to me as much as the craziness of the idea itself.

As for current conversation I think that Romero was almost too harsh and unforgiving in what he was able to achieve with Day. To me it’s brutal as fuck, you really feel the hatred these people have for one another trapped down in that silo, and I always rage when Sarah’s fag boyfriend lets the zombies in. Bub is a masterpiece and I loved that character from the second he came on screen. Richard Liberty as Frankenstein is good stuff too. They’re all crazy. They’ve all lost their minds. That seems like a sensible reaction to dead people eating your family and friends.

When Land was still being shopped as Dead Reckoning, you could see the parts of Day he’d had to leave out; the funny thing is that with benefit of hindsight, I think he was right to leave them out. Land is a bad movie, imo. Not as bad as some—in truth I can’t bring myself to outright hate any horror film—but it was a big step down for him, and then it just kept going down.

Did anyone get a chance to watch the Amusement Park, on Shudder? Kind of interesting, can’t lie. I can’t imagine what the guys who paid for that felt when they watched it.
 
beef lo mein said:
When Land was still being shopped as Dead Reckoning, you could see the parts of Day he’d had to leave out; the funny thing is that with benefit of hindsight, I think he was right to leave them out. Land is a bad movie, imo. Not as bad as some—in truth I can’t bring myself to outright hate any horror film—but it was a big step down for him, and then it just kept going down.
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I remember that for the longest time it was supposed to be Twilight of the Dead.
 
Calandrino said:
Rob Zombie's movies.
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One night nearly turned me off movie forevers. I watched a double feature of:

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followed by
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Keep in mind how hyped up I was, this was only a few years after The Devils' Rejects, one of my favorite all time horror/exploitation and right after Valhalla Rising/Drive.

Sure, I thought the Halloween remake was absolute shit and never watched the sequel, but I really thought I was in for one of the most kino evenings in years. Instead... over three hours of the most boring, pretentious trash I'd ever seen. I wanted to fucking blow my head off. I couldn't believe just how shit they turned out to be.

When we talk about falls from grace, holy shit those two movies. It's literally been 10 years now and I'm still scarred.
 
Internet War Criminal said:
Let me introduce you to a man called Uwe Boll
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It’s weird—I like schlock and trash but never seen an Uwe Boll movie.

Calandrino said:
I really had to stop and think about this... all I could come with was Rob Zombie's movies. Somehow he manages to piss me off more than movies where real animals get burned alive on camera, really amazing...
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I did like Devil’s Rejects, but his insistence on having Sheri be the lead regardless of any other great genre actresses he manages to land—and he lands a lot of them—is frustrating. I would have loved it if he gave more screentime to any of the women in Lords of Salem; Dee/Judy/Nell and Meg Foster, who I forgot! are all more fun to watch and if it weren’t for them, I would write it off as the Ken Russell ripoff that it is. Sheri Moon has this annoying ability to be both shrill and boring at the same time; I don’t know how the fuck you manage that, but she does. Then there’s that whole inability to act, and it gets tough.

It’s weird because his vision of the world as being populated by dumb and/or slutty rednecks who live the entirety of their lives in satanic biker titty bars is great, it’s super grindhousey. At the very least, his movies should be a lot more fun, but he’s so fucking dour and has been going downhill ever since Rejects. He’s probably just eternally pissed that he got Halloween and not the TCM remakes, and will never let anyone forget it.
 
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