The thought-out thoughts

I think I have finally formulated my thoughts on “Land of the Dead”.

Eh.

I will own this movie on DVD and I will probably watch it over and over again my self.  I will probably not chalk it up as one of the great zombie movies.  It does something different and that I'm proud of.  I like it when people take a chance.  I enjoyed the “fun” zombies.  I enjoyed watching the main zombie finally get to pump some gas.  It was kind of crazy to care for a zombie and not care for some of the humans.

In fact, that was the strangest thing about this movie.  In other Romero zombie-movies, the reason the zombies “win” is because the living can't seem to work together.  It is instinct vs. the flaws of human nature.  Zombies don't care what other zombies look like.  They don't care who else is around them.  They just want to eat flesh.  Humans can think, because of this they should be able to take out lots of zombies.  The problem is thinking also leads to racists, power-trippers, hurt feelings, love, hate and numerous other things.  These things lead people to stop working together and start being eaten.  So the strangest thing was that the “living” in this movie were nasty people.  Granted the main people were nice, but the movie was filled with nasty, nasty “thinkers”.  You ended up caring more for the main zombie then most of the people in the film.  I can't say that was by accident.

I'm sure that is what Romero was going for.  While his other films focus on a small number of humans not being able to work together, this one shows how god awful we can be when we actually create a society.  Instead of dealing with the threat of the dead, “thinkers” ignore it by pushing it outside of their walls, then try to create the world that once was.

I wanted to see people working together... instead it look like an extreme over-the-top example of the society we have now.  I wonder who's vision is more honest?  Mine or Romero's?

So I give Romero credit... he made a good “social commentary with zombies” movie...

but... if I wanted to watch an actual zombie movie, I would watch “Shaun of the Dead” or “28 days later”.

eh