http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/georgearomeroslandofthedead.html
Looks interesting…
Finally! I can’t wait for this to come out! It looks a hell of alot better that the Dawn “remake”.
I was shocked when the release date was accelerated from fall to the middle of summer. Somebody must know something; the buzz is very, very good.
This is on my very short list of highly anticipated movies this year.
Excuse my blasphemy but…it really doesn’t look much better than the remake of Dawn of the Dead.
Better FX?
Isn’t a zombie movie just that a zombie movie?
Regardless of who made it?
What makes one better than another?
Zombie movies are an excellent vehicle for social commentary and psychological studies when done well, and there’s some real intelligent ones out there (like the ones made by Romero and “Shaun of the Dead”). And then there’s films that just involve gore and violence.
The trailer is definitely designed to appeal to the crowd that liked the recent remake, but I have faith in the movie to deliver a lot more than that.
Two words: Dennis Hopper!
I agree completely…I love the Romero ones because they were really more social commentary then gore fests (though they had their share, mind you). The other reason I love them is that you care about the characters. That’s the biggest problem that I had with the remake of Dawn; I didn’t care about any of the characters, and there was no reason for me to care. Hell, I don’t think half of them even had names.
I will retain hope that Romero will make this one kick much butt.
Actually, the case could be made that the remake of dawn of the dead is just as much of a social commentary as the first. Things have become highly accelerated since the first one. The attention span of our culture has shortened. We need every thing faster. Thusly, faster zombies. 
See, putting a meaning into a movie is easy when you make things up.
Oh yeah, this movie looks pretty cool. Easily new Dawn of the Dead good (I liked it. Sue me.), but certainly not Shaun of the Dead good. Worth my $8.
Ok… obviously you know not of what you speak. In the discussion of Zombie films only one man reigns supreme and that is George Romero. His movies survive because they are beyond the flesh eating and goofy shocks.
Shaun was a wonderful homage to Romero’s style and riffed from many of his themes. It worked because, like Romeros films you get to know the characters and actually care about them.
Unlike the crap that is resident Evil it isn’t a bunch of generic nameless disposable charactures running round zapping zombies in video game style.
The remake syas a lot about todays society in that it’s a shallow echo of a movie and is all style but missing the subtance and message. Of course that isn’t what the directors were trying to do.
No A zombie movie just isn’t a Zombie movie…
Boy oh boy two films to look forward to in June!! Yay!!!
My life now has meaning.
Harborwolf,
I see that my posting was unclear…I didn’t mean to say that the remake didn’t have a message (that’s another argument), but that the reason it failed for me was that I didn’t care for any of the characters, because no time was spent making them anything more than zombie-fodder.
Kingpengvin, I agree with you completely! 
Hell, I didn’t think the first one had a message. I guess that is why I liked the remake at least as much as the original.
“Night” is about race relations.
“Dawn” is about consumerism
“Day” is about militarism
“Land” is supposedly about class struggle. When it was “Twilight” and he was working on it in the late 80s it was supposed to be about the homeless… but nobody gives two hit about the homeless anymore so he shifted the focus.
Now with the remake of DAWN … I REALLY liked it (as well as Savini’s remake of ‘Night’). You could tell it wasnt Romero but it was still cool.
It’s alot easier to watch with non-Zombie fans than the original. Because come on… the original isn’t a GOOD movie. It’s cool. It’s fun. But…Nowhere near ‘good’ in a broader sense. It’s slow and confusing as hell -What the hell are the cops doing at the tenement building anyway? Who the hell are these characters? You’re not told anything about who they are… really EVER but you like them anyway-
My biggest question after seeing the trailer… Where’s the black guy? One of the main heroes is always black in a Romero movie.