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| Subject: RE: Thanks Chryse (Long Reply) | Date: Tue 1-Nov-2005, 11:55:45 | |  |
LOTD isn't the worst zombie film ever, I will agree it has it's moments of greatness, but then as it progresses something else slaps it down to the level of Medicore.
I have many issues with LOTD, mostly in the whole production aspect from shot selection to editing. What bothers me the most is the Intelligence of Big Daddy. His screams annoy me more than anything and having read the script and seeing the final product was a huge disappointment for me. I thought the script was great I felt there were some great moments in the script and the flow was great. I even remember talking about it to someone in production. I said "that after reading the script, I wanted it to continue, I wanted it longer."
What I had seen on the big screen in Pittsburgh was not what I expected. This film was written as being huge in scope, yet the final product seem so small in scale. Hell Day of the Dead capture the zombie infested world perfectly with the deserted city filled with zombies. LOTD should have blown that away in scope, yet it didn't, and all I can do is wonder why.
I did have some dialogue issues. I thought some of the lines written for "Featured Extra's" was laughable at best. For example "I thought this was going to be a battle, it's a fucking massacre" I mean honestly that had to be one of the single most idiotic lines ever spoken on film. Did he actually think the zombies were gonna drop down in foxholes and stratagize a great battle plan.
Also, Yes I am in LOTD. I spent one solid night in zombie make-up and it was nice to see the making of the film up close. This was the 2nd time I was on a movie set, the first being the Dawn remake. After watching everyone do there thing and seeing the sets up close and personal I was blown away and even said "Damn, I read this in the script" and to be there was a great experience. However, I have done some more thought on LOTD and what my opinion is of the film. I have found other issues with it and I think these issues are what make me dislike LOTD.
Scope - this film should have been huge. Since Romero didn't have the right to use stuff from the first three films they should have CGI'd in cities that had fallen to the dead. This film looked to small.
Cinematography - For a film like this the DoP should have used wider lenses. Everything was so tight that you felt claustraphobic. Granted this is a Romero triat in every film, however it should not have happened in LOTD. The depth of field use in the film was poor and I think it made the film suffer.
The title of the film makes you feel like you are lost in a world overrun by the dead, but that feeling is never accomplished through the film. When they were out in the dead world there were maybe 20-30 zombies at any given time. They were able to drive up roads and never see a single zombie... PLEASE. They world should have been crawling with these things.
The only tme yuou see them enmass is when they emerge from the river, then the CGI makes the count look like thousands, but the film fails to follow through on it with real actors being zombies and it feels small in scope. ROmero had $18 million dollars, and at some points it was well used, in others it was wasted. The only time I felt the film touched upon how huge the apocalypse became was when you see the citizens of Pittsburgh on the streets, but again it was too short to keep that feeling of a lost world.
Those are my gripes with LOTD as of today. I have come to the point where If I watch the film anymore I find more wrong with it, so I decided not too touch it for a while and packed it away in my LOTD memorbilia box for later viewing to see if anything changes. However I feel it won't. |
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