Good movie
I would like to start by thanking "From on High" for mentioning this blog. It was appreciated.
After dinner last night, I saw Land of the Dead, Romero's latest zombie movie. I was pleasantly surprised. The movie was not only very funny, but also suspenseful and thoroughly dystopian - dystopia is something which warms Mr. M's small, dark heart. I don't remember being on edge through much of Dawn or Day of the Dead, although both were similarly dystopian. I never saw Night of the Living Dead, a movie they (Zombie movie fans) say was the best of the previous three, but Land of the Dead may now be the best, although that call is not for me to make seeing as how I haven't seen it.
In any case, Dennis Hopper was brilliant. Hopper plays menacingly sleazy characters with an enviable ease. Whether he's slapping around Isabella Rossellini as a nitrous huffing homicidal "hero" named Frank Booth ("Heineken! Fuck that Shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!" and "Call me daddy shithead!" are two of his many classic lines) or plotting his escape with full knowledge that this will screw over helpless townsfolk, he never disappoints.
Unfortunately, the movie has an anti-corporation undercurrent. Mr. M has no patience with feeble minded hippie types who dislike corporations but I will give Romero the benefit of the doubt. Hopper's character - the supposed villain - is the head of a corporation, which of course has a board of similarly evil directors. This is absurd and I'll leave it at that.
Back to due diligence.
After dinner last night, I saw Land of the Dead, Romero's latest zombie movie. I was pleasantly surprised. The movie was not only very funny, but also suspenseful and thoroughly dystopian - dystopia is something which warms Mr. M's small, dark heart. I don't remember being on edge through much of Dawn or Day of the Dead, although both were similarly dystopian. I never saw Night of the Living Dead, a movie they (Zombie movie fans) say was the best of the previous three, but Land of the Dead may now be the best, although that call is not for me to make seeing as how I haven't seen it.
In any case, Dennis Hopper was brilliant. Hopper plays menacingly sleazy characters with an enviable ease. Whether he's slapping around Isabella Rossellini as a nitrous huffing homicidal "hero" named Frank Booth ("Heineken! Fuck that Shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!" and "Call me daddy shithead!" are two of his many classic lines) or plotting his escape with full knowledge that this will screw over helpless townsfolk, he never disappoints.
Unfortunately, the movie has an anti-corporation undercurrent. Mr. M has no patience with feeble minded hippie types who dislike corporations but I will give Romero the benefit of the doubt. Hopper's character - the supposed villain - is the head of a corporation, which of course has a board of similarly evil directors. This is absurd and I'll leave it at that.
Back to due diligence.
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