Just saw Land of the Dead completely unexpectedly tonight. The original idea was to see Fantastic Four, but I’m glad we didn’t because it looks like trash and this was more fun anyway. The movie itself was… interesting. Interesting in that it wasn’t as bad as I expected a crappy horror film to be. The plot still sucked balls, but the premise of the world of the film would actually be an interesting and feasible basis for a sci-fi film: a post-apocalyptic world where humanity lives in small, protected enclaves while the bulk of the world is overrun with zombies. Kind of reminds me of that Final Fantasy movie. They mustn’t have been there too long, though, if they were able to find supplies so easily. You’d think they’d start running out after a little while, what with the zombies being kind of unproductive and all. Production quality is actually very good, which I guess is what happens when you give lots of money to an experienced director. Acting is hit or miss. John Leguizamo is the man, but that evil millionaire-in-the-clouds dude is a total bomb in the acting department. The story isn’t really all that bad in its basis – the idea of the zombies slowly learning is, like the world, interesting. Unfortunately, it was translated idiotically on screen, as some zombie inexplicably becomes less than mindless (or should I say more than mindless?) and then the ending is rather stupid and unsatisfying, to put it mildly. Truth be told, I’m just not at all one for horror films, but I do have to give this one some credit. Go see it with some friends if you want to laugh a bit and watch the girls jump. ;)