Land Of The Dead (Director's Cut) (Blu-ray)

Advantages: high quality and an awesome film
Disadvantages: far more expensive than the regular DVD

...of things. The script is very well written and Ridley scott's directing is near perfect, every camera shot and scene can remain free from criticism. The acting is excellent with two well known people as great roles. Liam Neeson's role was well played although i would have liked to have seen more of him, and orlando Bloom's acting was up to standards and every other role was perfectly filled. The fact that this is the directors cut does not go unnoticed as i watched several scenes that i previously had not. The Blu-ray side shone through quite clearly, every bead of sweat shone from the characters head and every glimmer was caught in the highest of quality, however it will be a long time before i fork out the 100 £ difference for a Blu-ray disk player. The only criticisms i can give to this film is that certain characters whom i... Read review

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Advantages: Some of the extras included on this DVD are quite interesting, decent special effects.
Disadvantages: The film is very dull, the acting performances are incredibly poor.

...poor excuse for a zombie film. It's really quite ridiculous how well this film fared, I personally am actually quite ashamed to have paid good money to have purchased this DVD and yet had to really in order to complete the collection. The best thing about this DVD has probably got to be the extras, their inclusion make this purchase seem like a little less of a waste of money to me. I'm not generally one to watch extras, but when a film is particularly poor I do tend to make an exception in order to feel as though my money has gone a little further. This Director's Cut edition of 'Land of the Dead' contains a total of ten extras and some of them are actually quite good. The first of these is 'Undead Again: The Making of Land of the Dead', an interesting insight into how the film was made including insights from some of the actors... Read review

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Advantages: A fantastic way to watch a true classic
Disadvantages: Only one extra, would have been nice to see more

...Night of the Living Dead is the daddy of all zombie movies. Yes there may have been films that featured zombies before this but none came close to creating the same world that George A. Romero managed to. A film that manages to truly define the genre and has been imitated ever since. Now for many years you've probably seen countless releases of NOTLD on every format. And apart from the Elite LD and DVD release, many of them have been sub-par being sourced from old video masters and sometimes even missing footage (for example the DVD release by Contender). So thankfully Optimum has decided that this classic film is worthy of a proper blu-ray edition. For a low budget, black and white film from the Sixties, this transfer is fantastic. It's very similar to the old Elite DVD but with more detail and better contrast. There is a lot... Read review

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