OK, I’m only 24 years late on this one but I was watching Day of the Dead again recently only to find out that it really wasn’t the film it was planned to be. Romero apparently saw it as as his zombie Gone With the Wind and the original epic script basically combines much of the themes of Land of the Dead. No one can say if the end result would’ve been any better or worse than the original Day of the Dead. The film would’ve lost much of the original’s claustrophobia in the underground complex. Also the science themes are I think better served by the mad Dr. Logan and Bub.
Land of the Dead however might’ve been very much more complete. The decadent corruption is more interesting, the village of outsiders sounds even more degraded, and specifically the religious elements sound like something Land could really have done with to fit it’s Bush themes.
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Day of the Dead is the only Romero film I still haven’t worked out whether I like it or not. Part of the things I dislike it for (the overblown military stuff) is what makes it good in the first place. Quite a paradox, that movie. Still, overall I have the sense (quite similar to you) it could’ve been better – which does peeve me.
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