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The Walking Dead trailer in non-crappy comic con quality. Looks amazing imo. I think that television definitely suits the zombie genre.
Edited, Aug 31st 2010 1:01am by Paskil
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As a comic book collector, I have a 75 issue head start on the TV show. Huzzah!
"The Rich are there to take all of the money & pay none of the taxes, the middle class is there to do all the work and pay all the taxes, and the poor are there to scare the crap out of the middle class." -George Carlin
Not that I'm trying to be graceless naysayer, but does this zombie series take the genre anywhere new? I like zombies, but I'm a little tired of the biggest innovation for each series being the method the zombies arrive, which tends to stop mattering after the exposition.
My impression from the trailer is that it's more about the main character's mission to find his family, rather than good old zombie bashing that many have come to like. I'm not that big on the drama genre.
Omegavegeta wrote:
As a comic book collector, I have a 75 issue head start on the TV show. Huzzah!
I'm in your base, asserting my alpha comic geekiness.
Allegory wrote:
Not that I'm trying to be graceless naysayer, but does this zombie series take the genre anywhere new?
Infinitely better than High School of the Dead, at least.
Edited, Aug 31st 2010 1:01pm by lolgaxe
George Carlin wrote:
I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
I wasn't aware of this until you posted it. Looks like something I'm going to have to watch.
Galkaman wrote:
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lolgaxe wrote:
Infinitely better than High School of the Dead, at least.
For shame, that series is so fun!
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I wasn't aware of this until you posted it. Looks like something I'm going to have to watch.
Also, this ^
Edited, Aug 31st 2010 3:03pm by LockeColeMA
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Not that I'm trying to be graceless naysayer, but does this zombie series take the genre anywhere new? I like zombies, but I'm a little tired of the biggest innovation for each series being the method the zombies arrive, which tends to stop mattering after the exposition.
The "how" the zombies got there is never really discussed in the comics (There are theories, & a dude who says he knows what happened. But thats about it), it's more about surviving in a world full of zombies & the effect doing so has on people. All of the main characters who've survived through the 76 issues are profoundly changed physically, emotionally, & morally as well.
The Walking Dead isn't a traditional zombie flick, as it deals solely with what happens after the zombie apocalypse. Sure, there are moments of happiness. But those moments are small ones in between trying to survive day to day in a world with little to no hope.
"The Rich are there to take all of the money & pay none of the taxes, the middle class is there to do all the work and pay all the taxes, and the poor are there to scare the crap out of the middle class." -George Carlin
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I think this is a good place to leave this.
SPoiler: In The Walking Dead, not only do bites spread the disease, anyone who dies for any reason becomes a zombie. The zombies also hunt by smell. They are subject to the cold & "die" from a good head wound, though.
"The Rich are there to take all of the money & pay none of the taxes, the middle class is there to do all the work and pay all the taxes, and the poor are there to scare the crap out of the middle class." -George Carlin
This is why we need a World War Z movie. Nobody would question something like that (save for the quality of translation from paper to screen) Although Vataro's link gave me a good laugh, what with the exploding zombies which made me think of the LFD Boomers, it's still the equivalent of questioning the plausibility of Die Hard's antics with anything more than tongue in cheek commentary. Yeah, I get that being overrun by zombies would be like having the government overthrown by Alzheimers patients. You want a new spin on the zombie apocalypse? Scope out Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls. Yeah, the book isn't new, but I bet most people haven't read it.
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HA! I was just thinking about necro posting this thread. Don't forget for anyone interested, this premiers this Sunday night, Halloween. Can't wait.
Oh wow. Haven't seen that necropost warning tag thing before. New?
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Oh wow. Haven't seen that necropost warning tag thing before. New?
Oh nice. Haven't seen either. That's some win right thar.
I thought it did an incredible job of pulling the comic story into the show and adding its own spin. I thought nearly everything about this was incredible. Would have had no issue paying to see this in a theater. At least next to garbage like Diary of the Dead. Very excited for the potential of this show.
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The show was freaking amazing. Seriously it is better than 90% of zombie movies I have seen. The whole thing is filmed so well that it is honestly like watching a movie. Plus the fact that I am from Atlanta and go down the streets that it was filmed on almost daily was freaking awesome to see in the show.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=norfolk+southern,+georgia&sll=33.751714,-84.395889&sspn=0.001053,0.002626&ie=UTF8&rq=1&ev=p&split=1&filter=0&radius=0.09&hq=norfolk+southern,+georgia&hnear=&ll=33.751748,-84.39668&spn=0.001099,0.003648&z=19&layer=c&cbll=33.751748,-84.396169&panoid=RMQqZnPu-lUOsvOa6vZDFQ&cbp=12,304.3,,0,-8.46
lol that should look familiar to anyone who watched the show. It is the old Norfolk Southern building in downtown Atlanta.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=norfolk+southern,+georgia&sll=33.751714,-84.395889&sspn=0.001053,0.002626&ie=UTF8&rq=1&ev=p&split=1&filter=0&radius=0.09&hq=norfolk+southern,+georgia&hnear=&ll=33.751748,-84.39668&spn=0.001099,0.003648&z=19&layer=c&cbll=33.751748,-84.396169&panoid=RMQqZnPu-lUOsvOa6vZDFQ&cbp=12,304.3,,0,-8.46
lol that should look familiar to anyone who watched the show. It is the old Norfolk Southern building in downtown Atlanta.
I just watched the show. It seems pretty well done. Being an hour and a half tv time which means it's what right around 1:10 play time this could turn out to be pretty good as long as they don't make it cheesy. Zombie movies are good for those couple hours of the movie but to have an on going series on zombies that over an hour each episode could go down hill pretty quickly.
Does the main character waking up in a deserted hospital, and walking out to see the town all in ruins ring a bell to anyone else?
SEE: Resident Evil
Does the main character waking up in a deserted hospital, and walking out to see the town all in ruins ring a bell to anyone else?
SEE: Resident Evil
For a moment there, I thought you were referencing a good movie; one called 28 days later.
DarkKnightZero wrote:
For a moment there, I thought you were referencing a good movie; one called 28 days later.
I thought the same thing. Especially since last I checked in RE1 she woke up in a mansion, not in a hospital.
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Vataro wrote:
DarkKnightZero wrote:
For a moment there, I thought you were referencing a good movie; one called 28 days later.
I thought the same thing. Especially since last I checked in RE1 she woke up in a mansion, not in a hospital.
End of RE1 start of RE2 Alice wakes up in a hospital.
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Hyolith, Hero Among Heroes wrote:
this could turn out to be pretty good as long as they don't make it cheesy.
George Carlin wrote:
I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
Shaowstrike, Averter of the Apocalypse wrote:
Vataro wrote:
DarkKnightZero wrote:
For a moment there, I thought you were referencing a good movie; one called 28 days later.
I thought the same thing. Especially since last I checked in RE1 she woke up in a mansion, not in a hospital.
End of RE1 start of RE2 Alice wakes up in a hospital.
Was he not talking about the start of the first one though? =/
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Vataro wrote:
Shaowstrike, Averter of the Apocalypse wrote:
Vataro wrote:
DarkKnightZero wrote:
For a moment there, I thought you were referencing a good movie; one called 28 days later.
I thought the same thing. Especially since last I checked in RE1 she woke up in a mansion, not in a hospital.
End of RE1 start of RE2 Alice wakes up in a hospital.
Was he not talking about the start of the first one though? =/
Hyolith, Hero Among Heroes wrote:
Does the main character waking up in a deserted hospital, and walking out to see the town all in ruins ring a bell to anyone else?
Nope.
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"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
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Shaowstrike, Averter of the Apocalypse wrote:
Vataro wrote:
Shaowstrike, Averter of the Apocalypse wrote:
Vataro wrote:
DarkKnightZero wrote:
For a moment there, I thought you were referencing a good movie; one called 28 days later.
I thought the same thing. Especially since last I checked in RE1 she woke up in a mansion, not in a hospital.
End of RE1 start of RE2 Alice wakes up in a hospital.
Was he not talking about the start of the first one though? =/
Hyolith, Hero Among Heroes wrote:
Does the main character waking up in a deserted hospital, and walking out to see the town all in ruins ring a bell to anyone else?
Nope.
I thought it was the first one, and I was initially referencing to the first one. I forgot that it is the end of the first, beginning of the second that someone pointed out. After they capture Alice and Matt at the end of RE1 and put Matt into the what is it Nemesis program?
EDIT: Though I guess I am correct in referencing the right movie, just not at the right place of the movie.
Edited, Nov 1st 2010 1:13pm by Hyolith
I watched the first episode last night when it aired. I was impressed by the production values. I am used to seeing ABC/Fox shows, and this one was at another level, not counting the big ones like Fringe, but the production values on like... FlashFoward seemed pretty low. I asked my brother about it (he was the one who told me to tune in) and he said that AMC usually had higher quality series on it. I got to thinking, I haven't paid attention to AMC in the past. Maybe because it's not advertised on the networks I usually watch. The last one I saw an advertisement for was The Prisoner. It looked interesting, but I never tuned in.
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