The Walking Dead

[El Moroes]

No Third Ep yesterday right?

Nope, they said we'll have to wait two weeks before the next one. Yeah, we all want to know more but we have to wait ^^ 

[blackdog]

Haven't had the time to comment earlier, but watched the first two on holiday; enjoyed a lot, it was incredibly tense and rich in suspense.

I'm wondering how quickly they'll get to the gore.

I like the actors, except the blonde lady that I could never stand, as well as the son who's quite an asshole with a camera.

Edited September 8, 2015 by blackdog

[Beck]

Yeah the mom is a little annoying and the grumpy kid with a camera is a typical grumpy teenager.

I really like the chubby kid who went to the school to get the food though. He knows what he's doing, he's read the comics and played the video games

. I hope we get to see him again.

I thought the druggie guy would be annoying but he's not too bad. God knows what that "shirt" he was wearing at the start of the first episode was though! 

It's nice to see how the city slowly getting infected. Really tense stuff.

Also, RIP in pieces Barack Obama.

[blackdog]

What about Barack? O.o Also you were mentioning the third episode but it's still to come from the dates I've seen.

In terms of characters, I guess that the grumpy kid is just what he's supposed to be.

Agreed about the chubby one, my gf saw it coming he was there (but she thought he was or would have turned). I have the feeling he'll be back. Ridiculous though that after all that they don't take food.

Edited September 8, 2015 by blackdog

[Beck]

What about Barack? O.o Also you were mentioning the third episode but it's still to come from the dates I've seen.

It wasn't really Barack, I was just joking about how the head teacher looked a bit like Barack Obama

I was wondering where all the food they went to get went too!

And Yeah I didn't know the third episode was delayed. I was all excited to get home and watch it and it wasn't out

[blackdog]

Ah lol, got ya

[Em']

I don't know, i think they are doing the same exact errors that we've seen in the original.

Characters are dumb, at every decision they need to take you can be 100% sure they'll choose the bad one. They are also not communicating with each others, like any human being would behave... Also,  very stereotypical character, the kind, the mother, the junkie, the douchebag son... Mhmmmm, m'okay, can we get over this and have actual people working on scenarios ? I feel like my 18ish D&dragons characters were deeper...

Other than that, it's decent

Edited September 18, 2015 by Em'

[-HP-]

yeap, agree 100%. The only character that I cared about (the nerd guy with the knife) is pretty much gone, maybe he'll return and rule the world, since it seems like he's the only one with half a brain.

 

Other than that... it's ok so far.

[blackdog]

Gonna download the third tomorrow and watch it Sunday.

[Sprony]

I don't understand the love for Fear The Walking Dead. I watched the first episode last night and I was utterly unimpressed. Some very bad acting, even though there are good actors in it like Cliff Curtis. Only the junkie portrayed the disbelief of what is happening convincingly. Example:

The scene where they find the junkie after he just killed his dealer. His parents don't even flinch. Or the part where his mother all of a sudden starts crying for a moment. Either there's no convincing emotion or it's forced. I'm not feeling it.

I don't want to be that grumpy guy but the whole thing just looks badly put together:

Why not investigate these so called murders the junkie is talking about? Surely the police knows of the church, check it out. At very least put up some police tape. Or have them come back for more interrogation. Is nobody missing the girl for instance? What about all the other junkies that shoot up there. Surely they would notice a couple of half eaten bodies? The accident is another one. You see a guy getting shot multiple times and not going down (until the head shot) and not a single alarm bell goes off. As if in that world nobody has heard of zombies. Or the fat dude with his out of nowhere conspiracy theory which isn't touched upon again. The whole impending apocalypse feels forced and people apparently are very indifferent to it.

My wife loved it so I'll continue watching and hopefully it picks up. 

/rant over.  

[jackophant]

That's the crux of zombie films for me, whether or not the populace has ever heard of a zombie.

In this day and age, it would be nice to see a zombie related production where the people (at least SOME of them) within it are aware of the concept of zombies.

It makes a lot of them really painful to watch for me when you find people incomprehensibly stupid. They're trying to talk to someone who's had their face chewed off and they are ambling towards them and they don't fucking react!

On a side note, I cannot wait for season 6 of TWD, season 5s ending was just so damn good.

[blackdog]

Agree with both of you about not being too convincing, and that this script of always being surprised is boring, although understandable in terms of narrative.

Can't remember precisely, but I think that in Zombieland they use the name? And right at the beginning they had the "survival guide" exposition, that I think makes you feel they acknowledge and know the danger much more than in any other z-movie.

The bad acting is just something that will make me savour better the moment when the annoying mum gets chewed off — hope she ends up like that.

Haven't been able to watch 3rd and 4th yet.

 

PS: Sprony I think the love comes from the fact that it's just another apocalypse, and we like to project ourselves in there and tell ourselves we'd do better ;)

Edited September 28, 2015 by blackdog

[jackophant]

Can't remember precisely, but I think that in Zombieland they use the name? And right at the beginning they had the "survival guide" exposition, that I think makes you feel they acknowledge and know the danger much more than in any other z-movie.

The exposition was pretty good, but he also housed the girl he fancied the night before (because she was "attacked" by her boyfriend) and was prancing around the house while she tried to eat him. I haven't seen the film recently, so I can't remember how aware he was of what she was at the time, but I suppose even though we know of zombies, to suddenly be faced with one, especially someone we know, how can you be sure they're not pretending and you kill them... There's more sides to the dilemma I suppose.

It reminds me of a YouTube prankster covered by the UK's "show YouTube videos on TV for people who don't know how to use the internet" RudeTube, who was dressing up as a zombie and scaring people in Miami (I think). Someone in a group of people he scares pulls out a gun, and apparently the only reason he didn't shoot him was that if he was a zombie, all he would do was piss him off!

The pranks ended after a large group of men in an enclosed basketball court turned on him after a few of them tried to leap out of the court and couldn't escape.

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[blackdog]

lol, think i've seen an extract.
From what I remember the Zombieland bit with the girl is a flashback that comes after the initial exposition, so I think they mask the usual dumbness by making him first look like a veteran. Which for me worked fine.

[-HP-]

That's the crux of zombie films for me, whether or not the populace has ever heard of a zombie.

In this day and age, it would be nice to see a zombie related production where the people (at least SOME of them) within it are aware of the concept of zombies.

It makes a lot of them really painful to watch for me when you find people incomprehensibly stupid. They're trying to talk to someone who's had their face chewed off and they are ambling towards them and they don't fucking react!

On a side note, I cannot wait for season 6 of TWD, season 5s ending was just so damn good.

My theory is that it's exactly because of that, that many zombie movies and series don't cover the first few days/weeks of the infection. Or if they do, they make it all happen too fast for anyone to even be able to react (Last of Us, Dawn of the Dead, etc)
But yeah agree, everyone knows or heard of the term zombie at least once or twice, why not just make use of that fact and go with it and actually enhance the product you're making? Ah well... And it's a shame they already skipped 9 days, it feels they skipped a lot of stuff that could have been really interesting, like more details on how they built the quarantine areas, how are they surviving with no supplies, etc.

Also, I know it's silly to complain about this kind of shit, but something else that really throws me off in zombie movies (to the exception of 28 days later) is that they can almost literally drink zombie blood when they blow zombies heads off without getting infected, this happens in almost every single episode of TWD, but a bite will surely do it? lol
 

Edited September 29, 2015 by (HP)