Heh. TV show from the point of view of a zombie. That would be fun.
There are currently about #437,652,903 TV shows and movies out there about a "zombie apocalypse". How people can get excited about The Walking Dead and zombies biting random people every week is beyond me. George Romero milked that tired idea to death.
I only enjoy zombies when they put a new spin on the idea, like Zombieland making it a zany comedy/satire with Bill Murray and having specific "rules" for surviving zombie attacks pop up on screen throughout the movie. WHAT does Walking Dead do that hasn't been done a million times before? None of its fanboys can explain to this to me.
The "zombies" we see in movies and TV shows like that aren't even real zombies. The "traditional" intrepretation of a zombie in western culture was always a dead person brought back by voodoo or something that mindlessly obeys the orders of whoever brought it to life, and does their bidding. Only since the 1960s Romero zombies has it come to mean a rotting group of leaderless corpses stumbling around looking to eat humans. It's funny the Romero purists hate zombies who eat brains, too. If you're going to reinvent them to eat flesh for no specific reason, there's nothing wrong with a variation that craves human brains.
Sorry, had to rant about this ridiculous zombie craze. I have zero interest in Walking Dead. If I want to watch zombies eat people, the 1985 classic Return of the Living Dead is infinitely more interesting.
It's good. Very good. Not all of the ZA films and series are good. This one is top of the line talent, wonderful effects. I love ZA films, I hate fast zombies, I love slow zombies that you actually have a shot at surviving.
I understand your POV because it was also mine. However, hubby and I were bored one evening and I had heard it was a good show, so we tried the first episode; wham, we are hooked.
It is bloody, it is gory; but, it is also a very character driven piece. For something based on a graphic novel, the characters a very well done and interesting and the writing and story is addictive.
Walking Dead does one big thing, which is basically to solve the “problem” Robert Kirkman (creator of the comic) always had with the Romero movies. It delves into what happens next. He loves the Romero movies, but he wanted to see a long term story, see the characters change, who lives, who dies, who flakes, who learns. That’s the draw. If you don’t like the genre it’s not a draw for you, but if you do it’s pretty awesome. The comic’s been going almost 10 years now, and we still keep asking “what happens next”.
Oh and Romero didn’t change zombies. In Night Of the Living Dead he called them “ghouls”, in fact they haven’t been called zombies in any of his zombie movies. It really happened when movie makers started ripping off his movies, THEY called them zombies and it stuck.
The reason some Romero purists hate brain eating zombies is actually because they’ve taken up a bit of a personal battle for George. John Russo helped him make Night, and they had a bit of a falling out. During the course of the falling out Russo managed to keep the rights to the “living dead” phrase (notice Romeros further zombie movies they’re just “dead” not living). Russo went on to produce Return of the Living Dead, which was the first movie where zombies specifically targeted brains (and even said it). Most fans of the genre don’t care, some folks are weird and like to fight other people’s fights.
You apparently have not watched any of TWD. I didn’t watch the first season. Then, I read numerous comments about it. I noticed the first season was up on Netflix, so I thought I would check it out.
For this series, it the characters and their interactions that make the show a hit. The zombies are just background.
Watch episode 1 from season 1. Then, you will have a better idea of the show and more credibility in your critiques.
B movie, entertaining “Ahhh Zombies”
“.....Sorry, had to rant about this ridiculous zombie craze. I have zero interest in Walking Dead.....”
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LOL And yet, like a moth drawn to light, you’re drawn to this thread about zombies.
I thought the same thing until I happened to see one of the shows during the first season when I was at my Dad's house. I was hooked. For me, the zombies are secondary - it's the strong characters of the show. That is also why I liked The Shield.
I’ve never watched the Walking Dead. No reason, I guess it just didn’t interest me enough.
Zombies and Vampires, enough already. Vampires used to be scary, now they are emo teenagers. And Zombies are finding love on the big screen.
What’s next, ghosts? Leprechauns? Yeti?