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davlghry		#61	[-]
Nov 4 10 11:48 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It's much more likely they were trying to sneak into a drive-in movie with one guy driving and two guys hiding in the backseat or trunk. When the cashier got suspicious, the driver panicked and took off, leading to the high speed chase. No other explanation is possible.
TomWeaver999		#62	[-]
Nov 4 10 12:05 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	An overseas CHFB lurker e-mails me that in the version seen in Southeast Asian territories, the crashed car's airbags don't deploy on impact but its psycho-gunmen bags do, accounting for the extra men's (seemingly) unaccountable materialization in the car following the crash.
davlghry		#63	[-]
Nov 4 10 12:38 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	On another note... Not that any horror movie or series has to strive for accuracy, but Atlanta's population is close to 60 percent black and yet those Atlanta zombies appeared to be predominantly white. I noticed a few blacks in the bunch but not nearly the number one might expect. You have to believe this issue must have come up in the extras casting.
Reegs		#64	[-]
Nov 4 10 2:56 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Or they were a lot smarter than their white brethren when it came to avoiding getting bitten.
Razzle Bathbone		#65	[-]
Nov 4 10 8:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	TomWeaver999 wrote: An overseas CHFB lurker e-mails me that in the version seen in Southeast Asian territories, the crashed car's airbags don't deploy on impact but its psycho-gunmen bags do, accounting for the extra men's (seemingly) unaccountable materialization in the car following the crash. No LEOs worth their salt would not have immediately checked out the car to make sure all were accounted for.
GaryP11111		#66	[-]
Nov 4 10 11:30 PM Burgomaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Loved it! I've watched the opening episode several times and found THE WALKING DEAD to be top-notch entertainment and miles above the zombie fare released by Hollywood over the last several years. The lapses in logic don't bother me (with the exception of the basic police procedure of clearing the vehicle for any threats) any more than they do in 97% of the other genre films I enjoy. Sure, there are a few nits to pick. Handling the Glock semiautomatic like it has a manual safety (Glocks have an automatic safety built into the trigger) and the scene where Grimes escapes into the belly hatch in an Abrams battle tank (they don't have one, though the tank looks like an M60 Patton -- which does have a belly hatch -- tricked out to look like an Abrams), etc. I liked what the show got right. Firing the .45 inside the tank would be extremely disorienting. Having fired a .45 in an enclosed space without ear protection I can only imagine what it would be like to do so in the tin can confines of a tank. But most of all I found the pathos in the first episode to be compelling as the survivors attempted to cling to their humanity. The father trying to summon the strength to release his wife from her undead existence; the compassionate killing of the female half-zombie; the simple joy of a hot shower -- these moments propelled the series into must-see TV for me. GARY L. PRANGE "Sic gorgiamus allos subjectos nunc." Check out my YouTube Video of the Week! (updated 8-3-09)
gcalan		#67	[-]
Nov 5 10 9:16 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Overall, I really enjoyed this episode. My major complaint is, it wasn't very scary. The scariest scenes were the doorknob turning, knowing the mother-zombie was on the other side of the door and the scene where the protagonist was trapped under the Army tank. Most of the scenes with the zombies were not shot with enough atmosphere and didn't really scare me much.
AnthonyOsika		#68	[-]
Nov 5 10 12:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	gcalan wrote: Overall, I really enjoyed this episode. My major complaint is, it wasn't very scary. For me, the scary part of the whole zombie genre is "What if it is not just the NIGHT of the Living Dead?" What if society as we know it is really gone forever? Could you survive for long? Would you want to survive for long? Could you protect your family? Could you protect yourself from your family? That is one of the appeals to me in this being a continuing series. Exploring these issues over time amplifies the emotions and fear behind them. Recently, I read "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. I enjoyed it and took me about a week to get through it, but I remember the times between reading sessions as being the best parts as I thought about how I would react in the various situations. Subsequently I watched the movie and, while I thought it was well done, it just didn't have the impact being compressed into 2 hours. I'm past the point where seeing the act of a zombie eating flesh is scary. It's the concept itself and sometimes what is not on the screen that is scary.
TomWeaver999		#69	[-]
Nov 5 10 12:51 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	<< the scary part of the whole zombie genre is "What if society as we know it is really gone forever? Could you survive for long? Would you want to survive for long?" << Not long ago I got William Phipps, star of FIVE (1951), to watch the movie for the first time in 60 years and we did a new interview, and he talked about trying to figure out how to play the last man on Earth, and he said it was hard. He said you couldn't bother to even THINK about playing it "realistically," because in real life you'd get hysterical and maniacal over the shock and grief and probably lose your mind, and that'd be IT.
AnthonyOsika		#70	[-]
Nov 5 10 12:58 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	...and who'da known an Abrams doesn't have an escape hatch? Man, you learn something every day here!
MailOrderZombie		#71	[-]
Nov 5 10 2:45 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	TomWeaver999 wrote: I never saw THE ROAD WARRIOR. Now I'd like to! But even if "my" idea is too much like ROAD WARRIOR, I still think that'd be better than "too much like the 1000 movies where doofuses do stupid stuff in order for the zombies to get 'em." I'm willing to be that the success of The Walking Dead is going to usher in a new wave of ANOTHER 1000 movies in which the doofuses do stupid things in order for the zombies to get 'em . . . ! frightenstein wrote: I liked the show. The acting and makeup was quite good. But I must say (and I know this is nitpicking) but did anyone think the song that came up at the end completely inappropriate for the story and the mood of the show. It works to use a pop song at the end of Mad Men, not a show about a zombie apocalypse. Anyway, I really enjoyed the show but that one moment took me out of the mood the show had created. Agreed! My wife and I talked/argued about this on the latest episode of our podcast, too. She had no problem with it, and viewed (listened?) the inclusion of that gonna-sell-a-soundtack-album-some-day-and-need-something-for-the-non-score-junkies song as a way to pull back and disengage with the story until the next episode. I hated the song (and typically hate the inclusion of most pseudo-pop songs in a soundtrack) and felt it inappropriate. If it was the kind of music that I'd imagine Rick would listen to (or would have before the dead started walking), that would be one thing, but it just didn't fit for me. Hated it. TomWeaver999 wrote: That's it EXACTLY, and you hope the guy in the story will do what you told yourself YOU would do, so that you can see how it might have worked out for you. But he doesn't. He kept doing things that I, and you, and everybody else in the world, wouldn't do in a million years. For example, once he learns that zombies are attracted by noise, he takes a long long walk into the woods where there are zombies ... and if that's not imbecilic enough, he even fires his noisy gun while he's out there! So far he's such a through-and-through D u m b a s s, it puts a huge dent in the "What would I do now?" fun. Another point that bothered me, and I started thinking that PERHAPS (I can't back this up with facts) the show was originally intended to be presented slightly out of order chronologically. (The beginning of the show with the bit with the zombie kid, then we go back in time to before Rick gets shot, for example, could have led to an episode that was a little out of order but still told a solid story.) The big gaps in logic - "Don't make too much noise . . . unless you need to shoot a zombie dramatically . . . or have a horse . . . or . . . or . . . " - seems to take place between commerical breaks or scene breaks, so I do wonder if the episode was first meant to be presented slightly out of order to take advantage of the audience slowly learning these rules re: not making noise, but ultimately, someone decided to put the pieces in chronological order afterall, except for the bit with the girl at the beginning, which ended up feeling more like fan service than anything else. Overall, I have some nitpicks - in additon to what I mentioned before, the clown car full of criminals at the beginning, some of the listeners of my podcast have pointed out that the gun that Rick supposedly switches the safety off on at the beginning wouldn't have a safety switch, etc. - but I still REALLY enjoyed the show, and my wife and I are looking forward to the next episode! (Only six episodes ordered for this season?! GAH!) 5-star zombie media podcasting since 2008 - at Mail Order Zombie, we've covered the Night, Dawn and Day of the Dead . . . and all the moments in between. When you think zombie movies, think Mail Order Zombie. http://www.mailorderzombie.com ------------------------------------------- Plan D: The Official Blog of Derek M. Koch - http://www.derekmkoch.com
Reegs		#72	[-]
Nov 7 10 2:07 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	GaryP11111 wrote: I liked what the show got right. Firing the .45 inside the tank would be extremely disorienting. Having fired a .45 in an enclosed space without ear protection I can only imagine what it would be like to do so in the tin can confines of a tank. Lordy Lou, ain't that a fact. It can actually make you physically ill. AnthonyOsika wrote: ...and who'da known an Abrams doesn't have an escape hatch? Man, you learn something every day here! Something about rolling over anti-tank mines and the blast blowing the hatch open and doin' a number on the poor souls inside - maybe they'd be better off without one.
TomWeaver999		#73	[-]
Nov 7 10 11:20 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Not much story progress in episode 2, other than introducing some new characters who join the Hero on his rounds of "We gotta get out of here, gogogogogo!!" Fun to find out the zombies can (kinda) run. I'm hard-pressed to think of much more to say, to be honest. Which character was played by Laurie Holden? She claims to be the granddaughter of DRACULA'S DAUGHTER's Gloria Holden.
Dr Spyclops		#74	[-]
Nov 7 10 11:47 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tom, Laurie Holden was the blonde in this second episode who took the jewelery from the store for her sister. Holden also had major roles in Darabont's THE MIST and THE MAJESTIC.
DerGolem		#75	[-]
Nov 8 10 1:02 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Some thoughts about episode two... I really liked tonight's episode. Darabont has started shuffling the story order of the comic around quite a bit now as well as adding new elements all his own. In the comic Rick only runs into Glenn in the city and the two escape very quickly after first meeting. So all the other characters we meet tonight were either brand new additions to the cast or, in the case of Laurie Holden's character, people who should be back at the base camp. According to my friends who are further along in the series than me the racist guy they left chained to the roof may or may not be a character from latter in the series being introduced super early. It was also really good to see Rick start acting like the Rick in the comics, forming plans and taking action. The scene where Rick and Glenn don gut covered suits so they can sneak past the zombies is straight out of the comic but happens later on and had a different end goal than it did here. Initially my friends and I were worried when we realized that the show was no longer following the books as close as it did in the first episode but by the end we all agreed that we thought the new story direction was really strong and we are looking forward to see what other turns it takes.
Mattel Jones		#76	[-]
Nov 8 10 4:07 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Very happy to see Michael Rooker in the second episode, playing 'the racist' Merle Dixon. I was wondering, given the way Darabont is changing up the plot line of the original version, if Dixon was going to re-appear later as 'the Governor' (I think that was what he was called) who shows up about five trade paperbacks into the graphic series. However they do make it clear that he has a brother back at the camp where Rick's wife and son are. I don't mind that Darabont is going in new directions at all. I already read the comic book. So far so great. This is a hard core TV show with 'Guts' to spare.
Mitchellmania		#77	[-]
Nov 8 10 1:45 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Very cool show!! I think it's more like survival horror, than just strait out scares.
SuZanBare		#78	[-]
Nov 8 10 2:19 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Kinda nice to see a new TV show that is NOT about Vampires If Tomatoes are a fruit.... Isn't Ketchup technically a smoothie?
MailOrderZombie		#79	[-]
Nov 8 10 4:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	TomWeaver999 wrote: Not much story progress in episode 2, other than introducing some new characters who join the Hero on his rounds of "We gotta get out of here, gogogogogo!!" I felt the same way. I liked it, but it did feel a bit like wheel-spinning to me . . . Mitchellmania wrote: Very cool show!! I think it's more like survival horror, than just strait out scares. Definitely. That's the strength of the source material, too, and I do get the vibe that everyone involved in the production "gets" that, too. 5-star zombie media podcasting since 2008 - at Mail Order Zombie, we've covered the Night, Dawn and Day of the Dead . . . and all the moments in between. When you think zombie movies, think Mail Order Zombie. http://www.mailorderzombie.com ------------------------------------------- Plan D: The Official Blog of Derek M. Koch - http://www.derekmkoch.com
SuZanBare		#80	[-]
Nov 8 10 5:15 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	AMC has renewed The Walking Dead for a second season, the network announced Monday. The order for a 13-episode second season comes after just two episodes of the first season have aired. The Halloween-night series premiere scored 5.3 million viewers, the largest audience for any original series telecast on AMC. Sunday's second episode brought in 4.7 million viewers. Link If Tomatoes are a fruit.... Isn't Ketchup technically a smoothie?

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