The Walking Dead

[ButcherBill]

I used to watch this religiously years ago but stopped for some reason, just started again & laughing my arse off as I've watched a couple of episodes from S8 and seen thousands of shots fired & not a single case being ejected. I know it's a 'drama' but seriously... I'd expect ammo to be a luxury in a post apocalyptic world.

Edited Monday at 16:41 by ButcherBill

[Tackle]

Loved the show from the beginning, even when the storylines have "slowed", & yeah you've got to learn to ignore all the glaring mistakes & holes in the plot, it still kicks the proverbial out of all the copycat series & films you find floating around on amazon etc.

The newer spin-offs have been quite good, Darrell Dixons story in particular,  the last series ended with him & carol walking through the channel tunnel, & a snippet i saw from the new series showed them meeting up with one of the last remaing brits, plated by Stephen merchant, so should be funny if nothing else ?.

On a similar vein, been a big fan of the 28 days later genre, in particular 28 weeks as the filmed a lot of it in & around my old workplace when I was there, but saw the 3rd instalment recently, 28 years, gotta say I was seriously disappointed, but it did end as if there's another instalment coming, hopefully that'll be better ?.

[ButcherBill]

I'm not a zombie junkie, but like a few series, when it gets properly silly I tend to lose interest but most shows are like that...LOST to name one. I reckon they don't expect to as successful so don't plan for the long haul. I do like a zombie film tho, 28 days etc especially but when series run out of ideas they turn crap.

I liked Z Nation, prob coz it didn't take it's self seriously.

 

I've had a gripe with TWD since episode 1 tho... not a SINGLE character has mentioned the word Zombie. (as far as I know).

[Cannonfodder]

I used to be a fan of the zombie horror genre but got bored as they all seem to follow the same overused cookie cutter plotlines making them boring and predictable. While I haven't watched The Walking Dead, from clips I have seen it doesn't look any different

[HZR13]

I did enjoy first 3 seasons then lost interest

[Tackle]

2 hours ago, ButcherBill said:

I'm not a zombie junkie, but like a few series, when it gets properly silly I tend to lose interest but most shows are like that...LOST to name one. I reckon they don't expect to as successful so don't plan for the long haul. I do like a zombie film tho, 28 days etc especially but when series run out of ideas they turn crap.

I liked Z Nation, prob coz it didn't take it's self seriously.

 

I've had a gripe with TWD since episode 1 tho... not a SINGLE character has mentioned the word Zombie. (as far as I know).

Z nation was terrible, watched a few in the beginning,  gave up, then revisited it years later,  still shite lol.

TWD prob don't mention the Z word in case they have to pay royalties to George Romeros estate every time lol.

[Colin Allen]

On 25/08/2025 at 19:31, Tackle said:

Loved the show from the beginning, even when the storylines have "slowed", & yeah you've got to learn to ignore all the glaring mistakes & holes in the plot, it still kicks the proverbial out of all the copycat series & films you find floating around on amazon etc.

The newer spin-offs have been quite good, Darrell Dixons story in particular,  the last series ended with him & carol walking through the channel tunnel, & a snippet i saw from the new series showed them meeting up with one of the last remaing brits, plated by Stephen merchant, so should be funny if nothing else ?.

On a similar vein, been a big fan of the 28 days later genre, in particular 28 weeks as the filmed a lot of it in & around my old workplace when I was there, but saw the 3rd instalment recently, 28 years, gotta say I was seriously disappointed, but it did end as if there's another instalment coming, hopefully that'll be better ?.

I rather liked 28 Years Later which, apparently, is the first of three films.  I don't think it is a zombie film per se, rather a coming of age/loss of innocence film set in a UK where zombies exist but are now just an accepted threat and life is a struggle for existence.  I also felt that the UK's isolation was somewhat a commentary about Brexit.

Ralph Fiennes character stole the show for me.  Erik, the Swedish sailor, was something of a conundrum; as the Lad said, how does a shipwrecked Swedish sailor end up equipped like a Tier 2 operator?

1 hour ago, Tackle said:

Z nation was terrible, watched a few in the beginning,  gave up, then revisited it years later,  still shite lol.

TWD prob don't mention the Z word in case they have to pay royalties to George Romeros estate every time lol.

Z Nation started off reasonably well but really jumped the shark; I gave up on it.

[hitmanNo2]

Z Nation was quite refreshing compared to TWD as it didn't take itself seriously and was very silly at times (most of the time).

[Cannonfodder]

Are we forgetting the best zombie film of the past 25 years?

[Colin Allen]

5 hours ago, Cannonfodder said:

Are we forgetting the best zombie film of the past 25 years?

That was indeed something of an oversight on our part.

[ButcherBill]

I lost my zombie cherry to Dawn of the Dead some time in the 80's. one of 'many' vhs rentals at the time (IYKYK)

[Tackle]

3 hours ago, ButcherBill said:

I lost my zombie cherry to Dawn of the Dead some time in the 80's. one of 'many' vhs rentals at the time (IYKYK)

Mate, i remember seeing the trailer on Jonathan Ross in 2004 for the later version, ving rhames & Sarah polley etc, gave me goosebumps, fast zombies ffs 😱, loved that film.

17 hours ago, Colin Allen said:

I rather liked 28 Years Later which, apparently, is the first of three films.  I don't think it is a zombie film per se, rather a coming of age/loss of innocence film set in a UK where zombies exist but are now just an accepted threat and life is a struggle for existence.  I also felt that the UK's isolation was somewhat a commentary about brexit

Lol, Yeah I spotted the Brexit dig, thanks Europe for stepping up when we needed your help for a change😏