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 August 25 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😏

[hunter511]

Going with the original post from this thread I'm aware of at least one zombie series that makes repeated references to TWD about the characters repeatedly ending up covered in 'walker' blood, guts etc and yet suffering no ill effects whatsoever from being slathered head to toe in biologically hazardous/infectious fluids. However 1 tiny scratch when its needed for the plot and that's it they're done.

Edited Friday at 21:04 by hunter511

[ButcherBill]

Yeah, I guess fictional realy is open to 'artistic flair'.

Edited 7 hours ago by ButcherBill

[Tackle]

Think of 28 days later, Brendan Gleason looks up at a noisy crow that's been pecking at the dead, just in time for one singular drop of blood to get him in the eye, 30 seconds later he's foaming at the mouth etc, yet at other times their covered in fluids from the infected they've slaughtered, not an issue apparently lol