The Walking Dead (Page 8)

Bigfuzzydoug - 2010-12-12 10:56 PM

Carriers dude....  Carriers.  Malaria, West Nile Virus, etc...  They don't infect or kill the mosquito, but the damn things can still transmit and infect people.  Normal mosquitos flying around biting people transmitting the zombie walker virus?  Holy crap!  That would be like game over.  Maybe the only ones left standing would be those in the Arctic, Antarctic, desert, on an aircraft carrier or submarine that never makes port, on the ISS, or sealed up in an underground nuclear/chemical bunker - until the food, water, fuel and air run out.

I love this chit!

abrezo - 2010-12-14 9:49 AM In this forum, somebody was compiling a survival guide for the coming zombies, anyone have a link?

mmrocker13 - 2010-12-14 10:17 AM It's more than that, at this stage...they've done a script rewrite, hired a director and lead actor (Pitt...who is also producing, or at least his company is), and, of course, announced it at Comic COn, which TOTALLY makes it real. :-)

hrliles - 2010-12-12 6:24 PMOne last thoiugt, in that 1st episode, the mother of the family that helped the sheriff, don't remember their name.  She was a Zombie but she acted as if she was familiar with her house, remember, she came back to it and went up to the door, can a Zombie.  Can the guys get smarter as they Walk....sustain?  Though it's a movie, that would make it fun!

verga - 2010-12-14 7:04 PM

In Dawn of the dead (Shopping mall one) the Zombies kept trying to get into the building, one of the people said it was some sort of herding instinct.

wstchstrTriathlete - 2010-12-14 7:48 AM

IMDB page reports it is in pre-production with a possible 2012 release. I just hope they don't screw this one up like they did with "I Am Legend." The book was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better!

furiousferret - 2010-12-15 11:22 AM

Pretty sure the movie is going to be done at some date.  Brad Pitt and DiCaprio had a huge bidding war over it which the rights sold for alot of money.  I doubt they are going to let it collect dust with all that cash invested in it.

While I doubt the movie will be better than the book, it will still be entertaining; you can go alot of directions with it and a good screenwriter is going to make or break the movie; not the actors or directors.

mmrocker13 - 2010-12-16 10:31 AM The encore presentations of the entire season will be Jan. 18 and 19, starting at 7:00 (central time).

jonathan.evitts - 2010-12-19 4:56 PM I didn't read the whole thread and I'm late to the party, but I do have to say after buying and watching this via iTunes/Apple TV... WTF? Only six episodes? I love the mix of drama and character interaction but am very disappointed by the length of the season, especially after having been picked up for a second season after only two episodes.

Bigfuzzydoug - 2010-12-15 10:45 AM



The problem with 'I Am Legend' is that the stupid-arse screenwriters must have read the Clif Notes version and didn't bother to read the last several chapters.  Because the movie got it BACKWARDS!  The book was so much better with the point:  Humanity has transformed into a new type of creature and Dr. Robert Neville is INFAMOUSLY legendary as a monsterous, horrific butcher!  He kidnaps people, conducts experiments on them and kills them.  He's the Dr. Josef Mengele of the time.  The girl he is experimenting on is the leader's DAUGHTER!  He's trying to rescue his own daughter from the bad guy.  Will Smith is supposed to be shown as the BAD GUY in the end.  Not some legendary hero of humanity.  The movie just totally blew the ending and for that - IT SUCKED!!!!

gearboy - 2010-12-15 9:14 AM



I would think of them more as acting like ants - very little individual initiative or thought, but mindlessly following a communal behavior.  They may not be as orderly, but the same basic effect, of overrunning everything in their path, and by sheer numbers, inflicting a lot of damage. Whereas herding is used by animals that are more prey than predator for safety; and group hunters (like wolves) use more intelligent coordination of roles than zombies demonstrate.

mr2tony - 2010-12-24 5:26 AM Actually, Romero originally came up with Night of the Living Dead as a gorefest, something to shock people. Then Dawn of the Dead was made as a protest of commercialism, which is why it was set in a mall. The dead go there because they're mindless zombies drawn to the commercialism that is a shopping mall. The rest were made for money.