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post #1 of 65
8/24/10 at 2:00pm
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The trailer for the new AMC series is here.

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post #2 of 65
8/24/10 at 2:08pm
"The video you are trying to watch cannot be viewed from your country or location"

Net neutrality my ass.
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post #3 of 65
8/24/10 at 2:12pm
While I'm more forgiving of Kirkman's comic than most around here, this footage really makes me think they may have captured something electric here: sort of righting the wrongs of the comic.

Can't wait for this, although I'll be DVRing it (Halloween night?!? So perfect and yet so wrong).
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post #4 of 65
8/24/10 at 2:13pm
While I agree that the comic series spins its wheels for long stretches, there's certainly strong TV series potential there, and it's looks fairly ballsy, even for cable. Plus, Andrew Lincoln almost sounds American, so a win there.

And you can't have too much Walker Brothers.
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post #5 of 65
8/24/10 at 2:15pm
Interesting music selection. Zombies look great. AMC huh?
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post #6 of 65
8/24/10 at 2:15pm
If this were a movie, I'd be bored. It doesn't look like anything we haven't seen a million times. BUT I am very excited to see the zombie subgenre given a chance to deepen and expand on TV. In this context, this looks great. Just what I was hoping for.
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post #7 of 65
8/24/10 at 2:19pm
Looks very compelling.

Not everything has to reinvent the genre. Sometimes a story well-told is enough.
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post #8 of 65
8/24/10 at 2:23pm
Can't wait! And I've already spotted some discrepencies from the comic. I don't mind that at all, I'm actually curious to see what they change.
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post #9 of 65
8/24/10 at 2:28pm
The shot of the rifle scope coming into frame to center on the zombie was pretty great.
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post #10 of 65
8/24/10 at 2:28pm
I can not WAIT for this.
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post #11 of 65
8/24/10 at 2:29pm
The song was a great choice. It takes good characters for me to get into any show, but this certainly looks like it has potential.
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post #12 of 65
8/24/10 at 2:30pm
I'm on hold with my cable company right now to see what it'll take to expand my cable package to get AMC.
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post #13 of 65
8/24/10 at 2:31pm
Yeah it LOOKS good but all I got was an overwhelming sense of meh. Or would that be an underwhelming sense?

I'll still give it a chance, but I hated, hated the comic and except for the sheriff on the horse, this looks like every other zombie related thing that's come out recently.
I'll actually get excited when I see a zombie movie/tv show that DOESN'T have the now obligatory overhead, pullaway shot of hordes of zombies swarming on the main characters.

I dunno...with 900million zombie related apps for the iphone and everything else zombie related we've been getting over the past few years, is this really the time to release something that's not even remotely original?
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post #14 of 65
8/24/10 at 2:33pm
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"The video you are trying to watch cannot be viewed from your country or location"

Net neutrality my ass.
Can't see it either. But I found this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exy72FOaPvU
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post #15 of 65
8/24/10 at 2:36pm
Well it's zombies, so looks like absolutely nothing we've never seen before, but Darabont is a terrific director with a knack for getting excellent performances out of cheap actors. So I'm stoked.
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post #16 of 65
8/24/10 at 2:43pm
There are the bones of really great characters in the books, so that's what I'm really looking forward to...as long as they get a good child actor for the sheriff's son. But that will actually be pretty difficult if it turns out to be a multi-season show.

Anyway, I understand the problems that people have with the comic. I blasted through the trade paperbacks pretty much all at once up until about issue 50 or 60, which might explain why I don't feel so strongly that it drags. But I think pulling what's best from the books for the show is going to be killer.
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post #17 of 65
8/24/10 at 2:58pm
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Can't see it either. But I found this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exy72FOaPvU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MmCanaLQGE

This one is better.

The first scene is really clumsy. Acting, editing and color correction is all over the place. After that, it gets great.
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post #18 of 65
8/24/10 at 3:22pm
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And you can't have too much Walker Brothers.
Yeah, it may be yet another "ironic" song in a zombie story, but it actually works great here.

Plus: Rooker! Didn't know he was in it. Never read the comic, but it's new horror from Darabont, and it looks great. Can't wait for this.
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post #19 of 65
8/24/10 at 3:38pm
What is knocking me out is the production value. The show has a great look. The zombies look phenomenal. I haven't read too much of the graphic novels so I can't speak to the quality of the story. I do know there are a lot of issues though, so no shortage of source material should the show take off.
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post #20 of 65
8/24/10 at 3:48pm
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Well it's zombies, so looks like absolutely nothing we've never seen before, but Darabont is a terrific director with a knack for getting excellent performances out of cheap actors. So I'm stoked.
What we've seen before? As far as the Zombie monster goes, there really isn't anything more you can do with them, that's hasn't been done already. Any good zombie film, doesn't rely on the zombie action/gore to carry it either. It's the characters, their interaction, their stories, their personalaties that make the difference between good zombie, and bad zombie stories. With Darabont helming this, you know all those elements and more, will be in play in ways we haven't seen yet in zombie lore. I'm pumped..

Holy shit too, that's alot of "shit" talk for even cable.
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post #21 of 65
8/24/10 at 3:49pm
Maybe it's because I haven't watched AMC in awhile, but when did they start allowing usage of the word shit?

Not that I'm complaining. I'm really looking forward to this series.
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post #22 of 65
8/24/10 at 3:50pm
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MmCanaLQGE

This one is better.

The first scene is really clumsy. Acting, editing and color correction is all over the place. After that, it gets great.
agreed. The first 30 seconds really made me worried, but after that, it was perfect. Here's hoping that first scene was just a poorly edit segment for the trailer, and not a reflection of the whole series.

I've never read the comics, and from what I hear, I'm not missing much, but the tank scene really was jarring. Suicide either way.
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post #23 of 65
8/24/10 at 4:03pm
Looks awsome. It is gonna be a long ass wait until October.
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post #24 of 65
8/24/10 at 4:11pm
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Interesting music selection. Zombies look great. AMC huh?
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Maybe it's because I haven't watched AMC in awhile, but when did they start allowing usage of the word shit?

Not that I'm complaining. I'm really looking forward to this series.
Go watch/buy/rent Breaking Bad season one.

You're welcome.
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post #25 of 65
8/24/10 at 4:17pm
Oh damn - that's right. I forgot Breaking Bad was an AMC series.

Thanks, Sean!
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post #26 of 65
8/24/10 at 4:18pm
"Bullshit" is uttered quite a bit on Mad Men.

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The first scene is really clumsy. Acting, editing and color correction is all over the place. After that, it gets great.
I'd bet my hat that that scene is severely cut down for this trailer. Like, a lot. In fact, we never even see the guy who shoots Rick get out of the crashed car.

I really hope the kid they got for Carl can act.
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post #27 of 65
8/24/10 at 4:24pm
I try to avoid fanboyish hyperbolizing, but I really don't see how any horror fan could not see this as the greatest thing to ever happen. This is going to change my life. It's going to come out of my television and give me a blow job.

Seriously though, I have to roll my eyes at the "I'm sick of zombies" argument to dismiss this. This seriously has the potential to be THE definitive zombie apocalypse story -- an ongoing narrative that can take the premise to every dark corner, to take it places it's never been. I just hope the public embraces it enough to warrant many, many seasons. Oh, and that it's good.

This may be the first Halloween in decades where I stay home.
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post #28 of 65
8/24/10 at 4:33pm
Love how people all over the internet, who obviously have no idea how TV works, is already calling this show a flop for only having 6 episodes for season 1. My forehead hurts so much from slapping it.
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post #29 of 65
8/24/10 at 4:49pm
I trust AMC. I'm sold.

Regarding the zombie trend thing, I think Phil said it best (as he often does):
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Hating on trends in general just doesn't work. Vampires are done and tired and need a rest until a Let The Right One In turns up in the middle of the glut and proves otherwise. Zombie movies are over - oh, wait, exept for Zombieland. Origin stories are lame, until Casino Royale takes the crown of Best Bond Movie Everrrrrr. It's all some case-by-case shit. If it works, it works.
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post #30 of 65
8/24/10 at 4:57pm
Yeah, Phil really nails it with that one. I hate him for making me feel so inadequate.
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post #31 of 65
8/24/10 at 5:12pm
Looks zombie-riffic. I'm there. It's one of those ideas (long-form zombie series) that I'm surprised hasn't been done already.
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post #32 of 65
8/24/10 at 5:27pm
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Go watch/buy/rent Breaking Bad season one.

You're welcome.
This. So very fucking THIS. THIS forever and ever and ever.

Between 'The Walking Dead', 'Sons of Anarchy' and possibly that new show 'Terriers' (still wondering how that's going to be), this should be a good season of TV.
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post #33 of 65
8/24/10 at 5:46pm
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My forehead hurts so much from slapping it.
Says the dude who can't grasp how time travel works in Prisoner of Azkhaban.
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post #34 of 65
8/24/10 at 5:59pm
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Looks zombie-riffic. I'm there. It's one of those ideas (long-form zombie series) that I'm surprised hasn't been done already.
FWIW, I believe that's what Zombieland was originally pitched as.
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post #35 of 65
8/24/10 at 6:30pm
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The first scene is really clumsy. Acting, editing and color correction is all over the place. After that, it gets great.
It's not just the editing, that first bit looks very "TV" in a bad low-budget way(car roll excluded). The rest looks fantastic and much more cinematic.

I'm rather psyched.
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post #36 of 65
8/24/10 at 6:57pm
The first scene made expect zombies were going to attack the cops. Then nothing....then that INCREDIBLE Walker Brothers song that made me immediately download it from iTunes...then ROOKER!

I may now have a new tv show to take over the void left from Lost.
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post #37 of 65
8/24/10 at 8:06pm
The intro in this brought my expectations way, way down. I'll still give it a fair chance because I love zombies and Darabont deserves my patronage for anything he does for making The Mist.
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post #38 of 65
8/24/10 at 8:36pm
That felt...off. For some reason the song felt less "chillingly ironic" and more just tonally weird. And I'm not sold on the lead's performance...I guess decades of TV and movies have conditioned me not to take that kind of accent seriously? Thanks, stereotyping!

Zombies look great, though. And I'm still plenty psyched for the show, I just don't think that was a very good teaser.

It is weird how I'm usually very insistent on always getting something new, yet I'm cool with this just being a standard NOTLD ripoff in TV form. I guess it's just that doing a zombie TV show feels like the kind of thing we should have gotten before now, so I'm just like "finally!" Though I am still a little uncertain of using the "hero wakes up from a coma to discover the world ended" trope yet AGAIN. That would have been the first thing I'd've changed from the comic.
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post #39 of 65
8/24/10 at 8:48pm
The song isn't ironic. It's about how losing the one you love makes you feel like it's the end of the world. In context, it's hardly ironic. "I'm Walking on Sunshine" would have been ironic.
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post #40 of 65
8/24/10 at 8:54pm
That opening is going to get a lot of "28 Days Later rip off!" cries from casual viewers.

Do love the tank bit though. Makes me wonder just how the hell he's going to get out of THAT.
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post #41 of 65
8/24/10 at 8:57pm
Looks great. Can't wait.
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post #42 of 65
8/24/10 at 9:01pm
Sold. At worst, it'll be a fun way to spend Halloween.
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post #43 of 65
8/24/10 at 9:47pm
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Says the dude who can't grasp how time travel works in Prisoner of Azkhaban.
my future self says your wrong about azkaban... considering there is no H, in the past or future
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post #44 of 65
8/24/10 at 10:02pm
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That opening is going to get a lot of "28 Days Later rip off!" cries from casual viewers.
28 Days Later came out in 2002 and The Walking Dead came in 2003.
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post #45 of 65
8/24/10 at 10:24pm
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28 Days Later came out in 2002 and The Walking Dead came in 2003.
So what you're saying is
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That opening is going to get a lot of "28 Days Later rip off!" cries from casual viewers.
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post #46 of 65
8/24/10 at 10:26pm
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28 Days Later came out in 2002 and The Walking Dead came in 2003.
And The Day Of The Triffids was published in 1951.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_triffids

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The narrative begins with Masen in hospital, his eyes bandaged after having been splashed with droplets of triffid venom in a lab accident. During his convalescence he is told of the unexpected and beautiful green meteor shower that the entire world is watching. He awakes the next morning to a silent hospital and learns that the light from the unusual display has rendered any who watched it completely blind. (It is later suggested - though never confirmed - that the 'meteor shower' may have been a weapons system that was triggered accidentally.)
After unbandaging his eyes, he wanders through a largely sightless London, watching civilization collapsing around him.
And yeah, the trailer looks great. KNB rules. Etc, etc.
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post #47 of 65
8/24/10 at 10:35pm
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So what you're saying is
What I don't get is the "casual viewers" thing. What does that mean? A rip-off is a rip-off. And Doc Phibes is right about Day of the Triffids. Reading the book, 28 Days Later feels like an adaptation.
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post #48 of 65
8/24/10 at 10:37pm
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Do love the tank bit though. Makes me wonder just how the hell he's going to get out of THAT.

He's probably going to get out of THAT after starting up the tank and mowing down the zombies and anything else that gets in his way.

A couple of questions come to mind: Do armored vehicles have ignition keys? and, How did that tank come to be abandoned in the first place?
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post #49 of 65
8/24/10 at 10:43pm
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He's probably going to get out of THAT after starting up the tank and mowing down the zombies and anything else that gets in his way.

A couple of questions come to mind: Do armored vehicles have ignition keys? and, How did that tank come to be abandoned in the first place?
Hey, I'm just worried about who or what is inside the damn thing... like the last guy who crawled in there and died of thirst, perhaps?
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post #50 of 65
8/24/10 at 10:45pm
This looks so damn good. I'm loving on the zombie make-up big time.
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