Am I the only one in the world who hates The Walking Dead? When I read all the praise heaped on AMC's new series, I feel like it. On Halloween night I watched the much anticipated premier of AMC new series The Walking Dead with millions of nike air max pas cher.
I was excited to see it because it was 'brought to me' by the network that gave me two of my favorite programs "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men."
The horror comics of the early 1950's were called "pre Code' horror. After the code was instigated the comic became bland and did not sell.
But the fact that The Walking Dead was based on Kirkman's graphic novel would not have prejudiced me against watching the series. It was after all, on AMC and I thought they wouldn't let me down.
Moreover, the director of The Walking Dead is Frank Darabont who wrote/co wrote the first three episodes, and directed the premier episode.
Darbont how can you be part of a show that stinks to the high heavens?
Darabont is one of only six film makers in history who had two feature films receive nominations for the Best Picture Academy Award. (Both films were based on the works of Stephen King.)
Darabont adapted the screenplay for each film and elevated it way above the usual Stephen King fare.
Moreover, he directed an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic science fiction novel, "Fahrenheit 451" which he wrote for Castle Rock and Icon Productions.
Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature that paper burns.
In the opening scene of The Last Man on Earth, Dr. Robert Morgan wakes up, fixes himself coffee, and then gathers his weapons to go out and kills everyone he can before they kill him.
It seems that everyone in the world has been infected by a plague that turns them into the undead, including his wife. The film, like The Walking Dead deals with a man, killing the undead. In the Price film it was vampires, in The Walking Dead it is zombies who must be eliminated.
The premier of The Walking Dead started our promising enough when Sheriff Rick Grimes the sheriff's deputy in the fictional King County Georgia gets shot in the line of duty and end up in a hospital.
(Incidentally, the King County Georgia is the same name as the county (King County in Washington state) where my husband worked as a Sheriff's Deputy for thirty years.
Seeing Rick's shirt with King County emblazoned on it made my day, I'm here to tell ya.
On to the plot that is to say, the plot that seems to serve no more of a purpose than to take you to the next gross out scene.
Rick awakens from a coma in a deserted hospital of blood stained walls, rotting corpses in the hall way, a padlockeddoor pushed partly open by hands of people trying to get out. Grimes finds his way out of the hospital and walks out into the world of the dead.
From the time he shoots the little girl in the face The Walking Dead goes down hill.
It seemed every other minute of the episode the 'dead' are killed in the most gruesome way imaginable.
The walking dead are called appropriately enough; "Walkers" and they're everywhere.
After watching the premier on Halloween night I felt more 'tricked' than 'treated' by AMC and knew that I would be watching The Walking Dead no more.
It seems to me (as this opinion is born out by reading the recaps of subsequent episodes and watching video clips) that The Walking Dead only purpose as a series is to gross people out.
I was excited to see it because it was 'brought to me' by the network that gave me two of my favorite programs "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men."
The horror comics of the early 1950's were called "pre Code' horror. After the code was instigated the comic became bland and did not sell.
But the fact that The Walking Dead was based on Kirkman's graphic novel would not have prejudiced me against watching the series. It was after all, on AMC and I thought they wouldn't let me down.
Moreover, the director of The Walking Dead is Frank Darabont who wrote/co wrote the first three episodes, and directed the premier episode.
Darbont how can you be part of a show that stinks to the high heavens?
Darabont is one of only six film makers in history who had two feature films receive nominations for the Best Picture Academy Award. (Both films were based on the works of Stephen King.)
Darabont adapted the screenplay for each film and elevated it way above the usual Stephen King fare.
Moreover, he directed an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic science fiction novel, "Fahrenheit 451" which he wrote for Castle Rock and Icon Productions.
Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature that paper burns.
In the opening scene of The Last Man on Earth, Dr. Robert Morgan wakes up, fixes himself coffee, and then gathers his weapons to go out and kills everyone he can before they kill him.
It seems that everyone in the world has been infected by a plague that turns them into the undead, including his wife. The film, like The Walking Dead deals with a man, killing the undead. In the Price film it was vampires, in The Walking Dead it is zombies who must be eliminated.
The premier of The Walking Dead started our promising enough when Sheriff Rick Grimes the sheriff's deputy in the fictional King County Georgia gets shot in the line of duty and end up in a hospital.
(Incidentally, the King County Georgia is the same name as the county (King County in Washington state) where my husband worked as a Sheriff's Deputy for thirty years.
Seeing Rick's shirt with King County emblazoned on it made my day, I'm here to tell ya.
On to the plot that is to say, the plot that seems to serve no more of a purpose than to take you to the next gross out scene.
Rick awakens from a coma in a deserted hospital of blood stained walls, rotting corpses in the hall way, a padlockeddoor pushed partly open by hands of people trying to get out. Grimes finds his way out of the hospital and walks out into the world of the dead.
From the time he shoots the little girl in the face The Walking Dead goes down hill.
It seemed every other minute of the episode the 'dead' are killed in the most gruesome way imaginable.
The walking dead are called appropriately enough; "Walkers" and they're everywhere.
After watching the premier on Halloween night I felt more 'tricked' than 'treated' by AMC and knew that I would be watching The Walking Dead no more.
It seems to me (as this opinion is born out by reading the recaps of subsequent episodes and watching video clips) that The Walking Dead only purpose as a series is to gross people out.
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