Tresa Cawley's blog ::...of poor to stupid decisions: When we can't seem to close our borders, we continue...upon creating 'sanctuary cities' where illegality is ordered to be ...
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 others. 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." I didn't know that it was based on the graphic comic book by Robert Kirkman---I haven't read a comic book since I was ten years old. Yes, even back when dinosaurs roamed the earth we had horror comics. The horror comics of the early 1950's were called "pre-Code' horror. This was in reference to the Comic Code Authority that was created due to the public outcry against the gory and lurid content of the comic books. 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. The "Shawshank Redemption" in l994 and in1999 "The Green Mile." He collected Oscar nominations from the Writers Guide of America for Shawshank Redemption. (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. Got a match for The Walking Dead scripts? With the Walking Dead being in such capable hands- I thought there would be no way The Walking Dead that would be less than wonderful. Way. The preview of the series that showed Sheriff Rick Grimes (played by Andrew Lincoln) riding into a deserted Atlanta on horseback with all the abandoned cars along the highway, I expected the same kind of chills that I got from the movie starring Vincent Price called, "The Last Man On Earth." The Last Man on Earth was remade several times; the most recent was "I Am Legend" with Will Smith, but even with all its special effects, it was not as 'scary' as that old black and white film. 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. One person even compared it to Mad Men in character development! Did she mean to say that killing zombies in horrible ways developed one's character? Or perhaps she meant the series was 'character driven.' Then again, she was probably connected with the series in some capacity and cashing some pretty healthy paychecks. When you watch The Walking Dead In the comfort of your home you can see people get their head bashed in with pick axes, and shovels, shot in the brain, decapitated, chopped up, disemboweled; not to mention zombies crawling along the streets with half of their bodies gone, and their guts trailing after them You don't even have to go to your neighboring theatre to see rotting faces, blood smeared bodies, and hear all the sloshing, gushing, slurping, chomping sounds as the Zombies are killed one after another as they come after the living prey. When a human is killed they descend upon the body and tear it apart with such ferocity that a school of hungry piranhas in shallow water couldn't match. And these gory scenes go on forever. I have never seen guts and gore from so many camera angles, close-ups, complete with sickening sounds of blood gushing and bodies being chopped since I channel surfed and landed one of the "Saw" movies. Of course a series about zombies will be gory (I understand this) it's just that I feel that the gory scenes go on far too long and seem to have the objective of appealing to that segment of the population that 'get' off' on watching gratuitious violence. But the Saw Movie franchise is not well acted, well directed, well written, and well photographed: Saw is just a stupid movie with a story line that acts only as a way to get to the next torture, or mutilation scene. In my opinion The Walking Dead is beginning to 'stink'---- and it seems with each episode the stench gets worse. The plot gets dumber and more improbable with each episode. I haven't watched an episode of The Walking Dead since Halloween night but the son of our next door neighbor is crazy about it. Since I'm writing only about the premier episode, I thought I better ask his opinion of some of the other episodes. He was happy to oblige me and he explained in detail that in episode two he got to see a zombie eat a rat. (wow.) He told me that a zombie body is cut open and then hacked to pieces. Glen and Rick smear themselves with the guts and gore; and one of them dangles an arm on himself for good measure. This is done, he says with gusto so they can walk among the dead. The dead can't smell the dead, you see. He went on to describe more gory details of the episode but my stomach was beginning to churn and I had to stop him. (I didn't want to risk throwing up all over his Nike Air Max shoes.) Heeeeeeear's Johnny! Today I learned that The Walking Dead is coming back for a 13 episode second season. The series has broken records with viewers in the 18-49 demo, and its popularity mounts. I won't even be surprised if it picks up all sorts of television programming awards. Sharon Yguado SVP Scripted Programming, Fox International was quoted (I am ROGUE.com in a piece written by JimmyO) as saying: "I wish all programming decisions were no brainers like this one," She goes on to opine "The Walking Dead is a TV masterpiece on so many levels..." The Last Woman on Earth Who hates The Walking Dead Yeah, Sharon, you said one word that The last Woman on Earth Who hates the Walking Dead agrees with: 'masterpiece'. It's a masterpiece, alright, a masterpiece of exploitation of the people in a certain age group that can't get enough of being 'grossed out' on a weekly basis. It's a masterpiece of marketing, and it is a masterpiece of getting talented people on board who are, like the zombies, conditioned to run toward the sound of ringing cash registers. And about bit about The Walking Dead being a TV masterpiece on so many levels?, I would like to know what level you're talking about. How can you go lower than a basement?, and that's where this 'masterpiece' should end up. And she wishes "all programming decisions were no brainers" like this one. Well, she got that part right. The Walking Dead is a No Brainer. The AMC series lost its brain to the zombies in the first five minutes of the Halloween premier. http://www.iamrogue.com/news/movie-news/item/1605-the-walking-dead-picked-up-for-another-season.html http://www.samuelsdesign.com/comics/ahorror_crime.html |
Image of where can you watch walking dead
where can you watch walking dead Image 1
where can you watch walking dead Image 2
where can you watch walking dead Image 3
where can you watch walking dead Image 4
where can you watch walking dead Image 5
Related blog with where can you watch walking dead
- the-otolith.blogspot.com/...thousand words. "Gringa, you cut your hair. No more men...fire together, that fire is dead." Che pulled on ... in Northern California where she examines the way...
- defiant-infidel.blogspot.com/...of poor to stupid decisions: When we can't seem to close our borders, we continue...upon creating 'sanctuary cities' where illegality is ordered to be ...
- houseofkidz.blogspot.com/...can catch a dead fly, once in...Very funny. So, where's your other...somewhere." "So you guys...empty Coke can. "That guy...down at my watch. "You know...Goodnight." As I walked back to my...
- cyclingpeace.blogspot.com/...you haven't got a penny (to give), then God Bless you!' Strange to me that Christmas is...There's no such thing as an objective world! MORE WHEN I CAN...
- el-vox.blogspot.com/...with the usual stuff I normally watch: American Pickers off...period. Bunny costumes, can't be bad, right? The X Factor...Cowell, sorry I can't go there. So you checking out any of...
- podvodniks.blogspot.com/...the office all afternoon." We walked back to our room and Jan immediately...as I looked at my watch and saw that it was.... "It’s not like you have any work to do; and besides...
- inappropriate.blogspot.com/...a wrong turn down a dead-end, where I notice a half-...s, shot some pool and watched Mall Rats in full... over Pat Benetar can also be quite fun. I don...
- macabrepoemsbydennislsiluk.blogspot.com/...now left Pergamum where the Queen and...noble family, as you know Nimrod; he...low forehead, and walks with a slump like...man, like a near dead man you might say..., although he can talk several ...
- chezodysseus.blogspot.com/... their lives totally around their primal passions). You see where ideas can lead, even beyond what you actually envisioned. You want to be really careful...
- the-otolith.blogspot.com/...the track go “dead”. J: But I do... to a pitch where I can begin to fathom... of soymilk. You were ...counter with friend, watching me. You...
Where Can You Watch Walking Dead - Blog Homepage Results
... your Twitter account. (Log Out) You are commenting using... #fb 3 days ago Watching reports on #looting in #London...
...to drink that night and what can I say I’m only human...cross my mind, my life with you means more to ...month. Because baby when I watch you walk down the aisle I want you...
... in this way. I can see Jo grinning over her...scot replied: thank you for sharing this Lyndall... and began to walk up the stairs, towards...
Related Video with where can you watch walking dead
where can you watch walking dead Video 1
where can you watch walking dead Video 2
where can you watch walking dead Video 3
where can you watch walking dead
Watch Walking Dead Season 3 Watch Walking Dead Season 1 Watch Walking Dead Episode 3 Watch Walking Dead Episode 301 Watch Walking Dead Free Watch Walking Dead Live Watch Walking Dead Full Episodes LetMeWatchThis
댓글 없음:
댓글 쓰기