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The Walking Dead Thread!
oilgun:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on August 21, 2014, 07:51:09 pm ---Oh God...sounds just as bad as those 'zom rom coms' that have been released.
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Well, I loved Warm Bodies. Even as a zombie, Nicholas Hoult looked hot.
southendmd:
--- Quote from: oilgun on August 22, 2014, 03:18:30 am ---Well, I loved Warm Bodies. Even as a zombie, Nicholas Hoult looked hot.
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Agreed!
serious crayons:
Those zombies look way more ... functional than the ones on The Walking Dead. The zombies on TWD pretty much just stagger around silently, either clumsily pawing at the living or getting their heads smashed like pumpkins by our protagonists. They don't have facial expressions. They're so slow and out of it that it's not really that hard to escape them unless they catch you by surprise and corner you en masse.
Also, they don't look just kind of unhealthy or bloody, they are in far later stages of postmortem decay.
I suppose that's part of why the show can be so relentlessly violent. When a human kills a zombie it's gross -- it's gross to see a head smashed to gory pieces with a hard whack from, say, a garden rake. But the zombies are so dehumanized that it's not particularly disturbing; in fact it barely seems like violence.
The real violence is when the zombies kill a human or a human kills a human.
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: oilgun on August 22, 2014, 03:18:30 am ---Well, I loved Warm Bodies. Even as a zombie, Nicholas Hoult looked hot.
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--- Quote from: southendmd on August 22, 2014, 09:04:03 am ---Agreed!
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I'm not disagreeing with you regarding Nicholas Hoult's looks, and I don't deny the talent of anyone involved in those films.
I just don't enjoy those types of films. The whole point of a zombie is that when the brain is 're-activated', it only comes back enough to give it the instincts to walk/move and eat. Memory, emotions, empathy, and all the human aspects are gone. I don't enjoy seeing monsters suddenly becoming romantic objects.
That's one of the issues I have with the Twilight series (and why I've not seen it). I get that vampires have always had a sexuality to them, and also homoeroticism, however, they were still feared.....not like these 'sparkle' vampires.
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on August 22, 2014, 10:26:11 am ---Those zombies look way more ... functional than the ones on The Walking Dead. The zombies on TWD pretty much just stagger around silently, either clumsily pawing at the living or getting their heads smashed like pumpkins by our protagonists. They don't have facial expressions. They're so slow and out of it that it's not really that hard to escape them unless they catch you by surprise and corner you en masse.
Also, they don't look just kind of unhealthy or bloody, they are in far later stages of postmortem decay.
I suppose that's part of why the show can be so relentlessly violent. When a human kills a zombie it's gross -- it's gross to see a head smashed to gory pieces with a hard whack from, say, a garden rake. But the zombies are so dehumanized that it's not particularly disturbing; in fact it barely seems like violence.
The real violence is when the zombies kill a human or a human kills a human.
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I can't really comment on the movies, as I haven't seen them. It depends on the stage of the apocalypse.
In these movies, it could be early stages, when the zombies would be 'fresher' for lack of a better term.
In The Walking Dead, I believe they're actually about 2 years into the apocalypse, so the zombies are very rotted. You'll see a few 'fresher' ones as survivors fall victim to hordes of zombies.
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