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I enjoyed the first episode or two, mainly for the Atlanta backdrop.

After that I got bored and can't understand the fascination. The people were just too stupid, I didn't want any of them to survive.

The whole Zombie genre has been ruined in the last 10 years or so.

It used to be the only horror genre I liked.
What made them interesting was how it got that way. That was the creative part of the whole movie. Everything else was just more of the same. The new take on the genre isn't very imaginative at all.

I live in Florida. The show is like a god damn documentary. So many smelly rotting corpses lumbering around. What, those are seniors?

World War G

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOOSo8P3hgI

Peter P, sometimes you surprise me. Not very often, but today you did.

I watched part of Episode 2, and the writers thoughtfully but very transparently inserted a super-pandering vignette were a dumb white supremacist is wasting bullets on zombies and is getting chastised by a black man. Looks like white boy is going to get converted at gunpoint.

Whew. I guess the series is safe for black folks after all. Only un-dead un-Americans (like commies and muslims) will be subjected to bullets. We can all feel a lot better now.

Zombie shows are popular because people have lost their minds themselves.

The show is unwatchable by anyone with a functioning brain.

In the first season they establish that zombies can't climb ladders, and that a padlock will pretty much keep hordes of them from getting through a door.

So all you have to do is bolt your doors and use ladders to access your dwelling.

So where do these dumbasses decide to live? In tents in the woods.

The most brilliant show in history was Lost. Only after the finale the audience knows the multiple meanings of the title.

Do zombies have orgasms like lesbians, like, with dead flesh flying all over the place?

I thought being a zombie was already an equal opportunity, multi-cultural thing in which all the races agree that the only thing they want to do is eat the flesh of the living?

Is the zombie racist if it refuses to eat the flesh of another race, nationality or religion?

Do crackers only decapitate or shoot non white zombies in the head?

These issues look like they require billions and billions of Constitutional law dollars to further confuse and complicate the issue.

Zombie lovers give "eating out" a whole new meaning.

This thread made me put 2 words into a search that I had never thought to put next to each other.

Zombie porn

http://www.youtube.com/embed/IoXgRtDysLY

Vicente says

She just read the latest conservative rants on Patrick.net.

Okay, I'm halfway through episode 2. This is purely for the sociology, I swear :-).

At this point, our heroes have axed a dead non-zombie body into pieces and are smearing themselves in the blood and gore, so that they may pass for real (un)dead people while trying to walk amongst zombies to get to some vehicles and escape.

Boy, it is tough to be an American. I mean, all the dirty and terrible things we have to do to protect ourselves against all those other even more terrible people that we, uh, have to protect ourselves against.

But it is ok. Because we are the good guys.

THAT is the psychology of American TV, in a nutshell. It is one gigantic pander-fest to the lowest instincts of the masses. One micro-demographic at a time. I came up with a name for that: Micro-pandering.

Ceffer says

Do crackers only decapitate or shoot non white zombies in the head?

These issues look like they require billions and billions of Constitutional law dollars to further confuse and complicate the issue.

If we decide to keep it simple, what *is* THE issue with zombies, in your opinion?

justme says

It is one gigantic pander-fest to the lowest instincts of the masses.

I'll toss in that zombies seems to fulfill an appetite for BLOOD GORE & VIOLENCE, without real consequences because they are not "people" any more. Our heroes can axe and shoot 50 of them without anyone feeling bad about it.

Sick and tired of violence porn.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/HAo5GgaJmsA

Vicente says

Sick and tired of violence porn.

That's why I ditched cable, and am now very seriously considering ending my Netflix and Hulu account.

89% of any new releases are just horrible badly made "D" grade slasher films.

My wife likes to say... "Put on a scary movie"

then I say... "I'd love to dear, but there aren't any. Do you want to watch a deranged killer pull flesh off living people for about an hour an half?"

Vicente says

Our heroes can axe and shoot 50 of them without anyone feeling bad about it.

Agree. The whole genre serves to desensitize people to violence against people who are "different" (read: commies, arabs, muslims). And apparently there is a big market for that.

justme says

Ad apparently there is a big market for that.

The Market is what ever they decide to show us. Don't kid your self, these aren't selections based on popularity.

90% of the movies even two stars or less. Who in the hell is demanding to see two star movies?

Netfix was an anomaly that was systemically corrected, by those that feed us filth for reasons only they and their studies know. Netflix was a threat to the brainwashing machine. Now they are the grey water waste area.

This genre, just like so many other things, was at its best in the first 30 years of the 20th century. Some of the silent classics can't be rivalled for sheer terror, "Nosferatu" from 1922 being one of the scariest. "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" is also great. In the same manner, horror writers of the late 19th century and early 20th century are far superior to Stephen King or Anne Rule--M. R. James and Algernon Blackwood wrote some of the best of that era, along with H. P. Lovecraft.

only two things i a scared of ... and zumbies is both of em !!!

casandra says

only two things i a scared of ... and zumbies is both of em !!!

1. Slow moving zombies
2. Fast moving zombies

Dan8267 says

casandra says

only two things i a scared of ... and zumbies is both of em !!!

1. Slow moving zombies

2. Fast moving zombies

Fast moving zombies are called vampires.

Peter P says

Fast moving zombies are called vampires.

Never say such a thing to a nerd.

casandra says

only two things i a scared of ... and zumbies is both of em !!!

Dan8267 says

Peter P says

Fast moving zombies are called vampires.

Never say such a thing to a nerd.

Hey, thanks to existential import, all zombies are vempires, and all unicorns are gay. :-)

This proves that Ferguson is just a trumped up liberal wet dream..

justme says

Whew. I guess the series is safe for black folks after all. Only un-dead un-Americans (like commies and muslims) will be subjected to bullets. We can all feel a lot better now.

The best thing to come out of the zombie genre in a long time is 'the last of us' video game. The walking dead is freaking dumb.

A necessary step to maintain our freedoms via the military from the rogue monkeys of the world.

justme says

Vicente says

Our heroes can axe and shoot 50 of them without anyone feeling bad about it.

Agree. The whole genre serves to desensitize people to violence against people who are "different" (read: commies, arabs, muslims). And apparently there is a big market for that.