Did anyone else think the escape from the tank was a missed opportunity for awesomeness?

How about using the grenade? Or using the tank's inside front mounted 50 cal? Or the one on top? It just seemed kind of lame, then I saw that a woman wrote the episode, and it all made sense. No offense ladies, but that's just not your kind of stuff to be writing.

they both came out around the same time. I think its coincidental, and both writers just needed a way to skip past the why and how of the outbreak, and get to the survival part. A coma is the perfect writing device to accomplish that.

No doubt the grenade will come into play in a later episode. They put too much emphasis on that scene for them to not take advantage of it at some time. (pretty sure he stuck it in his pocket, if I remember correctly)

Was kinda hoping he was gonna try to start the tank up though. It's probably the first thing most people would have tried to do, even if they had no idea how to drive one.

Agreed, but having the same intro in 2 different zombie movies in the same year is well past coincidence.

In this interview i found with Danny Boyle the interviewer says Walking Dead comic came out 6 months after 28 Days Later-http://www.aintitcool.com/node/39124

"Quint: Have you ever read Robert Kirkman?s WALKING DEAD, the graphic novels?
Danny Boyle: No.
Quint: The comic book. It?s like one of my favorite? it?s like the zombie story that George Romero never told, essentially. It?s that kind of thing. It?s a great book, but it came out maybe within six eight months after your movie. And it opens almost exactly the same.
Danny Boyle: Does it?
Quint: And he got a lot of crap for it and he?s like ?no I swear, when I wrote it, it hadn?t come out,? but it?s a cop who in the first page it?s the only page of the entire series that is pre-zombie and so it?s a cop with him and his partner in a shootout, and he gets hit, and then in the next page he?s in the hospital waking up."



Not to defend 28 Days later though, it wasn't all that a bag of blood either.

yeah i thought he was going to kill some zombies with the tank maybe use the gun on top.

episode 2 was meh. zombies sniffing other "zombies" - fucking retarded. very disappointed.

Watched the first ep will surely check out the 2nd one, it's good to see a decent Zombie series sick of the crap (movies) they have been pushing out lately...

episode 1: 8.5/10
episode 2: 7/10

lovin' it :)

Likes the 2end episode a lot better then the first.. Great stuff!

Looks like I will have something to watch when Dexter goes off the air in a few months

Everybody sees this as a 28 Day Later rip off. In all honesty I didn't really think 28 Day Later was the great a movie. Why does everyone love it so much?

I don't know this show.

I watched a classic yesterday though: The Return of the Living Dead.
It was awesome.

I haven't seen that in years ay, I heard they are making a new Evil Dead lets hope that turns out decent.

the horde 2009 check that out ok zombie film

Zombo.com is quite honestly the best website i have ever visited on the internet LOL!

I didn't realize that season 1 will only be 6 episodes. Found that out today when reading about AMC ordering a second season with 13 episodes.

AMC did the same thing with Breaking Bad.

damn only 6 :(

I didnt think it was that hot either especially since they shot on digital and the "film" cost 10 million to make. Not impressive. i'm sure alot of that dough ended up in various pockets and not in the film.

Davy - Return of the living dead! now thats a freakin zombie movie. hilarious and of course a butt ass naked Linea Quigley didnt hurt either;)

Hmm I hope it´ll be good but I doubt it. Do you know if Sam Raimi will be directing it?

There's a lot more that goes into making an action movie than the cost of the film. 10 million is cheap for a flick like 28 Days Later. They shot on recognizable deserted streets in London, there were lots of people to hire as zombies, lots of stuntwork, some CG effects, a well known director and star. You make no sense.

Yeah...and I remember being pissed out having to wait on season 2 after a quick taste with that one too. :1orglaugh

As for it being a 28 Days Later rip off, TWD is based on a comic series that has been around longer than 28 Days Later :winkwink:

That makes two of us.

I love zombies.

i can't wait to see if he gets back with his wife.

thats coming she left him for dead.

Walking Dead is not like 28 Days Later at all...

Come on people... how can you compare slow vs fast zombies? Just not the same, period.

The waking up to weird bad mojo is a common motif in the Zombie Genre.

Did anyone happen to consider that the tank ammo was exhausted? Or that facing one direction in a turret might not be the best idea with a thousand zombies surrounding you?

Do I need to get Romero himself in hear to explain all this?

a flame thrower would have been good. :thumbsup

Funny you should say that... I was just wondering myself this morning why they weren't going with the homemade incediaries at the very least...

Why didn't the black dude give those tools (after he lost the key) to the white guy so he could cut himself loose? In the first part of the episode the nazi was asking for those tools, why did not he ask for them at the end of the episode?

tank was a total missed opportunity.

The opening was a 28 Days Later rip, but still the show is really good. I hear Season 2 is already green lighted. :)

rip? so 28 days has the rights to waking up to a hospital? :error

few more days and its zombie time.

film can be a large part of the budget.

A 1,000 foot magazine (12 minutes) of 35mm film costs about $500. It cost another $100 or so to get it developed.
Once you get your 12 minutes of film back as a negative, it costs about $800 an hour to telecine it, which is to transfer it to digital or video so you can see or do anything with it.

so for every 12 MINUTES of film you are looking at 1,400 bucks just to get it developed and get it on video to even do a rough edit, that has nothing to do with the final color correction and mastering which can easily run 1,000 PER MINUTE.

Now lets talk about ratios. With a standard film going into theatrical release the ratio of film or video being expended can range from 5:1 to 20:1, so lets say 28 Days Later was shot on film at a 10:1 ratio and 90 minutes long = 900 minutes / 12 = 75 1,000 foot rolls of film X 1,400 dollars = 105,000 dollars just to get the film,develop it and put it on video to do a raw edit.
Figure another 50k for the editor and another 100k for the color correction and master...

So you are easily over 250,000 dollars for the film alone, not counting the cameras, crew etc you need when you are shooting on film...totally different animal.

Shooting on top of the line HD video? Practically free in comparison.

that being said cgi is cheap, i refer you now to "Monsters" which was just made for 15 thousand dollars loaded with amazing cgi of devasted towns, creatures etc.

but yes you have danny boyle and that actor so where does the money go;)

10 million was a joke for that movie.

I was wondering that also as they emphasized him tripping over the tools and knocking them off the ledge.

It all comes into play later on down the road.