The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead (2010) 

It doesn't work on me. It doesn't work on me at all, just like everything that comes out and imitates the work of George A. Romero and his legendary Dawn of the Dead. Romero gave his little sheep... sorry, zombies qualities that unfortunately don't give them much hope of existence in a hostile world, where they would be subjected to competitive pressure. In nature, it's not the taller, heavier or stronger that triumphs, but the smarter one. In the real world, the unfortunate zombies would be brutally massacred by the living humans, who, despite the pressures of civilization in recent centuries, still retain a hidden instinctual aggression, which they unleash through hunting, various games, or war campaigns. Huge arsenals of armies, security forces, and all sorts of lunatics preparing for doomsday would quickly reduce their numbers to almost zero. If the zombie genre is not approached as a parody or significantly modified, then it simply misses the mark for me. By the way, it's quite interesting how the American film industry loves the end of civilization from a zombie invasion. I can imagine dozens of completely real collapses of civilization that no one bothers to adapt for the big screen, and these silly things are churned out one after another. One more thing I would specifically criticize Darabont for - although it's more of a job for the screenwriter - is that he approached his story more as a depiction of survival of an isolated community in the midst of a hostile world. If such a collapse really happened, I feel like I would have completely different concerns and would use completely different expressions and do completely different things than the protagonists of the series. I watched the first three episodes and then the final episode of the second season, and I painfully realized that I, as I often do, did a good job of predicting and understanding how it would all develop, including the character development. Overall impression: 45%. (09/01/2013)