The Walking Dead Crashes Lifeless Romantic Comedy Movie

[Elvaril]

Everyone saying that he would get shot or attacked, you are wrong. They did this same kind of advertisement around the Atlanta area in Georgia for Season 1 and I personally know several people that they painted up and set loose in malls and other such public places. Nothing negative ever happened to them.

 

[repeating integers]

God, people, Americans can't all be stupid gun-toting rednecks. I doubt the zombie actor stood a chance of getting hurt.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Americans can't all be stupid gun-toting rednecks.

That may be the nicest thing a member of the Escapist has ever said about my country...

Anyway, you're right. They wouldn't be attacked. Once, a group of about 20 "zombies" stampeded through my university's dining hall. Amazingly, no one was hurt.

OT: To be honest, that was pretty obnoxious and silly. I would have had zombies invade the actual trailer as well. The way they did it, it...really didn't make a whole lot of sense. There's a cheesy fake trailer playing...then a zombie walks into the theater....Then the woman in the trailer kills the theater zombie. WATCH "WALKING DEAD" BECAUSE ZOMBIES. THE END.

Huh? I don't get it.

 

[BrotherRool]

I'm beginning to get tired of 'the prank' advertising campaigns. I guess they all just hit the same notes? Like when there are 10 flash mob adverts it begins to just make flash mobs seem like less fun.

I wouldn't worry too much about being the target of this sort of thing. My money's on the audience itself being part of the "prank." Setting aside the liability issues that the marketers and the theater would face, there are some technical oddities with the video itself.

During the wide-angle shots where you see the trailer playing above the audience, notice that the audience doesn't move at all. It's a static image. Even when the crowd is supposedly clapping and cheering, whenever they use that shot of the movie screen, they merely layer it over the photo of the crowd. Also note that while the crowd is displayed in the green/white of a night vision camera, the trailer is in full colour.

Ugg... the internet has made me too cynical for my own good

The trailer is without a doubt super imposed later, but it is possible that that's because you don't get a very good image filming a screen and they wanted to show us it as would have appeared.

But as I said, that laughter was as fake as and I think people would easily recognise that as a fake trailer so I agree that it seems like a set up. The only thing that suggested to me otherwise is that those people really weren't creeped out or impressed and a couple even seemed to be saying 'look how naff and dull this is'. I didn't notice the static image at all though.


It's less I'm worried about being pranked but so many adverts do this nowadays and especially as you pointed out, since it's often faked, it feels like it's sucking the fun out of something real people used to do

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

Loved it! Wish I was there...

[sub][sub]....fuck I want a zombie apocalypse[/sub][/sub]

 

[Slayer_2]

That "trailer" for the romance movie sums up about every romance movie I've ever seen.

 

[Necroid_Neko]

Also, it goes to show that if there WAS a zombie attack, most people would be killed off pretty quickly for thinking it was just makeup effects, that they were really just actors not brain-starved undead :L

 

[VanityGirl]

I thought that was awesome. Hats off to one of the best shows on TV right now.

 

[Xan Krieger]

Also, it goes to show that if there WAS a zombie attack, most people would be killed off pretty quickly for thinking it was just makeup effects, that they were really just actors not brain-starved undead :L

Agreed, had I been there I'd have shouted "Aw fuck" and run the hell out of there. You don't realize how far and fast you can actually run till you think there's a brain muncher on the loose.

 

[Necroid_Neko]

Also, it goes to show that if there WAS a zombie attack, most people would be killed off pretty quickly for thinking it was just makeup effects, that they were really just actors not brain-starved undead :L

Agreed, had I been there I'd have shouted "Aw fuck" and run the hell out of there. You don't realize how far and fast you can actually run till you think there's a brain muncher on the loose.

Same, I'd be running back to get my stuff ready for a zombie invasion, celebrating that my life of mundanity will at last be over! (and feeling a liiittle guilty for the billions that will fall victim, probably including myself :L)

 

[Li Mu]

Lets just hope that the second half of Season2 picks up a bit.
It's truly impressive how the WD writers managed to make the entire cast completely unlikeable.

They have a gem of a series and they seem intent on running it into the ground.

 

[Riff Moonraker]

Loved it! Wish I was there...

[sub][sub]....fuck I want a zombie apocalypse[/sub][/sub]

No.... No, you dont.

 

[Strazdas]

this is the best thing i saw whole week. oh wait, its monday.
also yeah this makes me want a real zombie apocalypse.

 

[idodo35]

that was freaking awsome!!!
i wish that would happen next time i go to the movies
also these people seemed preaty calm about the zombie walking into the theater... just sayin if that was the reall thing we would have had a freakin blood bath!

 

[AbstractStream]

That was really good.
So good that if I was there, I would have freaked out and ran out of there.

 

[Necroid_Neko]

Holy god your avatar is far too cute!

That's the second time someone's said that, is it a bad thing? I just felt it was appropriate as my name is Kitty (hence the kitties) and my hair is pink (see where I'm going with this?) :L

 

[deth2munkies]

Loved it! Wish I was there...

[sub][sub]....fuck I want a zombie apocalypse[/sub][/sub]

Spoiler

I'll trade you one.

 

[Sight Unseen]

Lets just hope that the second half of Season2 picks up a bit.
It's truly impressive how the WD writers managed to make the entire cast completely unlikeable.

They have a gem of a series and they seem intent on running it into the ground.

Darryl, Rick, and Dale I think are the only characters I think whose good actions outweigh their bad ones by a large margin. I still enjoy the series though. Seen up to S2E5. They're spending too long at that farm though and having a lot less action as a result.