The Walking Dead

Plot synopsis:
In 1972 North Vietnam, short-timer Marines are dispatched by helicopter to conduct their last mission: to evacuate the survivors from a POW camp abandoned by the Viet Cong. The landing zone - which they expect to be cold - is actually hot (under fire) and after a short fight, only four members of the rescue mission survive. SSgt. Barkley and Hoover have a brief fight after Hoover wants to radio for an evacuation and Barkley insists they finish the mission. During their fight a mortar lands nearby, knocking them both into a swamp. Barkley saves Branche from drowning. They are joined shortly by Brooks and Evans. The soldiers defer to the ranking Marine, Sgt. Barkley, who insists that they press on to a nearby cathedral. They reach the building and kill several NVA soldiers. At morning, they are planning their next move when they are ambushed by more NVA soldiers including tree snipers. After a firefight they manage to kill the soldiers with the help of Cpl. Pippins, who appears from the brush and also begins attacking them. After subduing Pippins they look for the rest of his platoon and discover them murdered and their radio missing. They decide to tie Pippins up and bring him along as they march toward the POW camp. The group then recollect about each of their individual reasons for joining the Marines. SSgt Barkley was a preacher at a church until he came home to his bedroom seeing his wife in bed having sex with another man, Barkley shoots and kills the man and catches the train out of town. Hoover works for a meat packing place until he got fired for stealing meat. Cole tries to buy a new house, but he is turned down by the real estate agent,because of his race. Brooks tells his girlfriend that he's joining the Marine Corps to be like his grandfather, Pippins was working for Ray until he is killed by gangsters and chased into the military enlistment line without getting caught. While Cole and Barkley go ahead to survey the area, Hoover and Brooks smoke cannabis and talk about Brooks' girlfriend, who just dumped him via the mail. During their break, Pippins escapes and takes Brooks' pistol. The four men regroup and head out without Pippins. When they reach the camp, they discover a deranged Pippins holding a Vietnamese woman hostage. After killing the woman in front of them, Pippis turns on them with a gun and is killed by Sgt. Barkley. After seeing the camp is empty, the men realize they are expendable decoys. They radio in and are informed that the Marines cleared the POW camp four hours earlier, and that they have 20 minutes to reach their pickup point before the entire area is bombed. As the men go to leave bombs begin dropping on them. They escape the bombardment and head through the jungle to the landing zone, but are ambushed by more NVA soldiers. Brooks is killed, and Cole and Barkley wounded. Hoover goes back and rescues Barkley and the three men are evacuated by helicopter. During an epilogue, we are told that Cole became a career Marine who retired after 20 years of service, Sgt. Barkley took a job counseling troubled teens in Georgia, and Hoover went back home, married his girlfriend and opened up his own business.

Tags: violence

Review:
TWD has nothing to do with that anymore.If TWD would have kept 4-5 main characters and presented their struggle to live in this horror world full of zombies, then that could have been a great series.
I don't care who dies, who lives, because there is no story, no character, nothing intelligent about this series, nothing to watch.
I really liked seasons 1-6 but last good episode I have seen was s07e01 since then it is more and more boooooring...All season eight so far (I'm on s08e08) is just terrible.
I continued to watch it hoping that it would somehow manage to resume expressing the quality which it had produced in the first few seasons, but at this point I am no longer expecting it to actually become worth my time and attention anymore.
I used to like this and watched all episodes until season 7, every new season characters seemed to become dumber and dumber with each episode.
TWD was once epic (season 1 to 5), since then all went downhill, the plot is now (season 9) a terrible mess and it is almost unbelievable how much substance this once fine show lost.Why am I still watching!?
But I can say that the endless dreading of certain plots feels like the episodes of Lost (older series).
I'll watch the trailer for season 8 and maybe look into the first episode, but then it has to change it's pace and better story telling.Last, but not least, another series going down the drain after a couple of seasons.
If this is how their first attack against the Saviours was always going to end, it could have happened 5 or 6 episodes into the season.
From seasons 2-5, every episode finished on such an amazing cliff-hanger, and you had no recourse but to watch the next and the next and the next, and so on.
I thought the Walking Dead crashed and burned over 2 seasons ago, but I held in there, hoping against hope, it would make a bounce back but all I have experienced is utter shame and disappointment!
Instead, we're forced to watch a bunch of hillbillies, who run around, thinking their hot sh*t; all held together by Negan, who should be dead like 10 times over by now.
After watching the first few episode of season 9 I have to say I'm well and truly done with this programme, there is only so much you can write about surviving zombies before it becomes tedious and boring.
Like watching a once beloved pet struggling to walk, knowing that it was time for them to be put down.
The end of each episode left me dying for the next one, The writing is incredible, the character development amazing and don't suppose you know who will live or die here cause you will have no idea.
However, that being said I have to disagree with the reviewer.So here are the reasons I like the show.First, character development, this is not usually a very big trait in the Zombie genre.
For those that aren't fans of the genre, when the zombie apocalypse happens and you don't know what to dodon't come crying to me and my friendsyou'll just slow us down.On second thoughtyou may come in handy in case we need to make a hasty retreat.
This series is just like that, it's zombies/monsters but still very realistic.The way the plot is presented is very entertaining, but not very surprising.
Everything looks very realistic and honestly quite disgusting, in a good way.I can't wait to watch the next episode!.
I know people here are attracted to this genre for various different reasons but i'd like to think we all share some connection when zombies are involved.
The first 5 seasons were gold, but the writers and production team destroyed a great series about survival in the apocalypse with lousy decisions, killing off beloved characters, giving Neegan too much air time, and destroying the narrative that made this a great show.
You would think the characters get smarter which is logical but they just get dumber.Season 7 was full useless and dumb fillers with just less than 10 minutes of something interesting in every episode.
Just started watching season 8 and it is turning out to be just like season 7.It is as if the creators and writers were bitten by zombies after season 2 and have turned into brainless ones themselves.
Started to notice that the characters who were killed off became insufferable - not in a good way - or plain boring.
While watching the pilot episode of The Walking Dead the only word that went through my mind was "awesome!".We finally have a TV Show that's associated with the beloved Zombie franchise and what it does it does right.The story takes place in the present day, a Sheriff's deputy, Rick Grimes gets caught in an accident and ends up in hospital, after blanking out and waking up from a coma he finds himself in an abandoned ward with flickering lights, broken down hallways and barricaded doors.
As he makes his way through the dark hospital he finds out that he is the only one that's not in a body bag.The pilot introduces us to several main characters that actually make you want to learn more about them, with brilliant directing by Frank Darabont you will come across both dramatic and emotional scenes that seem appropriate for the time, this gives the show allot of realism and just works out great.However this doesn't have CGI effects yet and should be kept that way, the make-up on the zombies are fantastic.watching this will give you allot of nostalgia and the direction makes of this show feel like a classic old school zombie movie from the 80's to 90's that's actually serious this time, having a well respected cast and great acting makes this show very promising and I will be hoping for allot more future episodes...
But for now I'm still waiting for the rest of the first season.If you like zombies or even a good drama that has allot of suspense then I highly recommend this show, I have never felt this way about a show since LOST, so you know it's that good..
Started off as a great series to binge watch but is now going down hill.
season 7 of the walking dead was the worst season and has an anti climax in the last episode ,suprise all the leaders don't die.They it has become so unrealistic ,exmaple they kill zombies with knives,swords etc with out having an inch of blood on them and they are always clean and never get dirty,.
I was lucky enough to come into contact with a copy of the pilot episode of "The Walking Dead" and it is utterly amazing.I tend to stray away from this genre of movies as nothing I have watched in the last 10 years has affected me in any way.
I literally sat there in awe through the entire episode."The Walking Dead" is shot perfectly thanks to the director of "The Shawshank Redemption" and it shows.
We stopped watching Fear he a Walking Dead after half a season, and what the heck is the Red Machete?
The walkers, when they show up at all, are used as fake-out plot devices or ridiculous spectacle.Why the makers think spending 16 episodes to tell what happened over two weeks to character after character everyone wants dead is a mystery.
before 2000 zombies were meant for a limited audience.that horror sub genre were not for everyone.since resident evil series things changed and zombies became mainstream.a lot of successful films followed like 28 days later and world war Z but never a TV series.this series is the first to introduce zombies in a TV series.a great drama mixed with horror which had 6 great seasons.zombies were the villains and also there were bad humans fighting other humans for survival.unfortunately things changed at season 6.a lot of the original rick's team were dead and zombies stopped to be the real threat.with neegan entering the show......the show changed....became boring and not a real zombie horror it supposed to be.I hope things get fixed in season 8 and we get what we had in the earlier and best seasons.seasons 1-3 were the bestseasons 4-6 were great tooseason 7 was boring..
Enough Resident Evil's like movies with big monsters, hybrid DNAs, lots of crazy acrobatics maneuvers, unlimited ammo, and no "reality", no suspense, no characters, no classic zombies If you are into some zombie culture with classic roots like George Romero's movies Night of The Living Dead, The Crazies, Dawn of The Dead or something new like 28 Days Later, I Am Legend Then you are going to love it.Finally me fighting zombies day-by-day on my couch Since Lost I had nothing but comedy series to watch; now finally I have some series to take my TV time for suspense and action.
It's become suffering to watch it almost in season 5,and season 7 is,well..just more crap.No new ideas,just talks,talks,and some more talks.Reminds me of old soviet (USSR) style of movies with hundreds of minutes of nature shots,close up shots of actors with unrevealed thoughts that we have to get somehow,probably through mind reading.
:/Also, anyone who watched this series from the start until now understands that they don't seem to end this thing.
They delay as long as they can to make money.-If you like zombies watch the first seasons.
-If you like talking watch the last seasons..
The biggest issue of walking dead currently is the fact that, for some strange reason, they think its a good idea to put 2 episodes worth of content in 15 episodes (this is written before 16 comes out).
If you're reading this Kirkman, you've successfully managed to turn a quality show into an incredibly average show that has about 5 minutes of good content per season.
If the show had kept the pace of the first 3/4 seasons we'd be in for one hell of a ride but it seems that kirkman is trying to long out the negan story as much as possible because he knows the fans love negan.
The Walking Dead.A TV Show which most people would rank up next to shows like Game Of Thrones or The Breaking Bad, I understand why.
That's what bothers me and makes me want to stop people who want to begin watching The Walking Dead, go ahead watch it and enjoy the show but in my opinion the plot is just washed out.
To explain how the walking dead has been since around season 6 I will clarify how the plot has been in a nutshell.Rick and his buddies have a safe place --> some enemies find their place and start trouble / Rick or his group start bothering other people --> Action!!
(Someone probably dies or gets away with only 1 eye left) --> after the war the group rushes out of the scene to avoid getting killed --> group splits --> Someone of the group finds some strangers (perhaps killing time *again) --> smaller groups has small supply of food --> surprise surprise suddenly someone from the group finds another one --> survive --> group find themselves again --> OMG the enemy "gang" leader suddenly comes in with a tank helicopters and 24 assault rifles --> Boss takes someone of the group (preferably someone who is desired by many fans) -->holds the weapon up against his face --> OMG WILL HE DIE --> Cliffhanger --> next episode coming up in a year.To conclude my review I can say that I really don't regret watching this series for 5 seasons (almost 6) straight since I stopped watching I when it got boring.
I personally would like a better plot since season 5/6 therefore can't watch this series.
I have never watched the Walking Dead before and just started about a month ago and have slowly been on a marathon through the seasons.
I was intrigued in the beginning and I get why it's been popular because it seemed like a "smart zombie show" with well-written drama and tension that entices you to keep watching.
I am done with this show.The series in my opinion was already going down hill and I was really just forcing myself to watch the next episode because I figured I had already vested too much time in now to quit and I wanted to see who this Negan was.
7.1 said it best: "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be" watching the Walking Dead.
First season was great, then it was ok for a few seasons, then it became bit bad and when negan showed up it went totally horrible.Its time for shoot twd in the head, as soon as possible, no matter whether the "story line" goes complete.
I'm a huge fan of TV shows, and this one ranks among the best I've ever seen (along with Lost and Spartacus).Everything from the story-line, the characters, the actors and the visual effects, are all brilliantly done and have me eagerly waiting each and every week for the new episode to air.When I first watched the pilot episode, I was a bit skeptical.
I have been watching this show since day one, and let me tell you, The Walking Dead is utter garbage and a waste of anyone's time who is halfway intelligent.
But if you are worried, stop reading now*: I stopped watching at Season 6, Episode 6, when Daryl (a bad-ass who has killed hundreds of zombies with ease including just his bare hands) had to scramble through his bag to retrieve his crossbow when a pitiful zombie approached him at a blazing speed of .05 miles per hour from several meters away.
This show is so dull and un-scary, I feel like a brain-dead zombie by the end of each episode.To begin with, I liked most of Season 1.
In fact, it makes me painfully aware of how cool the writers or producers are trying to be.Still, I watched it to the end of the season.
As someone who likes a story and interesting characters,i read the reviews and saw that it was getting 8+ so thought this must be good.i quickly found out the story is survivors kill Zombies,if that's not enough to keep you interested well hang on in there because in each and every episode zombies get their heads shot off.Why anyone would think this is good is beyond me.The acting is very average and the zombies must be fed up spending hours in make up for their 3 second cameo before they get their heads shot off.I managed to persevere for 4 episodes of this apparently long running serious before deciding that there was better entertainment on the cartoon channel and filed this series in the bin where it belongs..
Whoever thinks this is a good show needs to re watch the first season and the other ones and realize all there doing is have slow and no relevant dragged out plot lines.
The series beginning made us all feel like we were all in a zombie apocalypse.
i won't even watch the last episode of season 3.
Watched a few episodes in Season 1 way back.
The characters are so amazing and I am so glad that I love the walking dead!.
Season 1 really good lots of zombies and action packed episodes.
Learning this technique of lazy writing is what allows shows like The Walking Dead to stay on the air for close to a decade, even though longtime fans have seen a sharp decline in quality over the past couple years.
It then started to become stale somehow, so I stopped watching after season four.
Yesterday I happened to watch episode 1 of season 7 and now I feel the urge to express my disgust.
Now you know all about the series called "The Walking Dead"..
The characters have spent 90% of the season in a world where nothing happens.
dreadful acting from the start, all the characters in this episode were a pain to watch, the panic scenes were a joke, and i just knew the whole thing was going to be a mess!
I hate to write this because I've been watching the show since it began and, while its clearly had its gripping and debate full moments they haven't quite crossed the line until season 7 episode 01.Without giving spoilers I will just say that the apparent out of control need to be more and more sick and vile has gone too far.
I used to have a passion for watching the walking dead, never missing the next episode.
To make it short: TWD is a waste of time.I started to watch TWD and managed somehow to "survive" watching until somewhere in season 5 when I gave up with that series.
I do not even know what was about all the people when I stopped watching, because i just didn't care anymore.TWD starts quite good but from season 1, episode 1 its going down in quality of plot and acting in quite a straight line.
At the end of season 4 the makers are blowing it up with the introduction of 3 people that come with a totally ridiculous role plot and acting.Everybody who wants to watch an 8,6 rated series should try something else because there is no way that this series is a 6 / 7 or 8 star one..
The bigest problem i have with walking dead is that it started so good and got better and better....BUT once u get to season 7 things start to go wrong.
The last 2 seasons were so bad iv gone from love the walking dead to not being they bothered if I ever watch it again..
It was a good watch for some seasons but it doesn't take long for the viewer to realize that it's only downhill.