Survival and Diary on AMC (woo hoo!)

[acealive1]

wow........survival was bad....

[bassman]

Damn. It must be really hard to accept that people have different opinions. The majority must make it even more hard...

[Ragnarr]

Damn. It must be really hard to accept that people have different opinions. The majority must make it even more hard... I suppose it's like putting ketchup on scrambled eggs. Some folks say "yum" while others say, "why would ya wanna ruin perfectly good ketchup?"

[Yojimbo]

Though GAR's original trilogy has yet to be outdone by anything put out since by anyone INCLUDING GAR's last three, I did enjoy LAND/DIARY/SURVIVAL for what it's worth. They are masterpieces compared to a lot of the "zombie" films I have seen. Zombie Apocalypse comes to mind. I also like TWD with one exception - that little boy is an unbelievably weak actor. Well, two exceptions would be more accurate since I think that little girl is a substandard actor too.

[blind2d]

Yeah, good child actors are hard to come by, which is too bad, but whatever, I just try to ignore them... the show seems a lot better that way.

[Yojimbo]

Yeah, good child actors are hard to come by, which is too bad, but whatever, I just try to ignore them... the show seems a lot better that way. Good advice - but very hard to ignore those little crappy actors since they keep basing plotlines around them. But the show seems a little better when the little girl is lost in the woods and the little boy is passed out from his wound!

[Ragnarr]

good advice - but very hard to ignore those little crappy actors since they keep basing plotlines around them. But the show seems a little better when the little girl is lost in the woods and the little boy is passed out from his wound! Not having any kids myself, it's hard for me to relate to the parents on TWD. The kids on the show certainly seem to be like two flies that somehow keep landing inside a cup of coffee that you would otherwise enjoy sipping on.

[clanglee]

Actually I like a lot of bad Italian/Spanish films. . .but there is no denying their lack of general cohesiveness. There are only a few gems really out of that genre, And my patience for such films have waned as I have grown a bit older. But touche. To each his own I guess. . .

[Brubaker]

It just blows my mind that AMC purchased the rights to Diary And Survival, but have yet to do so for Dawn or Day. Those two films are perfect for Fear Fest. I love Fear Fest and all, but Diary and Survival are almost worse than all the Friday the 13th and Halloween films they played last year. And I'm definitely not a fan of those. Since the marathon started a few days ago I think i've enjoyed maybe two things: The Walking Dead and Christine. Their schedule has some good movies amongst the bad, so hopefully better things are to come. 1. Presumably it is less expensive to get the rights to air less successful, later day works from Romero than it is the earlier movies. For all we know, it may actually cost more money to get the rights to show Dawn than it does for both Survival and Diary combined. 2. For AMC, it probably makes perfect sense to show movies from the Halloween series leading up to Halloween. Can't vouch for Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm Street, though. Also worth noting that there are still Halloween movies being produced today, on account of a couple different reboots of the series, plus the fact that most of the movies in the series are reissued again and again every couple of years.

[bassman]

2. For AMC, it probably makes perfect sense to show movies from the Halloween series leading up to Halloween. Can't vouch for Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm Street, though. Also worth noting that there are still Halloween movies being produced today, on account of a couple different reboots of the series, plus the fact that most of the movies in the series are reissued again and again every couple of years. It's not that they show those movies, it's that they ONLY show those movies. Last year(10), all they played were the Fridays and Halloweens. Over, and over, and over, and over again. Fear Fest used to have a large variety of classic films. Not so much anymore, it seems.