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Walking Dead ripped off many elements!

posted 8 years ago by jorgito2001
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the whole barricaded "town", going out to collect supplies. LOTD did it first!!!!!!!

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[–] riosweitzer-899-924312 8 years ago

I wouldn't say ripped off. Kirkman has said that they pay homage to Romero and many other horror movie makers. They're tributes at best.

[–] jorgito2001 8 years ago

OK, I'll admit, "ripped off" IS kinda harsh, it just bugs me LOTD gets so much HATE when it actually has some AWESOME elements that are beloved by the zombie loving folks today (Walking Dead).

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[–] jimanchower 8 years ago

TWD didn't rip off LOTD.

LOTD wasn't the first movie to have survivors of a zombie attack. It's a whole freaking genre.

LOTD is awful. Just garbage. It makes zero sense (paper money lol?) and Romero has to beat you over the head with his hamfisted social "commentary".

Just a terrible movie.

[–] K_Sear 7 years ago

The Walking Dead ripped off everything from Romero films. An entire series of "homage" is called ripped off.

[–] movie_nazi 7 years ago

the whole barricaded "town", going out to collect supplies. LOTD did it first!!!!!!!

I mean, it's a pretty evident concept that at some point in a ZA you are going to have to build walls around your town and periodically go out scavenging for food. You can't really call something like this a rip off. Now, if TWD had a zombie gas station attendant who was starting to get smart and was communicating with the other zeds, now THAT you can most definitely call a rip off. When you see two different outer space movies and each one has the people in a space ship you don't say, "Oh man total rip off! The OTHER movie had the spaceship first!" .

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[–] brian605 7 years ago

LOTD had zombies and people trying to fend them off through the entire movie. Talk about a rip off! So unoriginal! How many movies prior to LOTD have had that?

In other zombie movies preceding LOTD people put up barricades and collected supplies! WTF was the director thinking?

End of sarcasm.

If every time something as basic as what the OP is talking about could only be used in one movie ever, many great movies would not be great and possibly not made at all. What if the first time an idea was used it was in a terrible movie? How ridiculous would it be to keep it off limits for those who want to do it better?

[–] Snaggelpuss 7 years ago

the whole barricaded "town", going out to collect supplies.

Pretty sure people have been doing that for over 10000 years

[–] Gastonian (946) 6 years ago

The more prominent features WD ripped off from this movie was the concept that you come back as a zombie regardless of whether you are bitten or not as well as calling zombies 'walkers.' I'd say those are the big ones. Aside from that, they're very different.