i can't wait for ep5 of dead set (which i'm in, heh). haven't seen any of it yet though...
― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:05 (fifteen years ago) link
also love that they didn't bother with credits, just gave a URL. if Brooker's over-rated it's more because there's just so many far worse people out there doing well too.
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:16 (fifteen years ago) link
altho maybe it did undermine a bit the 'credits are useful as an interlude between programmes that allow you to pause for thought without some numpty chattering away about what's coming next as if it wasn't easy enough for you to find this out anyway' argument he made quite well on SW
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:18 (fifteen years ago) link
brooker? a contrarian? well i never.
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:22 (fifteen years ago) link
i always assumed credits existed as much to doff a cap to the people who worked to create a show as to inform the viewer who these people were. as such, i'd mourn their passing if they disappeared altogether: it's like not having the autor's name on a book sleeve.
― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:27 (fifteen years ago) link
no it's closer to the book listing all the people who actually helped in the production process of the book at the end
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I too was a bit perturbed by their lack of zombie knowledge, but I think that they probably wanted a contrast with most of the recent zombie projects, which almost all seem to have a good grasp of zombie history and use that for 'sly' meta-textual referencing. Which seems a bit of a strange thing to get away from when your whole schtick is OMG Zombies & Big Brother! Together at last!
I did enjoy it, tho.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:42 (fifteen years ago) link
An acknowledgements page, then?
I thought it was alright, nowt special, rather too much of it got taken up with Jaime Winstone making sobbing noises. Going to the credits site (features authentic scrolling-slightly-too-quickly-to-read effect, though I did see former Gladiators winner Eunice Huthart listed in the stunt performers), I came to realise that I had no idea what any of the characters were called.
― William Bloody Swygart, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:03 (fifteen years ago) link
more like a list of every single person at the publishing company who ever had anything to do with it, right down to the dude who made the editor's PA his cup of tea in the morning.
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:08 (fifteen years ago) link
ep5 of dead set (which i'm in, heh).
okay where?
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:13 (fifteen years ago) link
> also love that they didn't bother with credits, just gave a URL
jamcredits.com (now abandoned) got there first, you Clarkson faced Guff-Prating Berkskull.
copy here: http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/J/jam/credits_ns6.html
...KEVIN ELDON...
― koogs, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:23 (fifteen years ago) link
the sign with Eldon's face, arrow and GOLLUM tag
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:25 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/TheyreEnglish-1.jpg
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Kevin Eldon is playing the character I would actually be in the BB house
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:31 (fifteen years ago) link
the scene with the girl pounding bits out of the zombies skull with the fire extinguisher was amazing
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought they were going to play out the whole paranoia of the contestants disbelief that it wasn't just a stunt for a bit longer, perhaps they'll refer to it again.
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:37 (fifteen years ago) link
ep5 of dead set (which i'm in, heh).okay where?― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:13
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:13
well...
haven't seen any of it yet though...
― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:05
so i don't know. but i'm what's known as a "background zombie"... so i might get a quarter of a second's bloodied screen time.
― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 14:31 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm what's known as a "background zombie"
new user name for you there.
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
(or me, if you don't snap it up first.)
Or a useful phrase for an ILX Lurker?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link
splendid idea!
― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
ach, it was only on for half hour tonight totally wasn't expecting that.
still enjoying it.
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
watched last night's, and about 10 minutes of tonight. that'll be it for me. it's so fucking dull. beyond the basic premise -- big brother! zombies! -- there's absolutely nothing there, is there? the characters are ciphers, the action is predictable, the outcome interests me not a jot.
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
(and i appreciate what chewshabadoo says upthread about the characterisation improving, but i can't be arsed waiting around for that to happen!)
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 23:42 (fifteen years ago) link
the installments are too short. would have been cool 90 minutes than two 60 minutes.
looks quite good for the budget. Obviously going off that whole current-horror movie thing with the fast cutting, the handheld, the shutter speeds etc..., but it's fine. Hardly groundbreaking or terribly inventive so far, but still a really enjoyable zombie horror by my standards. Glad the satire hasn't really got in the way of anything.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 02:46 (fifteen years ago) link
lol at Pippa telling that producer guy he was using up the oxygen
"it's not a fucking submarine"
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 09:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Dead Set thread here:Dead Set - E4 Big Brother Zombie thing!
― koogs, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 13:50 (fifteen years ago) link
is this out of print on DVD? anyone know where i can order it, preferably cheaply, and have it shipped to the US? (it's ridiculously expensive on amazon.co.uk.)
― i'd rather cut cane for castro (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 1 March 2009 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
if you know how to use torrents then you can get it on http://thebox.bz/ - i think they have open sign up just now but if you need or want an invite then give me a shout.
― jed_, Sunday, 1 March 2009 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
It *is* out of print, aggravatingly (my copy was scratched when I lent it to someone). It went from being stacked in every HMV for 5 pounds to being tough to find in a matter of weeks, seemingly. The first 2 Charlie Brooker books are similarly tough to track down!
― Shannon Whirry & the Bad Brains, Sunday, 1 March 2009 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Sold my copy of Brookers' TV Go Home book for £40 on eBay, to none other than... actor Michael Fenton Stevens
― Blap for Lashes (The stickman from the hilarious xkcd comics), Sunday, 1 March 2009 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link
£40?! That makes it the most valuable book I own!
― nate woolls, Sunday, 1 March 2009 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
the DVD is awesome. comes with that booklet and so many extras on the DVD itself. torrents don't really compare to the whole package.
― cutty, Sunday, 1 March 2009 22:20 (fifteen years ago) link
true true, my friend ran off te manchester wit mine. bitch.
― a raggamuffin is a type of cat (a-bomb), Sunday, 1 March 2009 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
keep it foolish yea
― a raggamuffin is a type of cat (a-bomb), Sunday, 1 March 2009 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
oh great, downloaded this as a torrent and none of the files work AWESOME thanks internet go die.
― i'd rather cut cane for castro (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 2 March 2009 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Pssst-http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Kfairy&view=videos
Not amazing quality, but perfectly watchable.
― chap, Monday, 2 March 2009 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks, yeah, i know (that's where i saw them the first time). problem is my wife wants to watch it, and for reasons i can't go into here (or fathom) she hates watching video on the computer.
― i'd rather cut cane for castro (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 2 March 2009 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
saw this just before christmas in hmv and bought it thinking it was out of print. amazon has cheaper copies so i guess they've repressed it, or whatever you do with dvds. bum.
― koogs, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
still a great dvd to own.
― bum-sniff deviant (cutty), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
hell, I don't think I have a region-free player hooked up now, I might have to copy this over to my pc
― mh, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm not a preacher man
― mh, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 03:41 (five years ago) link
keep it chopped out, yeah?
― meaulnes, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 22:44 (five years ago) link
Toby, you rim-licker. How's it fucking collapsing?
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 22:47 (five years ago) link
well fucking weapon
― mh, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 23:06 (five years ago) link