Walking Dead Knives

Krissig12 said:
Actually the point was a bit more focused to why the show would use such good knives if it wasnt necessary to please the viewers.
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Marketing and payoffs, same as always! Ever wonder why every soda machine on a movie has "coke" on it? They paid more than Pepsi.
 
Krissig12 said:
Its all good man. But next time just edit, you dont have to post again ;)
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Oh I know how to edit! In a way, I wanted to let my first post stand. But, I wanted to make sure everyone knew NO offense was intended! I just felt bad about it, but thought it could still be said. Just wanted to apologize if I hurt anyone's feelings.
 
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Haha, maybe it is marketing

But honestly i dont think anyone but us knife nuts can recognize the brand. But perhaps the shapes will stick in peoples minds or something. IDK, I doubt manufacturers pay to have their knives used (and with out being showed for more than a second or two), but who knows....
 
The make up and effects for the zombies is tops, I agree. In season one where the legless one was crawling away... that whole thing was just top notch right there.
 
Yeah the zombies are the best part of the show IMO. Or at least the most well done part.

The story itself does have some great moments, like Ricks first journey into the city in Season one on horseback and then the scene with the tank. But the problem is that the writers seem to be on an ever decreasing budget and the set pieces have been really simple and cheap lately. Just woods and the prison, and maybe a few houses. They are also running out of ideas i think
 
Krissig12 said:
Haha, maybe it is marketing

But honestly i dont think anyone but us knife nuts can recognize the brand. But perhaps the shapes will stick in peoples minds or something. IDK, I doubt manufacturers pay to have their knives used (and with out being showed for more than a second or two), but who knows....
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Oh I don't think for a second they just used random knives, or guns, or clothing, or anything! I'm pretty sure everybody's hands are in the till on this one. It's all about product placement. And Red, I agree, the effects are top notch! I love the show! I never miss an episode. I'm just kinda bewildered by the whole zombie craze here lately. I still like the show, I just don't see why zombies have caught on so hardcore here lately....

Anyhow, if you want to know more about the knives, there's a bunch of different resources for that. There have been screen captures taken from every angle, knives identified, catalogued, bagged and tagged. Down to the manufacturer, model designation, everything.
 
HAHA, that should go in the "things that make me laugh about knife people" thread or whatever its called. Some guys have WAY too much time on their hands
 
Krissig12 said:
HAHA, that should go in the "things that make me laugh about knife people" thread or whatever its called. Some guys have WAY too much time on their hands
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Amen! And it's true! If you rewind and fast forward 2 seconds of video over and over to get just the right screen capture, you just might be a knife knut! And have far too much time on your hands!
 
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Somebody needs to put together a "You just might be a knife nut" video! And make it like the first thing you see when you go on BF so that you can check to see if you belong :D
 
Hard to imagine huge placement dollars for knives on a show that obviously quick-cuts or shadows any shot showing a knife--the very reason they can rarely be identified.

I understand there to be a propmaster who has a hell of a collection of knives who aids in the decisions of who will carry what. Not saying there isn't some level of graft/corruption there but I don't see a lot of 'product placement' shots for the knives on Walking Dead...IMO.

Hell, less than .01% of viewers can sight-identify a brand and model anyway. A knife isn't like a Coke can or Doritos bag.
 
AntDog said:
This is all old, old, OLD news! Yawn... Where have you guys been?

Of course you can buy the gerber set as an apocalypse kit. Of course you see the TGLB in action all the freaking time, etc., etc.... Have y'all been under a rock? I'm sorry fellas - I really am, but this is a horse that has been beaten into a slick oozing stain. There's nothing left.

Anyhow, good show, like the knives, like the guns, like the characters, etc... But the premise is just damn old to me. I mean "zombies". Yeah. Ok, zombies. What-farking-ever. It's been done to death, it's never ever going to happen, and the people who actually prepare for "zombies" are phocking paranoid ninnies. Just don't get the whole zombie craze that's happening lately.
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The zombie theme is a very popular theme. It always has been and always will. It's one of those classic stories told over and over all different ways.

How about the classic haunted house story? That too is a classic story. American Horror Story did that theme in their first season and did it quite well.

I love The Walking Dead. I can't wait for the new season. I've never tried to identify knives in shows until I joined this forum. I never can still but it is fun to take notice and try.
 
Krissig12 said:
Actually the point was a bit more focused to why the show would use such good knives if it wasnt necessary to please the viewers. But somewhere along the way it became a general thread about the walking dead. I knew there were other threads about it, but I just wanted to say that i had not only noticed the knives, but noticed that they were better than necessary for props.
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I've often wondered if the increase in zombie films and shows is due to a large percentage of the population subconciously or secretly thinking there may be a chance everything does go tits up as fuel and water become more expensive. Maybe the zombie is a glorified metaphor for mindless hungry neighbours you don't like.
 
Krissig12 said:
dogbertius,

Shane was one of my least favorite characters. Hes definitely logical and made better decisions than Rick most of the time, but he was too obsessive about Lori and had a no impulse control. Dale also kinda made me mad. He always played the "enlightened liberal" who "tried to preserve the groups humanity". God that guy was one dimensional. Point is, Im right because both got killed off :D

Darrel is my favorite because hes not trying to be a leader or anything, but he always knows the right thing to do, both logically and morally. He also doesnt get caught up in emotional battle with himself very often. Plus he carries a Busse and a crossbow, so
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Yep, Daryl is my fav too for the same reasons. Dale also was pretty self-righteous, but he was a good foil to Shane. As for Shane, I felt bad for him (in the show, not the comics). He tries to fix things by taking off on his own, and is drawn in to save Carl yet again. He was also right to clear the barn. It doesn't matter what fantasies people believe in, one has to make decisions on hard facts. Too bad he went kinda crazy at the end.
 
Krissig12 said:
Just wanted to add the Buck 110 and something that looks like a kershaw or mini grip or something that Andrea brandishes when someone tries to stop her from leaving the governors town

And RevDevil, Rick has a contego at one point in the scene where SPOILERS he goes into the basement of the prison and sees the walker that ate his wife. I think he kills it with an shot to the head and then is repeatedly stabbing its stomach with a contego. Or maybe im mistake and its a different part, but I think thats it. All I remember was it was a black coated combo edge 810.

Woops, just rewatched that scene, nope not a contego. It has a wide plasticky handle so it was probably a gerber something. It was dark in the room and all i saw was the reverse tanto blade.....
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Not a Contego, it's a Gerber 06 auto.
 
After the Gerber knife advertising and all the half-a** attempts they make at guns is in the show, I'm surprised that they have some quality pices. I wonder how many of those were just them asking people on the set what they had.

RedLynx said:
That's awesome! I've been doing the same with Sons of Anarchy (just started season 4).

The Walking Dead is the kind of show I really, really, really wish I could get into. It has a ragtag group of people, zombies, guns, knives, survival, all the stuff that should make me love it. So far I've seen season 1, admittedly short, and half of season 2 and I just can't seem to get into any of the characters save Norman Reedus. I have no idea why. It seems pretty well written most of the time. But for me to like a show I have to get into some of the characters and so far I can't. Kinda makes me sad, everyone else I talk to seems to love it to death.
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I've come to hate almost everything about this show, yet always find myself watching it. It is a show that would have been godly if it was on a channel (like HBO) that cared about making the real cinematic statements (like keeping that damn baby alive) and avoid all the technical issues (like bent air rifles, broomstick guns, and Rick holding his revolver like a chode) or and a main cast where that inexplicably survive everything, despite oozing with incompetencies.
 
Krissig12 said:
Yeah the zombies are the best part of the show IMO. Or at least the most well done part.

The story itself does have some great moments, like Ricks first journey into the city in Season one on horseback and then the scene with the tank. But the problem is that the writers seem to be on an ever decreasing budget and the set pieces have been really simple and cheap lately. Just woods and the prison, and maybe a few houses. They are also running out of ideas i think
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Running out of ideas? Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the Walking Dead based on a book series that is already written or at least way ahead of where the show is?
 
EChoil said:
Hard to imagine huge placement dollars for knives on a show that obviously quick-cuts or shadows any shot showing a knife--the very reason they can rarely be identified.

I understand there to be a propmaster who has a hell of a collection of knives who aids in the decisions of who will carry what. Not saying there isn't some level of graft/corruption there but I don't see a lot of 'product placement' shots for the knives on Walking Dead...IMO.

Hell, less than .01% of viewers can sight-identify a brand and model anyway. A knife isn't like a Coke can or Doritos bag.
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You must have missed all the Gerber ads hawking the same crap they used in the show? SMH.... I'd be willing to bet most of what they use in the show is used because somebody made a deal. There is nothing at all wrong with that in my eyes! There is nothing sinister or underhanded about wanting to have your product used on a very popular tv show.

Just don't let the wool get pulled over your eyes my friend... Those brands are on the show for a reason. Not just because some dude has a nice collection of knives.

I'd love to see what Jerry and Sal and whoever owns Gerber now have to say... Makes no difference to me if they either paid to have their knives used, or maybe they are being paid by the show to be able to show their knives on there?! In Gerber's case, I strongly think they paid to have their stuff used on the show. Anyhow, maybe they can't say. Maybe there is a non disclosure agreement on it and they can't say a word. Ahhh, the great mysteries of life!
 
dogbertius said:
I've often wondered if the increase in zombie films and shows is due to a large percentage of the population subconciously or secretly thinking there may be a chance everything does go tits up as fuel and water become more expensive. Maybe the zombie is a glorified metaphor for mindless hungry neighbours you don't like.
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Hahahaha!!! Great theory! The zombie thing is wearing on me lately because it is something that could never, ever happen.... And yet, there are goofballs out there who prepare for it like it is imminent! Seriously, honestly believing dead bodies will get up and roam the earth in their never ending quest for braaaaaaaaains.... Nothing re-animates dead bodies. Nothing ever will. No preparation necessary for that at all. Now, bird flu - that could happen, and I think it actually IS imminent!
 
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