Walking Dead Apocalypse, The

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November 4, 2011 @ 6:58 am

Technical Quality: Video quality is nearly perfect. The only flaw I saw was during the fade to the flashbacks of Shane and Lori there was some pixilation errors. I hope this was due to this being an .avi release and it will look perfect on a DL DVD. Audio was great. 9/10
(As a note to the editor, at 3 hrs 19 mins this absolutely must be on a dual-layer disc.)

Editing quality: Overall the editing was excellent. It’s difficult to tell exactly where a lot of the cuts came in. The cutting between the end of episode 1 and the beginning of episode 2 was perfect. The transition from episode 4 to episode 5 was spectacular. The flashback scenes worked great (except for the video quality I noted above). The only edit I had a problem with was at the 2:52:31 mark. The music cuts out abruptly at the fade in to the next scene. Other than that, it was great! 9/10

Entertainment: I really enjoyed watching this. With Season 2 of The Walking Dead having just started I wanted to rewatch Season One and this was the greatest way to achieve that! Gone are most of the slow subplots and a lot of dialog that can drag it down. Now we can focus on Rick’s journey.

Specifically the choice to cut the scenes of the camp until Rick gets there was great. The moment with Rick reuniting with his wife and son was such an emotionally packed moment and you made it even better with the quick flashback cuts.

You streamlined everything so well without losing anything from the story or the characters. The plot remains intact and the audience still feels compassion for these characters.

In regards to the runtime, I for one felt fine with it. It’s a good watch for a lazy Sunday afternoon. Could it have been shorter? Sure. Did it need to be shorter? Not really.

Some may say that you could have cut more, but I understand how hard it would have been. For example, the main plot of episode 4 will most likely have no bearing on the rest of the series, but if you had tried to cut all of it, it would have looked choppy for sure.

Overall entertainment: 8/10

Presentation: N/A as this is just an .avi release.

Overall Rating: 8/10

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g1orkatsos had warned me before diving in that this was his first edit and not representative of what he is currently capable of. For a first time editor, this is very good fanedit, but not without fault. Overall, this is a worthwhile edit for fans of the show/zombie genre, but as a straight up movie it didn't do much for me. My biggest issue with the edit is the running time. 3 hours and 20 minutes is way too long. Far too much time was spent straying from what should have been the crux of the edit (reuniting Rick with his family and getting to the CDC). The whole Hunt for Merle was really unnecessary, especially since the audience never finds out what happened to him. There was also a lot of sceen time spent on characters that were not essential to the plot. If 45 minutes to an hour were cut, I think this edit would have been great. The video quality was great, but the blend transitions felt out of place. The audio editing was good, but not unnoticeable.

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