28 Days/Weeks Later (Spoilers)

[Prexus]

Thats true except that they don't move like the walking-dead, they run and flail about frantically.

 

[arcthemonkey]

I'm gonna go on record by saying that people infected with the Rage Virus are NOT zombies.

In saying this, I agree that Zombies, by definition, must be undead.

The infected are fully alive, living, breathing human beings who are REALLY FRIKKIN PISSED OFF.

Also, zombies crave brains.

And these movies rocked. I'm just a little pissed at how many characters they killed in weeks. I mean, for crying out loud.

 

[Dopples]

See now you're just being incredibly over-specific with your definition. By this definition, resident evil zombies aren't zombies, Dawn of the Dead zombies aren't zombies, and only a couple random movies from the 80's I can think of actually have zombies.

To me, the general layman's term for 'zombies' is just angry at humans, used to be a human, and grabs/bites in an attempt to kill humans. Their other actions and processes and the 'where they come from and how to kill them' is secondary to this definition.

Not to mention most zombie movies I've seen just straight have 'kill them by hitting them in the head', it seems to be a pretty popular idea.

Actually, the T Virus in Resident Evil kills it's host. You see, humans affected with the virus suffer horribly symptoms, yes. But once the host dies, THEN it becomes a zombie. Or, another zombie finds a human, bites it, then infects the person, who dies of blood loss.

I do however think the cultists in Resident Evil 4 fit the description similar to the Infected.

 

[Dopples]

Yeah, that's what I was trying to say, but I didn't realize it sounded ambiguous. Fixed.

 

[arcthemonkey]

Ooh, TREG, you fail. The whole Code Red thing was pretty easy to understand. Really, bizarrely, stupidly easy. This may be the Republican in me talking, but I would have done the exact same thing in that situation.


Think about how fast rage spreads. It's almost instantaneous. No fever and nausua, nothing. You get infected, and you're one of them almost immediately. Because of the epidemiology of the disease, killing everyone in London was the only possible way to to stop it. What were they going to do - evac people and risk spreading Rage to the mainland? They did what they had to do to save the entire frikkin world.

Of course, as we saw, it didn't work. A carrier was evacuated to Paris, and like any good zombie movie ending should imply, was the cause of a literal apocolypse.

I agree that the characters had the intelligence afforded to typical horror fare, but the Code Red situation was absolutely reasonable. Why did they slaughter the uninfected? Because there was no way to save them without endangering the entire world.

(Oh, and nobody really knows what Los Ganados are (Well, nobody knows what Las Plagas are, which control Los Ganados). Maybe we will find out in RE5. Regardless, though, Los Ganados were indeed not zombies. Everyone knows zombies can't talk. People in robes droning "die" in spanish do not zombies make.)

 

[arcthemonkey]

Oh, I understand it was political commentary, meant to get people all angry and spitting, but still. That's why I mentioned being a Republican.

But, it was clear throughout the entire movie that they were suspicious that people who were seeminly uneffected could, in fact, be infected. This is completely aside that fact that, again, one infected person could infect an room with 100 people in it in minutes. They tried to evacuate, but it was spreading faster than they could run. I mean, assuming that the people really were really bad at fighting Rage victims off, I don't think you can possibly really believe that situation could have been solved with a loudspeaker. The only people who survived passed the first hour of that carnage were seperated and in hiding.

You're right though, about the tanks and helicopters. I wondered about that, myself. One person in a tank would have been invincible, but this also requires us to remember that it's a movie, and the writers just didn't put tanks in it.

I still don't see how there was anything critically illogical or flawed with Code Red. It's delicious.

...

Also the movie.

 

[arcthemonkey]

Where would they be if the city hadn't been firebombed?

 

[arcthemonkey]

I really don't think it would have worked out that well, all things considered ^_^

You should just admit that my brain is at least 15/16 larger than yours.

 

[Cruelty]

Sniper scene = awesome

And you can't imagine what was going through my head when I heard the word 'firebomb'. That was seriously the coolest part of the movie.

I can't even remember anything other than those 2 scenes.

 

[Mr.Mo]

Still hiding in the warehouse while the military undertook an ordered and logically planned operation to retake the city using tanks, helicopters, snipers, and armored vehicles?

Tanks don't seem logical to me. You have a cannon for mid to long rage, useless short range considering they will be trying to kill fast moving infected. The riders will be protected from the infected but all they can do is try to run over them, doesn't seem logical. All I see is the infected hitting the tank and the tank covered with all the infected.

Armored vehicles(assuming thisor this) expose the body of the guy who is on the machine gun. You are shooting and then all of a sudden one of the infected jump from your side, you get bit, you go down, the people inside the armored vehicle will be screwed. Not the most logical thing on tight streets either.

Snipers would be too slow I would guess.

Helicopters.. This is safe but still wouldn't be fast enough.

The fastest way to eliminate major threat where harming civilians are not important is chemical and napalm.

It makes no sense because you can tell the difference between infected and uninfected. Remember, for example, when the military tried to shoot them in the car? What infected drives a fucking car?

That I agree :p "Oh shit! The infected can drive a car. Shoot them!"

I also found it pretty humorous that the military solution is to raze the entire city when they have, for example, tanks, and helicopters.

Sure it makes sense :yes: You have to keep the infected contained :-/ Some dozens of people not greater then millions of people. You kill some, when you can save most. :thumb:

I didn't watch this movie yet, going to watch it on DVD but I watched the first one :D.

 

[Buster]

Sure it makes sense :yes: You have to keep the infected contained :-/ Some dozens of people not greater then millions of people. You kill some, when you can save most. :thumb:

I didn't watch this movie yet, going to watch it on DVD but I watched the first one :D.

That, and I would sure as hell rather die by getting bombed by napalm than by getting my throat brutally ripped out by a pissed off infected. Think of it as mercy-killing. :p

Seriously, getting killed by the infected would suck much more than any death the military could think of.

 

[$t3v0]

Not like I'm a zombie movie freak or anything, just wait until Stevo finds this thread.

;_; FU ANDYSIXTHOUSAND!

 

[$t3v0]

Not like I'm a zombie movie freak or anything, just wait until Stevo finds this thread.

;_; FU ANDYSIXTHOUSAND!

Still not seen 28 weeks later but It would take a lot to top days. Also, It isn't REALLY a zombie film. The creatures don't crave brains nor are they undead. They're just infected with the virus known as rage. It's like keeping a fat kid away from cake, but bloodier.

 

[holloway]

Or stupidly walking through High Green on a drunken night with a guitar over your shoulder because you forgot to ring home and I'm too cheap to pay for a taxi.

 

[Kest]

If they decide to completely destroy a city, why not use a weapon capable of doing just that?

'Course, that might not make much of a movie.

 

[Cheeze]

-blinks- Gawd I want to see these movies (Btw I didn't Open any spoilers xD)
Yeah I've heard stuff about them and yeah. I guess it's kinda like my game o.o;; I'm not really focusing on the zombies. Just the situations o.o So I guess Everyone here is going to like some part of my game XD

EDIT: Yesh I have seen Shawn of the Dead...Thats my fav. movie XD

 

[chiufan]

Those movies are freaking awesome. When is 28 Months Later coming out?:|