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This makes no sense to me...

posted 8 years ago by punisher1001
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Hi,

I don't think I ever wrote a review on here, but this really bugs me.

So, the main Character sits there, and notices how some people are being avoided by the Zombies, like water around stones in a river. Those are not special people by all means, just terminally ill people (that sounds horrible). Not people that got some special antidote, are from a different planet, wear Brittney Spears cologne. No, those are simply people that either have a really bad illness and/or are terminally ill.

I am not sure, but I would think that in a city like New York, there are at least 100,000 people that are ill "enough" to not get attacked by the Zombies. How can those people not put one and one together, in less than 10 seconds and think,"Man, no idea where the Fack these Zombies come from, but hey, they do not worry about me! I wonder why?!" and then tell the rest of the world about it. Besides the fact that this would be happening in every city around the world.

Seriously, it would have taken someone with less IQ of a dog to figure this one out.

Or am I missing something here?

Thanks.

[–] cprinstructor 8 years ago

It was a crap ending. In the book, humanity had to band together to fight back and reestablish civilization. No magic cure like the movie.

[–] President_Ackbar_Impeached 8 years ago

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- Original STAR WARS Fan

[–] punisher1001 8 years ago

Interesting, I didn't know that. Anyhow, I wonder why they decided to go the most absurd route instead, ha ha.

[–] CynicalDremer 8 years ago

Unless you saw someone who looked terminally how would you know why they were avoiding that person. This all happened crazy fast and the military was bent on killing them. Even if a normal person noticed it they were running for their lives. For instance when they were being chased down the alleyway in Newark I don't think they even noticed the drunk getting passed by. If you did would you think they passed him by because he was ill or because for some strange reason they don't want drinks or because he didn't move? I didn't read the book so I was ok with the explanation.

By far the dumbest part of the movie was the lady doing prayer over a loud speaker. At that point did no one in the city know they were drawn to noise? Even if they didn't get in, they risk being surrounded and preventing others from getting in.

[–] punisher1001 8 years ago

Good points, but you are looking at it from the wrong side. I am not talking about the people that are being attacked by the Zombies. I am talking about the ones that are NOT being attacked by the them.

Think about it. You are terminally ill, and are in a Hospital, surrounded with a ton of other terminally ill people. Suddenly there is an attack from some sort of Zombies. Pretty much everyone around you gets attacked. The only people not getting attacked are the other terminally ill people.

How long would it take you to realize, that you are somewhat immune against those "Zombies"? Seriously. It would take me a good 30 seconds. The most.

It doesn't take a Brat Pitt to figure out, that one is "safe" when the Zombies keep running past you... That kind of information will spread in hours around the world.

thanks for the input!

[–] CynicalDremer 8 years ago

You're welcome! Ok you have a good point re hospital patients. Are all of the people with terminal diseases together? I genuinely don't know. I ask because if they're not grouped together I imagine one would consider themselves lucky. Even if I thought that illness was a deterrent who would I tell and who would listen?

In the show everything seemed to happen so freaking fast. I say that to say that if it's only been a couple weeks people are still confused and the gov only wants to kill them all. Gerry only put it together because he recalled what the doc said and had a moment to observe them running around the little boy.

I actually enjoyed the movie a lot and I'm looking forward to the sequel. Yeah there are holes for sure but I can deal with them.

[–] punisher1001 8 years ago

Very good points!

I went ahead and asked a nurse I know, and she told me that terminally ill patients actually are no longer in hospitals, as there is nothing they can do for them. They are mostly in something called 'End-of-life care'.

Anyhow, the idea behind my "thought" is the same: You have a bunch of terminally ill people that are all grouped together, and all of them survive the attack. I doubt it would take them long to put one and one together, and figure out that it must have something to do with them being ill.

However, you have a good point though. Who are these survivors supposed to tell, ha ha.

I also liked the point you made, about how fast everything happened (when it comes to the "disease" spreading and such), but the infrastructure should be still somewhat intact?! I doubt that all phones and what not were not working anymore!? The terminally ill people are able to freely roam around and do what they have to do in order to spread the word.

That said, at the end, it wont matter. It is a movie. Nonetheless, I enjoyed sharing thoughts!

[–] CynicalDremer 8 years ago

It does seem like the infrastructure is intact, which I actually like.

You are better than me because if I saw a mob chasing people down and conveniently running past me I would thank my lucky stars and lock myself in the house. Haha.

If I was alone I would assume they bypassed me because I was quiet. I'm not a screamer so when I'm scared I stay quiet and haul azz. Screaming takes breath away from the stamina needed to get out of dodge and draws attention.

If I were with a bunch of other terminally ill people I might figure it out but at that point I'm on lockdown so unless the CDC was taking calls I wouldn't be able to tell anyone.

Thanks for having a reasonable discussion especially on the points where we disagree. I appreciate it. Rare on this site!

[–] canada22 7 years ago

I see your point and I want to agree that this event happened at a frantic pace. Even if some doctors noticed the change, they could have been immediately attacked before they had a chance to share the knowledge. The outbreak happened all over the world. Another point I want to add is to enjoy entertainment there has to be some suspension of logic or there is no story. There are plenty of what-ifs that can happen. Stories are not about perfect people doing things perfectly. Stories are about flaws and how we overcome them.

[–] mstytz 8 years ago

You missed nothing. The movie was not well thought through and is really lousy from a real world point of view. Don't worry, none of it makes sense. That plane could not have taken off the carrier, much less landed it. The Navy lacks planes with international range. Burning fire destroys them, but no one uses a flamethrower. They give a loaded gun to an epidemiologist and give him no weapons training. The UN does not have investigators. Who would put up speakers in a city so that the zombies would be able to hear them? Why did it take hours for the zombiefication to occur on the plane? How do zombies keep moving when they have no circulation, hence no oxygen or energy can reach the body muscles. Eyes decay in 3 days without circulation. I think the whole reason for the movie is to tell us all that manmade global warming will make us into zombies or UN employees (the difference escapes me). Its really hard to maintain suspension of disbelief when the movie is this poor. Enos was just a placeholder. Dale was good.

[–] ModernHorror 8 years ago

Ehhh, it's so easy to claim something like that would be easy to figure out from the comfort of your chair, but in reality you can't know for certain. I mean, the only reason you know is because the movie told you.

There is no 'now', here.

[–] CharlotteGoldenblatt 8 years ago

For one, the palliative care units, oncology units in hospitals, senior homes, hospice etc would not be attacked at all, so they could've easily figured this out.

[–] canada22 7 years ago

We don't know if others figured out the solution because the movie is still early in the outbreak. They probably had several ideas. I think the story was focused on Brad Pitt's character and his journey.