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Insultingly stupid

posted 10 years ago by tkell31
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Literally at every turn they have whatever they need to happen, happen. From the beginning where a truck somehow drives down a long line of stopped cars, to him, having absolutely no idea what is going on, start counting in his head when he sees someone getting bit (why would he do that? he has no idea it would act that fast or even wtf was going on), to him being able to get a vehicle and drive out with his kids while thousands are stuck in traffic.

The kid somehow getting out of the apartment and showing up in the nick of time to save Pitt, helicopter arriving just in time, the telephone call from his wife at just the wrong time etc, etc. The "nick of time" thing is a lot more effective when it isn't happening every other scene.

Sure there were some good scenes and I like the genre, but he's some super investigator? guy slips and blows his head off? the z's wait until the plane is about to land to show up? the plane crashes and they are the only two too survive? Really? They happen to crash close enough to walk to the facility they were going to? From extremely brief observations he's able to figure out that terminally ill people are "off the radar" off the infected (which of course is another idiotic plot point).

There are so many more examples of each, and each time it takes you out of the movie with how stupid what just happened was. IMO would have been much better if they didnt have him jet setting around the world with his hippy haircut.

[–] skay_baltimore 8 years ago

@OP:

Insultingly stupid pretty much says it all.

"Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in." -- Will Rogers

[–] mvitale24 8 years ago

The driver of the garbage truck was being attacked. That's why he was driving like a madman down the street, plowing through cars left and right.

Gerry wasn't counting in his head. His youngest daughter had dropped her toy, Subway Sam and he picked it up for her. When he squeezed it, it began counting (it's a teaching toy) so what you heard was the toy counting to 12, the number 12 train that was pulling into the station. At that moment, Gerry noticed the guy getting bitten and by the time the toy got to 12, he had turned.

The moment Gerry and his family left that apartment and the guy was closing the door, it was attacked by zombies. They pushed their way in and bit both the mom and dad. The kid managed to escape. He fled to the roof because he knew that's where Gerry was taking his family. Is it really that big of a stretch? We clearly see the kid's dad as the first of the zombies coming through the roof's door and going after Gerry and the chopper. Mom was the one who had to be shot off the chopper as it took off.

Agree that the scientist was an idiot but I put the blame on Gerry for that one. You never put a loaded gun in anyone's hands who doesn't have a clue what they're doing, even during a zombie apocalypse. He definitely told him to keep his finger off the trigger so of course at the first sign of zombies rushing them and he's told to get back on the plane, he trips, falls and shoots himself in the head because he obviously had his finger on the trigger.