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Take it from a previous anorexic...


I've ever gone 36 days without food, but I've gone about a week on next to nothing and some water... trust me... this is movie wasn't even close to reality. Sure, I'd give them a few days and make allowances for adrenaline and survival instincts, but even after just 1 week of little to no food, I can tell you, they wouldn't be doing much else rather than sleeping. That's all you can do. Certainly after 2 weeks with absolutely nothing, they wouldn't be up and about and having physical fights with each other. No way. No way, Jose. They also would have experienced more of the dizziness and disorientation as well as stomach cramping and nausea. I know everyone's different, but come on! Even if I could overlook everyone else gusts of energy and lack of symptoms, You can't tell me that after 36 days with nothing but water, that Jordan would still be thinking perfectly clear, have the strength to kill someone, and climb up a rickety, 30 foot ladder. Come on people! This stuff is the scariest when it's realistic and you think it could actually happen to you.

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I totally agree, one of the minuses of the film. I dont eat for two days and I'm liable to snatch food off of tables so I know a week in I would snap and eat someone in a blink of an eye.

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Definitely. The movie was totally unrealistic in regards to that. I'd give them two weeks tops -- anything after that they would either be sleeping or totally going out of their minds.

They didn't even start eating that guy until what....day 20+? I think by then they would be vomiting up the flesh anyway, either because it was so gross or because their bodies would simply reject the food.

And I know it would be unrealistic to ask the cast to lose weight for the film, but they were still all the same sizes by the end. Their clothes would have been falling off by day 30+, and yet they all looked rather healthy to me. You would think they would at least try to make them look thinner with make up.

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They could have used makeup and maybe switched them to the same clothes, but a size or two bigger.

"When death sleeps, it dreams of me."

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Agree. I went on a diet for a whole month and I was totally fine.

Also when it comes to bullet wounds and such, people make it out to be such a big deal in films. I haven't had a bullet wound but I had bruised my knee before and it wasn't so bad. I only cried for like 3 days.

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