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Small minor problem(s)

posted 13 years ago by bizhop2
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I don't like the fact that the old zombie lady was praying. They can think? How does falling out of a window kill an already dead person? unless that infected wasn't dead just crazed and actually died from the fall(husband and infected wife). How did the first guy that was working on the radiator get infected? He was trying to turn the valve. Would have been great if they at least threw in a bite mark somewhere. When he was looking at the canal with the small boat on the rooftop, camera angle made it seem like he could have leaped into the water and swim to the boat. There are few more they could fix but it was an enjoyable flick.

[–] machent 13 years ago

1. Since when does praying require thinking? It's just reciting from memory.

2. It's the common assumption that zombies are dead, but in this flic it's not established if they are dead or undead. They are for all we know just infected with a virus. But I thought in that scene "Oh well, seems to work, not a failure like in archer." so I was a bit confused too.

3. Like they said in the radio broadcast later: it takes minutes up to hours for the virus to spread and then they need to get their adrenalin pumping to trigger the outburst, so while we didn't see any bite mark we can assume he somehow got infected (exchange of fluids is enough so... maybe he made out with an infected chick?) and the exertion of the fight with the valve finally triggered the outburst.

4. I actually thought he would jump but it also looked shallow... neck breaking shallow to be honest.

I agree that it was enjoyable, not a masterpiece but it was fun. I had my biggest problem with the Gabi and Micha Zombie make out scene in the end. I thought that one was just unnecessary.
Since I'm german and this movie was produced by ZDF (it's something like BBC, every german household in the future and at the moment every german older than eighteen owning at least a radio, pc or tv has to pay for it), I'm relieved to see they actually do something appropriate for the billions they get every year.

[–] overninethousand 13 years ago

in this flic it's not established if they are dead or undead

Having the English titles of both "Siege of the Dead" and "Berlin Undead" means they're BOTH.

And yes I'm being ironic.

[–] honeyforu 13 years ago

I had my biggest problem with the Gabi and Micha Zombie make out scene in the end. I thought that one was just unnecessary.

Remember as they're embracing, the other two (Harper and the girl, I forgot her name) are shown rowing their boat away. So I think it was kind of symbolic.

[–] Antoine_Bugleboy 13 years ago

Praying? That is a reflex, similar to walking.
How about plotting revolution (e.g., GAR's 'Land of the Dead') -- that requires far more mental effort.

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[–] adamsmo 12 years ago

Well, the infection takes place with a rush of... adrenaline, right? Some nutty evangelical types definitely get that, and maybe just kept doing what she was doing when the infection took hold.

[–] MrBelette 12 years ago

My biggest problem was they kept starving near a rabbit.

[–] Orion775 12 years ago

Haha I thought that myself. It wasn't *his* pet. I would of roasted that sucker after the first night with whatever would burn. Not like it would provide much more than one meal but it would be something.

Then again I've had experience hunting and skinning small game. I could see a city dweller shying away from that prospect, accurate I guess. Although I would figure that we would all loose our inhibitions when faced with imminent death. A meal's a meal when the only other option is flesh eating neighbors between you and the pantry.

[–] overninethousand 12 years ago

The guy was a furry and autistic, give him some slack on logical thinking.

[–] blackurge9 12 years ago

Besides, he was losing his *beep* over Harper bending her forks, he's not going to be pragmatic or rational about killing her rabbit until he gets a lot hungrier.

[–] DisturbedPixie 12 years ago

I never thought they were really starving. I think they mentioned they were, but really they had energy to do many things.

And I'd imagine he might have lived with her before and loved the rabbit... he might have even given her the rabbit.

And I wouldn't be ready to kill my girlfriend's pet rabbit either, and wouldn't know how to prepare it in a bedroom without a stove or pot or knife, anyways.

[–] Berwickmex 12 years ago

The movie doesn't show the guy working on the radiator actually get infected but it does show that his hand is wrapped a few minutes into the movie.

[–] MiyazakiMina 12 years ago

I just assumed she was not fully turned yet and hence was praying for god to save her. Maybe seeing the intruders triggered the necessary adrenaline rush to fully turn her.

The Infected are not dead or Undead. They can be killed by normal means. This is actually made clear via the Radio Broadcast.

How the radiator guy got infected was not shown, but he had a bandaged wound.

Guy on rooftop, well obviously he had a sense of duty to go and help the others.

None of these are really problems at all if you paid attention. I agree with another poster though that the end was too sappy with the infected girlfriend. How DID they get infected anyway? Seemed pretty safe up there.

[–] brushfyr 12 years ago

Osano, I figured that same thing, seeing strangers in her house and thinking it was a home invasion made her panic which caused her to snap. The infection isn't a Romero style undead infection, which I think is what everyone assumes a zombie movie will be.

Hell, even Romero zombies aren't zombies, they're ghouls. ZOmbies are people brought back to life, hence alive again not walking corpses, and in the service of a hougan. THey don't stumble around trying to eat people.

[–] MiyazakiMina 11 years ago

Sorry, for the late response, but i had to shout a BIG YES at you, because Romero's are in fact ghouls not Zombies, if we can accept that, we would not have 90% of the discussions on here, lol...

[–] sandifay62 11 years ago

They are zombies and ghouls. Just like in The Evil Dead, those were zombies AND demons. Not all zombies are undead either. 28 Days Later zombies are zombies even though they may not be undead.

There's more than one definition for zombies. Some zombies are simply horde of people that don't think as unique human beings and move about like automatons. Writers can mix and match if they want. It's the fans that have the rigid definitions of what's what.