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Depressing and the end was....(spoilers hidden)

posted 10 years ago by Thrill_KillZ
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....cliche to some degree. Firstly, it was the most depressing zombie flick I've probably ever seen. The end with her shown well into a pregnancy felt kind of "tacked on" to me and it's overused in too many films. As far as her tracking them(her brother in-law and wife) down for revenge seemed improbable, especially with her pregnancy, do they deserve to die? To her yes, but there is a point where you need to move on even when people screw you in terrible ways if you are planning to make a viable future for yourself and your child. I'm sure it's something the makers thought would seem clever, but not so much.

I liked it, don't get me wrong, it was a decent switch from the usual zombie crap, I just didn't expect drama/humanity to be the main course with a side of horror, instead it was reversed and that's ok, just know what to expect and you'll be fine.

[–] timlin-4 10 years ago

Yeah, it was silly. The writer has a concept, but wasn't capable of developing it intelligently

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[–] rex-170 10 years ago

I wanted to put a bullet in her the moment she told their so called friends about her other friend (the pharmacist).

What an idiot!!!!! Supplies are running low and you blab that your getting doses illegally?

Sorry, but when you don't use your brain to think then you die, it's that simple.

Agree totally with you when she gets that other 50 doses. What a complete friggin moron she is.

They should have just given her a loudspeaker so she could announce it to the world.

As for hubby, why didn't he have a portable radio to listen to updates. I'm afraid he caused his own death there with his arrogance of not being up to date with events.

Oh and most drug users will tell you that you don't stash all your *beep* in one place, that's asking for trouble.

GOD!!!! THAT WOMAN ruined EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!

[–] Thrill_KillZ 10 years ago

TelegraphOperator, totally agreed with every word you said. This sh!t always ruins potentially great films. I mean, if we could sit back and analyze the problems in the entire film so easily WTF can't the filmmakers or someone, anyone, say "Hey this just isn't right, let's change this to that and ect. ect. ect." That's what ticks me off about a lot of films, it always seems like there must have been one douche with absolute total control over things that thinks he's a genius and everyone around him is either just as stupid(and everyone can't be that dumb) or afraid to speak up. It always seems a couple tweaks here and there and good films could become great films, that's more frustrating than watching a POS film that just sucks altogether.

But if I could single out one thing that irked me the most, more than any of the other bad writing, it would have to be that HEY!!! I JUST GOT FIFTY....IFTY...IFTY..IFTY.IFTY BOTTLES YES THIS IS AWESOME!!!!

I mean, she still could've gotten robbed, but instead..."woman walks calmly and quietly out of clinic, suitcase handcuffed to her hand, a gun tucked tightly into her jeans, man see's her, he runs her over with his car, takes gun, violently crushes woman's hand, speeds away from the scene, woman, broken and bleeding slowly rises..."

That would have been sweet and it would've helped her character seem more vengeful
at the end

[–] djblack1313 10 years ago

i really liked this movie but i didn't like the THE MIST type ending (where the "cure"(?) came through minutes too late) and i thought the whole pregnancy thing was 100% unnecessary.

and YES YES YES the couple who stole the vials deserve payback. i was desperately hoping we'd get a shot of Kate showing up on Amber & Jacob's door (she'd be relatively easy to find since she's a well known(?) book writer....i thought they said) and blows them away. Amber & Jacob are DESPICABLE and i wanted them to die for what they did to Kate but especially to Alex.

and i agree guys that her yelling out loud about the 50 doses she just got was infuriating. lol. that being said, i'm SO glad she was like "NO HE DIDN'T!!" and ran his ass down.

[–] fibreoptic 10 years ago

I'll take the usual zombie crap please! In this, millions of people (each one of them) are very much a potential cause for a zombie apocalypse (and apart from an ID card, are indistinguishable from normal people. Most non-returned people in this don't have a problem with them living with healthy humans) and she compares them to smokers and fat people. In real life, i think the military and the government would of took a different approach to these people.

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[–] Hiphophippie23 10 years ago

I agree with some of what has been said, though I did enjoy the movie. What bothered me was how quickly she gave up on searching through the 50 broken treatments. 50 treatments to potentially save/lengthen your husbands life and she shuffles through them as if she was browsing the bin at the $1 store. Poor direction in that scene.

[–] PsychoAndroid 10 years ago

ok, I didn't particularly like the movie, but still would like to counter some of the outrage here.
If you've ever commuted with public transport you know how people forget their surroudnings when on the phone and talk about all kinds of personal stuff. Well she is just an emotional woman in an extremely stressful situation, you cannot expect her to act like james bond.
Yes it was annoying, but dont confuse your annoyance with a plot hole. It would be an unrealistic movie if everyone acted like a robot and made no mistake ever.

About the pregnancy and virus thing, if you had payed attention to her fundraising presentation, you would have seen on the powerpoint slide "not sexually transmitted".

About the single dose thing, well this health minister guy said something about several weeks until they expect a synthetic protein drug. So every dose might have counted. why give him 6 doses if he dies anyways.
Kind of irresponsible of the official guy though to announce this long deadline on tv when the supply is already running out, thereby forcing people to kill each other, and then 24 hours later (not sure anymore, but not more than a few days could have passed), surprise, the cure is already here...

[–] suburban_Venus 10 years ago

Killer_Movie
» Sun Feb 23 2014 11:58:55
....cliche to some degree. Firstly, it was the most depressing zombie flick I've probably ever seen. I'm sure it's something the makers thought would seem clever, but not so much.

I liked it, don't get me wrong, it was a decent switch from the usual zombie crap, I just didn't expect drama/humanity to be the main course with a side of horror, instead it was reversed and that's ok, just know what to expect and you'll be fine.

Erm, so you would just shrug it off and move on after being forced into killing your significant other because his so called best friend stole the medicine to survive the shortage?
To me, that seems a bit cold hearted.

And I have to 100% agree with PsychoAndroid here.
Please consider normal human behaviour, it always applies, no matter if you are fighting zombies, a virus, an alien or small demonic children.

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[–] Augustus_Octavian 7 years ago

I disagree. Precisely because it is so vital and she already was taught a lesson, you expect her to learn from it. Committing the exact same mistake and this time much louder is beyond silly.

[–] Carrigon 10 years ago

I liked the movie, but we can all probably nitpick it to death. I would have been happier if she had gotten revenge on their friends. Their friends were crap to just leave him one dose. I knew I didn't trust them from the start.

As for her being pregnant, I didn't find it all that realistic. Shouldn't the Returned be sterile or something? I don't know, it just didn't sit well.

More zombies would have been better and maybe show another outbreak.

But all in all, I didn't think it was that bad. It's better than most of the garbage out there now.

[–] denise1234 10 years ago

I liked it.

Personally, I didn't need any more zombies as this wasn't a zombie exposition movie. I think they had enough to get the point across of what the virus would do to people.

And apparently some folks who are complaining about it *did* get invested enough to want to be able to see her kill off the treacherous friends at the end.

I also don't know if she is really pregnant or not. I can think of another movie (won't spoil it here) where the pregnancy was a ploy to trap a killer.
But, either way, I think the ending could have her planning on revenge (as she obviously was) without the pregnancy bit.

And here she is with her 'won't have a gun in my house' attitude...until she wants revenge...

~~ If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story ~ Orson Welles

[–] Umakemyheadswim 10 years ago

Weird. You think a Zombie movie in which they find a cure is the most depressing zombie film you ever seen?

[–] nikkiten1979 10 years ago

!!!! So true.

The movie to me was very sad, and had a lot of reality in it. I remember when AIDS was this huge epidemic there were people rioting all over the world about putting the infected on an island, and anyone that was gay should be put on the same island because it was a gay disease. It's very scary, but a great topic to visit. I really liked the movie and thought it was well done, well acted. Morons and stupid people exist in the real world... doctors and scientists can make mistakes and do stupid things. I thought the ending with her being pregnant was great (a little bit of a happy ending) and YES I would hunt those two ässholes and blow their heads off (but first I'd make them SUUUUUFFER!!!)

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[–] humbleathena 9 years ago

Gunshots are too good for those 'friends'. Knock them out, lock them in a room together. Let the wife turn and eat the husband. Then shoot them.

[–] alcalde 9 years ago

Yeah, but by then she would have gotten the synthetic antigen and wouldn't have turned.

However, having said that, I think something like chaining them up in a room together with the gun and a single bullet might be some sort of justice. Just tell them that one shoots the other and the one that lives gets to go free. Then leave the survivor chained and forgotten.

If neither one shoots, then they both rot together.

That's just off the top of my head. I'm sure others could be more creative...

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