Zombie Movies

[opterasis]

A zombie is a reanimated human corpse. The things in 28 Days/Weeks are not reanimated, but enraged. They are not zombies. End of debate as far as I'm concerned.

[jadedeath]

Originally Posted by opterasis

A zombie is a reanimated human corpse. The things in 28 Days/Weeks are not reanimated, but enraged. They are not zombies. End of debate as far as I'm concerned.

Keep telling yourself that, and maybe, Santa will bring you something nice for Christmas and the Easter Bunny will show up to your house with a chocolate Jesus for you to munch on.

Do you have anything to back up your claim other than personal opinion? No? Really? Hrm. Watch "White Zombie" and get back to us.

Logan

[opterasis]

Originally Posted by jadedeath

Keep telling yourself that, and maybe, Santa will bring you something nice for Christmas and the Easter Bunny will show up to your house with a chocolate Jesus for you to munch on.

Logan

Yup, that sure looks like logical discussion to me.

Since you seem to think that wikipedia is a reliable source...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie....the very first line...."A zombie is a reanimated human corpse."

So tell me exactly why the things in Days/Weeks are zombies. They aren't reanimated. They aren't the result of voodoo or supernatural power. The only defense you seem to have is they eat flesh.

And please, try answering without name calling, and being a general snob.

[jadedeath]

Originally Posted by opterasis

Yup, that sure looks like logical discussion to me.

Since you seem to think that wikipedia is a reliable source...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie....the very first line...."A zombie is a reanimated human corpse."

So tell me exactly why the things in Days/Weeks are zombies. They aren't reanimated. They aren't the result of voodoo or supernatural power. The only defense you seem to have is they eat flesh.

And please, try answering without name calling, and being a general snob.

First of all: I didn't call anyone a name. If you could stop throwing straw men out there, you'd stop tripping over them.

Second of all: There are some zombies that are caused by plagues, therein lies my point. Some are, some aren't. There's really no SET definition, please try and keep up with the conversation if you want to take part in it.

Some are created by Voodoo {the classic ones} some they don't explain at all, {like the Romero ones} in that way they fall into the category of zombies.

Another point in my favor is the very description on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289043/keywords Zombie is in there. I know it might be hard to digest {pun intended} but there it is.

Now, I might also want to take you over to Fox Searchlight Pictures website {since you seem to not like Wikipedia} http://content.foxsearchlight.com/films/node/319 Oh $#!+ it mentions zombies on the official production company website...

But, you're right though, how could ANYONE who thinks that it's a zombie movie be so wrong? How could the very production company that put it out so people could see it make such an overwhelmingly bad error as to label it a zombie movie? /sarcasm.

Logan

[zombieking]

Don't really care what one defines as a zombie, but the 28 Days/Weeks movies definitely had a zombie feel to them.

Has anyone seen the movie Blindness? There were even instances in that film that had influences from zombie films IMO. Society breakdown, littered streets, people shambling around the city lol, struggle for survival

[J_UNTITLED]

Quotes from Danny Boyle...


"The Romero films are obviously the most important zombie films, but 28 Days Later isn't really a zombie film." (Source)


“There was an article in the paper the other day by Simon Pegg. He wrote this article begging people to let zombies stumble again and not run. He was trying to turn the tide back because everyone has zombies running now. He’s like, ‘No, please. Can we go back to the old days when you knew you could get away from them?’ That was sort of the thrill. These idiots didn’t lock themselves in a car and died. That’s why I keep saying, ‘It’s not a zombie movie, everyone. It’s not a zombie movie!’ Because the aficionados - it’s sacrilegious what you’re doing by changing things like that. They’re infected. They’re not zombies.” (Source)


Another one here.