Zombie Movies

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Originally Posted by jadedeath

Bull$#!+

Romero specifically leaves out WHY the zombies are showing up in his movies, if it's radiation, plague or whatever, he simply doesn't say.

That's not what I meant, that's my own fault, I meant that 28 days later
is much more realistic, because there is a plausible explanation to how
they got infected with rabies like symptoms.
And what is realistic about "aaaaaaaaaahhhh BRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIINS"?
The realism in 28 days absolutely warrants a different label.

Originally Posted by jadedeath

It's the trademark of Romero that his zombies progress on a step-by-step mental evolution throughout his movies.

If you can't see that, then you either a} have never watched a Romero movie or b} just are in it to turn off your brain and watch blood and gore. Neither of these options are bad per se, but to talk as if you know Romero's movies like the back of your hand and then miss something so painfully obvious isn't really adding much to the conversation.

If you had read it thouroughly you would have understood that I said
the first zombies had no consciousness whatsoever. Romero obviously loves doing zombie flicks, I guess he would have had a hard time continuing his series without "evolution" of the zombies. Which was probably more of a necessity than intend. If you ask the general public of what a zombie
is, 99% would say they are reanimated dead bodies with no will of their own or something in the lines of that. And they sure as hell wouldn't say "they are the walking dead who progress on a step-by-step mental evolution"
Therefore their "trademark" or what they are known for, is that they are the
walking dead with no capability of speech and mental abstraction.
Which is not what the infected are in 28 days/weeks later.

Originally Posted by jadedeath

Take a look at the movie White Zombie. You'll find someone in that movie who is a zombie, who also wasn't irradated or anything of the sort. It's Voodoo man.

You're right, and that is not realistic and has nothing to do with the infected in 28 day/weeks later, because there is no Voodoo or other mumbo jumbo, only science. Look at dictionaries on the net
and books you'll see their definitons DO NOT MATCH the infected from 28 day/weeks later.

Originally Posted by jadedeath

Why? Is he going to track me down and go "Christian Bale" on me?

Logan

Hahaha that was actually quite funny, you and Michael Cera should team up!

and by the way, how can you defend calling somebody a moron you don't know?

Lastly I wanna say that we have to agree to disagree and it's totally understandable
that this can be regarded as a zombie movie, and I'll never change your mind no matter how many links and arguments I provide.
And I just read on an IMDB board somebody quoting the writer of 28 days later Alex Garland http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289043/.../128672601?p=2 written by combatreview. "This is a Zombie movie with no zombie's in it." They're the Infected!!!! Not Zombies.
p.s. Opterasis thumbs up!