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    hell I would have to say that I loved a lot of zombie movies... Zombies are great!

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    zombies vs the infected.....woodenheart style.

    I was just debateing this topic at work this morning.

    How about we put some classic George Romero-style zombie rules and characteristics to the situation.

    Zombie rules

    1. Undead...the zombie was at one point dead.

    2. Hunger for human flesh.

    3. Not damaged by non-lethal harm.

    4.Killed only by destroying the brain. Even after severing the spinal column, Romero zombies' heads still live.

    5.Minimal mental thinking. The classic Romero-style zombies seem to be able to process only the information necessary for following and consuming live flesh. They are driven mostly on instinct alone. They are incapable of speech or complex thoughts. Outside of the Romero movies, it is not unusual to see this idea twisted or broken for the sake of creating a more interesting monster. Still, ''smart'' zombies are very rare.



    In "28 Days Later" one important thing doesn't happen in regard to the first rule.... those infected with the Rage virus are never, at any point, dead. The infected go from living to living but infected. In all zombie movies, those bitten or otherwise infected at some point die. Also important is that at no point does a previously dead individual come back to life. In the Romero movies, the dead are rising from the grave. That never happens in the "28 Days Later" scenario.

    Given that, it appears that what we're dealing with this movie are not zombies, but rather living human beings infected with a virus that makes them behave in a very zombie-like manner. Think of it as a super insane version of rabies, the sickness upon which popular zombie ideas were originally based anyway. Victims of rabies often attack other people violently, showing no regard for before hand emotional attachments. It's a tragic way to die, and the victims show eerie similarities to what we think of as a zombie.........




    Waiting for Survival of the Dead and....28 Months Later. Both will kick ass.




    ps..Thanks K.I.N.G for helping me with infected/zombie differences this morning.

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    I had fun posting it. You agree with me, right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by woodenheart View Post
    I had fun posting it. You agree with me, right?

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    Survival of the Dead wont kick ass :noob:

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    Quote Originally Posted by woodenheart View Post
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    5.Minimal mental thinking. The classic Romero-style zombies seem to be able to process only the information necessary for following and consuming live flesh. They are driven mostly on instinct alone. They are incapable of speech or complex thoughts. Outside of the Romero movies, it is not unusual to see this idea twisted or broken for the sake of creating a more interesting monster. Still, ''smart'' zombies are very rare.FONT]


    There is a problem with this rule. Ever since Dawn Romero has been hinting that these zombies have reasoning skills. So minimal thinking get thrown out the window. Land actually reinforced the fact that these zombies have reasoning skills, not only that it's not just a handful, but many of the zombies have these skills. They were actually led , and organised into what could be considered a zombie army,; so again this shows reasoning skills along with an organised thought process. We're no longer looking at zombies with basic motor function, we are dealing with zombies that can actually think and rationalize; almost as though the brain is actually regenerating ? (just a guess) ....something that's not considered instinct or basic thought patterns. I am actually kind of curious .......in a morbid sort of way where Romero is heading with this

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    Quote Originally Posted by steelba View Post
    Survival of the Dead wont kick ass :noob:
    Agreed. It seems to me he is scraping the bottom of the barrel for this one. For a start, the one thing that pissed me off watching the trailer was WHEN THE FUCK DID ZOMBIES LEARN TO RIDE HORSES??? I think, as much as I love Romero's work,he really is losing the plot and possibly should consider retirement soon. The guy is a legend in my eyes. He started the zombie movie genre as we all know and love,but his ideas for his movies aren't really that great now. I didn't like DIARY OF THE DEAD, but actually liked LAND. Nothing though can compare to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. It was original, refreshing, had atmosphere and looked CREEPY. and despite the shit remake in the 90's, made the zombie genre more interesting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by woodenheart View Post
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    1. Undead...the zombie was at one point dead.
    I can agree with this rule
    2. Hunger for human flesh.
    Reanimator, Evil Deads, Pet Semetarys, Dead and Buried...there are tons of "zombie" movies that contain the undead where they don't want human flesh
    3. Not damaged by non-lethal harm.
    Not sure what you mean here but I guess you mean you can take off an arm or something and they wont feel pain...or it wont affect their drive?

    shit this can go for almost any horror movie, how many times have we seen a slasher take a gun shot or a stab wound and keep coming, even the "infected" don't care if they get injured...they just keep coming.
    4.Killed only by destroying the brain. Even after severing the spinal column, Romero zombies' heads still live.
    RotLDs, Evil Dead, lots of zombie movies ignore the brain thing.
    5.Minimal mental thinking. The classic Romero-style zombies seem to be able to process only the information necessary for following and consuming live flesh. They are driven mostly on instinct alone. They are incapable of speech or complex thoughts. Outside of the Romero movies, it is not unusual to see this idea twisted or broken for the sake of creating a more interesting monster. Still, ''smart'' zombies are very rare.
    So Land of the Dead, the Blind Dead, Return of the living Dead, Evil Deads, Pet Semetarys, etc, shouldnt be zombie movies because the risen dead think?

    The problem with trying to classify what a zombie is, is that there are so many counter examples that exist. Here's the way I feel:

    Does 28days/weeks have any zombies in it? No.

    Does 28days/weeks still feel like a zombie movie? Hell yes it does...the only difference is there are no zombies in it.


    Spoiler...
    I feel much the same way about April fools day. Is it a slasher...technically no since no one dies. Does it feel like a slasher? yup.


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    Quote Originally Posted by strtfghtr View Post
    Does 28days/weeks have any zombies in it? No.

    Does 28days/weeks still feel like a zombie movie? Hell yes it does...the only difference is there are no zombies in it.

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