In the 50s and 60s zombies were slow, plodding undead that relentlessly came after you with the maniacal single-minded intent of eating your brain and body....
When 28 Days Later came out I noticed zombies were wicked fast.... sped up and coming to get yer ass on rollerblades! OK... not blades, but may as well have been.
Which brings us to now. Zombies have gotten worse. Somewhere a director said..." I want a literal wave of zombies coming down the street"! And he got it.
#585578 - 11/14/1201:42 AMRe: World War Z
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This stuf just doesn't appeal to me at all. Includes, zombies, werewolves, vampires and all such ilk. Mostly because they don't make sense physically .
The concept f something getting someone "life essence" or some schitz by drinking his blood or eating brains.
Also the physical transformation that course. Just plain stupid IMO
Like that stupid Phuk show, Dusk til Dawn. It was a rather interesting flick until the vampires came out. Then it was silly, when it wasn't boring.
Okay, my opinion. I will go over by the wall and shut up, now
Dave
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Well.. again.. not all shows are based on reality. I think we've been over this... you are more of a History Channel sort of guy. Sometimes the things that don't make sense are what makes life different and fun.
I'm kind of burned out on Zombies myself. What's next, a reality series called 'Honey Boo Boo Zombie killer'? Yuck! :P
Why? Have you been watching a lot of zombie movies? The last ones I saw was 28 Days Later and that Brit one that was a spoof on zombie films and was quite funny. That's been years though.
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is a 2006 post-apocalyptic horror novel by Max Brooks. It is a follow-up to his 2003 book, The Zombie Survival Guide. Rather than a grand overview or narrative, World War Z is a collection of individual accounts in the form of first-person anecdotes. Brooks plays the role of an agent of the United Nations Postwar Commission, who published the report a decade after the ten-year Zombie War. The United Nations left much of his research out of the official report, choosing to focus on facts and figures from the war rather than the individual stories that form the bulk of Brooks' novel. The interviews chart a decade-long war against zombies from the view point of many different people of various nationalities. The personal accounts also describe the changing religious, geo-political, and environmental aftermath of the Zombie War.
World War Z was inspired by The Good War, an oral history of World War II by Studs Terkel; and by the zombie films of director George A. Romero. Brooks used World War Z to comment on social issues like government ineptitude and American isolationism, while also examining themes of survivalism and uncertainty. Critics have praised the novel for reinventing the zombie genre; the audiobook version, performed by a full cast including Alan Alda, Mark Hamill and John Turturro, won an Audie Award in 2007.
#585642 - 11/15/1207:30 AMRe: World War Z
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There are 30 ways to survive zombies according to the 2009 Woody Harrelson film "Zombieland" on his quest to find the last Twinkie in America along with two sisters who are going to LA to the last place that is Zombie Free.
The threat of human zombies is nothing compared to the threat posed by....tomatoes......The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and the Tomatoes that Ate France....watch those movies and you will never view tomatoes in the same way