No, you don’t. You really don’t.
Weren’t you warned about personal abuse in this forum? And yes, I missed the “frumious”–how remiss of me.
No, they just have to be relevant. Strange fruit doesn’t mean just any old corpse hanging about–it’s a specifically racial reference.
<< I’m not talking about the movie, you unlettered cretin. >>
Evil Death, I’ll say it once more: personal insults are not permitted in this forum. If you want to call someone names, go to the forum called BBQ Pit and flame away. But not here.
That’s twice you’ve been given an Official Warning by a Moderator, in the same thread. I strongly suggest that you pay heed, if you intend to remain on these Message Boards. Consider that the umpire has called “Strike Two!” and watch what you say and how you say it henceforth.
OK - reading back I can see how it all got mixed up. I wasn’t intending to make the specifically racial reference. I was instead thinking of the deplorable tendency of certain elements of American society to affix anyone who is different to the nearest piece of wood and kill them, even if the different people aren’t hurting anyone. The most common reason they give for doing this is that a guy who wasn’t hurting anyone but got affixed to a piece of wood and killed for being different would want them to, which all things considered is quite amusing.
Just thinking about Zombie Zero this morning…
Even if Zombieitis is viral, so is the common cold , and it got started somewhere with one person and is still going strong. Why is it hard to believe that Zombie Zero was just the unfortunate soul who was first infected with the new viral strain and then started passing it along (not thinking about the rapid spread, just the initial case.)
Or am I missing something obvious…that maybe was discussed that I’ve missed over 5 pages of Zombieitis discussions.
I just saw it tonight. Don’t have much to add – it was very slick and well-acted, but ultimately forgettable. Of course, I’m not one to say since I’m really not a fan of zombie movies in general.
That would’ve been tons better. I kept wondering when the hell they were going to get around to showing what happened to his arm injury, since they made a point of the close-up of his getting cut on the drain thing and then wallowing around in zombie-blood-filled water. I can only guess that the script was being heavily modified as they were filming. Or they ran out of ideas.
Coming as kind-of-an-outsider to the whole zombie thing, this thread is kind of interesting. It’s surprising to me that having zombies created only from the bites of other zombies is a contentious point. I’ve never seen the original Dawn of the Dead, but I did see Night of the Living Dead and I assumed that that was what was going on in that story – you get killed by a zombie, you turn into a zombie. That’s how vampirism and lycanthropy work, and the zombie stories I’m more familiar with like Resident Evil and 28 Days Later treat it as a disease instead of anything supernatural. I wonder if that’s as close to a “commentary” on society as we’re going to get from this remake. Since the original Dawn of the Dead, the world has seen AIDS and ebola outbreaks and have become generally paranoid of viruses.
Somebody mentioned I Am Legend earlier; granted I didn’t read it at the time of its release (since I wasn’t yet born), but I didn’t get the same sense from it as I do from virus-type zombie stories. It was really a vampire story made contemporary, and just used the idea of a biological origin of the disease as a crutch to make it fit in with a notion of modern science. The horror there was the apocalypse, being alone, and having all your neighbors turn against you. It wasn’t this dread of mysterious disease that people have now.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. They did a close-up of his arm getting cut on the drain because otherwise none of us would understand why he was bleeding and no longer capable of using his shotgun.
Marc
The Borg.
The Borg Queen uses a temporal transporter to beam assimilation nanoprobes to the past using a shotgun approach… one kilogram of nanoprobes beamed to a cubic kilometer of atmosphere over a few population centers…
…but temporal flux damaged the integrity of the assimilation programing, thus the “drones” do not exibitcollective thought or purpose, nor do they sprout borg mechanisms over their body. They just assimilate using the one hypodermic device available to them…their teeth.