Day Of The Dead, the final Romero original trilogy has a scientist explain the zombies rot at a slow rate and will last at least 15 years!
People keep saying gasoline goes bad but in my experience even a year old gas stored in a metal gas can works fine.
And why would hair care products be an issue? Do you realize how much scavenged hair care products there are out there? Hit up a Sallys, lifetime supply!
My mom was a hoarder, I’ve used decades old toothpaste and shampoo that was fine. Canned goods 5-10 years old that was fine.
Gas in your can likely works fine. So does the gas in the can that I keep for my lawnmower; a gallon goes a long way. Gas tank of a Chevy that’s been sitting by the roadside for a couple years I would think is a different beast. That, and the fact that even if the gas still has some octane, you’re telling me a car that hasn’t been started in more than a year is still okay?
Then again, if Daryl can build a motorcycle out of a garage full of parts, maybe he knows something I don’t.
And while I agree about the hair care products, I find it a little bizarre to think about Carol and Maggie peeling off from the main group to do a “Salon Raid,” stabbing and killing zombie hairstylists and beehive zombies and pageboy zombies and even a Tracy Turnblad zombie, to seek out the hair products they need to survive the Apocalypse…
A clip from World War Z irked me.
In the commercials, they ran the hell out of this one scene where the zombies are literally swarming up these huge concrete walls in Israel, thousands of zombies making these enormous piles and eventually swarming over the hundred foot walls.
I had no trouble at all with the walking dead… hell, even the RUNNING dead… but upon seeing that scene, my first thought was that the bottom three layers of zombies are going to be squished to grease, which is going to make the upper part of the pile a lot less stable… and because new zombies are swarming, the bottom few layers are going to KEEP getting liquefied… in fact, this whole thing just wouldn’t work…
Although it was certainly impressive to look at.
Maybe it’s because I watched on mute with “I don’t know how to love him” playing on a different Youtube clip, but it looked like he threw him at a structure that crossed over the train and Spidy used that to jump at Doc Ock.
It could be worse, if HBO or Showtime (to say nothing of Starz) made the show we’d all be wondering why women are still waxing years into the zombie apocalypse.
Spidey goes through a skywalk, but doesn’t use it to either slow him down or speed him up. Regardless, he’s only in flight for about 6 seconds, meaning in that period he would have to lose enough velocity so that DO gets ahead of him by 25-50 feet, then propel himself fast enough to catch up.
Others have tried to explain that perhaps the train sped up then slowed down, but trains are heavy and the engines used to power them aren’t that powerful.
Naw, it was just a very clever bit of editing that made the scene work… except for pedantic nerds like me, I guess. 
I also don’t know if it’s possible to just twist your body midflight like that, but I’m not willing to be thrown 200 feet to find out. 
In the recent I Am Legend with Will Smith, the Brazilians that he rescues have never heard of Bob Marley.
Assuming this occurs in the 2000-2020s… And even more so in later years… This is ridiculous. Bob Marley is one of the best known, if not the best, reggae players. There are numerous Brazilian reggae bands that cover his songs. Not only that, one of Brazil’s most popular singers, Gilberto Gil, covers Bob Marley songs (translated and original English). Lastly, Bob Marley is an icon, his face is plastered in all types of stuff. I’ve seen his face plastered in some towel that was being used as a curtain in a favela in Brazil.
Yea yea, I can accept the mutant things… I can’t accept that a well-educated Brazilian would’ve been so sheltered as to not recognize such a popular icon as Bob Marley. Even if she didn’t know that particular song, if he mentioned “Bob Marley”, she could’ve said “Ah, I know other songs by him!”.
Wasn’t she supposed to be a nun or something? Maybe that explains it.
Bikini season. Duh.
The accents in Mass Effect are all over the map (both literally and figuratively)
Between you’re example of the Pesudo-Russian-except-for-one-guy Quarians you have a Japenese character with ZERO accent and about 3 others WITH accents.
And the weird kinda-British accents are just…weird
In the movie? I don’t remember it. But nuns are not nowadays for the most part kept in a bubble away from popular culture (if they truly ever were). Many work outside or within their convent, interacting with others. And she would still have a youth. She was not too old, likely my own age when I saw that movie (mid-20s)… young enough to have heard of Marley.
Even if she was cloistered, she didn’t grow up as a nun. Unless she’s from, say, Eastern Europe or the Phillipines or some other place where reggae has no presence, it is rather absurd that she would have no idea who Bob Marley is.
(Of course, a dozen people will now post links to Filipino raggae singers…)
There are Americans who have never heard of Bob Marley. Hell, I’d be surprised if my old man knew who Bob Marley was; he’s the kind of guy who’ll pull me aside at a wedding or something and ask, “Is ‘black people’ still an acceptable noun, or did they go and change it again?”
That being said, I kind of agree with you; I’d have thot most Brazilians would at least have heard of the guy.
There’s a Niven short story where a virus animates dead bodies, but it only lasts a very short time.
If it had been an old lady, perhaps. But this was a youngish woman from an educated background. In a country and world that up until a few years prior to the start of the movie had current forms of communication (internet, email, mass media).
Ahem. Concerning Pipe-weed, also known as westmansweed:
I had a 26yo guy, grew up in Texas, ask me yesterday “Who is James Dean?”, so yeah, I can find it believable… if implausible.
James Dean has been *dead *over twice as long as a 26 yo has been alive. Can you name 3 teen idols from 35 years before *you *were born? Could you have done so at 26?
James dean had a very short career, as a teen idol, 50 years ago. None of the movies he appeared in are considered must-see classics or heavily parodied the way, say, “The Godfather” or “Gone with the Wind” are. Dean had a brief ‘comeback’ in the early 90s, but he has been largely forgotten for the past 25 years. So of course most 26yos haven’t heard of him. I would be more surprised if a 26yo *did *know who he was than if they didn’t.
That’s very different to a woman who was a teenager at the height of Bob Marley’s popularity not knowing who Bob Marley was. That is more akin to 30 year old woman in 1965 not knowing who James Dean is.
To be fair, it was actually a 60’s era computer.