What doesn't need to be in a good zombie film?
Of course, everyone thinks Z films to not have anything taken away, but there are certain things that cause a film to get away from the true essence of the zombie.
One thing I think should be taken out is the 'Play-doh Effect' in which Zombies can easily tear a victim limb from limb and rip them open like a paper bag.
One thing I think should be taken out is the 'Play-doh Effect' in which Zombies can easily tear a victim limb from limb and rip them open like a paper bag.
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Permalink Reply by Visogoth on -
Well there are plenty of other nicknames, like stenches, ghouls, f*cking corpses, meat sacks, and you can even go the route of differentiating between undead and infected, but you reach a conflict with a point made in the twin discussion "There's Something Missing" which is that people want to see real life folks that actually respond (or are even prepared) to the outbreak. If this were the case, the term zombie is by far so widely accepted that someone would inevitably use the word, and it would probably be widely circulated. I'm sorry that the father of zombies didn't get to actually name them, and the word "zombie" does have a less than serious ring to it, but for practical application it is impossible to shake off.
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Permalink Reply by KP on
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You can't get rid of the word "zombie." The concept of a walking corpse has been so heavily connected to the word that it is immediately what most people will immediately go to. It's like wanting to call a vampire or a werewolf by a different name. In the horror lexicon, a walking, canibalistic corpse IS a zombie. If the film's universe includes George Romero and his ilk, the characters are going to use that term as well. You could, however, take Shaun's stance in Shaun of the Dead; some characters may refuse to use the "Zed-word" for fear that using it would force them to acknowledge what was going on, thereby making it somehow more real. Still, they knew what they were dealing with and the name still applied.
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Permalink Reply by J,M. on -
nudity and sex scenes . Unless its absolutely vital to the story then it has no place in the story... all it is is a way for the film makers to either A) Increase viewership (very cheaply) or B) The chance for the film director, producers, and actors to see live action porn, lol... its cheap and usually brings down the quality of the film
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Permalink Reply by Living Deadgirl on -
Yes --- it's great to see that there are others who also believe such scenes (the non-vital ones, anyway) cheapen the movies. It's almost like the movie makers are saying, "Well, we don't have what it takes to make a really good movie, so let's just throw in some nudity and sex and maybe nobody will notice anything else!"
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Permalink Reply by J,M. on
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movies like that I usually just walk away...like that bloodrayne movie... I'm reasonably sure it was written by nerdy 13 year olds. From watching it, i think it made me stooopid(er than I was to begin with) and may God have mercy on their souls for making it
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Permalink Reply by Viral on -
I don't agree, because we want as real of zombie movies as possible. So by doing that in real life idk about you but i would still want sex haha.
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Permalink Reply by The Kidd on -
I'm just tired of the ignorance of the characters in most of these zombie movies. I mean, in vamp movies, all the characters instantly recognize the enemy that they're dealing with and have a cross in one hand and a wooden stake in the other. In walking dead movies, its as if nobody in the movie world has ever even heard the word "zombie" before.
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Permalink Reply by Takkun on -
I really just want to see a more realistic collection of characters...i'm sick of seeing the millitary hero, the ignorant girl, the arrogant guy...it's just typical, i always HATE the characters in these films. I want to see real people. I don't want to see a soldier with a supermodel clung to his arm, running about shooting zombies with a machine gun. I want to see a school teacher and a grocery store clerk running about killing zombies with a baseball bat and a machete. Seems more real.
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Permalink Reply by Living Deadgirl on
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I agree 100% with this! We could relate to the characters a lot better if they were more real. The stereotypical, overdone hero image should be saved for comic books.
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Permalink Reply by The Kidd on
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The new Dawn movie had characters like this. But I agree, more movies need to have "real" people in it instead of the hollywood horror movie stereotypes. I would like to see a scene where the buff military guy gives a big, long-winded speech about how they're all going to survive as long as they follow and listen to him, and right as he finishes, a zombie comes in out of nowhere and rips his face off.
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Permalink Reply by Takkun on
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Yes that's like Deep Blue Sea, i believe, ya know the scene where Samuel L Jackson makes his speech then gets eaten by a giant shark. Brilliant.
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Permalink Reply by Living Deadgirl on
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I wonder if that was the same movie that one minute, showed a shark that was after somebody to be about 5-feet long, and in other scenes it looked to be about the size of a house! And if it's also the same movie where the stuck-up lady scientist got eaten, I had been hoping for that! And wasn't there a parrot that got eaten, too?
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