28 days later wasn't really zombies in the living dead sense. I admit it has been a while since I watched it but I don't recall rotting corpses running around.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Yes, in 28 Days Later they were "the Infected", with the Rage virus. The epilogue showed that after a month they were weakened and dying.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Wasn't it a virus they called rage?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Adrenal zombies.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

So while agree with you 8000% about zombies not running.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

28 days later did not have a single zombie in it. There were zero animated corpses. They were just regular people with a Disease that effected their aggression. So while agree with you 8000% about zombies not running. And while I'd add that actual zombies make no sense since whatever caused their death would prevent their body from creating enough energy for the body to reanimate. Movies like 28 days later or the video game DayZ do not have any zombies/ reanimated corpses. They are regular living people that have never died and they have simply been infected with a disease that causes extreme aggression

by Anonymous 1 year ago

In the broadest sense, a zombie is a person without consciousness, without a will of their own. Zombies wander aimlessly and will automatically attack non-zombies. Infected are a type of zombie. Infected are zombies but not all zombies are infected.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Also, the military is always ridiculously weak. Like bro, you have tanks and guns and a horde of zombies that go down easily is enough to defeat the entire army but Bob and pregnant Gertrude with their 3 kids and one gun survive until the end

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Always liked my Zombies slow and shambling. Just this greater sense of existential menace. They're slow, but they're always coming. Every second you stay still, they advance just that much closer, inevitably gaining ground until you're trapped.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Yeah I think way to many "infected" stories get mixed in with the traditional zombie apocalypse genre. Last of Us, I am Legend, 28 days later etc., are all examples of non-zombie scenarios, where the individuals aren't technically dead and are maintaining biological functions through other means or wasting away over time. Apart from lower budget projects or one-off horror thrillers like WWZ or Train to Busan(which is amazing in my opinion) I don't actually know of too many "runner" zombie shows/movies. And while the Walking Dead definitely has some issues here and there, I do feel like they did an alright job at showing the different conditions/deteriorating states of the walkers, even if the comics and books especially WWZ do a much better job at explaining the feasibility of how zombies and the threat there in makes any sense in a believable way m.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Last of Us is so good.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

There's no way for a pathogen to move one hundred fifty pounds of muscle, bones. The reason we are able to move is because of energy from food and water powering the brain that controls our bones and muscles. A pathogen cannot restart the brain or give energy without consuming food and water. Real zombies would just be unable to move and the only danger is if you touched your cheeseburger to the innards of a sedentary corpse and then ate it. You would need to disinfect your populace somehow after they carry the bodies to burial sites or cremation, depending on if the contagion aerosolised from decay.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Right, right, right. You're talking about suspension of belief. But my thing with most zombie movies is that they *don't* run, so I find it different to suspend my belief that they could take over the world just stumbling around like a drunken uncle at Christmas lunch. Movies where they run and are more dangerous make more sense to me and require less suspension of belief for me personally.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

This guy needs to watch Shawn of the dead.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I agree Also, I never finished game of thrones, but wtf

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Don't finish it. It will crush your soul and leave you broken.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I've actually restarted it to watch with my gf. Was never a big fan of the series, but it's decent yknow (what I watched) I preferred the books, even tho I didn't finish there either (of what was out when I began)

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Yea

by Anonymous 1 year ago

L4D is a pretty good take on the tropes of zombies IMO, especially with the in-canon explanations for the fact that zombies run and the ineffectiveness of the military.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Yes because they also don't run in real life or they are just aren't real so people can chance and alter thing if it makes for a better story

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Certainly a popular opinion among characters in Zombie films

by Anonymous 1 year ago

So Zombies have very limited brain capacity, so they do not have the brainfunction too properly control muscle functions, They use 100% of their left muscle tissue, which we cant do because or brain wants too prevent harm too the muscle fiber, by this logic biologically they should be running just as fast if not faster then humans.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

No problem suspending disbelief for a rotting corpse moving and craving the flesh of the living but when they move too quickly, now we have a problem!

by Anonymous 1 year ago