Your single most annoying thing/mistake in a movie!
Discussion
blade runner said:
All zombie movies - for example World War Z which I watched last night.
I wouldn't mind if the zombies were just normal 'alive' people with say a very nasty disease like rabies which makes them behave in a certain way. But no, every time they apparently properly 'dead' people re-animated. Re-animated that is despite having no circulatory system, no process for oxygen to get their muscles (so they can stand up/walk/run/bite) or to their brain (so they can think/react), no way to re-hydrate their body tissues, no digestive system and therefore no process replacing lost energy etc. etc.
If zombies really were 'dead' you'd just have to hold up somewhere for a few weeks until they'd completely de-hydrated, used up any stored energy in their bodies that they were magically able to metabolise (despite not having a circulatory system that is - but let's not split hairs) and consequently all fallen over and stopped moving. None of that running around for months/years desperately trying to stay alive - just an awful lot of dead people lying around that you have to pile up and burn somewhere.
I'm all for a bit of suspension of disbelief, but I find it a bit tiresome when the whole premise manages to undermine the most basic rules of physics.
That has been hinted at in some films. 28 Days later they chained one up to see how long it would take for him to starve, which they all eventually did. Resident evil made some psuedo-scientific sounding bumf about how nails and hair continue to grow, so they haven't expended all of their energy. I believe the whole "reanimated dead" thing is also the reason why traditional zombies have been slow and useless. I wouldn't mind if the zombies were just normal 'alive' people with say a very nasty disease like rabies which makes them behave in a certain way. But no, every time they apparently properly 'dead' people re-animated. Re-animated that is despite having no circulatory system, no process for oxygen to get their muscles (so they can stand up/walk/run/bite) or to their brain (so they can think/react), no way to re-hydrate their body tissues, no digestive system and therefore no process replacing lost energy etc. etc.
If zombies really were 'dead' you'd just have to hold up somewhere for a few weeks until they'd completely de-hydrated, used up any stored energy in their bodies that they were magically able to metabolise (despite not having a circulatory system that is - but let's not split hairs) and consequently all fallen over and stopped moving. None of that running around for months/years desperately trying to stay alive - just an awful lot of dead people lying around that you have to pile up and burn somewhere.
I'm all for a bit of suspension of disbelief, but I find it a bit tiresome when the whole premise manages to undermine the most basic rules of physics.
I think in I Am Legend (s
t. Book was supposed to be good though)/Omega Man the zombies were really just modified people, so presumably still fed. Also, with most films being from the survivors perspective, you're not going to see them farming/eating worms or whatever. IRL I think Zombies would fear us, they'd be below great apes in the food chain- not smart and not strong.The high energy 28DL zombies were great from a film perspective, but the energy usage is on a par with how the Alien in Alien managed to grow without a food source. And in Prometheus- where the thing grew despite being locked in a sterile room, but that film is so full of holes that there's nothing left to pick them in.
blade runner said:
All zombie movies - for example World War Z which I watched last night.
I wouldn't mind if the zombies were just normal 'alive' people with say a very nasty disease like rabies which makes them behave in a certain way. But no, every time they apparently properly 'dead' people re-animated. Re-animated that is despite having no circulatory system, no process for oxygen to get their muscles (so they can stand up/walk/run/bite) or to their brain (so they can think/react), no way to re-hydrate their body tissues, no digestive system and therefore no process replacing lost energy etc. etc.
If zombies really were 'dead' you'd just have to hold up somewhere for a few weeks until they'd completely de-hydrated, used up any stored energy in their bodies that they were magically able to metabolise (despite not having a circulatory system that is - but let's not split hairs) and consequently all fallen over and stopped moving. None of that running around for months/years desperately trying to stay alive - just an awful lot of dead people lying around that you have to pile up and burn somewhere.
I'm all for a bit of suspension of disbelief, but I find it a bit tiresome when the whole premise manages to undermine the most basic rules of physics.
Not a great fan of Superman, Avengers, X-men, Triffids, Ghostbusters, Peter Pan (or any Disney film) (to name but a few) then?I wouldn't mind if the zombies were just normal 'alive' people with say a very nasty disease like rabies which makes them behave in a certain way. But no, every time they apparently properly 'dead' people re-animated. Re-animated that is despite having no circulatory system, no process for oxygen to get their muscles (so they can stand up/walk/run/bite) or to their brain (so they can think/react), no way to re-hydrate their body tissues, no digestive system and therefore no process replacing lost energy etc. etc.
If zombies really were 'dead' you'd just have to hold up somewhere for a few weeks until they'd completely de-hydrated, used up any stored energy in their bodies that they were magically able to metabolise (despite not having a circulatory system that is - but let's not split hairs) and consequently all fallen over and stopped moving. None of that running around for months/years desperately trying to stay alive - just an awful lot of dead people lying around that you have to pile up and burn somewhere.
I'm all for a bit of suspension of disbelief, but I find it a bit tiresome when the whole premise manages to undermine the most basic rules of physics.
ClockworkCupcake said:
blade runner said:
Everything (biology, chemistry) ultimately comes back to physics. First law of thermodynamics / conservation of energy etc.
Not a mistake as such, but nobody ever turns a drink down, neither when helping your mate service his Mustang, and they crack open a couple of buds, nor when they're visiting their Lawyer/Senator/Bank Manager, when he opens his drawer and pulls out a bottle of scotch.
Just for once, I'd like to hear somebody say -
'Thanks, but I've got to pick up my lad from cubs later, so really shouldn't have a drink - oh and it's 2.30pm, why the hell are you drinking whisky??'
Just for once, I'd like to hear somebody say -
'Thanks, but I've got to pick up my lad from cubs later, so really shouldn't have a drink - oh and it's 2.30pm, why the hell are you drinking whisky??'
Dr Jekyll said:
Whenever the detectives go to visit the bloke made redundant or suspended from duty due to the conspiracy, he is always doing something useful like digging his garden or maintaining his car. He never turns out to be slobbing out on the sofa watching daytime TV.
That's a good one.And when the car rolls up and stops, as the detectives get out of the car he'll walk towards them wiping his hands on a rag. ALWAYS wearing a checked lumberjack-y shirt.
Signalling 'Off Duty' 101.
Love it - A Snowy Woodlouse - never heard of one of those....like a snowy owl but smaller and less capable of flight and eating small mammals.....
next time I see a woodlouse i'll be looking out for wintery camouflage...that is if can even see it to begin with....
you're 100% correct on the film - utter pants
next time I see a woodlouse i'll be looking out for wintery camouflage...that is if can even see it to begin with....
you're 100% correct on the film - utter pants
How about this one...
The majority of the time in a film the lead character will have some mediocre job like being an usher at a movie theater, LOL, and then come "home" to an apartment the size of my house in Manhattan no less....
Very interesting, indeed...
I think i'm in the wrong profession LOL
The majority of the time in a film the lead character will have some mediocre job like being an usher at a movie theater, LOL, and then come "home" to an apartment the size of my house in Manhattan no less....
Very interesting, indeed...
I think i'm in the wrong profession LOL
Edited by ESOG on Tuesday 20th September 13:46
chris watton said:
When driving, they seem to look away from the road for ages while talking to the passenger or those in the rear seats. In reality, if they looked away for that long when driving, it would always end in a crash!
I watched the Conjuring 2 at the weekend, near the end the hero of the thing is being driven through London in the pouring rain in the middle of the night in a Cortina Estate, probably on cross-plys at about 90, the driver spends a huge amount of time chatting away looking into the eyes of his passenger. In real life they'd all be so very dead. ESOG said:
How about this one...
The majority of the time in a film the lead character will have some mediocre job like being an usher at a movie theater, LOL, and then come "home" to an apartment the size of my house in Manhattan no less....
Very interesting, indeed...
I think i'm in the wrong profession LOL
Not uncommon in the USA in places where they have rent control, so you get a huge apartment for very not much money.The majority of the time in a film the lead character will have some mediocre job like being an usher at a movie theater, LOL, and then come "home" to an apartment the size of my house in Manhattan no less....
Very interesting, indeed...
I think i'm in the wrong profession LOL
Edited by ESOG on Tuesday 20th September 13:46
chris watton said:
When driving, they seem to look away from the road for ages while talking to the passenger or those in the rear seats. In reality, if they looked away for that long when driving, it would always end in a crash!
Don't know what you mean...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrktxWUgcyA
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