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How come in all these zombie movies and shows the zombies only eat living people or living people they just killed? Shouldn't they be non discriminatory? I think they should eat each other.

 

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THEY SENSE THE BODY HEAT. ZOMBIES ARE COLD AND NOBODY LIKES COLD FOOD.

 

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this was even more confusing in 28 days/weeks later. like.. they were still alive. they just had super rabies or some profanity and they never once turned on each other. but you know.. billions of rats were running the fk away from them out of fear or being eaten.

i get it as far as a story plot goes, though. zombies that eat each other are not scary. the ones in i am legend (the book) would attack each other. the ones that were more zombie than vampire anyway. the fully conscious ones that retained their memories didn't do that.

 

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I'm not buying that.

 

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Their meat is poisonous to each other.

 

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The book that I Am Legend (same name) is from is what started it all. I saw the original movie. The Omega Man.

 

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If you think of it in terms of an evolution/survival thing the virus or whatever is trying to spread so is seeking out tissue to infect not already infected tissue it makes sense but that assumes a lot, lol.

You would still expect fighting among themselves though as survival works that way too. Too many mouths not enough food and all that.

 

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Because if you eat zombie meat you'll become a zombie, duh.

 

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Because if you eat zombie meat you'll become a zombie, duh.



Out of the mouths of babes.

 

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Lots of animals won't eat dead things, I don't see it as any huge jump to believe zombies might act the same way.

 

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Because if you eat zombie meat you'll become a zombie, duh.

 

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Lots of animals won't eat dead things, I don't see it as any huge jump to believe zombies might act the same way.


I will only eat dead things. Dead fish, dead chicken....you get the idea.

 

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Because if you eat zombie meat you'll become a zombie, duh.



Whoa! A double shot!

 

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Double tapped the sense into this thread.

 

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Lots of animals won't eat dead things, I don't see it as any huge jump to believe zombies might act the same way.


I will only eat dead things. Dead fish, dead chicken....you get the idea.


since you aren't a zombie, I don't see how what you eat makes any difference in this discussion.

 

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Jezza_Belle posted:
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Lots of animals won't eat dead things, I don't see it as any huge jump to believe zombies might act the same way.


I will only eat dead things. Dead fish, dead chicken....you get the idea.


since you aren't a zombie, I don't see how what you eat makes any difference in this discussion.



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The book that I Am Legend (same name) is from is what started it all. I saw the original movie. The Omega Man.


That is not the first movie. Last Man On Earth was.

 

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The book that I Am Legend (same name) is from is what started it all. I saw the original movie. The Omega Man.


That is not the first movie. Last Man On Earth was.


Last Man On Earth was written in 1964. I Am Legend was written in 1954.

 

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look at the date. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067525/ the omega man was not the original movie based on i am legend. stop being intentionally retarded.

 

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Read a book not to long ago that explained in the science fiction world of zombies and why they eat living tissue only. They don't need to eat to continue existing. It's the virus that keeps them moving and nothing rational about it. The virus needs to infect and the zombies are a host that accomplishes that. It can't already infect a zombie so it seeks out clean humans and animals to infect. But there is a hunger that exists in the infected and so they go through the movements of eating even though they don't need to. Infecting is enough for the virus but it can't control that base need of eating.

I like how in the resident evil series the birds were infected to and anyone bitten by them would be infected.

 

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The book that I Am Legend (same name) is from is what started it all. I saw the original movie. The Omega Man.


The Omega Man was actually a remake of the Vincent Price movie The Last Man on Earth

 

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The book that I Am Legend (same name) is from is what started it all. I saw the original movie. The Omega Man.


The Omega Man was actually a remake of the Vincent Price movie The Last Man on Earth


qft.

i've seen them all.

 

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The book that I Am Legend (same name) is from is what started it all. I saw the original movie. The Omega Man.


The Omega Man was actually a remake of the Vincent Price movie The Last Man on Earth



Interesting. Both of those and the newer I Am Legend were all made from I Am Legend written in 54.


I Am Legend is a 1954 horror fiction novel by American writer Richard Matheson. It was influential in the development of the zombie genre and in popularizing the concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease. The novel was a success and was adapted to film as The Last Man on Earth in 1964, as The Omega Man in 1971, and as I Am Legend in 2007, along with a direct to video 2007 production capitalizing on that film, I Am Omega. The novel was also the inspiration behind the 1968 film Night of the Living Dead.

 

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this was even more confusing in 28 days/weeks later. like.. they were still alive. they just had super rabies or some profanity and they never once turned on each other. but you know.. billions of rats were running the fk away from them out of fear or being eaten.

i get it as far as a story plot goes, though. zombies that eat each other are not scary. the ones in i am legend (the book) would attack each other. the ones that were more zombie than vampire anyway. the fully conscious ones that retained their memories didn't do that.


The logical answer to this is that the virus wants to spread. It can't spread to something already infected, so it seeks out the uninfected. And, if you're going to viciously kill something, why not make it a human?

 

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My guess is they only crave living blood and tissue which zombies are no longer that.

 

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Maybe because that would be cannibalism.

 

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Maybe because that would be cannibalism.



Heh, I thought of that. But we are dealing with a now ignorant organism. Except for in the original work. In it, the zombies are thinking zombies. They're just very ....ummm primal. Kind of like that sci-fi movie where many of the people have adapted.

 

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just seemed like a good place to drop this gif again


 

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Maybe because that would be cannibalism.



Heh, I thought of that. But we are dealing with a now ignorant organism. Except for in the original work. In it, the zombies are thinking zombies. They're just very ....ummm primal. Kind of like that sci-fi movie where many of the people have adapted.


Yeah doesn't really make much sense. We don't really know much about the zombies metabolism do we? I didn't really pay a lot of attention to the episodes in the CDC, maybe they explained that there.

 

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I feel like the question has already been answered and Reapist is just being argumentative about Omega Man now to continue the thread

 

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either of those movies available on nutflix?

 

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The book that I Am Legend (same name) is from is what started it all. I saw the original movie. The Omega Man.


The Omega Man was actually a remake of the Vincent Price movie The Last Man on Earth


I disagree, I had a first print I think paperback copy of the book I am Legend and they touted the Omega Man as the movie from it, it is the cure search and the female it in that counts, though I like the ending of the book better where in the end he is the monster.

 

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just seemed like a good place to drop this gif again


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The book that I Am Legend (same name) is from is what started it all. I saw the original movie. The Omega Man.


The Omega Man was actually a remake of the Vincent Price movie The Last Man on Earth



Interesting. Both of those and the newer I Am Legend were all made from I Am Legend written in 54.


I Am Legend is a 1954 horror fiction novel by American writer Richard Matheson. It was influential in the development of the zombie genre and in popularizing the concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease. The novel was a success and was adapted to film as The Last Man on Earth in 1964, as The Omega Man in 1971, and as I Am Legend in 2007, along with a direct to video 2007 production capitalizing on that film, I Am Omega. The novel was also the inspiration behind the 1968 film Night of the Living Dead.


The book is not what was in dispute. The claim of Omega Man being the "original" theatrical version is what is being contested.

 

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Maybe because that would be cannibalism.



Heh, I thought of that. But we are dealing with a now ignorant organism. Except for in the original work. In it, the zombies are thinking zombies. They're just very ....ummm primal. Kind of like that sci-fi movie where many of the people have adapted.

i swear to god, next you're going to tell us that tolkien invented elves.

 

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The book that I Am Legend (same name) is from is what started it all. I saw the original movie. The Omega Man.


The Omega Man was actually a remake of the Vincent Price movie The Last Man on Earth


I disagree, I had a first print I think paperback copy of the book I am Legend and they touted the Omega Man as the movie from it, it is the cure search and the female it in that counts, though I like the ending of the book better where in the end he is the monster.


*shrug* That is actually how I have seen it described in publications. In any case, the plot line in both movies are nearly identical.

The Omega Man (stylised as The Omega Man) is a 1971 American science fiction film directed by Boris Sagal and starring Charlton Heston. It is based on the novel I Am Legend (1954) by American writer Richard Matheson.[1] The screenplay is by John William Corrington and Joyce Corrington, and it was filmed in Technicolor with monaural sound, with a running time of 98 minutes.[2] Its producer is Walter Seltzer, who also produced Heston in the 1973 science fiction film, Soylent Green.[3]

The story was first filmed as The Last Man on Earth (1964) featuring Vincent Price. A third adaptation of the novel, I Am Legend featuring Will Smith, was released in 2007; and an unofficial fourth, I Am Omega, featuring Mark Dacascos, was also released in 2007 (though neither Matheson's name or novel were credited as source material for this version).

As multiple reviewers have noted,[4][5] the film differs from its source in several ways including the basic premise. In the novel the cause of the demise of humanity is a plague spread by mosquitoes, whereas in the film human biological warfare is the cause. One reviewer speculated this may have been due to one of the screenwriters having a doctorate in chemistry.[6]

 

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Caoilin posted:
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Maybe because that would be cannibalism.
Heh, I thought of that. But we are dealing with a now ignorant organism. Except for in the original work. In it, the zombies are thinking zombies. They're just very ....ummm primal. Kind of like that sci-fi movie where many of the people have adapted.
i swear to god, next you're going to tell us that tolkien invented elves.
He did!

 

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