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So, in zombie movies, do you generally like seeing faster zombies, or slower ones? And why?
My other question is, what ways have they shown zombies to come to life? Give me a method, and if possible, a movie that uses that concept. For instance, in Night of the Living Dead, it was due to radiation from space. I could give more examples, but I'd like to hear from others.
As for me, I generally prefer the slower zombies. Yes they are easily beaten and in an open field you can also outrun them, it's not as easy to fight off a horde of 50 of them. Yes, you'll take a few down, but you'll eventually get tired or screw up and get bitten. I think that's one reason why I liked the original Dawn of the Dead more than the remake (good lord that fat lady can be an Olympic athlete once she turned).
Another question, how many different ways have films shown zombie killing techniques? SPOILER for Dead Alive/Braindead For example, in Braindead, while the lawnmower scene was pretty awesome/gruesome, I think the coolest/funniest part was when the priest turned out to be a warrior monk and proceeded to open a can of whup-tooshie on the zombies.
Any other memorable zombie fights you can remember from other zombie movies?
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I am a huge fan of zombie movies. That being said zombies are supposed to move slow. the fast ones aren't as scary, they are just cheesy.
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Fast moving zombies are usually the result of a weird virus and not the reanimation of corpses... which explains their quickness. Don't see why it's cheesier than anything else.
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you won't think it's cheesier when they are full sprinting down your ass!
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Ynisfre posted:
Fast moving zombies are usually the result of a weird virus and not the reanimation of corpses... which explains their quickness. Don't see why it's cheesier than anything else.
good point, never thought of it that way.
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Ynisfre posted:
Fast moving zombies are usually the result of a weird virus and not the reanimation of corpses... which explains their quickness. Don't see why it's cheesier than anything else.
then call them infected, not zombies. zombies move slow. infected move fast.
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I'm pretty sure in the fast zombie movies I have seen they use that term as much if not more than the term zombie. And who really cares? The word zombie has been used to refer to other things besides reanimated corpses. Even the voodoo origin can mean a living person who has been given certain concoctions that make them susceptible to the witch doctor's suggestion. In fact, I believe the first full length zombie film features that kind of zombie. Didn't have anything to do with craving flesh.
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Inasnum posted:
Ynisfre posted:
Fast moving zombies are usually the result of a weird virus and not the reanimation of corpses... which explains their quickness. Don't see why it's cheesier than anything else.
then call them infected, not zombies. zombies move slow. infected move fast.
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i've said that before. people ignore it. life goes on...
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just had a weird idea for a movie... sort of zombies vs. infected:
Dead start coming back to life... causes major problems, but they move slowly. Evil corporate bastards create a cure for zombies. The problem is, the cure is actually a virus, and it mutates... becoming incredibly contagious. The other problem is that if anybody gets infected with the cure who is not a zombie, they turn into a psychotic maniac. The solution is to let them fight it out... anybody who gets infected and then bitten by a zombie ends up being cured, and vice versa. Once you've been infected with both, you're immune to both (and a vampire... oops!).
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You should probably write a script and see what comes of this idea, I'm sure more people want to hear about it.
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Make that movie in 3D and you will be a billionaire.
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I like good 'zombie' movies. I really could care less whether they move fast or slow or how they are created, converted or reanimated just so long as it's a fun movie.
The fast zombie was a fun change but is wearing thin with so many different takes on it now. It's certainly better for a stricter action oriented film where the slow zombies make for better suspense. Although I will admit that I want my zombie to be a mindless eating machine. I don't care for talking zombies (eg night of the comet) or zombies that can fire weapons (land of the dead?) or ones that have some grand plan.
I'm looking forward to World War Z, really hoping they do the book justice with the movie.
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Fzzt posted:
I'm looking forward to World War Z, really hoping they do the book justice with the movie.
same here. 
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Cool answers regarding the fast vs. slow debate, now to the other part of my question.
What methods have other movies used to explain or hand-wave why zombies are suddenly coming back to life?
I know a few of them already, but for the purposes of discussion, I'll let you guys tell me. And I might miss one too, so go ahead and mention whatever weird one you heard. I'll start with a really silly one from a terrible movie I watched the other day.
In the Curse of the Komodo, there is an island where the military was breeding animals to become larger (why its the US Navy instead of the US Army is beyond me though lol). One particular komodo grows much larger than the others, and apparently its saliva can turn you into a zombie. So not only is getting eaten by that thing a threat, you have to worry about anyone else that touches or gets covered in its goo.
Yes, I was /mind-boggle too when that happened, and for being such a shocking subplot twist in the movie, they sure didn't explore it very much. Only made it through the movie cause the female cast all have large um, "talent", of which one of them gets nude and the others wear very tight shirts. Oh, and the zombies in this one were the slow type, and the good thing about them was they did use them somewhat effectively, aka the zombies "ambushed" the victims, rather than just leap out of a bed and do a 100 yard sprint towards the nearest victim.
Yes, terrible example, but I didn't want to take away from more obvious ones 
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I just watched "Dead Snow". Not sure if they were zombies or not, but putting the undead in Nazi uniforms was a refreshing new twist.
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Good concept, but I thought it was a shoddy execution.
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hard to decide, I didnt see all the zombie movies.
"Fido", I found pretty funny, for slow zombies.
28 Weeks Later certainly has my blessings for fast zombies. That moment when Robert Carayle's(spelling) character got out of the house and then running down the hill and away from that rushing zombie zerg really was cool. His "oh ****! oh ****!" when he was on the boat was so true.
useless youtube link from me for the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zRT-LvJUuQ
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Blynk_ posted:
Fzzt posted:
I'm looking forward to World War Z, really hoping they do the book justice with the movie.
same here.
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