Idiots! They had it made at the mall.
Simply come up with a better plan to bring Andy and his guns over (just use the sewers as they did at the end).
And then stay. Have a great time.
In the original script they mentioned how the generator only had a limited amount of fuel. They would have been in the dark and without power to keep their food within two weeks.
No idea why the director didn't keep this in the final film.
so how long after arriving , did they leave?
do we think?
...cause they was d-u-u-u-u-u-u-mb!!!
shareIt really isn't handled well in the film. There's passing mention of being out of a few items... but nothing to justify leaving.
shareI didn't get that either. I'm not saying it could have been a permanent home, but I'm guessing most living people in that world would give up a limb to be holed up in a secure location with walls, food, water, and even entertainment.
I definitely would have tricked out that bus and come up with an emergency escape plan for if we needed to leave fast(like if the zombies get in), but I'd stay right where I was until I absolutely had to leave.
Yeah this.
Get ready but enjoy what you've got.
Because they realized that some things are worse than death, and one of them is sitting there and waiting to die.
shareLiving in a comfy place isn't worse than death though.
And I'm not saying they shouldn't leave. They should have prepared for it, planned for it, but left it as the final solution.
I mainly just wanted to quote Ving Rhames' character to be perfectly honest with you.
But to respond to your topic, they did allude to the supplies being finite. I get what you mean that they could have just stayed there for as long as possible. But I saw it as just the age old, do you wanna play it safe and do nothing, or do you wanna try and make the most of your life. You might think staying in the mall was comfortable (and as far as we're concerned, given all the zombie media we consume, that does seem great in the short term).
But for them, it's like, this isn't a long term situation, and we don't wanna wait here forever. Let's strive for a goal, a better situation than what we have here because we just feel jailed here.
I would have slapped Ving for saying that dumb shit like that if I were there. Assuming we have everything we need in this mall and are safe, we would be damned fools to be in a hurry to leave.
What was he, bored? Your in a freaking mall! Go read a book, play some more chess, hit the hobby shop and use a drone to fly Andy a pack of crackers, or maybe go bang that blonde. Clearly he needed to do something to occupy his time if braving the unknown wilderness of a zombie apocalypse sounded appealing.
Plus, there is now way those rotting corpses can be infinite, unless they are fueled by magic. Their bodies will have to breakdown at some point. Waiting for them to die out, or at least get much slower from atrophy, seems likely.
That is what I was going to say. Give them a month in the hot sun and many of them would have been slowed down by decay or maggots. They did have finite resources, seems like they should have gotten Andy the food, and waited to get a better system down. I guess the goofy chick chasing the dog "if I remember correctly" hastened their escape plan.
I would sit on the roof with a bowling ball bolted to a rope and just keep dropping it on zombie heads until I'd taken enough out to feel comfortable that they wouldn't just mob the bus to a stand still. It seems like they got lucky simply getting out of the parking lot. It wasn't a monster truck that could drive over mountains.
lmao
Plus, there is now way those rotting corpses can be infinite, unless they are fueled by magic. Their bodies will have to breakdown at some point. Waiting for them to die out, or at least get much slower from atrophy, seems likely.
It was basically because they needed the film to end...
Unfortunately, it went downhill quickly at this point in the film.
Andy's run out of food but "five more days they tell him". Why?
Then they send the dog over rather than just using the sewer like you said.
And then they pretty much go straight back and use the 100% ready to go vehicles anyway...
So why were they waiting "five days" and coming up with harebrained schemes to get food over to Andy for if the buses were already to go and go over and get Andy?!