100 things you've learned by watching Day of the Dead.

7. Teenage girls hate fat people and show no remorse when stabbing them in the head.

8. Zombies inexplicably switch from vampire like creatures (scaling walls and jumping across rooms) back to typical dumb minded flesh seeking creatures.

9. Vegetarian soldier zombies exist, show human emotion, and will follow orders from a higher ranking officer.

10. Certain zombies are chosen ones who can react so quickly it's as if they can slow down time and dodge an onslaught of bullets.

I know this movie doesn't compare to others but I'm one of those fans who can still enjoy any zombie flick. This one is no exception and so I odn't wish to take back my time spent watching it. This movie is for the true zombie fan who can't get enough zombie flicks to satisfy their appetite.

Shoot 'em up.

71. Soldiers knowingly wandering around in dangerous situations purposely carry unloaded sidearms.

72. It's a good idea for a soldier entering a house with blood splashed around on the walls to draw and point her unloaded sidearm for protection as she explores the house.

73. The reason they give for doing this, which is never explored, is "complicated."

And to expand on number 54:

54. It's possible for one zombie to remove the skin and musculature from a struggling person's torso and face with its bare hands in about 5 seconds or so in the confines of an air duct.

Completely silently.

Wow. There's so many haters of this movie in this one spot. I like this remake of “Day of the Dead,” (never saw the original) but didn’t love it. I feel like a bunch of people here have ganged up on the movie and it is being unfairly, (and disproportionately) criticized, so I'm going to add my two cents in support and defense of this movie and try to do it in a funny way so that everyone won’t gang up on ME.


These are my reactions to the haters “100 things you've learned by watching Day of the Dead.”

1. A) It's OK to run over your zombie mother if she’s about to eat your still-human, little brother.
B) Stressful survival situations cause changes in the minds and thinking of the people trying to stay alive. You can’t always afford to break down right after you do something horrific (like runover your mom). Sometimes you behave irrationally: frighteningly calm, freakishly violent, find humor in sickening situations, or try to stick to your pre-zombie morals when everything around you is being eaten.
C) Sarah does emotionally react to killing her zombie mom. It's not as extreme as Trevor's reaction and she spends most of that scene's time trying to console her little brother.
D) Sarah’s gun isn’t loaded. She values human(-ish) life and doesn’t want to kill a helpless zombie who was her friend and who might not attack them even if he got untied.
E) Keeping a zombie as a prisoner is actually not a bad idea. You could study and experiment on him: find a *cure*, discover weaknesses, maybe learn that french fries attracts zombies, and that horseradish repels them, etc.

2. I don’t disagree with this one. I didn’t like that two zombies were like Spiderman and one had super-jumping abilities.
If SOME zombies can do inhuman or super-human things, then ALL the zombies should be able to do them. Since all the zombies didn’t climb like Spiderman or jump like kangaroos, then *none* of the zombies should have been able to do it.

For clarification: One Spiderman zombie climbed around on the hospital’s ceiling when everyone first Changed. The super-jumping zombie attacked the Marine in alley outside the radio station. The second Spiderman zombie climbed the bare metal ceiling of the Nike bunker (after they close the metal door but before they discover the secret lab).

3. This point I also agree with. It is improbable but necessary for the story to explain where the virus came from and how the population of Leadville got infected with it.

4. This is another good point. I don’t recall seeing any high (or low tech) locks added to the Nike site by the government scientists who were working there.
I would also like to point out that because omega-zombie Dr. Engel escaped the compound, all the doors must have been unlocked (or he must have remember how to unlock them as a zombie) and that’s why our band of survivors weren’t locked out.

5. I don’t know about this one. How did the writer of this comment judge the DJ’s transformation to be “faster” than the others?

6. If you stop and think about this one, you’ll realize that this same scene plays out in MANY horror and monster movies. Besides, until there is a rabid zombie sticking out of YOUR windshield, you can’t really say what a “normal” reaction is.

7. Nina DID show remorse: she crumpled to the ground crying. She kicked the DJ after stabbing him because her adrenaline was still in full gear and screaming at her to ATTACK!!!

8. See #2

9. There’s a first time for everything. Maybe he had some sort of meat-phobia (that sounds SO stupid) and a distaste of meat was deeply ingrained into his psyche (remember only head-shots “kill” them, so their brain IS important).
There is a phenomena called “cellular memory,” where the recipients of an organ transplant can, for example, start craving the organ donor’s favorite food or crave cigarettes if the donor was a smoker.
Who knows how this *zombie virus* really affects people. Several zombies in this movie do “retain part of themselves from before they were infected.” They shoot guns, are vegetarian, check out hot girl’s asses, they can drive (badly), they hide bodies in closets, navigate hazards in air ducts, use tools (used IV stands to break hospital ceiling and almost get Sarah) and can reason enough to know to play dead when cops' guns are pointed at them and attack when the cops are distracted with their backs turned. Zombie Bud saves Sarah’s life by shooting zombie Dr. Engel, he not only remembered/recognized Sarah, but acted on his feelings using a tool that he aimed and his action did save her life.

10. See #9 and remember: only head shots kill them. They are hurled out of speeding vehicles and thrown out of second/third story windows and get right back up again. If the person was a human genius, he could be a zombie as intelligent as a “slow” human or clever child. Anyway, Dr. Engel was probably shot several times in that scene and none of them were head shots.

11. How did you come to the conclusion that the virus had been “muted” by the bleach? Dr. Logan said that once it enters the bloodstream, there is no treatment.

12. See #9.

13. I don’t think Mr. Leitner was acting “like a douche bag.” His child was sick and a stranger was telling him that, for a very stupid reason, he couldn’t take his son to where he could get the best treatment. His reaction was rude and tactless, but very reasonable considering the circumstances. (And he did apologize to Sarah.) Mrs. Leitner was probably infected/bitten in the hospital, maybe by her son. (Her husband reacted violently to the DJ’s suggestion that she be checked for bites.)

14. “It’s complicated,” is discussed in the DVD commentary. They (I can’t remember exactly who but one of them was one of the people who had the power to make those kinds of script decisions) said that they couldn’t think of a good reason to explain why Sarah’s gun wasn’t loaded, so chose to leave it as “It’s complicated” and let the audience come to their own conclusions.
Sarah and Bud said “It’s complicated,” to Dr. Logan because he was being an *** asking about Sarah's unloaded gun and Bud, "the driver," losing the car keys (which was Logan's fault).
Sarah told Salazar “It’s complicated” (about her issues with her brother, Trevor) because no one *truly* cares why her and her brother were having issues. I think that explaining it in greater depth would detract from the point and theme of the movie, which was to survive the zombies.
It probably stems from their dead father. Sarah’s mom seems like a very passive person. Maybe Sarah had to step up after her father died and grow up fast. Trevor, the baby of the family, was shielded (and maybe coddled) and didn’t mentally mature as much. At least, that's the conclusion I came to.

15. His big sister knows how to “karate chop” people. Passive aggressive is probably the wisest option for him since he stands no chance with physical aggression and would probably get his *** handed to him was overtly verbally aggressive.

16. I agree. It was stupid. No one in real life (running from zombies to underground bunkers that conceal secret labs) would ever leave the keys in the visor. Sarcasm aside, it was necessary for the plot.

17. It’s science-fiction, buddy. Get over it! You were watching a movie where reanimated corpses are attacking people! What did you expect to see?

18. Teenagers ARE stupid douches. SEX, or the prospect of getting some, makes them even stupider douches!

19. I agree. Both are disgusting, but everyone has their limits. I guess Local Girl’s (yes, that IS her movie name) was ok with loogies but had a thing about blood.

20. Why was only Sergeant Rhode's legs mauled?
A) Maybe the zombies who attacked him realized that they didn’t like dark meat. (yes! I DID just make a joke based on the color of his skin!) Maybe he was wearing some kind of tough military vest under his shirt (he seemed like a hard-core guy) or maybe the zombies were distracted by live prey and left before getting to his chest.
B) Anyway, every zombie attack is different. They’re as unique as fingerprints. What? Your science teacher never told you that?

21. In the DVD commentary, the creators of this movies decided that their zombies would burn like phosphorus.

22. I agree. See #2.

23. It does sound like a few laws of science were violated in that scene, *but* See #17.

24. Bravo! I thought I was the only one who noticed that! See #23.

26. The producers wanted the band of survivors to be made of people that we, the audience, could relate to. Most people aren’t tough, black, army Sergeants.

27. No comment.

28. “Black people ALWAYS say…” that’s just insulting! They don’t all talk like that, but I don’t know of any white actors that could pull it off.

29. A)That didn’t happen. You’re mixing two scene together. Sarah DID avoid hitting zombies because they are still “someone,” and she DID smash her Hummer into abandoned vehicles, but she did NOT smash cars to avoid smashing zombies. She smashed the cars to get the zombies clinging to the Hummer to fall off.
B) See #1 B) and C), and keep in mind that she was “born and raised” in this small, isolated town. These zombies that she doesn’t want to run over are her lifelong friends and neighbors.

30. That’s Hollywood, baby! Get used to it.

31. This actually happens a lot in movies. They normally get eaten, killed, or have alien or mutant eggs laid inside them, but because Nina was a major character, she didn’t die.

32. See #9 and #10.

33. See #32. Haven’t you ever seen America’s Funniest Home Videos? Humans aren’t all that great at opening doors either.

34. That is not a fair statement.
They didn’t find proof hidden in a stack of Victoria Secret catalogs that the visiting Russian scientist trapped in the mall with them was involved in the zombies! What I'm trying to say is that they weren't in a random place and some random thing they found implicated a scientist. They were in a lab and found lab-related evidence that implicated the doctor who worked in the lab.
Dr. Logan was shredding *classified* documents, in a filing room, in the *secret* underground lab where he *worked* that he ran to for *protection* and to destroy evidence. Salazar pulled the paper out of a *shredder* and his name was “on every one” of the pieces of paper he was shredding.

How many people A) know about the lab, B) are involved in the lab, AND C) managed to escape the zombies and reach the lab.

35. I LOVE this one so won’t pick on it except to say that she was trying to eat them, not trying to talk to them (obviously).

36. See #18.

37. I agree. See #1

38. See #21.

39. See #20 B)

40. Yes, they will.

41. Maybe the DJ was really unpopular (or controversial) so his glass door was reinforced.

42. Most of them were probably infected with the virus via airborn transmission, just like most of the town was infected. Soldiers are neat and orderly. After the people who weren’t naturally resistance to the virus transformed and mauled the naturally resistant people, they probably straightened things up again. Kyle hid his parents' bodies in the closet and when Sarah drives the Hummer away from the checkpoint you can see that there are bodies hidden in the tarp that gets stuck to Hummer, so why can't soldier zombies straighten up? See #9.

43. Not all zombie-related injuries are immediately fatal. People could have done what Salazar did “jump in the closet when everyone started tripping,” and they simply came out of hiding too soon or were accidentally discovered by the zombies. Maybe they tried to rescue someone and got caught or tried to find the sick family member they came to the hospital with (like Sarah wanted to find her mom).

44. Implementing plans requires Intent and Means. I highly doubt that our survivors were the ONLY PEOPLE who thought of and *wanted* (Intent) to go to the gun shop, but few of the people who thought of it already had guns, Molotov cocktails, and bone saw spears in their possession to fight their way through the zombie hordes. Only our band of survivors had a reinforced Hummer to drive them to the gun store. (Means)

45. See #17.

46. No comment.

47. I agree. The people who do that sort of thing always get killed. (Except Nina.)

48. The cinematographer deliberately did that to the film. Patrick Cady shot some scenes on 16mm film, and before processing the film, put it in an oven and baked it! The film bubbled and tore. The “infected” look (their name for it) happens more often as the film progresses and the town becomes more “infected.” The final seconds of the movie, where the zombie jumps up as the survivors are driving away, is good, easy to find example of the "infected" film. When you watch the movie with DVD commentary, they discuss this at 0:16:00 (16 minutes).

49. He wasn’t a guard, his orders were to “relay the information to the DJ so he could inform the public.”

50. Saying "what the *beep*?" IS a shocked reaction. As for him just “walking back inside,” WHAT was he supposed to do? He’s an obese pothead with no gun! He decided it was too dangerous to try to reach his car and tried to call for help with his phone and over the radio.

51. Did you actually believe that the army is going to announce to the world that there was an outbreak of zombie virus, all hell broke loose, and the town’s population was decimated? No! They told everyone that a virulent strain of the flu appeared in the city and killed the people, but not to worry, everything is under control, the virus is "fully contained," and you aren’t in ANY danger.

52. I don’t know what you’re talking about. Could you please provide some examples.

53. It was necessary for the plot.

54. What are you talking about? When does this happen? The only time anyone is injured in an air duct is when zombie Sergeant Rhodes bites Bud’s hand.

61. What is the definition of a “zombie” anyway? In the "28 Days Later," the rage-infected people aren't dead. Do "zombies" move quickly or slowly? If you cut off a zombie's hand, does the hand keep crawling around? Does their brain have to be destroyed for them to truly "die"? Can they bleed to death? Will a decapitated head stare and snap at you, and will its headless body stumble around?

62. Yep! If everyone in the world became a zombie, there’d be no more racism.

63. See #18, and add the word “love” beside “sex.”

64. Yes, it is.

65. See #63.

66. That is sound advice.

67. Though I don’t think the movie is crap, I do agree that idiots can’t produce good films.

68. Who knows how zombies’ minds works.

69. See #9.

70. How did you come to that conclusion?

71. This wasn’t supposed to be a dangerous situation! This was a “quarantine exercise,” that’s why young, inexperienced reserves were called in to do it. Bud: “I only joined six months ago. You can tell? This is my first time being called out. I kind of wish it was something exciting.”

72. Sarah could have used the gun to bluff any assailants into surrendering. (only she and Bud knew it wasn’t loaded.) And she does know how to "karate chop" people.

73. See #14.

74. See #9.

75. I agree.

76. See #68.

77. False. Ian McNeice’s appearance in two different and unrelated movies should be treated like glimpses into two alternate dimensions.

78. See #68.

79. See #1.

80. The producers wanted his death to motivate the other survivors into taking drastic zombie-toasting action.

81. See #19.

82. “tiny knife”
A) it is a letter opener.
B) until you’ve had a knife (or any other stabbing weapon) pulled on you in a life-threatening way, you don’t realize how intimidating and frightening it actually is.
C) under these circumstances (one armed individual threatening a group), no one wants to make the first move to confront the weapon-holder because they don’t want to get stabbed. Even if everyone jumped Nina at the same time, chances are that *at least* one person would be stabbed and no one wants to be one person who is *definitely* stabbed and the other people who *might* be stabbed.
The odds were two teenagers, one armed vs. a middle-aged married couple and a fat pothead, all unarmed. (essentially two vs two)


I DO have a life. I wrote this because I was procrastinating against something HORRIBLE that is none of your business.

103.....after all this time it is still complicated, and will always be complicated.

104. Hearing her sons voice on the radio will make the zombie mom knownexactly where to go to get to the station.

105. The zombie 'Neo' will rip heads off of any other zombie that tries shooting at him

106. Nick Cannon should keep his skills for talent shows then actual acting in movies.

107. Its nice to see Nck Cannon dressed in something other than ovver the top suits he wears on above mentioned talent show
"You gave him what he asked for...I gave him what he needed!" ~Legion

108 Finding there is no signal for your phone is more worrying than seeing 2 mauled bodies

109 If you're a woman make sure you have a boyfriend to tell you to come on otherwise it might not occur to you to run away from Zombies.

110. Even if you have seen half the townspeople killed by Zombies if your boyfriend says everything will be OK I promise, believe him.