You can't defend these idiots
Yes I can.
For instance, walking into those buildings and screaming randomly
They didn't walk into buildings and scream randomly. Unless you consider the older brother yelling "Hello!" a few times as "screaming randomly."
bringing the attention to themselves repeatedly.
Even if they did scream randomly, they wouldn't be bringing attention to themselves. Most of the world is dead.
When they are trying to avoid any psychotic humans bent on surviving and killing, as well as the infective left.
No they're not. They didn't even know there were psychotic humans roaming around. Avoiding the infected isn't a big problem, because infection doesn't turn people into 28 Days Later style creatures. Infection kills them.
Busting out windows, playing golf while the world is literally dying around you. Because the possibility of playing golf instead of looking for supplies and all that nice stuff is too tempting to resist.
They already had supplies. When the world's dying around you, there's not a lot of things you can do. The group was killing time.
Only putting on your masks when you're in the personal space of the infected, a foot away. As if the virus isn't strong enough to reach you from five feet away.
Because the infected weren't near them?
Consistently taking your masks off and keeping it off.
Incorrect. They put their masks on when they knew the infected was near.
The magical mask protects you as well as a "condom suit".
The mask isn't magical. It's surgical. If the mask is effective enough for surgeons to use, it's going to protect civilians. And the "condom suit" is used by people who go into areas where a chemical is airborne.
Letting your infected girlfriend sit in the car, when she could have taken her arse in the back to begin with.
Were you paying attention at all during this movie? When the older brother tells her to get out of the car, she tries to get into the back.
Older Brother- Weaving and driving like a lunatic, even though that could put all of your family/friends/stranglers into risk. Even when the world is practically gone, drinking and driving is STILL dangerous.
The older brother was a thrill seeker who got enjoyment out of scaring the people with him. He was more brawn than brain, but he wasn't a complete idiot. Also, he wasn't drunk. He was driving fast because he wanted to startle the group.
Wielding your gun like a madman, but the "antagonists" characters not only have BIGGER weapons, but MORE weapons. So you can't do much there. Especially in the scene where the CDC men were making the girls strip, your one gun wasn't going to take out them all, why even bother to attempt to get take it on your pants?
He wasn't wielding his gun like a madman when the antagonists were around him. His character was impulsive and he wanted to do something about the CDC men. He couldn't just stand there and let the CDC men rape his girlfriend. But his brother knew he wouldn't be able to kill them all, which is why he stops him from drawing the gun.
Poking at the dead body in the pool, and repeatedly doing so. Because you have nothing better to do than play in some funky looking water.
He wasn't repeatedly poking at the dead body in the pool. He felt something under the water and he hit a few times because he wanted to see what it was. The surprise of seeing the dead body is what made him fall.
Young Brother- After jacking the pills off the corner, touching the old infected woman's fingers, touching various objects in the house, you go attempt to fix up your brother's wound, WITH THE SAME gloves on.
When he went to treat his brother's wound, he realized his brother was already infected. It wouldn't have made a difference if he changed his gloves or not. Besides, he wasn't touching the wound with his hands. He used a cloth and rubbing alcohol.
Brunette/Bobby- Not only is she the only character who's name I remember, she was the first of these idiots to get infected. For trying to save a little's girl life? Noble? More like stupid. Instead of adjusting the mask on your face, which probably would have taken all of five seconds to do, you just hold it against your nose. Rip the tape down and FAIL to help the girl get to the oxygen tank. Which was your goal anyways. Even though it would have taken a second or two, to put the mask on, hop out the vehicle, and do it correctly. Because flopping, shaking, and 'effin up is more preferred.
There wasn't any flopping and shaking. Bobby didn't give the girl the oxygen tank because there wasn't any time. The rest of the group was coming back and she needed to hide the fact that she got the girl's blood on her. What would be the advantage of opening the back of the vehicle? The oxygen tank was closer to the tape. The only stupid thing she did was not keeping her mask on, though she still could have gotten blood in her eye. And that was Bobby's problem, she cared too much. Caring too much in a post-apocalyptic world gets you killed, but Bobby still wanted to save as many lives as she could.
Blonde- Let's let this guy kill his brother, even though you could have shot *beep* too.
That doesn't make any sense. She did the right thing by giving the younger brother the gun. If anybody was going to shoot the older brother, it should have been his blood relative.
Notice anything interesting? You had a lot to say about the older brother and Bobby, but you could only point out one occasion where the younger brother and the blonde did something stupid. As it just so happens, the younger brother and the blonde survive the film, while Bobby and the older brother do not. In other words, it's the intelligent characters who live and that's what should happen in all of these movies. It's the same case with the original Dawn of the Dead; the two members of the quartet who do stupid things get killed and two members who don't are the ones who escape from the zombies. By contrast, the hero in The Crazies remake (and I use the term "hero" loosely) does stupid crap throughout the film and somehow lives. That's why Carriers succeeds as film.
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jamieleng
11 years ago
The mask isn't magical. It's surgical. If the mask is effective enough for surgeons to use, it's going to protect civilians. And the "condom suit" is used by people who go into areas where a chemical is airborne.
A surgical mask, which is not what they had (they had dust masks) is to protect the patient (who will have open wounds) not the surgeon. When you're dealing with a highly contagious airborne virus, nothing short of a respirator will protect you & even that isn't foolproof.
I used to have the Willem Dafoe living under my bed.
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