zombie fetus? really? 🙄 - Army of the Dead (2021) Discussion

[–] OdinForce (6) 4 years ago

You're watching a movie about zombies. The above scenario is no more dumb than dead people that are able to walk around with rotting flesh and organs for several weeks/months on end. Sometimes you just have to go with it.

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[–] exatera (3959) 4 years ago

No, that's still different from actually producing life.

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[–] Jehosaphet (1063) 4 years ago

I guess they're not dead then? Like, dead as we know it anyway.
They make noise, their lungs are pushing air past their voicebox, so they're breathing, they're eating so have some sort of digestive system, they're up and moving around so have blood pumping to muscles, or...something.
They kinda alive!

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[–] exatera (3959) 4 years ago

They are dead though - even if you shoot them in the heart, they will still keep coming at you.

And, well, they are obviously decaying - there is no blood circulation there.

Nor would zombies ever sleep, btw.

Seems like Snyder was just picking and choosing the characteristics he wanted zombies to have, and there is zero consistency.

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[–] Jehosaphet (1063) 4 years ago

That's...thank you. Yeah I'm aware they can't be alive, but at the same time they do things that exhibit characteristics of people who are alive.
Like, muscles don't work off of magic, everything zombies do involves some process that implies a living being, so none of it makes any sense. Within this realization, having a fetus be a deal breaker is...I get it, but at the same time, this should all be a deal breaker lol

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[–] Goliard (1421) 4 years ago

LOL. . .are you kidding? They'e DEAD. How can they walk around? Eat? Think? Speak?

You can't just put a little bit of thought in, is you have to continue the process. The biological mechanisms necessary for procreation don't exist in dead people. But NEITHER do the processes for any of the other things you see zombies doing. The explanation for how that's possible is the same in either case: Zombies!!!

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[–] exatera (3959) 4 years ago

I don't understand why everyone else is okay with this - it deviates very far from the usual zombie canon.

And no, I don't accept "they are zombies!" as a blanket excuse for everything.

But okay, whatever. [shrug]

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[–] Goliard (1421) 4 years ago

"I don't understand why everyone else is okay with this"

Well, I can help you with that. . .

"it deviates very far from the usual zombie canon."

That's why. There IS no "usual zombie canon." And even if there were, there's no reason one filmmaker should be constrained by genre conventions. Simple.

"And no, I don't accept "they are zombies!" as a blanket excuse for everything."

But it's not a "blanket excuse." To (re)explain: the reasons you object to the possibility of a zombie baby are as equally applicable to Everything Else About Zombies. So you're cherrypicking what you consider silly. . .which doesn't track, logically.

I'm gonna say this gently: you (clearly) don't have a grounding in human biological processes. Because for Every objection you have to why zombies can't have babies, there is an equivalent objection to why they can't walk, speak, see, smell, hear, maintain balance, keep their skin from sloughing off, turn their heads left to right, stave off rigor, ignore the gravity/pooling results of no circulation, etc, etc, etc, Etc.

The human body is an INCREDIBLY complex machine. Once your heart stops pumping and your brain function ceases (and then somehow alters) and your respiration ends and and and and. . .

Good luck explaining how ANYTHING in general zombie fiction works. Pregnancy included.

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[–] exatera (3959) 4 years ago

Whoa, way to condescend to people, dude! And yes, I am familiar with biological processes.

Now kindly leave me alone.

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[–] joej2923 (3047) 4 years ago

If the woman was three months pregnant when she became a zombie, her little baby would die and become a zombie. I do agree with you that it's unlikely zombies would reproduce but we must suspend disbelief when watching most movies.

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