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lazy writing

posted 12 years ago by bpjoyce10
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they don't talk about how the little girl might also be infected = nothing happens
they mention it once = five seconds later she bites her mom's neck out

also, after they learned how dangerous the infected could be, why do they keep trying to engage them in physical contact? like, you just saw a girl bite her mom's throat like at least five other people had, and now you're waving your hand in front of her face? also, stop turning your backs to the infected. like, cool, you separated yourself from an infected dude behind a glass door. maybe don't stand with your back right against the glass.

finally, after they discovered an effective way to kill the infected, why didn't they just keep doing it? just hold on to that sledgehammer, try to bait the infected toward you one at a time, and then crush their skulls. just because you did it once doesn't mean you can never use that same means of killing again.

but lol at the old lady just standing there, in full zombie mode, totally not displaying any of the rage and increased physical abilities of any of the other infected people

[–] fernyperez 11 years ago

Spot on, all those details pissed me of a little too. But then again, that happens a lot with horror movies. The old lady was better in REC imo, because in the spanish flic it was a fat lady that came running at them frantically and in full rabies mode, so it did look a little scarier than in Quarantine.

[–] eljuma_1 11 years ago

The thing is, in REC there was no such thing as rabbies. There wasn't an explanation right until the end, where it was revealed to be supernatural. This way the film could make the infected behave any way they wanted and the suspension of disbelief wouldn't be hurt since there were no rules to keep because the sickness wasn't real.

For Quarantine, the writers watched a kid with rabbies in Youtube and though it was so superscary that they used rabbies as the sickness in the remake (this is all the American remakers words). However, rabbies is a real sickness, and follows real rules, so scenes that worked in the original film with a fantastic explanation ad to be reworked in the remake. The result, instead of making it more believable, is actually the opposite, because people still have a general idea of how rabbies work, and can still point countless things wrong with the disease in the final film.

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