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Could have been so much better

posted 8 years ago by donata713
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Missed the beginning of the movie, so not sure what exactly I missed there but...

- Between the man with the dog getting bitten on the neck part and him not cutting his head off and not changing into a zombie himself which wasn't explained. Alcohol is all of a sudden a cure all?
- After getting bit he starts hearing voices over the ham radio, instructed to kill, and then later voila, voices are gone and he's all better. They could have done so much more with this part, it just seemed stupid to have even introduced this part into the movie to begin with.
- Plot twist with them having captured one and having it tied up in their yard for whatever reason and then not showing as much until the climax (not sure if it was the one that bit the guy on his neck that he ultimately ended up shooting when it attacked the other guy or not?) What were they doing with keeping it alive in the first place anyway? Were they going to study it? Domesticate it? That part was just really bad as far as I was concerned. Them having survived the initial outbreak and then they are too stupid to realize it was making noises calling to other ones. What, were they all of a sudden deaf that they couldn't hear it bellowing/calling out to other creatures of its own kind?

I just don't understand, don't studios have advisers or something that can call out this type of shoddy work before the film is finalized so that maybe it doesn't make everyone involved with the project not look like they wasted their time/career making such a sub-par movie?

[–] jsk32870 8 years ago

For the first one, 'they' explain or reveal at some point that the zombies/creatures have changed over time, and their bite is no longer lethal and doesn't change victims into zombies. So the alcohol was not a cure-all there. He thought he was as good as dead, remember he held the gun to his head, he was about to off himself because he thought he was going to turn. But then he didn't.

The 'hearing voices' part I think was an attempt to show how loneliness can get to you over time. The other guy had the little girl to interact with, but he had no one but the dog. And the dog didn't talk back lol.

Yeah the zombie tied up in the yard was the one who bit him I thought. And yes he did shoot that zombie in the chest so I am not sure why it was still alive after that either. I believe the guy said something about starving it to death, that was 'why' he was keeping it alive. But why do that, idk. Maybe it was to make the thing suffer, I am not sure. He didn't really say. But you're absolutely right about allowing it to live and communicate with the others. Although why it took forever for them to hear it, doesn't make sense either. 'Perhaps' they just weren't within earshot the whole time it was tied up but idk that's kinda weak.