Yet at the same time it would almost definately happen in real life. Women would be used soley for sex (not necessarily for procreation actually, but also, as 28 Days Later explains, to keep men sane). Granted that particular scene in 28 Days Later may be far fetched, but it at least attempted to show something that, if the situation portrayed in the movie occured in the movie occured in real life, would definately happen in some way or another.
Originally posted by BackFire
Irronically, what you said about 28 Days Later could very easily be said about Dawn of the Dead, it very loosely took the premise of the original, minus all of the skilled storytelling and social commentary that was infamous in the original, and threw in some ridiculously hyper 28 Days Later style running zombies that weren't nearly as believable. In fact, one of the Dawn of the Dead zombies actually defied gravity at one point. The little girl zombie at teh beginnign of the film pulled some matrix finesse out of nowhere and managed to levitate herself after falling down. Pretty cheesy if you ask me.
Why is social commentary so important to zombie movies? No offense but you keep spouting on about it, and I don't see the monumental significance
Originally posted by Lord Soth
Why is social commentary so important to zombie movies? No offense but you keep spouting on about it, and I don't see the monumental significance
Good question, it's just the way it is. It gives the movies a deeper meaning then just watching peopel die randomly. It's become a kind of tradition for the genre because of the trilogy of the dead, and is almost expected for a serious zombie film.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the occeasionally mindless zombie movie as much as anyone else, just for a movie to be taken seriously, it can't just have killings and a simple story.
28 days later did everything dawn of the dead diddnt. 28 days took the risks and pushed the limits in the sense of actually relying on the audience to understand the metaphors within the film. It also took a new step in the zombie films as we know them. A recipe that dawn of the dead copied but diddnt bother to go in depth on. For the longest time i diddnt like 28 days later, but then i realized why. It was because it was a horror flick with ambition and it has been so long since i have seen one of those. I had forgotten what it was like to sit down and actually have high expectations for a horror movie, instead of waiting for a movie that i can put my sarcasim to good use on
Dawn of the dead was just painfull to watch, because you knew with different direction it could have been good. Instead however, it followed the same bullshit horror formula with a few dynamic camera shots thrown in.The potential of the movie turned into cheese and predicatibility. so sad.
28 Days Later is miles better, DOTD basically got bits from every great zombie film and tacked them together.
It should have been brilliant, but it was sadly lacking...
Anyway, someone said something about the taxi and the pile of cars, it is possible.
London taxis have the best damn suspension out, I have driven one myself.
There is a group of stuntmen from England who only drive them and Mini Coopers, and they pull air over all this stuff like stairs.
There might be a website, check back with you...
p.s. Shaun of the Dead sucks!