What Would you do if there was a Zombie Apocalypse?

And they did build a society. In the end it was Neville, ironically, who was a savage beast, the thing that goes bump in the day, the scary evil thing. Exactly as he saw them.

"Brush your fangs, junior, or Neville will come and get you in your sleep!''

Yup; the point of the title, where he had become a legend of nightmares in the new world where vampirism was normal.

The alternate ending of the moive kinda touched on this.

If you got bitten or scratched by a zombie you probably wouldn't be able to shoot yourself in the head. Through almost every zombie movie, a person is about to shoot himself in the head but when he pulls the trigger, bullets don't come out. It's like the undead have a magical ability to make the bullets disappear before you blow your tasty brain out.

Originally posted by Robtard
Edit: My copy says "the most clever and rivinting VAMPIRE novel since Dracula." on the cover.

It's also referrenced as the "the first modern vampire story" many a time. Just some food for thought, DDM.

No one is denying the Vampiric element of the novel. Why do you keep arguing this point?

Zombies = animated DEAD, they are nothing but walking corpses.

The "creatures" in I Am Legend are far from zombies. The same as the infected in the 28 Days movies, they are just infected people, not dead people.

do any of you think they can fight the infection from screwing up their mind and still remain "you"?

has that happen in any zombie movie?

its not a zombie movie. there are no zombies in that movie.

its not a hard concept to understand...

Originally posted by Röland
Zombies = animated DEAD, they are nothing but walking corpses.

The "creatures" in I Am Legend are far from zombies. The same as the infected in the 28 Days movies, they are just infected people, not dead people.

That's your personal take on Zombies but in no way reflects an all encompassing definition.

Originally posted by dadudemon
No one is denying the Vampiric element of the novel. Why do you keep arguing this point?

Why are you implying there's a "zombie element", when there clearly isn't. Vampires, it was just about vampires in the non-mystical sense.

The book was a inspiration in Romero's NOTLD, in the sense of world-wide infestation apocalypse, there's the connection; not I Am Legend = Zombie genre.

Originally posted by Robtard
Why are you implying there's a "zombie element", when there clearly isn't. Vampires, it was just about vampires in the non-mystical sense.

The book was a inspiration in Romero's NOTLD, in the sense of world-wide infestation apocalypse, there's the connection; not I Am Legend = Zombie genre.

So why does just about everyone refer to it as such? dur

Why do some people say their zombie movie has it's roots with Legend? dur

Seems fairly retarded to make a movie about your definition of zombies based on a novel about VAMPIRES. AHA! Did we get get wooden stakes through the heart? Garlic? Silver? Crosses? All of those concepts were around, back in the day. Hmm...so wait, did he derrive some of the characteristics for his creatures based on...gulp...zombies?

Now why the crap would I also consider his novel to have roots with zombies? Why would he(Matheson) do the same? It makes no sense what you're saying. Sure, vampiric humans. Great. We've established that. No matter how much you want it to be purely Vampiric, it's not. It has nice zombie elements to it. 🙂

Hey, Robtard, Zombic Vampires! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!

Have you even read the book?

Zombie elements which you know were inspired from Matheson, but not as creatures, but as apocalyptic idea.
Zombies, as in their look, I assume were taken from Afro-Carribean folklore.

Seriously, which parts of the way vampires were portrayed is remotely similar to zombies?

Originally posted by dadudemon
So why does just about everyone refer to it as such? dur

Why do some people say their zombie movie has it's roots with Legend? dur

Seems fairly retarded to make a movie about your definition of zombies based on a novel about VAMPIRES. AHA! Did we get get wooden stakes through the heart? Garlic? Silver? Crosses? All of those concepts were around, back in the day. Hmm...so wait, did he derrive some of the characteristics for his creatures based on...gulp...zombies?

Now why the crap would I also consider his novel to have roots with zombies? Why would he(Matheson) do the same? It makes no sense what you're saying. Sure, vampiric humans. Great. We've established that. No matter how much you want it to be purely Vampiric, it's not. It has nice zombie elements to it. 🙂

Hey, Robtard, Zombic Vampires! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!

Who refers to I Am Legend as a "zombie novel" or "zombie genre"?

I explained that already twice and Bardock explained it once. The aspect of "world apocalypse and disease.", that influenced the zombie genre, as you rarely have a movie about just one zombie, it's usually an apocalypse sort of scenario. See: NOTLD as a pioneer in the genre.

Not really following you there, something can influence without being exact, but the garlic, wooden stakes (which Neville later learned weren't necessary,) crosses, mirrors, sunlight weakness, blood sucking/draining etc all have nothing to do with the zombie genre, but the vampire genre instead. Which is what the book is about, vampires.

When has Matheson referred to his novel as anything "zombies"? He makes a clear point to paint the infected as vampire-like, the garlic, sunlight, pale skin, bloodshot eyes, teeth, fear of reflection, Neville being immune due to previous vampiric bat bite, etc. all refer to a vampire element, not zombie.

Not so and it wouldn't be as cool as vampiric-werewolves. There's also no reason to be a jerk with the retard emotes and pompousness, we're having a discussion.

Originally posted by dadudemon
That's your personal take on Zombies but in no way reflects an all encompassing definition.

Originally posted by Röland
Then what's the point of even using the term zombie then? A zombie is the animated dead. There's no other way of putting it.

A zombie is a mythical creature that appears in folklore and popular culture typically as a reanimated corpse or a mindless human being. Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodou, which told of the people being controlled as laborers by a powerful sorcerer.

Still not the intelligent "let's rebuild civilization" guys from I am Legend, though.

zom·bie n.

1. A snake god of voodoo cults in West Africa, Haiti, and the southern United States.

2.[list=a][*]A supernatural power or spell that according to voodoo belief can enter into and reanimate a corpse.

[*]A corpse revived in this way.[/list]
3. A corpse that has been reanimated by a supernatural force, especially a contagion.

4. One who looks or behaves like an automaton.

5. A tall mixed drink made of various rums, liqueur, and fruit juice.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
[b]zom·bie n.

1. A snake god of voodoo cults in West Africa, Haiti, and the southern United States.

2.[list=a][*]A supernatural power or spell that according to voodoo belief can enter into and reanimate a corpse.

[*]A corpse revived in this way.[/list]
3. A corpse that has been reanimated by a supernatural force, especially a contagion.

4. One who looks or behaves like an automaton.

5. A tall mixed drink made of various rums, liqueur, and fruit juice. [/B]

So, that means I win teh threads, hands down, if we go by the book. Because some of the vampires were revived dead. MWHAHAHAHAHAAA.

Originally posted by dadudemon
So, that means I win teh threads, hands down, if we go by the book. Because some of the vampires were revived dead. MWHAHAHAHAHAAA.

That's not how it works, but you do have a Michael Scott trait, I just noticed. The more upset you get the more immature your posts become. It's fun to watch.

Originally posted by Bardock42
That's not how it works, but you do have a Michael Scott trait, I just noticed. The more upset you get the more immature your posts become. It's fun to watch.

Dude, I never stopped being immature. It was like that from post #1 in this thread. But it's certainly fun to see what you'll post next. Varying degrees of dick. Sometimes, you're such an a**hole with your posts that I literally bust up laughing. This is not intended as an underhanded compliment, either. George Carland and Lewis Black are among my favorite comedians for a reason.

Originally posted by dadudemon
Dude, I never stopped being immature. It was like that from post #1 in this thread. But it's certainly fun to see what you'll post next. Varying degrees of dick. Sometimes, you're such an a**hole with your posts that I literally bust up laughing. This is not intended as an underhanded compliment, either. George Carland and Lewis Black are among my favorite comedians for a reason.

George Carland? Nice.

Anywho, don't get too upset, you were wrong, most people would just admit it and move on, you had to get more and more immature, until you reached the 5 year old "NUH UH, I WIN I WIN" level. Different people deal differently with failure, that's just how you do it.

Originally posted by Bardock42
George Carland? Nice.

Anywho, don't get too upset, you were wrong, most people would just admit it and move on, you had to get more and more immature, until you reached the 5 year old "NUH UH, I WIN I WIN" level. Different people deal differently with failure, that's just how you do it.

Odd, I was of the opinion that no one was wrong, but that I was the most correct. Weird how you spun that. 🙂