jlf1961
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I am boycotting Zombie entertainment.
Your call. I ignored it for a long time, but there are a few real gems in the mix.
What I find really fucking funny (and pathetic) is how George Romero turns his nose up at what's coming today, believing that his work had such important satirical content that eludes the modern artists in the genre. What a shallow, ignorant, fuckwit. He had a single joke - consumerism is mindless - and he beat it to death like it was some earth shattering revelation that only he was brilliant enough to see, and just let the cavalry come riding in to give himself an ending
World War Z (the novel I suggested on another thread) and Walking Dead are using the ghouls as a much bigger metaphor. The cavalry gets their ass kicked, right off the bat, and the zombies represent the failure of the system. With that vehicle, we can really get into the human aspects of surviving when the lights don't work, the toilets don't flush, and the influence of civilization itself itself gets more optional by the day.
Last night's episode (no spoilers) brought home a gut wrenching lesson in what it means to be without any sort of support to reach out for, and the price of seeing to something yourself.
The first 3 seasons are all up on netflix, there will probably be a marathon before the season finale in a couple weeks. Whatever.
Meanwhile, from a prepper point of view, if you are ready for a plague of zombies, you ready for absolutely anything.
I tend to agree with your assessment of George Romero.
As for the zombie apocalypse being a metaphor for having nothing to fall back on, again I agree.
My problem is that you cant swing a cat around your head without smacking at least ten zombie based tv shows or movies.
I found the movie contagion to be interesting, but they minimized the affects of such a pandemic.
In the movie, the mortality rate was above 50%, which would have overwhelmed the infrastructure to deal with the corpses. The only reference to that was telling the husband he had to cremate his wife and son.
Then you have the "companion" illnesses that come along with a bunch of dead bodies laying around. Cholera, diphtheria, typhus, all of those would add to the already strained health care facilities.
And strangely, the civil unrest was short lived. A few days of looting, and then everyone is calm again. Not to mention that the road blocks established to keep people from traveling were never challenged.
Ever hear about the events that lead up to the Berlin wall coming down? First a small mob showed up at a border check point, then it grew to hundreds, finally thousands. The border guard was told to let a few go across, after he saw that was not working to calm the mob, he had a choice, grab his AK and begin shooting or just open the gate and watch the tide cross to west Berlin.
He opened the gate and went home. By the way, the border guard in charge at that crossing was a Lt. Col.
Now going back to a pandemic situation, you really think that a crowd of thousand is just going to turn around because a platoon of soldiers tells them to? To go back means a good chance of catching the disease, and rushing the check point means you could get killed, but there are a lot of people wanting out, and only a few troops.
Not to mention the cliche redneck in his 4x4 truck with big tires and a grill guard made of two inch steel pipe.
Famous last words, "hold my beer while I handle this."
Now the zombies are portrayed as slow moving, walking dead, that would get run over by a wall of molasses in Maine in January. Not to mention they are not all that intelligent.
I mean, come on, how about a cannibalistic infected human that moves faster than a 110 great grandmother, and have more than a limited use of their limbs.
Remember the Omega Man?
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