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I would have stayed in Hannah and Frank's apartment building

posted 11 years ago by crobertson105
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1. It was eventually going to rain.
2. The building was relatively secure.
3. They could have improved the shopping cart fortification.
4. Frank obviously had the ability to keep their individual apartment safe as proven by Selena and Jim's hectic arrival.
5. They could go apartment by apartment throughout the rest of the building to restock their supplies.
6. Travelling to Manchester from London is a 200 mile, three and a half hour drive at best during which a myriad of problems crop up, including the death of Frank.
7. You don't know for sure what is in Manchester waiting for you.

[–] amatt89 11 years ago

A high-rise seems like the ideal place to be if there ever was a zombie apocalypse. You have a nice, high vantage point, and the entrances and exits would be fairly easy to guard or block off. You could also head to the roof and signal for help and be much easier to see than if you were on the ground.

[–] crobertson105 11 years ago

@amatt89
I agree. It seemed to be very secure. They've got the whole building to themselves it seems too. So, if they were low on supplies, there would have been other means to restock. Break into the empty apartments in the building! Even with limited electricity they could build fires from the left behind furniture throughout the apartments to boil the water collected on the roof to sanitize it. Given the nature of the rage spreading so quickly there could also be a good amount of non perishable foods throughout the apartments too. And if worse came to worse they had a car and they went to the grocery and stocked up anyways. They could have done that every now and again.

[–] basketcasebelial 11 years ago

Have you seen demons 2? I'm not so sure of those high rises.

[–] Sandor_Szavost 11 years ago

I was watching the movie yesterday and I had the same thought. It looked like a good place in terms of defense.

[–] elcherino 11 years ago

The people in the movie and also in the very good TV series Walking Dead are right...high rises aren't safe. The reason being, unless you can fly the only way to go out is down, and for the bad to come up. In the movie, they weren't getting water, 3 days without water you are dead. You would have to go in and out, and it would be too risky like a death trap.

The best would be like in the shows, like a cleared out prison or fenced inclosure base of some sort. That way you have space, fortifications, lights, and weaponry. That, you have visibility, and you can go out to get food, water, supplies, etc like a garrison.

[–] DrWalterBishop 11 years ago

The Walking Dead is way too hyped. There's no way Zombies like that are over taking the military. I get the cities would be almost *beep* if your in a crowd, but once you know whats going on its pretty easy to protect yourself, from the zombies at least. Even the director of this took a shot at The Walking Dead.

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[–] electricblooded 11 years ago

Exactly what I was thinking yesterday.
I mean even the way they kill those zombies in the show seems so easy. It's hard to believe whole country got infected.

But then again, I still watch Walking Dead. why? because of the great character development and plot. It's more about the now brutal world than about zombies.

[–] Degree7 11 years ago

Exactly what I was thinking yesterday.
I mean even the way they kill those zombies in the show seems so easy. It's hard to believe whole country got infected.

Well, tbh, the TV show doesn't really play it from the "infected" angle, it's more like every cadaver or corpse rises from death and attacks you. So it's not hard to believe that after a few months, society itself would have collapsed.

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[–] Oleander2010 10 years ago

The Walking Dead is way too hyped. There's no way Zombies like that are over taking the military. I get the cities would be almost *beep* if your in a crowd, but once you know whats going on its pretty easy to protect yourself, from the zombies at least. Even the director of this took a shot at The Walking Dead.

I don't think that's necessarily true. There were a lot of factors, which, could have made it possible for the zombies (in the Walking Dead) to completely take over- military included. Starting with the first infected person- once they are able to infect a second person, the potential for them to infect doubles and multiplies quickly. Second, any military organization increases it's efficacy through the extent of their preparedness. Taking into account that the outbreak was unexpected, I believe it's conceivable that such an event could cause total societal failure. The scene in 28 Days Later, where the soldiers become infected, is a great example of how the speed of transmission, along with the "expectancies" of the uninflected can greatly dictate the course of the virus.

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[–] electricblooded 11 years ago

Hope dear friend, hope.

They were afraid of staying at one place.
They were running out of resources.
They had no answers.
They wanted to be with civilization.

That's what urged them to go Manchester, not logic.

[–] BrunoAntony 11 years ago

Me too.

Logically, all they really had to do was wait for the Infected to starve to death, since they seemed to be focused on attacking rather than eating or drinking (which we see at the end). After a few weeks, travelling would have been much safer.

I presume Frank had already gone door to door and raided everyone's water and liquid supplies, iceboxes, etc and they had literally nothing left ... forcing them to move on.

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[–] tommix42 10 years ago

that is true, about how the Infected seemed to forget about eating and just starved. But, they must be drinking at least a little of something, (maybe blood, from all the corpses) because as someone said earlier in this thread, humans can't last for long at all, with nothing to drink.

But, I wondered about cannibalism, the first time I saw this movie. The Infected seem to have basically lost all other vestiges of their humanity, so maybe they would have just munched on the dead bodies that were all over the city... In a normal zombie movie, this is not possible, because all the dead bodies come back to life and become zombies themselves. But in the universe of 28 Days Later, they seem to stick pretty close to the idea that the Infected are still biologically human, it is just that they have lost all their psychological and/or spiritual humanity, so they would not come back from the dead if they are killed.

My point being: maybe the Infected could stay alive for a long time, if they ate a lot of dead bodies.

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[–] jackcrack123 11 years ago

I agree, especially considering they managed to resupply relatively easily at the grocery store. Realistically, all they would need is 3-4 weeks worth of supplies to outlast the initial waves of infection (since they are not zombies they will eventually die of dehydration or starvation, hypothermia, etc). They should have stocked up Frank and Hannah's apt building and fortified the main doorway.

[–] cryconscry 11 years ago

I thought that they had already gone through the building to restock supplies? Going to a less-populated place means less infected so better chance of survival. They can't foretell the future so would have no way of knowing that an errant drop of infected blood would drop into Frank's eye, thereby bringing about his death. Also, and most important from a film/story perspective, it is better/easier to create an interesting/compelling story by refraining from keeping it in one location. Not saying it can't be done, but it's much more difficult.

[–] legend_001 10 years ago

There was probably (just guessing really) at least 50 flats in that tower block?
There was no way they blew through all those supplies, even accounting for people leaving or looting.

Anyways, the reason they left is simple.
The plot needed to move :)

[–] diongill-160-829211 10 years ago

They were keen to get to Old Trafford mate, who could blame them?

[–] pedro14 10 years ago

Yeah Old Trafford is usually full of Londoner's...