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Only after you die, can you become a Zombie. You don't turn while alive

posted 10 years ago by kingstelious
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They shouldn't have used the word Zombie. the idea that the people become zombies over time and slowly go from human to zombie is just stupid. They only way to become a zombie is to die first, once you die that is it, everything that you were is gone. With some possible instinctual habits still laying dormant, but your personality, memories and thought are gone, dead. THEN you rise again, you are now a zombie, you are no more than an animal going off instinct hungry for flesh, mindlessly wandering.

I find this movie an insult to all Zombie movies. The way her eyes slowly turned white and her skin decayed was just stupid. Decay would only occur after you're dead.

Should have called it something like the Cordyceps Brain Infection from Last of Us, movie would have made more sense then

[–] macguffin54 10 years ago

To the 2 y/o who started this thread I don't know of any popular zombie movie or show that doesn't depict zombie bite victims as progressively getting sicker and sicker and closer and closer to bring a zombie (not that it matters as the filmmakers get to set their own mythology). NOTLD had that girl lying in the basement getting sicker and sicker. ROTLD had Thom Matthews and the old guy get sicker and sicker, colder and stiff and pale. TWD had Jim, as one example, get sicker and more sensitive to pain as he began the process of turning. Where is there a zombie show/movie where the infected die immediately from a bite and turn instantly into a zombie? It's always a transition. Think about it, if you are able.

[–] bearuk 10 years ago

In World War Z, people turned from human to zombie in around 10-12 seconds didn't they? That's surely not enough time for someone to die and 'reanimate'. Not from a bite anyway, or from getting zombie blood in your mouth (although Brad's character didn't turn from that).

I would say a zombie is whatever the current cultural zeitgeist is. Currently The Walking Dead is probably the benchmark, so yes, most people expect a person to die and come back as a zombie. But when the next fit TV show or movie changes the 'rules' people's ideas of what a zombie is will change too.

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[–] wilka91 10 years ago

Actually zombies do not exist, so the OP makes absolutely no sense. So no, you do not become a zombie after you die. After you die, you're most likely buried or burned, game over.

[–] bigjohnnyhandsome 10 years ago

This is hilarious.

Spiderman couldn't originally spin webs from his hands: He had to make them.

Then they decided he could in the movie.

What!?

Spiderman can't shoot webs from his wrist. it doesn't make sense. How on earth would his body produce the web?

And now, there's loads of different spider-peeps doing things even spiders can't do.

The world has gone mad.

No ... hold on ... it hasn't.

It's fantasy. Not real.

Like in my dreams I have a 10 inch weiner. But then, I might have to have reduction. So that doesn't make sense, either.

[–] Spycat 10 years ago

Well, I don't think "Zombieology" are an actual science.

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[–] stefan-226-308717 10 years ago

They can make a zombie like they want, unless you have ever seen a zombie in real life, so you have proof of how a zombie looks or how a human transforms into one ? in case you have i think theres alot of doctors who would love to se it :)

[–] soupphysics 10 years ago

So there's no correct way to be or become a zombie.

A zombie functions in whatever way the writer wants it to.

Nobody is going to reject the movie, just because it doesn't follow YOUR idea of how people should become zombies.

[–] kevinchengxin 10 years ago

Every version of zombie is different. Before Romero came about, zombie didn't even refer to flesh-eating corpses. Besides what is so different in this movie? It's always about a disease that kills you over a short period of time. I think this is just the usual zombie setting.