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Great movie - bad ending.

posted 11 years ago by charlotte-plumb
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I really enjoyed watching the movie.
It was very clever and filmed exceptionally well. The acting was great and I enjoyed the story.
However instead of just sitting in the car for however many days, why did they not either stand up out of the sun roof and beat the zombies with the bat or use the bow and arrows to shoot the Zombies through the gap in the windows?
If I had a bow I would use it and not just sit there.
Also when Mickey went out to look for the Keys he should have taken the bat with him and put the helmet on his head for safety.
I hope that a sequel can be made.
Thank you.

[–] qquegchristian-1 11 years ago

He does shoot the gun out of the sun roof in the movie.

Funny that you mention the bow and arrows... In the script, there was fencing over the windows and they used the arrows to stab through the fencing, but then the zombies started piling up. Then put the car in neutral to try to coast out of the situation, but the zombies had piled up around the tires and the car wouldn't move.

Our thoughts are this... They try a lot of things as several days pass... Just not everything they try is shown in the movie.

There was a great scene earlier on in the car where they piss out the windows onto the zombies and they don't react to it at all. I still picture that happened, cause that's hilarious.

We saw a movie called Stake Land the day before we started shooting and they covered a car's windows with fencing. That movie was produced by Larry Fessenden that has a cameo in our movie, so we didn't want to have something so similar in our movie, even though it was just a coincidence... So we wrote that out and lost a few of those scenes in the process. Like I said though, we could make a whole movie of the stuff they do in that car that isn't shown in the final movie.

[–] qquegchristian-1 11 years ago

Oh, and we didn't even know we'd have a car with a sun roof until a few days before we started shooting, so I'm pretty happy with how much we integrated that last minute.

I'm Christian Stella, director of photography, so thank you for the compliment as well!

[–] jamasian_man 11 years ago

This is what should have happened:

Mickey should have used the blankets to cover some of the zombies and block their vision. Then he takes a walkie talkie and the baseball bat and dives into them, the blankets giving him a head start.

Then when he gets the keys, he can radio Ben and Ben can poke his head out of the sky roof. Then Mickey throws the key, (because they have been playing catch the whole movie) and they escape.

The current ending is very lame. Ben should be near death with a bullet wound like that, and I feel the writer/director wanted to keep his character alive rather than let them both live.

Don't get me wrong, the first 70% of the movie is great.

[–] ilon 11 years ago

Ben should be near death with a bullet wound like that

Really? I thought a bullet in the leg would not do much harm.

[–] jamasian_man 11 years ago

Eventually he'd need medical attention. The bullet leaves an open wound and he bound it up, but he's been sitting uncomfortably in a car for several days, with dwindling food and water.

[–] ilon 11 years ago

I thought the alcohol they had would be enough in a case like that.

Thanks.

[–] martin-299-526034 11 years ago

"Really? I thought a bullet in the leg would not do much harm."

WHAT??? Is THIS why kids these days go around shooting people and stomp on their heads etc, because they DON'T THINK it will do much harm??
A shot to the thigh IS lethal if it severs the main artery. A stomp to the head is usually a killer...etc...
I am completely shocked. But a good wake up call to avoid young wankers!

[–] Samus Aran 10 years ago

After days in a hot car without enough water, he would die from infection spreading into his bloodstream.

[–] enigmawriter-1 10 years ago

Hi, Christian, I found your movie through Hulu by luck. I was sifting through the movie's section and happened to come to it and I'm glad I did. The poster caught my attention. I didn't read the premise, I just started watching it and got hooked. The music was great and that's another perk that I liked.

Watch my short sci-fi/horror movie: Kosmikophobia!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDxSq60x_38

[–] Fattycakes 10 years ago

Oh, and we didn't even know we'd have a car with a sun roof until a few days before we started shooting, so I'm pretty happy with how much we integrated that last minute.

In that case, how exactly did Mickey get in and out the car in the original script?

[–] Harvest-R 10 years ago

I also loved the movie. Was a different approach to all the other Zombie movies. Reminded me alot of the game "DayZ" (the Arma2 mod). Traveling around, looting houses, avoid zombies and unknown players (or other humans in that case), steal fuel from other cars, ...

I also have no problem with the ending so far, since I didn't like the character of Mickey anyway. :D

But even tho it happened like it happened, I was still wondering: As people said, Ben should have almost been dead after the days in the car with the bullet wound in his leg. Still he just walks off because the zombies are too slow to catch up on him.

Mickey was in a good condition. So instead of sitting in the car for days he could just climb out the sun roof and bait the zombies to follow him, giving Ben enough room to escape. Or they could just have escaped together, like Ben did alone in the end? It seemed like the zombies moving so slowly they actually were never a real threat to them?

[–] miserycounty 11 years ago

You're kidding right? This whole movie was well paced and character based. You really think at the end like that. I think it's completely believable for this film and I wouldn't change a damn thing. I *beep* loved it!

Why dumb it down with stupid action when the end we got is so much more fulfilling?

[–] tagheuer25 8 years ago

I'm thinking if I'm in that situation, even if I don't know how, all I'd be doing is trying to hotwire the car. I'll have a lot of idle time in my hands. Even if I can't start it, at least I won't be bored to death just staring/listening to the zombies. I'll have something to do. Sooner or later, I'd probably figure it out anyway. Why they chose to just do nothing is beyond me.