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One of the most infuriating movies to watch

posted 11 years ago by AGreenman19
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Watch out, huge rant incoming, but I think you guys will enjoy it.

Every single character was completely irrational. I started keeping notes about halfway through, so the irrationality might be a little thin for the first part. Anyway, I'll try to go in order:

MOM: What is wrong with this lady? Why is it that the first thought on her mind is that Sam has been drinking or doing drugs, when she looks like some sort of bubonic plague victim?

She seems to think her daughter is some horrible person, hell-bent on destroying her own life, despite the fact that Sam appears to have no idea what's going on, and is expressing shock at things like the water being too hot, yet Mom immediately jumps to those self-destruction conclusions and even walks out on her, even though Sam looks like a bubonic plague victim and just gave herself severe burns. Nice to see you care, Mom!

SAM: When things finally get bad, she's on her way to the doctor when her boss, George, calls. So what does she do? She goes to work, despite waking up in a pool of blood, both menstrual and vomit, losing her tooth, and bleeding out from underneath her fingernails. "Fine, I'll be there in a minute". Are you kidding me?!

GEORGE: Finally someone notices how bad she looks, and even says "Yeah, you should go [to the doctor]." So what does he do next? Sends her back to work! WHAT?!

RILEY: Wow, he seems to be the only sensible character and offers to take her to the doctor. Sam of course lashes out about some drama crap: "Stay away from me!" Uh, shouldn't you be worried about your health, before telling people to stay out of your personal life?

SAM: Finally at the doctor. Again. The doctor says, "Don't come into contact with anyone." So what's the first thing Sam does after hearing this? Right, she comes into contact with someone.

DOCTOR: Speaking of the doctor, what a *beep* doctor he is! How useless! "Yeah, it looks like something's wrong with you... looks like an STD." No *beep* Well, what kind of STD? "I don't know, but it's probably an STD." Has this guy ever seen a sickness in his life? I'm sure he's seen loads of STDS... was he not at all concerned that this doesn't look like a SINGLE KNOWN SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE???

ALICE: Notices Sam is all kinds of messed up, but is more concerned about going to the police and telling their story, despite the fact that Sam looks like a bubonic plague victim. Priorities.

SAM: When she blows up at Riley and Alice, accusing them of trying to manipulate her life when she is fscking DYING. She should be WAY more concerned with what's happening to her than petty relationships and other high school drama. If I was in her position, I would be thinking of absolutely NOTHING else other than my own malady, not playing the blame game with other people while my life hangs in the balance.

MOM: Here she appears with the psychiatrist guy, and immediately starts asking if she's been drinking, when Sam has these enormous blue veins coursing across her face and arms, looks like a DEAD BODY, has blue-grey lips, and teeth are rotting out of her head. How is it even possible that Mom is this oblivious?

PSYCHIATRIST: I liked this part. First I thought he was an actual medical doctor who had come to diagnose Sam (presumably Mom finally came to her senses), but it turns out he's just a psychiatrist! While Sam and Mom are bickering, you can see the change in the Psych's face, and you start to think that maybe he's the ONLY sensible person in this whole goddamn movie, because maybe he's noticing her teeth or the fact that she looks like a dead body, but then he blurts out, "Well then talk, Samantha, tell us what's wrong!"

ARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHH

SAM: Then she goes to the fscking plant place, holding her DEAD plant, looking like a dead fscking body... what the HELL is she thinking? However, at this point, I can accept that the illness is probably going to her head, making her do crazy stuff, so I will no longer comment on what Sam is doing.

RECEPTIONIST: Doesn't seem terribly concerned at the sores on her face and giant blue veins, as well as generally looking like a dead body. I would've called an ambulance right there on the spot.

NIKKI: COMPLETELY 100% concerned about how Sam "fscked a man", despite seeing that she looks like a FSCKING DEAD BODY. What the hell is wrong with people's priorities in this movie?!

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HOW IS NOBODY AT ALL CONCERNED THAT SHE LOOKS LIKE A CORPSE
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SAM: I know I said I wouldn't comment on Sam anymore, but I just couldn't get over her "I'm all alone now" line. JESUS FSCKING CHRIST. You're concerned about being all alone when you are DYING?????

ALICE: She KISSES Sam! I WOULD NEVER KISS SOMETHING THAT LOOKED LIKE THAT

I'm going to ignore the subsequent murderous rampage, because of all the crap that has happened in the movie, this actually makes the most sense. Interesting.

Holy *beep*

And what about that total red herring with BJ? What the hell? What was even the point of mentioning that the police was looking for him if there was not going to be any explanation why or any sort of resolution at all? So what if he was a child molester? That has absolutely no relevance on the story of this movie! What were the police going to do once they caught him? How would that further the story at all? What the hell was the point?

[–] Ckrisis 9 years ago

The many MANY people around Samantha who seem to ignore her decomposing and hideous state...this isn't bad writing....it is in fact very brilliant writing because it is just a big metaphor for how modern day North American society is blinded by ignorance. Instead of thinking "man this girl needs some help something is wrong with her"...they instead immediately assume drugs/alcohol are a factor. Exaggerated but not too far off from how most people in todays day and age act, especially in urban areas. It frustrates me that most people don't get the message behind the movie...they just nitpick and dissect every little possible angle until there is no movie left to watch. Every single movie in existence has unrealistic features, hence why it is a movie. In general I find it ridiculous but hilarious that movies of fiction get criticized for not being real enough. Seriously people like the poster of this topic need to watch less movies and more nature documentaries.

[–] tecnogaming 9 years ago

I have to agree with you Ckrisis, the points of OP are valid but anyone looking for realistic behavior out of a HORROR MOVIE is just delusional or never seen a horror movie before.

The movie is actually quite good and one of the best zombie horror movies outthere, there is very few that can show the horrific mutations and state of decay a person must endure to become a zombie, very well done.

Oh, BTW OP, there is no such thing as a zombie infected person so, there are also no frame of reference on how to "properly act" in real life, take that into consideration next time you try to critize a horror movie about zombies for not being realistically enough on it's characters.

Alex Vojacek

[–] merco_yavin 8 years ago

the problem is that even in todays society, and quite frankly specially this society, we overreact to the slightest things. you would think that after the costumer found a decayed nail in her salad, the guy would have immediately deduct it came from the "pink eye"d girl who was making said salad and call an ambulance. nails dont fall off out of the blue.

there was a national panic for influenza and other diseases in recent times. common colds where easily mistaken with said diseases during that time.
but a girl with clear visible problems? no worries, you keep on making that salad, girl.

im not expecting any intelligence from a zombie movie but this level of stupidity was just bottom of the barrel terrible writing. even the dumbest zombie movies that start with day 0-1 of an outbreak has the characters realize what they are dealing with in a matter of hours, a day at most.

the other problem was that sam actively and constantly refused medical help, right until the end before she "died". doctor guy there had no experience with diseases like that so he had no way of knowing, yet still, if theres something clearly wrong and out of your league, the first thing is to call someone that you know knows. and he didnt do that.

overall, this movie's script was beyond idiotic, zombie movie or not. i hate to say it but even uwe bol movies have better written characters.

zombies are my favorite monsters, so i had some expectations when watching this, but after day 1 i was constantly face palming.
ill rather watch house of the dead because at least i enjoy pointint out everything that is wrong with it, but pointing everything that is wrong with this one just infuriates me, no zombie movie has ever done that.

[–] therealman 8 years ago

nails dont fall off out of the blue.

Says someone who has never run a marathon or hit their thumb with a hammer.

the other problem was that sam actively and constantly refused medical help, right until the end before she "died". doctor guy there had no experience with diseases like that so he had no way of knowing, yet still, if theres something clearly wrong and out of your league, the first thing is to call someone that you know knows. and he didnt do that.

A lot of people avoid going to the doctor even when they are quite sick. It is expensive, inconvenient, intrusive...

Doctors cannot immediately diagnose every illness. This is one of the things the tv show House showed very well. Doctors have to hypothesize about what the illness might be and then test for that illness. There is no universal test that says "Tell me what is ailing this patient". It is odd that the doctor assumed it was an STD but since he had zero experience with zombie virus and it wouldn't be in any of his medical books; he went with the most logical case.

Sam is a heroin addict. Heroin addicts tend to look like crap. The easy assumption that her mother and others made was she was back on the junk.

People who are looking at this movie and saying everyone acted stupidly are looking at it from the outside, as people who know they are watching a zombie movie. Do you really look at every sick person you see on the street an think they are turning into a zombie?

I am not saying this is a great movie, but some of the comments go a little to far. Also, see my thread on pheromones.

[–] merco_yavin 8 years ago

i have run a marathon. 3 to be precise.

and ive hit my fingers with a hammer, not at full velocity nor strenght, mind you.

but this girl obviously never did either of those.
and even if she did, the manager doing nothing was beyond idiotic.

one day at work i accidentaly touched an extremely hot surface, and i was immediately treated.

sam lost a nail, serving food, and nobody forced her into a hospital OR called an ambulance? no, that aint happening in the real world.

and she did go to a doctor.... that wasnt well versed in (for a lack of a better term) advanced diseases. this is like going to a pediatrician when you have necrotizing fascitis.
hes obviously not going to treat you, but he will most definetely call someone. at the very least, tell you where to go.

this was supposed to be based on the real world (albeit where no zombie movies were ever made) so people being this oblvivious to a clearly beyond sick person is very cringy.

and dont get me started with riley. he having sex with her at that moment was probably the second most idiotic moment in the movie. i dont have sex with my gf when she has A COMMON COLD, much less with someone who has "pink eye", or rotten fingers, or a severe rash in her month.

plain and simple, this movie was horribly, HORRIBLY written.

[–] deem_bastille 8 years ago

I wonder what the hell was wrong with the people who fked her. morons. I will not be lighting a candle in your memory. sorry.

Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.

[–] dopenamehere 8 years ago

Just watched this movie for the first time. This post is great!! Wow, IMDb really needs a like button!

[–] KiloOne 8 years ago

this movie was so bad so so bad , nothing makes sense noone noticed anything ihuman reactions rlly XD i laughed my ass off watchin this XDDDDD

[–] neptunewaves (75) 7 years ago

It is heavily implied (if not outright stated) that Sam is a recovering drug addict and that put a lot of strain on her relationship with her mother. She may have all the maternal instincts of a wet blanket but there is a reason her first thought is drugs.

I am willing to cut Samantha some slack since her judgment is clearly being compromised by the fact she is literally rotting alive. By the time she tries to register her plant, she's obviously no longer thinking straight.

The good doctor was criminally negligent and should have his license removed, at the very least.

Sam has every reason to lash out at Riley and his creepy stalker ways but there's more: in that single moment, she learns he was privy to BJ taking her to his car. REMEMBER SHE WAS RAPED. That means Riley was either too busy jacking off to what he was seeing to notice or care Samantha was out of it. And that actually says a lot about his character. As does the fact he jumps at the opportunity to have sex with her knowing full well she's not fine, and then his reaction upon finding just how sick she is. He is not only (justifiably) disgusted but mad at her for ALLOWING HIS ADVANCES and not once shows worry about her state. What a POS.

Nikki is a sociopath looking for a way to ditch Sam through the film. The "you sleep (uh oh no she didn't, she was RAPED by a man, big f*cking difference) it's just the BS excuse she finds.

The police obviously are on the known and try to avoid social panic by accusing BJ of child molestation instead of, you know, being the patient zero of the zombie disease.

[–] Strazdas (2472) 3 years ago

>By the time she tries to register her plant, she's obviously no longer thinking straight.

And are also literally on drugs she got from that fat friend of hers. Drugs turns out to actually be the first thing she turns to. So the assumption of everyone around her was... correct.

>in that single moment, she learns he was privy to BJ taking her to his car. REMEMBER SHE WAS RAPED. That means Riley was either too busy jacking off to what he was seeing to notice or care Samantha was out of it. And that actually says a lot about his character.

Or, you know, she didnt look like she was being raped at the time due to being drunk (and possibly drugged). There are many, many cases where witnesses claim the drunk woman was the one initiating sex that later claimed it was rape. Theres a reason consent cannot be given when under influence.

>The police obviously are on the known and try to avoid social panic by accusing BJ of child molestation instead of, you know, being the patient zero of the zombie disease.

No, this was the assumption on the firends part. What the police did according to the dialogue was put out an APB on him with posters. Then she compares it to "like for child molesters", implying that he wasnt being searched for child molestation. But yes, unfortunatelly as we saw in real life, the authorities will try to deny and hide a plague until they cant.

[–] Strazdas (2472) 3 years ago

>SAM: When things finally get bad, she's on her way to the doctor when her boss, George, calls. So what does she do? She goes to work, despite waking up in a pool of blood, both menstrual and vomit, losing her tooth, and bleeding out from underneath her fingernails. "Fine, I'll be there in a minute". Are you kidding me?!

Unfortunatelly that is a sad reality to many americans who can be fired on the spot for not showing up.

[–] Mishelly0505 (6) 3 years ago

Omg thank you!!! And I laughed when I read you took notes! I wanted to do that too so many times with certain movies. I really need to do it with Oceans 8 one day …unless you covered that one, too haha!

Your points are fantastic and accurate!
I came here to post generally the same stuff but you saved me the time. Ironically, I enjoy watching this movie. So what does that say about me?

Thanks again for your well worded and thought out post!

Edited to add: this is an eight year old post?! I hate that I just discovered this site today.