Okay soldier go outside and scout for food, but don't go to far.
Little zombie girl is hungry, okay go outside and eat something.
How about the fact that she finds a dog alive and well in a house years after everything went tits up...
sharePlausible, I'm happy to let it stand.
[b]But that's just the opinion of this *beep*
Plausible in what way? Did the dog order dog food from the internet?
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It had shelter, maybe it knew it's way to the supermarket to eat the dry dog food, maybe it ate bugs, maybe there used to be ten dogs in that house. It's plausible.
shareYeah, but this was apparently ten years after the hungry apocalypse started (it was mentioned in the behind the scenes special) It's unlikely a shi-tzu would live to 10 years in an apocalypse, and what was also off is that the dog seemed fine with Melanie picking it up and carrying it (until she sacrificed it to the horde) after not having contact with a functioning human for years.
I was thinking the dog had an owner but one day the owner left, perhaps looking for food, and never returned. The dog may have only been there alone a few days.
shareIn the book, it makes more sense as she finds a fox not a pet dog as far as I remember.
shareWell, the house did have a pet door and it was a terrier, so I suppose it could have caught mice or something. And since we're believing in fairies and unicorns right now, I'd also like to think that the little dog got away.. I have no sympathy for the cat.
shareAs for the dog, my one Shih-tzu used to catch and eat birds out in the yard and all that would be left is the feet, beak and a few feathers basically, don't ask me how he managed to get them, but he got em. Surely mice and moles wouldn't stand a chance, I took him up to my parents in the country and inside of five minutes he came jogging around with a squirrel in his mouth(which I did not let him eat).
People forget dogs are hunters by their nature and even toy breeds can kick some butt as my stealthy little Shih-tzu proved and that was just for kicks not out of hunger.
I agree, that scene did stretch credibility and there where a few other scenes that were illogical.
Still nice to see a British genre film and not another appaling low rent comedy or period costume drama.
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Whilst I did find that moment jarring, I think the idea was that they felt they could trust her to find an alternative food source at that point - especially given that Kieran had a gun and wouldn't have much difficulty defending himself against a single child if necessary.
The bigger problem for me wasn't that they did that, but that they didn't radio Kieran to make him aware.
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I also had issues with the radio and thinking that he had a handgun as well. And while we're talking about radios.. wouldn't there be an issue with spit from Melanie on his radio? And couldn't the hungries just spit at people?
shareWhen you ask questions like these the suspension of disbelief of the entire zombie genre starts to break down.
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I thought the same. But then i thought about it and i believe Melanie would have stayed away from the soldier, she can kind of control herself so she knew she was looking for animals. She wouldn't have jumped on him she would have been stronger than that
shareBy then she was unhinged and remained so until she had the pigeon. She'd totally would've jumped on him. That's why the ones in the lab let her loose to begin with. She was stating it herself, she couldn't control herself anymore because of the hunger.
The movie was chock-full of such nonsense. I felt cheated by the IMDB'S ratings after watching this almost as much as I felt sorry for poor Paddy Considine and Glenn Close, who deserve better.
This scene doesn't make sense like many others in the film. It's mostly because the film, despite it follows a similar route to the book, doesn't explain anything and takes illogical shortcuts. In the book, Gallagher had a breakdown and ran away from the party. It was simply too much for him. Also, he created a bond with Melanie and started seeing an actual person in her. This explains why he hesitated to attack the rat girl and other children ( he knew they were the hungries but saw children in them too ). There's one more ridiculous thing in that scene. Gallagher finds some adult magazines. This doesn't make much sense without the context. It's never mentioned that Gallagher was born in post-apocalypic world and all this old-world stuff is simply precious and fascinating for him, so simply he can't resist ( old-world magazines were like a gold among the soldiers ).
Pity film skipped most of the essential for the viewer information and made a
story completely rubbish.
It is also a case where the writer of the book cannot complain about the script since he is the one who wrote the script. In the infrequent cases when script and the book the script is based on are written by the same person the film medium's plot limitations, usually in order to shave screen time, are made much more clear. Otherwise people can just blame the screenwriter.
Of course it might have also been the case that the writer of the book is a good novelist but rather poor screenwriter.
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I had the same thought...is she going to kill the soldier. But I think that scene was there to show the trust they now felt in her, so when in fact she tried to help him I take it that the trust element is what they wanted to show.
"Don't you hear that horrible screaming all around you? That screaming men call silence."
What about during the base being overrun the one soldier parks his jeep several feet away from the gate he needed to open. Dumbest scene in the movie.
shareWhat about during the base being overrun the one soldier parks his jeep several feet away from the gate he needed to open. Dumbest scene in the movie.
I agree, both scenes were very poorly executed.
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That wasn't even the dumbest thing. There were two fences as it was a security checkpoint, but instead of open the first gate, drive the car through, close the gate, and then open the second gate - it would have given him a chance to escape.
-- and he runs a lot more than several ft. I would estimate at least 75.
I was also like "What the hell dude?" when I saw that stupid scene..
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