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Posted June 10, 2013
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Schnuff: Come on its trash nothing more. Scary trash (the first ones) maybe but still trash.
How could they digest anything...remember the scene with the woman moaning for more brain....she hasn't anything left to
digest something as the lower part of her body was missing.
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morciu: if you're talking about return of the living dead (which is awesome) then it's silly to try and take it seriously because it's a silly movie.
I had that discussion with my father not long ago. He hates zombie movies, yet vampire, mummy, and werewolf movies he has no problems with. I mean mummies are sort of the same monster minus the brain and organ eating. Vampires like human blood, and werewolves go for the jugular. They are all silly monsters, though the zombie only recently (past 50 years) were born. While the other three, were created a long long time ago.
Posted June 10, 2013
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Schnuff: Come on its trash nothing more. Scary trash (the first ones) maybe but still trash.
How could they digest anything...remember the scene with the woman moaning for more brain....she hasn't anything left to
digest something as the lower part of her body was missing.
You need to read your Max Brooks.
Posted June 10, 2013
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Lifthrasil: And that is exactly the point. One definition of life is that it has to have some kind of metabolism. Zombies eat out of instinct (at least according to some movies) but they don't digest the brains. So they are not alive but some organic brain eating machines.
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HomerSimpson: Okay, so let's say that they don't digest what they eat. Shouldn't the more successful zombies start bloating up and running out of room to cram in more brains? I mean, I think you'd see one or two zeppelin shapped zombies lying about at some point, right?
Or they just barf up the brains in some unobserved moment. I mean possessed girls barf pea soup all over the place all the time. Why shouldn't zombies barf brain soup whenever they are too full?

Or the brains are just eaten by the worms crawling through the zombies body. Perhaps brains are tastier for worms than regular zombie meat. So the more brains the zombie stuffs inside himself the busier the worms are eating that. Thus they don't chew on poor zombie himself so much. Perhaps zombies are only poor, misunderstood hostages of the evil worms residing inside them, demanding to be fed endlessly on fresh brain!
Posted June 10, 2013
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Schnuff: Come on its trash nothing more. Scary trash (the first ones) maybe but still trash.
How could they digest anything...remember the scene with the woman moaning for more brain....she hasn't anything left to
digest something as the lower part of her body was missing.
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tinyE: You need to read your Max Brooks.
Never put two and two together and realized he is the son of the great Mel Brooks.
Posted June 10, 2013
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HomerSimpson: Okay, so let's say that they don't digest what they eat. Shouldn't the more successful zombies start bloating up and running out of room to cram in more brains? I mean, I think you'd see one or two zeppelin shapped zombies lying about at some point, right?
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Cormoran: This reminds me of a bit in marvel zombies, zombie hulk eats someone then turns into zombie bruce banner with a huge distended belly.
Indeed. And the Marvel Zombies at least, do digest, as mentioned at the end of Marvel Zombies vs. the Army of Darkness where zombie Hulk declared he would use The Necronomicon Ex Mortis as toilet paper.
Posted June 10, 2013
Although not really zombies, my favorite zombie-like beings are the Rage-infected from 28 Days Later. I love how they're fierce and move so quickly.

I like that movie (and the sequel) since it's a more grounded take on 'zombies'. People are infected but not actually undead.
Posted June 10, 2013
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mondo84: Although not really zombies, my favorite zombie-like beings are the Rage-infected from 28 Days Later. I love how they're fierce and move so quickly.

I like that movie (and the sequel) since it's a more grounded take on 'zombies'. People are infected but not actually undead.
Kinda like the Resident Evil movies. I still watch those movies, despite how much they suck. I guess I can't get enough of Milla killing mutants.
Posted June 10, 2013
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mondo84: Although not really zombies, my favorite zombie-like beings are the Rage-infected from 28 Days Later. I love how they're fierce and move so quickly.

I like that movie (and the sequel) since it's a more grounded take on 'zombies'. People are infected but not actually undead.
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jjsimp: Kinda like the Resident Evil movies. I still watch those movies, despite how much they suck. I guess I can't get enough of Milla killing mutants.
*cough* I like the RE movies.
The 'laser' room in the first one is one of the best kill scenes EVER in any movie EVER.
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Posted June 10, 2013
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tinyE: *cough* I like the RE movies.
The 'laser' room in the first one is one of the best kill scenes EVER in any movie EVER.
I'm not talking about the first few movies, they were great. It's the last couple that were not very good, although I still enjoyed every one of them. Milla was the best choice for those movies and it shows. Still remember her from that Bruce Willis movie - "Mul-tee-pass".
Post edited June 10, 2013 by jjsimp
Posted June 10, 2013
i'm just going to mention Ophiocordyceps unilateralis. There, have fun. (also please do yourself a favour and if you are really interested just skim through or avoid the wikipedia article altogether)
Posted June 10, 2013
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HomerSimpson: So, how are they in any sense dead? Lack of cellular regeneration? Maybe. I suppose if you can evade them long enough they eventually decay to dust. Beyond that, though, I'm stymied.
This, plus maybe lack of higher brain functions?
Posted June 10, 2013
Even the clinical definition of death is debated, with such grey areas as brain death, brain stem death and permanent vegetative state just to name a few. Is a vegetative person alive? How about a braindead person/cadaver that is kept alive by machines and suffers the usual multi-organ failure if disconnected? Would it be morally questionable to use a person suffering from brain death or permanent vegetative state as an organ donor if they had not expressed their conscience when they were in a position to do so?

Also, could a braindead person, or one in a vegetative state, become a zombie, since they are dead according to some definitions?
Posted June 10, 2013
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HomerSimpson: By zombies, I mean the Romero rising from the dead kind, not the virus inflicted 28 Days Later sort.

I was watching Romero's Land of the Dead last night and thought struck me. Why are these zombies breathing and groaning and grunting? They're dead. But, aha, they aren't dead. They're re-animated dead, the Living Dead, so they can be breathing. But, if they are re-animated dead there is an implication that they are still somehow, in some way, dead. But, how are they dead? They breathe, they make noise, they move around, they eat (though I noticed they never relieve themselves no matter how many brains they scarf down), and they even think on a very rudimentary, primitive level.

So, how are they in any sense dead? Lack of cellular regeneration? Maybe. I suppose if you can evade them long enough they eventually decay to dust. Beyond that, though, I'm stymied.
They aren't dead. They are UNdead. So the title, land of the dead is not accurate.
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mondo84: Although not really zombies, my favorite zombie-like beings are the Rage-infected from 28 Days Later. I love how they're fierce and move so quickly.

I like that movie (and the sequel) since it's a more grounded take on 'zombies'. People are infected but not actually undead.
Infected zombies are a lot more scary than ex dead zombies.
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