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About the zombies "popping right up", so the normal cycle of death doesn't apply so much. From the moment respiration and the heart stops oxygen stops getting to the brain. Ever seen the damage that can be done by a trauma victim being oxygen-deprived, even if for a very few minutes? Except in cases where extreme hypothermia is involved massive brain damage invariably results.
Yes, the reanimation mechanism somehow makes the zombie brain independent of the need for oxygen, but only those parts of the brain that the virus is actively maintaining would be protected from the ravages of oxygen deprivation. That brings us back to the selectivity required to have mindless predatory automatons have full command of their bodies making disbelief-suspension incredibly hard. The zombie might have sprung to their feet within seconds of death, but brain damage WOULD still be a part of the death-process.
Another thing, equilibrium is inarguably based on a fluid-centric sort of gyroscope in the inner ear. I can buy that the zombie virus/method of reanimation could somehow jury-rig a "bypass" for this system, but one that functions as well as a living human being's involuntary biological systems?
Without good balance running, jumping and timed pounces are impossible.
Put another way. Tell me there's ANYONE in the whole wide world that didn't go "What the HELL?" during the scene when the legless zombie in Dawn '04 smoothly hand-over-hands his way along the pipes in the parking garage, takes aim, and drops down perfectly on its hapless human victim's back?
That was an ambush maneuver that a living human being would have been extremely hard-pressed to get right in one attempt. My suspension of disbelief gives me problems when Chuck Norris and Steven Segall pull those sort of stunts, and I know both of them have had benefit of extensive cultivation of their natural coordination and other supplementary skills. Even taking away the elements of pain and fatigue it would still take the capacity to realize that a silent attack from above has benefits that scrambling across the ground in the shortest path possible to the human flesh does not.
The problem with runners isn't just with their running. It's really that the director/script-writers never stop at simple straight line running. They always have them leaping, timing their physical attacks for optimal effect, and other varied feats of dexterity. Their capabilities don't generally stop there either, as often the runners display a predatory cunning that outright declares their ability to premeditate and use their environment to best advantage.
I agree with all the prior arguments made about what runners take away from the genre, as well as agreeing that if a plotline was crafted that amended the flaws in the running zombies we've seen so far then it could make for an entertaining film. But as they are runners offer little but grim, hopeless, extremely fast-paced and haphazard action. Survival horror at its best is much more than that.
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