 Originally Posted by Doc
I agree.....
Then you are both wrong.
What you call the fresh factor is seriously flawed on almost every count.
Sure, a recently reanimated zombie flesh eater*, pending cause of death, might be slightly more agile than it would be after several months, or years, of hosting the virus, mainly due to seasonal effects and general "wear and tear" as opposed to lack of nourishment or similar, but there could be no such "believable" case within the limitations of the storytelling universe for them "running at you like all hell".
Ever.
All you need to remember is that in every single case of reanimation, without exception, ONLY basic motor function is restored. Simple. Basic motor function is what we are ALL born with, so god knows (inherent memory?) how so soon after reanimation they could even walk, never mind do the hundred meter dash!!!!
This ridiculous "running corpse" scenario of late (since the DOTD remake) is all easily explained by Zack Snyders total misunderstanding regarding the "creatures" featured in 28 days later and the actual definition of a zombie flesh eater, which are the "creatures" featured in Dawn of the Dead.
Danny Boyle pulled off his "running lunatics" (to great effect!) in 28 days later by NOT using zombies, or even zombie flesh eater's, and instead using real living people who were simply infected, rather than having them become infected, die, and then reanimate.
Zack Snyder unfortunately missed the part where these running "creatures" DID NOT DIE, and mistakenly interpreted them for actual zombie flesh eaters which could run at great speed.
For all it was worth ... and not long after, Zack Snyder went on to remake Dracula, but cast Spider Man in the lead role as the count!!!!
ROUGH TIMELINE:
2002: 28 DAYS LATER is released, is a worldwide smash (=$$$$!) and features living humans, who are infected, who are NOT dead, who did NOT reanimate, who are NOT zombie flesh eaters, who can run fast.
2003: Zack Snyder watches 28 DAYS LATER while working on a rewrite of cult classic DAWN OF THE DEAD, the "definitive" zombie flesh eater movie.
2004: Zack Snyder remakes DAWN OF THE DEAD but doesn't think anyone will mind if he uses the "zombies" from 28 DAYS LATER because they will probably scare the desensitized MTV generation kids more, plus its an old film and probably needs updating, plus zombies can probably run anyways because if you want to get technical, corpses don't actually reanimate anyways and zombies ain't even real mo fo!.
2004 to CURRENT: Lot's of people arrive here @ HPOTD and appear to be either plain dumb or just confused as fcuk!
*We are talking about zombie flesh eaters, right?
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