re: #230 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Seriously speaking, filming a group of people having a conversation on bicycles while they’re carrying weapons is a lot harder than filming them walking around carrying weapons and anguishing over their next move.

Plus, there’s no drama if a zombie approaches the Hero, and the Hero escapes by jumping on his bike and pedaling away as fast as possible.

Now, if the zombies were on bikes, too, it might be more interesting.

Zombie movies rely on people doing stupid things.

Look at the Dawn of the Dead remake. A bunch of survivors in a mall across the street from a guy who is trapped in a gun store and is an expert sniper. If they were smart, they could have spent every day culling zombies to the point they could arrange a quick expedition to join up with the guy. Instead, they piss around for weeks while the guy is starving, only to launch a half-assed rescue which gets most of them killed and end up on the run.

It still gets me when soldiers in zombie movies say “THEY’RE NOT GOING DOWN” and blaze away all their ammo on full auto. The zombie genre is firmly embedded in pop culture. The decision to quit wasting ammo on full auto and switch to head shots would kick in after the first couple shots.

I do admit that I’ve probably over thought this topic.