SCIENCE! Movie: Day of the Dead

[Stef]

This is the first of the ...Of The Dead saga that hits on SCIENCE! and also the first that actually goes to a freakin' island at the end like they should.

As in the previous two movies, the black character is the most capable and least likely to die.

So in this movie, zombies are shown to have sentience, memories, and the ability to learn! Bub was about as adorable as a non-knitted zombie can be! But if zombies remember behaviors of their previous life, how do they not remember relationships?

[Drooling Iguana]

And if they don't eat for nurishment, then where the hell do they get the energy to keep moving?

[mario]

Maybe if the person they were in a relationship with were also a zombie, they'd be able to explore past memories without that pesky "bite first" reflex kicking in.

Or maybe they do remember, and that black guy in the apartment in Dawn of the Dead bit his wife in the neck to give her a hickey.

[Stef]

DI, the food thing bothered me as well. Like, if they're just firing synapses, are they somehow living off of their own body? Can they only survive a set amount of time before they consume some energy source that the scientists had not found yet?

[mario]

I had surmised that the magic radiation from Venus mentioned in the first movie in passing might be providing the zombies with the energy they need to keep those synapses firing. Kind of a weak explanation, but the other movies didn't even seem to try and figure out what made the zombie come to life.

[Apathy]

The way I've always seen it is that they run on the most basic few instincts (except apparently the desire to breed), irrespective of how useful they actually are. They kill anything that isn't them, then they try and eat it. Whether or not they get anything from the actual eating is moot. Just like in Day, the mad SCIENTIST! removes the stomach but the zombie still wants to take a chunk out of him.

[mario]

The query we were trying to resolve was how zombies can keep surviving if they don't eat for nourishment. Where are they getting the energy they need to keep their brains and muscles moving? I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest solar power.

[Apathy]

Wrong kinda green on the skin, I'd say.

I think it's got to be sheer stubborness/idiocy. They're too stubbon to die or too stupid to realise they're dead.

[mario]

Someone ought to educate them!

[Hamelin]

With violence?

[Drooling Iguana]

That's always the best way.

[Apathy]

I'd say with SCIENCE! but the two are often interchangeable.

[mario]

No, SCIENCE! just taught Bub how to use a gun and kill humans more efficiently. Luckily for us, he only seems to target jerks.

[Apathy]

Yeah, that was definitely some quality training.

Poor guy was really upset when Dr Frankenstein died. Which was a surprisingly intelligent nickname considering most people assume Frankenstein is the monster and not the creator. Especially when you look at the smarts of the surviving army guys...

[mario]

The scientists were calling him Frankenstein just as much as the army guys. In fact, the scientists probably came up with the name, since they were more familiar with his zombie-gutting experiments than the soldiers, and more disapproving of them.

[Apathy]

Yeah, but it just doesn't seem like a particularly good idea for them to be calling him that considering the tension that already existed. And they did actually refer to him by his name occasionally. I don't think the soldiers did once.

[mario]

Did the soldiers refer to any non-soldiers by name? They seemed pretty disdainful of the entire group of scientists, as well as the whirlybird pilot.

[Stef]

Yes. Speaking of which, does anyone who is NOT in a ...Of The Dead movie refer to those things as whirlybirds?

[mario]

We both did, just now.

Hey look, our old friend T-rex has something to say about zombies as well!

[Doom Shroom]

Haha, I saw that about 5 minutes before I checked this thread.

"O no, zombies! My day is ruined!"