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My inability to watch most "zombie" movies

Tnu1138Tnu1138
edited 2011-07-28 12:29:55 in Media
It just bugs me. I can't watch them. They just set off this ticker from a semantic perspective and a mythological one that just screams YOU KEEP USING THAT WORD!
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  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    But they almost never use that word in zombie movies.
  • Tnu1138Tnu1138
    then why even use it? i'm sure there's a much better word.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
  • Tnu1138Tnu1138
    Yes but my beef with it is completely different from theirs.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    edited 2011-07-28 12:44:58
    You can change. You can.
    It's just a meta-reference as to how the word is never used in zombie-flick movies.
  • Tnu1138Tnu1138
    near used?
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    28 days later
  • RaddRadd
    edited 2011-07-28 12:42:19
    Ne'er used. And you're a hypocrite.
  • Tnu1138Tnu1138
    can't watch it they keep using that word. Besides it's such a ripoff of I Am Legend
  • The_EdgeThe_Edge
    Mr. The Edge goes to Washington
    Omega Men is a ripoff of I Am Legend!
  • Tnu1138Tnu1138
    Well it is.
  • The_EdgeThe_Edge
    Mr. The Edge goes to Washington
    "Get your hands off me you damn dirty Albinos!"
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    No, it is not. Adaptations are not ripoffs. And I Am Legend doesn't have anything in common with 28 days later beyond the post-apocalyptic setting.
  • The_EdgeThe_Edge
    Mr. The Edge goes to Washington
    I know it's an adaptation. A pretty good one too or at least I think so.
  • Tnu1138Tnu1138
    edited 2011-07-28 12:48:51
    actually it's the Ur Example of the entire genre. Romero based his work off of Mathesons.

    I didn't care for it. didn't resemble the book at all. Last Man On Earth was better.
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    So, what "word" do they keep on using anyway?

    Zombie? what's so bad about that?

    Also, I Am Legend is about Vampires, not zombies
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    It's mutants, silly woman. 
  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2011-07-28 12:49:53
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    ^^ Tnu is irritated, because movie zombies are not the same as real zombies.
  • Tnu1138Tnu1138
    because the term zombie is not applicable. and the modern state of the genre owes itself to I Am Legend. NOTLD was partly based on said film.
  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2011-07-28 12:51:34
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    I think that after 40 years of zombie movies, the word can safely be said to have shifted in meaning.
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    @Mutants that need to sleep during the day and are strong
  • Tnu1138Tnu1138
    then what do we call zombies genius?
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    We can call them zombies?  A word is allowed to have more than one meaning.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Clocky: Still mutants. Just mutants that act like vampires. 

    :p
  • vacasamavacasama
    Woki mit deim Popo.
    ^^ Ghouls, vampires, or undead?
  • Tnu1138Tnu1138
    here's the thing for all you  who say  "it's not based on I Am Legend because I Am Legend is about vampires" the modern "zombie" as Romero depicted it which he didn't call such by the way. Is based on Mathesons vampires so yeah by extension 28 Days is based on I Am Legend. But seriously is ther eno better word then zombie to describe these things? Ther ehas to be a better word.
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    @Juan: Just mutants who act like vampires?

    ._.

    And 28 days is just a virus that acts like Zombism X3
  • ShichibukaiShichibukai
    Thane of rum-guzzling and necromancy

    How about calling them... mentally retarded cannibals?

  • Tnu1138Tnu1138
    no they act more like a mix of dark ages vampire myths and Arabian ghoul myths. You don't see them following a Bokor do you? No vodou involved?
  • The_EdgeThe_Edge
    Mr. The Edge goes to Washington

    Mentally Retarded Cannibals. That's the name of Diesel's new band.

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