Questions that arise from Zombieland

[ap bikini team]

I read this on another forum. Makes sense

Shelter, along with food and water, is one of the three main essentials absolutely necessary to human life. Just because there's no more room in Hell for the dead, that doesn't mean you no longer need a roof keeping your head dry. So you'd better get busy either finding or building yourself no less than an impenetrable fortress, and stay there until this thing blows over, right?

Not so much.

Putting yourself in a siege situation only works if there's the possibility that the invading force will stop. But you're not dealing with people here. Holding out against an army of people works because people can be reasoned with, they might have to leave to get supplies, or perhaps they'll just weigh the pros and cons of the situation and leave.

Not like zombies.

Zombies don't get bored or impatient, they need nothing to keep them alive (because they're, you know, not) and they're not really known for their logistic prowess: No cons will be weighed here. Food is a pro. You are food. You are there. So there are only pros here. They will wait for you forever. But you will run out of supplies eventually, and every day you stay put in your nigh-invulnerable bunker is another day zombies pile up outside. Zombies aren't a threat because they thin out gradually over time - they're a threat because they ... multiply. Zombies beget zombies beget zombies, and they do their best begetting while scrabbling incessantly at your door for months on end because they can hear you crying inside. All "holing up" in a stationary location does is make the zombies want it more.

It makes them savor you.

Hence the helicopter! lol

[Beckster]

I was watching the extras and deleted scenes from Zombieland. They explained that their zombies weren't "undead" at all, but that the infected people had extremely high fevers, open sores, bloody discharge from all their orifices and a one hell of an appetite. They researched different diseases to get their ideas.

It got me thinking that, actually, this might be a more realistic idea of what the zombie invasion would be. It you think about it... A highly contagious plague that quickly takes over the world.

[Greg Mercer]

I am not a horror movie expert, but I hear a lot from my friend who is. He says that zombies can't swim, so as far as I'm concerned, give me several guns with lots of ammo, a fishing pole, some oars, a desalinization machine, and a good seaworthy vessel...preferably a medium sized live-in boat. Launch the vessel on the ocean and say, "Fuck you zombies!"

[cody]

I am not a horror movie expert, but I hear a lot from my friend who is. He says that zombies can't swim, so as far as I'm concerned, give me several guns with lots of ammo, a fishing pole, some oars, a desalinization machine, and a good seaworthy vessel...preferably a medium sized live-in boat. Launch the vessel on the ocean and say, "Fuck you zombies!"

That would be the over all smart thing to do granted. However it's really hard to kill zombies with a chainsaw or ski-doo with a MG42 attached to it when your on a boat. I mean the ski-doo with an MG42 attached to it would ridiculous on a boat and You wouldn't really be getting the full "experience" of a zombie invasion while being a mile off shore. The cutting down zombie tales are priceless. Something to tell the youngsters later on you know?

[Joe]

If zombies can't swin does that mean they can drown or does that mean they'll just float around until they hit land?

[Brian]

If zombies can't swin does that mean they can drown or does that mean they'll just float around until they hit land?

They don't need air, so they'll just float around until they hit land.