I went to see Dawn of the Dead on Monday night. As usual when I watch a
survival action movie, it occurs to me how people in movies are stupid seem completely incompetent at surviving
Is it just me but in almost every new horror flick, people? They go get their friends without going to get weapons, ammo and a proper vehicle (you call shotgun, I call TANK). It just seems that surviving is important enough that you don't want to make a half assed plan (or usually no other plan than run and hope for the best). After all, if you are in a supermarket, it's not like food is an issue!
Granted, you might forget things and not think of others, but it seems that you should talk, plan, talk some more, plan some more, go over plan, try plan, rehearse, be paranoid, discuss plan more, get into fight about being paranoid, screw the others and practice shooting because you know you are right, get fit, quit smoking (you don’t want to have to outrun zombies with a lung falling off, especially since now apparently they are faster, the fuckers (and may I just point how wrong that is? Slow zombies are just way more terrifying)), practice fighting, practice running everyday, plan some more, run some more, decide to never leave because dying in supermarket is better then being eaten by zombies. Change your mind and drop that cigarette you're holding. Pull up your pants.
Anyway, my point is:
THEY NEVER SEEM TO PLAN ENOUGH.
THEY NEVER SEEM TO BE CAREFULL ENOUGH.
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When a girl of your team (yes a team. Zombies are another team. They are the bad guys, you gotta win) decides to go out without warning anyone, possibly threatening everyone's life by doing so to save A DOG, you don't go after her. Screw her. She's too dumb anyway and has poor emotional control therefore she shouldn't be there when we try to repopulate the earth, she has bad genes. Plus she'll probably put the group at risk some other time since she'll have to go back (probably convincing her boyfriend to go with her since he's blinded by the boobs in his eyes) because she forgot her makeup.
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Ultimately, what this means and where I am getting to, is although my friends tell me I just like whining after I go see a movie, (which isn't true at ALL, I just whine when it's obviously stupid because I like to discuss it. It doesn't mean that I think the movie is bad) is that in the end, I'd probably have a better chance of surviving because I think things through. The reason I do that? Because I am a gamer. Tabletop and videogames. So I have "lived" it all before. Hell I've seen worst then zombies, I've played Silent Hill. Many times.
People who say video games are bad, a waste of time or too violent do not understand what is at stake. It's merely preparation for the inevitable, since you need a gamer in each group of survivors to make their chances of survival higher. Gamers will manage.
Next time your mom tells you not to play, tell her you won't save her when the time comes. (You still live at home? Are you 18? NO??! What are you doing here, this is a 18+ site! Go check barbies.com)
Still wondering where I am getting at? It's been said before and you better believe it: GEEKS SHALL RULE THE EARTH. One day. So that blonde girl that I once argued with because she said kids shouldn't watch horror movies and after I said that I did as a kid, she looked at me up and down and said: "well you aren't exactly normal, are you". Well screw her. She can go back for her makeup. I hope she brings her boyfriend too. <snicker>
Gamers of the world unite <shakes head violently while making the devil sign and listening to Silent Hill I score>
*laughs*
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p.s. While rereading this, it occurred to me that zombies are the best fitness plan I could ever dream of. Eh. Just saying.
