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Doom_Art
03/05/24 2:51:09 PM
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Like you get infected and lose your mind almost instantly

Infecting a city makes sense because everyone is just kinda close together

but like

there's countryside and shit

and the zombies aren't exactly intelligent

and they starve after a few weeks

so basically I'm imagining a bunch of zombies running around in Cambridge then a few wandering into the bush and getting mauled by animals or dying of exposure

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Cornmuffins
03/05/24 2:54:41 PM
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The birds fly around and drop blood soaked eyeballs on people

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Doom_Art
03/05/24 2:54:58 PM
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*the infected



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Doom_Art
03/05/24 2:55:17 PM
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Cornmuffins posted...
The birds fly around and drop blood soaked eyeballs on people
i like the movie well enough but that was so stupid

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NeonOPPAl
03/05/24 2:57:41 PM
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They ignored the lockdown and didnt stand 6 feet away from people

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BucketCat
03/05/24 2:58:59 PM
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it takes place in England which normally gets a good amount of rain.
so when it rains, the rainwater collects any infected blood, remains, etc. which then evaporates and turns into rain that rains onto normal people

also, infected can die in a river or something, and that can contaminate water supplies. even someone getting infected blood on them, then taking a shower can potentially put the virus in the water supply

then there's no knowing whether animals can get infected. for all we know, some infected person got bit by a mosquito, then that mosquito bit a normal person and that infected them somehow.

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MC_BatCommander
03/05/24 3:00:58 PM
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Wasn't the water contaminated? Someone gets a drop in their eye and is gone within seconds

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ROBANN_88
03/05/24 3:00:59 PM
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Doom_Art posted...
there's countryside and shit

and the zombies aren't exactly intelligent

and they starve after a few weeks

it's not Texas, the villages aren't 4 months walk apart

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ROBANN_88
03/05/24 3:02:42 PM
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BucketCat posted...
then there's no knowing whether animals can get infected. for all we know, some infected person got bit by a mosquito, then that mosquito bit a normal person and that infected them somehow.

the bird didn't get infected.
i believe they specifically called out that the animals don't, when they came across a bunch of wild horses, but who knows if that includes insects

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Kradek
03/05/24 3:04:13 PM
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28 Weeks Later literally opens up with people thinking they're safe in the countryside, infected finding them, and them having to run.

You underestimate the determination and ground a being without fatigue driven solely by hunger/seeking to infect others can cover.

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SpawnShadow
03/05/24 3:07:00 PM
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People's behavior during COVID put to rest any notion that a zombie plague would ever be contained. Folks would do everything in their power to spread it far and wide, just because they don't like fancy-schmancy experts telling them to stay home, get vaccinated, and wear masks.
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WrkHrdPlayHrdr
03/05/24 3:07:26 PM
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In every other zombie movie it's a slow burning virus that takes time to kill you if you get bit. That leaves ample time for people to try to hide the bite and travel around.

You're right though in that it's different with this one. You're infected in seconds so there's no time to travel around to different areas. The whole infection would have had to radiate out from that lab. Because again, people didn't have time to get bit and take a flight home starting their own clusters of infection.

They probably didn't think much of it, or they wanted us to think that 28 days was enough time for the infection to spread across the country.

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mach25687
03/05/24 3:12:50 PM
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SpawnShadow posted...
People's behavior during COVID put to rest any notion that a zombie plague would ever be contained. Folks would do everything in their power to spread it far and wide, just because they don't like fancy-schmancy experts telling them to stay home, get vaccinated, and wear masks.
This and the movie don't look up show us that maybe not the majority but very lot will do stupid things in this type of scenario.

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party_animal07
03/05/24 3:16:34 PM
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SpawnShadow posted...
People's behavior during COVID put to rest any notion that a zombie plague would ever be contained. Folks would do everything in their power to spread it far and wide, just because they don't like fancy-schmancy experts telling them to stay home, get vaccinated, and wear masks.
I think about this now when some kind of virus or contagion pops up in media. Reality is a motherfucker.

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Makeveli_lives
03/05/24 3:18:53 PM
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SpawnShadow posted...
People's behavior during COVID put to rest any notion that a zombie plague would ever be contained. Folks would do everything in their power to spread it far and wide, just because they don't like fancy-schmancy experts telling them to stay home, get vaccinated, and wear masks.


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Prismsblade
03/05/24 3:23:29 PM
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Its not that odd tbh. They could get to the country side eventually if enough spread out and started walking aimlessly from the city straight ahead in all direction. By law of averages at least a few are going to strike a town.

Idk how far away it is where this movie takes place but if the people are off guard then a random stray could catch a rando and start the cycle from there.

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DrizztLink
03/05/24 3:25:56 PM
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SpawnShadow posted...
People's behavior during COVID
I'm not sure that tracks as a comparison

I mean, in one case you have these mindless animals getting people killed left and right, and the other is a zombie movie.

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Foppe
03/05/24 3:49:50 PM
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WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...
In every other zombie movie it's a slow burning virus that takes time to kill you if you get bit. That leaves ample time for people to try to hide the bite and travel around.

You're right though in that it's different with this one. You're infected in seconds so there's no time to travel around to different areas. The whole infection would have had to radiate out from that lab. Because again, people didn't have time to get bit and take a flight home starting their own clusters of infection.

They probably didn't think much of it, or they wanted us to think that 28 days was enough time for the infection to spread across the country.
I mean, if you walk straight from Cambridge towards London, then it will take you ~16 hours getting there.
Here we most likely got infected infecting a majority of Cambridge, and then the infected started to move away from Cambridge in all directions, infecting everybody they met.

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mybbqrules
03/05/24 8:42:48 PM
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*because the plot needed it to.

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But in seriousness, humans can survive for almost a month with no food, but can't go more than a week without water.

Do infected drink water? They're never shown to. Maybe it's like rabies and they develop a natural aversion to it.

But in the movie it's specifically stated that their Achilles heel is starving to death, so we'll go with that.

In a month an infected (or pack of infected) could theoretically cover a lot of ground, drawn to sounds or movement in the distance.

Plus, what about the law enforcement, military, and medical personnel from other surrounding locations who (as part of the rescue effort) go towards the outbreak attempting to get it under control? The infection could have worked it's way down supply chains.

The infected would be constantly coming in contact with uninfected individuals to add to their ranks. It's not farfetched for it to spread all across the island.

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Strider102
03/05/24 8:48:19 PM
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Early on people didn't know what was going on, it just seemed like random acts of violence. As it began happening more and more people started getting scared and desperate, which led them to encountering the infected.

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KiwiTerraRizing
03/05/24 8:52:05 PM
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Be a good name for a dude waiting to see if his side piece is pregnant.

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Vyrulisse
03/05/24 8:55:07 PM
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SpawnShadow posted...
People's behavior during COVID put to rest any notion that a zombie plague would ever be contained. Folks would do everything in their power to spread it far and wide, just because they don't like fancy-schmancy experts telling them to stay home, get vaccinated, and wear masks.
Sadly true.

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Link_of_time
03/05/24 9:00:20 PM
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To this day, I still don't why this movie is so well praised. I found it pretty boring outside "those" moments, and definitely didn't find it scary in the slightest.
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Strider102
03/05/24 9:02:12 PM
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SpawnShadow posted...
People's behavior during COVID put to rest any notion that a zombie plague would ever be contained. Folks would do everything in their power to spread it far and wide, just because they don't like fancy-schmancy experts telling them to stay home, get vaccinated, and wear masks.

You'd have a group of people going out and deliberately getting bit and going on social media talking about how nothing is happening and it's all a lie.

You'd have people having someone not infected bite them so they could get on social media talking about how they haven't turned so it's fake.

You'd have infected people before turning talk about how they're eating horse paste and drinking essential oils, saying it's a cure.

All kinds of other things.

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ROBANN_88
03/05/24 9:05:26 PM
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Strider102 posted...
You'd have a group of people going out and deliberately getting bit and going on social media talking about how nothing is happening and it's all a lie.

You'd have people having someone not infected bite them so they could get on social media talking about how they haven't turned so it's fake.

You'd have infected people before turning talk about how they're eating horse paste and drinking essential oils, saying it's a cure.

All kinds of other things.

The world war z book actually covered that, though that put it more to psychological issues than TikTok fame chasers

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Prismsblade
03/05/24 9:31:59 PM
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Link_of_time posted...
To this day, I still don't why this movie is so well praised. I found it pretty boring outside "those" moments, and definitely didn't find it scary in the slightest.
I believe it was one of the first horror movies with super fast and aggressive zombies(at least compared to most others at the time) is why it stood out and impressed people.

Same for WWZ that cranked it up to 11.

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Irony
03/05/24 9:43:11 PM
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I imagine the plot point of the sequel where there are asymptomatic people was a thing

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HornyLevel
03/05/24 10:11:05 PM
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Wasn't the plot of 28 Weeks Later basically an explanation?

The mother was an asymptomatic carrier and in the end, the son was too and spread it to France. It's been a very long time since I've seen the 2nd one, so I may be totally off.

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Null_Gain
03/05/24 10:11:14 PM
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Irony posted...
I imagine the plot point of the sequel where there are asymptomatic people was a thing

Even worse. It has young children in a horror movie main cast which is a guarantee they will be terrible in some way, shape or form.

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Robot2600
03/05/24 10:39:17 PM
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HornyLevel posted...
Wasn't the plot of 28 Weeks Later basically an explanation?

The mother was an asymptomatic carrier and in the end, the son was too and spread it to France. It's been a very long time since I've seen the 2nd one, so I may be totally off.

this.

eventually insects would be able to carry it around as well. it doesnt really matter as it's so infectious.

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Smashingpmkns
03/05/24 11:08:14 PM
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Isn't there a whole ass movie afterwards that shows the virus has spread

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Compsognathus
03/05/24 11:56:48 PM
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Covid showing how bad society is at actually handling pandemics aside, the infection from the 28 franchise really doesn't hold up well from an outbreak perspective. It's still effectively a contact infection, which is probably the worst way to spread and it shows symptoms almost immediately and extremely obviously. That's the worst possible case for a widespread outbreak. What made COVID so dangerous wasn't that it was exceedingly and overwhelmingly deadly. It was that for a great many of people, it wasn't. And that it could spread through the air or surfaces. You had people unknowingly spreading it around. Or people who knew they had it but didn't take it seriously because it wasn't more than a cold to them. Even the most idiotic, anti-science, anti-vax fuckwad would take an infection that instantly turned someone into a mindless homicidal rage monster extremely seriously and nobody is unknowingly spreading it.

It would spread quickly in a congested area but once a barrier/perimeter got set up, it'd be basically stopped. It's not crossing any natural barriers like rivers, mountains or the like either. So even if the UK was exceedingly negligent, it's not leaving England.

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Amocat
03/06/24 12:12:09 AM
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Its the people running from the spread but tire out or then dont know where else to go as they run

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ROBANN_88
03/06/24 3:50:53 AM
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Compsognathus posted...
So even if the UK was exceedingly negligent, it's not leaving England.

Well yeah, that is exactly what happened in the movie
It never left England, Europe was safe from it, until the infected asymptomatic kid was brought over by helicopter in the second movie

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