• WolfLink@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    I wanna see a modern Zombie movie with how people would actually react to news of a zombie outbreak given how people behaved during the pandemic

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      • Half the population claims it’s all a hoax and lets zombies bite them because anything else is a violation of their freedoms

      • Large swaths of gun owners take to the streets, and half of them die quickly because they put more money into the number of guns they had or making them tacticool instead of putting rounds through them or sighting them in.

      • It gets overly politicized.

      • The literal collapse of civilization, yet some corners of the government and billionaires are still trying to milk out the last drop of money

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        3 months ago

        Don’t look up was basically this but a meteor instead of zombies. It was honestly kind of a depressing movie lol

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        I actually think it would be good uniting force for a divided country:

        • The “it’s a hoax” portion of the population will simply become zombies
        • The “we love guns” portion of the population can now take their life frustrations out on the zombies
        • The “we need to fix this world” portion of the population will learn to fight too and provide vital aid and supplies to the (likely growing) “we love guns” group
        • The “we need run away from this madness” portion of the population will just hunker down and play on their smartphones

        Either way, everyone kind of wins

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          I think you’re a little off on the “we need to fix this world” guys.

          Although zombie films / TV series lean heavily into the action side of things, that’s just because it’s more entertaining than watching people building things, developing tech, doing scientific research.

          Remember with COVID 19? Huge numbers of people immediately set out to find a cure, inventing and deploying ways to prevent and monitor the spread, creating pop-in treatment centres, etc.

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        You forgot the activists protesting for zombie’s rights to eat our brains

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      Zombies ain’t rea…OH GOD ITS EATING MY FACE…still don’t believe it, he’s just on drugs.

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      28 Days Later had a dinnertable conversation that was exsctly like how people were talking during covid.

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        Isn’t that the “… but then it wasn’t in news reports anymore; it was in our back yards, and coming in the windows…” monologue? Excellent scene.

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      Avenue 5 has a pretty funny scene where a series of skeptical conspiracy theorist types are ignoring a very specific warning, claiming that the people they see dying before their very eyes are an illusion some kind of special effects and each follows to their own death.

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      3 months ago

      In this version, all the zombies are in line for toilet paper outside the grocery store.

      In the sequel, you combine it with The Mummy, where they use the mummy for toilet paper.

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      Feed, by Mira Grant, is fun because it takes place years after a zombie uprising, but in a world where George Romero movies existed, so everyone knew what to do. It was a catastrophe, but not an apocalypse.

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      3 months ago

      There’s a series called The Bite, it was filmed during earlier quarantine times of the ongoing pandemic and features a bunch of cast from The Good Fight. Is good.

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      Zombie deniers being eaten as they continue to insist it’s a liberal hoax.

      Unrelated but I was thinking if it was a zombie outbreak. And I’m stuck in a retirement home. Am I safe? They can’t bite me, they don’t have teeth

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      I was gonna say Independence Day, for this reason. “Fake news, probably just CHINA! Sad!”