Zombie Apocolypse

[Fe 26]

Putting that aside, I don't understand why they don't just take the Independence Day approach in these zombie movies/shows and just drop a fucking H-bomb on the infected city. Just kill everyone and fry the infection out of existence.

pretty sure that is what they did at the end of night of the living dead 2 or something.

[Doc Holliday]

Return of the Living Dead, you uncultured slob.

[No One]

I was going to correct you and say Dawn is the proper sequel, but holy shit Return is awesome. Either should be acceptable.

[YellerDog]

Return > the Romero movies....

[Gohron]

Return > the Romero movies....

Return of the Living Dead ruined a good portion of my childhood. I saw parts of it when I was fairly little (5 or 6) and I never fully recovered until my mid-teens. The zombie they strap to the table who tells them why they want to eat brains stuck with me in particular. When I finally got over my fear of zombies (and monsters, I was never scared of things like ghosts), I became obsessed with the genre for awhile.

Edit: It's funny that Return of the Living Dead scared me so much, being as ridiculous of a movie that it was, but anything like that can be scary for a kid. Earnest Scared Stupid scared the living shit out of me (though I was only 3 or 4) and many of my friends the same age report a similar experience.

[Brisco Bold]

When did this topic become an accepted icebreaker? That's what I want to know.

You know, the type of topic people bring up on dates, casual conversation with friends, etc. "So how would you deal with the zombie apocalypse?" Seriously. In the 1950's, did people trade strategies for dealing with the red menace? In the 1960's, did people trade bomb shelter tips? During the Kennedy administration, were relationships preconditioned on mutual approval of each other's nuclear winter survival strategies? In the same way relationships today are preconditioned on a careful review of your proposed mate's zombie survival plan?

Adam Carolla had a good answer to the whole zombie apocalypse question, and it's one that I agree with. Paraphrased: the way you survive a zombie apocalypse, like any other apocalypse, is you don't survive. That's why it's an apocalypse! Everybody dies.

Putting that aside, I don't understand why they don't just take the Independence Day approach in these zombie movies/shows and just drop a fucking H-bomb on the infected city. Just kill everyone and fry the infection out of existence.

"No more half-measures, Walt."

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I grew up near the Pickering Nuclear Power Plant. In grade school we had to do drills to prepare for any some sort of nuclear accident. There were pills to take, procedures to follow.During Gulf War I, my grade four teacher shared with us the (inaccurate) news that terrorists had a list of Western targets, and our power plant was among them. So, for years, we'd play the what-if game about nuclear disaster scenarios that resembled, I guess, what happened in Japan last year.

[Joust Williams]

I'd go apeshit

[icarusfall]

Oh god. You guys. This fucking thread.

[Fe 26]

Return > the Romero movies....

was that the one with the sexy punk zombie bitch dancing naked?

[Fe 26]

Return of the Living Dead ruined a good portion of my childhood. I saw parts of it when I was fairly little (5 or 6) and I never fully recovered until my mid-teens. The zombie they strap to the table who tells them why they want to eat brains stuck with me in particular. When I finally got over my fear of zombies (and monsters, I was never scared of things like ghosts), I became obsessed with the genre for awhile.

Edit: It's funny that Return of the Living Dead scared me so much, being as ridiculous of a movie that it was, but anything like that can be scary for a kid. Earnest Scared Stupid scared the living shit out of me (though I was only 3 or 4) and many of my friends the same age report a similar experience.

It was maximum overdrive and alien for me. But it was my own damn fault. I'd rent this stuff when I was like 9 or 10 at the mom and pop video store by walmart. Watched all the toxic crusader and some classic godzilla movies this way too.