Saw 'Dawn of the Dead' tonight. It was ok, for what it was. I was able to make it past the logic-leap of zombies and such, since it's the movie's own 'reality', but there were still some logic issues inherent in the film to me. I mean...sometimes you just have to accept a movie's reality...like a movie where dogs and cats talk, for example. You can't spend the whole movie going dogs don't talk...cats don't talk...dogs don't talk...cat's don't talk... it just doesn't work that way. The movie will never work for you if you think that way. So, I'm going to get past the whole 'zombies' thing.

They don't say how the 'dead' become zombies at the very beginning. They just kind of 'show up'. Now...it's the numbers that bother me in this film . They're suddenly *everywhere*. This doesn't work out for me...here's some things from the movie's 'reality'.

-There are X amount of zombies at the beginning of the movie.
-People bitten by zombies become a zombie.
-People who do not die of zombie bites just die and stay dead.

Now...as I said, the movie does NOT elaborate on how the zombie thing began. They just kind of show up. I don't know how many people die of in the US (or Wisconsin, where the movie was set) in a given time. I'd say that it's about a few thousand people a day. Now, at X time when this all begins I assume everyone who dies becomes a zombie. How many people could that be? For it to become as many people as it became in the movie, it seems that victims would have to become zombies just be HEARING about the zombies. It just happens way too fast, and to too many people. News and information just gets out too fast in the world now. After the first half-dozen times of this happening it'd be all over everywhere and measures could be taken.

Also, there's a time in the movie where zombies are said to have (offscreen) overrun a military fort that's acting as a refugee camp. I have no clue how this could happen. I'd assume at a military base there'd be automatic weapons and trained personnel. Also, TANKS and PLANES, dangit. The zombies travel in packs and they'd be ripe for carpet bombing. They exhibit NO teamwork, intelligence, or ingenuity. They just skulk about looking for regular humans. They don't band together to tip over the buses at the end of the movie. They only worry about getting at the humans inside.

Now, the movie ends on a kind of negative tone...I think it wants the viewer to think that most of the country has been overrun by the buggers. Sorry...I think that with the US Navy alone...with aircraft carriers, subs, and other vessels at sea (and safe from the zombies) there'd still be too much of a resistance to these things. These ships have NUCLEAR weapons, afterall...though napalm would be enough to destroy zombies.

In any case, humanity would DEFINITELY survive. Too many people in too large of a space. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Obviously, the very premise is implausible, but these are the kinds of things I thought about during the movie.

Time for the /crazy tag I think. :)