Army of the Dead
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I can't believe how closely it follows the plot to aliens, even down to the things some characters wear.
Not just me that picked up on that last night then, down to the heli/dropship similarity near the end.
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Ive got to be honest I wasnt sure if I kept dropping off and missing bits. Also what was with the flash back/forwards. I couldnt tell if something was about to happen, had happened or if things went differently they could happen. Still, I was completely off my face.
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Honestly what complete rubbish.
The plot was terrible on so many levels.
-Why they hell would the American government transport something like that without proper failsafe's in the event of something going wrong. It is just madness.
-Seeing a chopper spill its guts literally only to magically come to life when needed.
-The robot zombie what the hell was that all about?
-When the guy got the queens head why didn't he just go through the entrance that was literally a few feet from him?
-The women they tried to save simply disappears during and when the chopper crashes. The dudes death was totally not worth it and his daughter lost a father because someone women wanted to go into Vegas for some coin. I litterally rewound the scene because I thought I missed something.
-The guy who survived the nuke I can let that one slip as he was in a massive safe but how come he managed to walk miles, steal a car, drive even more miles and rent a private jet without turning? LOL
-Why they hell would the American government transport something like that without proper failsafe's in the event of something going wrong. It is just madness.
-Seeing a chopper spill its guts literally only to magically come to life when needed.
-The robot zombie what the hell was that all about?
-When the guy got the queens head why didn't he just go through the entrance that was literally a few feet from him?
-The women they tried to save simply disappears during and when the chopper crashes. The dudes death was totally not worth it and his daughter lost a father because someone women wanted to go into Vegas for some coin. I litterally rewound the scene because I thought I missed something.
-The guy who survived the nuke I can let that one slip as he was in a massive safe but how come he managed to walk miles, steal a car, drive even more miles and rent a private jet without turning? LOL
that one at least has a couple of possibilities, firstly that the limited radiation dose received by the guy slowed the effect of the turning, thats one possible explanation, another possible explanation might be that when you see him look at the wound you can see that the bite isnt a deep one, not a full bite so to speak, maybe as it was a bite which didnt penetrate the skin too deeply not enough of the bacteria was entered into his bloodstream to create a rapid turn and the reduced amount of bacteria meant that it took longer for it to spread within him and turn him
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Are you writing the sequel
.Are you writing the sequel
Lol, nah, I'm not a good enough writer to be hired by film companies, just looking at possible scenarios that could realistically explain the oddities about the films happenings within the realm of feasibility.
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Have to say, the 'Queen' scrubs up rather well. 
Well there is speculation of time-travel, multiverse etc. If any of this is true and people think the current plot is flawed, we are in for a treat.
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I swear I kept thinking Vasquesz when I saw the bird with the bandana unloading on the undead.
But couldn't make the link at the time.
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scene where they have to pass hibernating zombies = sleeping aliens in fusion reactor; bio weapon head = burke getting the face hugger; fusion plant exploding = nuke bombing; broken helicopter = bishop flying the dropship down; and the helicopter not being there at the end couldn't be closer to the same alien scene - all that was missing was "get away from her you bitch!"
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All the little bits and bobs, like the robots, UFOs, 'timeloop' corpses and the alien blood lead me to believe that there are going to be a few more movies and **** is going to get very weird.
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I just remembered this had a long bit in it were it looked like I had about 6 dead pixels that kept coming back to life. It was one of the most depressing things about this film.
Im still not sure if they are dead or just cant show certain colours but its bugging me to hell and back.
Im still not sure if they are dead or just cant show certain colours but its bugging me to hell and back.
But are these pixels intentional? Are these pixels actually trying to foreshadow something? It is a graphical hitch because of the timp loop?... so many questions with so many possible ridiculous answers.
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In movie land who knows...a time loop in The Matrix was indicated by a black cat walking past, perhaps in this part of movieland its dead pixels
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They were definitely intentional, some arthouse crap I assume but **** did it annoy me I spent the rest of the film looking for dead pixels.
I just happened to be nearer the screen when I first saw it, it could have been like that the whole film I just couldnt see it before. Not there now.
Man, I thought it was my iPad Pro as I watched the film on that and my TV yesterday. During the safecracking scene when Dieter has his head upto the door and is listening, there clearly is a dead pixel, which I thought was an immovable speck of dirt on my ipad screen. That was the only bit that caught me out.
What a dreadful film though. Going in, I knew little about it apart from Zombies and Batista - it sounded like a great formula. I fired up the film and was confused how it could be 2.5hrs and then it was downhill from there. From the dreadful vaseline smeared edges of the visuals, to a guy who can survive a nuke whilst trapped in a safe (ok thats somewhat believable) and crawl out into a nuked landscape and not get irradiated...I forced myself to finish watching the film.
Every character was just so flawed in their logical decision making that it hurts the more I think of it
I'd had enough by the point they were entering through the containers and stopped watching but technically if it was a smaller yield airburst weapon it is feasible - the radiation zone would be limited to a few 100s of metres and only 15-20% of people exposed would die because of it in most cases taking weeks or months.
EDIT: Just watched the scene - clearly shows a cruise missile type nuclear weapon either hitting the ground or exploding close enough to generate significant radioactive conditions in the general vicinity.
For the likely type of weapon used in a ground burst scenario:
"Radiation radius (500 rem): 1.94 km (11.8 km²)
500 rem ionizing radiation dose; likely fatal, in about 1 month; 15% of survivors will eventually die of cancer as a result of exposure."
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