credburn posted:

I heard this term on Comedy Bang Bang and assumed it was referring to some character. What's a Nepo Baby?

I fuckin loved World War Z when it came out. I was obsessed with zombie poo poo in the years leading up to it, and World War Z kind of came at the very moment that zombies became a pop culture explosion. Looking back, it is what it is, which is about exactly what you might expect it to be, but I will say that for a book that was loosely spun off Max Brooks' previous derpy book, a survival guide about the zombie apocalypse, it was written reasonably well. Far better than most other zombie material that was out at the time and certainly better than the deluge of saturated zombie poo poo that came later.

One thing I really liked about the book was that it came after things like 28 Days Later and the Dawn of the Dead remake, and I was not really a fan of the "fast zombies" thing. World War Z leaned heavily into the slow, moaning, traditional shambling zombie, which made the movie even dumber for adopting the exact opposite kind of zombie, but whatever.

BioEnchanted posted:

While there are aspects of them that have aged poorly, there are some solid humour beats in the Ferenghi episodes of DS9. I'm onto the episode where Zek rewrites the rules of acquisition, and love how the body-guard is written in the episode because he's normally completely stoic, but throughout this episode he's clearly as worried as Quark is about the Nagus' bizarre behaviour and it really helps sell the comedic moments due to him being mostly silent.

mind the walrus posted:

Oh you think I'm that kind-of dumb. Idk man google it.

Lmao I hear this marketing horseshit every few years. There's about 10 different zombie properties which were when they became a "pop culture explosion." It reads like you're trying to sell something, and I have no idea why or to who, but it's like... dude c'mon.

endocriminologist posted:

Are you drunk

HopperUK posted:

The episode with Iggy Pop as Vorta Who Is Sick Of You, and the Federation happily signing away a prisoner of war to his death to get Quark's mum back, is very good indeed.

Baron von Eevl posted:

quote:

the slow, moaning, traditional shambling zombie,

Fish of hemp posted:

We all know the parody zombie, slowly shuffling about with its hands stretched out and moaning brains....brains....

But what exactly is it parodying? I've never seen that kind of zombie in a movie.

Fish of hemp posted:

We all know the parody zombie, slowly shuffling about with its hands stretched out and moaning brains....brains....

But what exactly is it parodying? I've never seen that kind of zombie in a movie.

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

What I find wild - and correct me if I am wrong - is that Resident Evil of all things is the source of viral zombies. Yeah, you have the implication that it might be a virus in the Romero films, but even if it is, it clearly works differently since the main method of transmission is air or something and everyone is infected already, since they all turn no matter the cause of death. RE seems to be the first mainstream work I'm aware of where all the modern rules of a viral zombie plague are in effect; the virus is spread by being bitten and only those infected turn.

Mr Interweb posted:

why DID something like TWD pop off exactly? i figured zombies were passe long before it came out.

Mr Interweb posted:

why DID something like TWD pop off exactly? i figured zombies were passe long before it came out.

Toshimo posted:

It was RE and House of the Dead (released the same year). HotD specifically was cited as influential for the 28 Days Later franchise.

Mr Interweb posted:

why DID something like TWD pop off exactly? i figured zombies were passe long before it came out.

Mr Interweb posted:

why DID something like TWD pop off exactly? i figured zombies were passe long before it came out.

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

Weren't the HOTD zambambos made by like a machine and didn't actually have the ability to infect people? I barely remember the original game, mostly played HOTD2.

Media that did not age poorly: House of the Dead 2. SUFFER LIKE G DID is the greatest line in history.

Henchman of Santa posted:

Nepo Baby = child of famous parents. Max Brooks is Mel’s son.

Mr Interweb posted:

why DID something like TWD pop off exactly? i figured zombies were passe long before it came out.

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

What I find wild - and correct me if I am wrong - is that Resident Evil of all things is the source of viral zombies. Yeah, you have the implication that it might be a virus in the Romero films,

well why not posted:

Zombies were a bit passe in nerd circles by 2010

FreudianSlippers posted:

Outstretched arms are probably from one of the Universal Frankenstein sequels where the monster is blinded and has to fumble about with his arms since he can't see.

Assepoester posted:

The Smurfs created the modern "viral zombie outbreak transmitted by bite" scenario a decade before Night of the Living Dead

I AM GRANDO posted:

It’s the perfect sort of “soft apocalypse” to mentally project yourself into. There are very few people around and everything’s mostly intact, so it’s a fun scenario to think about what you’d do as a big-brain genius vs like atomic war or a regular total civilizational collapse where you’d just starve or be killed immediately.

Jedit posted:

NotLD has a radio broadcast in which scientists say they believe that the dead rising is the effect of radiation brought back from Venus by a space probe.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

If we're going that way then Old Yeller beat The Smurfs by quite a bit. It also had a scene where Yeller's owner Travis realises that the dog is starting to "turn" and is starting to become rabid but hides it from everyone else, which nearly has tragic consequences.

Samovar posted:

I more prefer the big bad, the one who, when agitated, started sounding like Kermit the Frog.

Humerus posted:

Oh is this why Shaun of the Dead (the best zombie movie) has the news report about a crashed satellite?

Mooseontheloose posted:

Also not to be that :nerd: about it but the original Zombie stories originate from Haiti but are not really what we conceive of zombies.

Mooseontheloose posted:

Also, given the preceding decade War on Terror and economic collapse, Zombie literature was in vogue as a societal fear thing. When you think that 28 Days Later and Dawn of the Dead were released back to back in 2002 and 2003 its prime, the world is hosed feelings in the west.