My Beef with Return of the Living Dead
 

Ok heres my complaint about the series that kinda kills it for me. If the Trioxin has the ability to re-animate the flesh of the dead, and it is a chemical agent- then it must fallow the laws of physics and science. You can reanimate a skeletal arm all you want, but there is no scientific way that it would be able to move on its own without muscle contraction, and theres no way you can get muscle contraction without brain activity. So if i dip a severed leg in Trioxin, physically theres no way in blue hell that its going to be able to hop around or move because there is no nerve connection and the muscles cannot contract.

See this is why i like the Romero Trinity. because they made sense giving their criteria. If it was a virus in Romeros film it would make sense that you could take down a zombie by distroying the brain, or seperating the central nervous system.

In ROTLD they directly attribute the reanimation of corpses to Trioxin, a chemical compound, yet fail to fallow up with simple common sense rules that would apply to it. Unless there is some magical force animating the flesh, theres no way a hand could just get up and walk off, theres no way a decapitated corpse would get up and run around trying to strangle people.

I mean if we're dealing with some kind of magical reanimation thats one thing, but if were going with science then there a re some basic rules that need o be fallowed. And ROTLD walks all over them.

I don't think they cared about all that when they made it. It's just a fun, popcorn movie. I'm sure it doesn't stand up to many analyses. I really don't have a good explanation.

and how about that skeleton with eyes that pops out of the ground.......
lol
you are right, there are allot of movies wich such mistakes, just go with the flow I say

My beef with ROTLD: It ripped off (or whatever the fans'll no doubt say it did) a far SUPERIOR series, and turned it into a comedy....that is all.

I don't think you can call it a rip-off. If several key people who worked on NOTLD are involved (co-writer and producer), it's not a rip-off. You can't rip-off yourself.

i never would have thought of that, but now that you break it down to me then i guess it makes since.

avenger..."(or whatever the fans'll no doubt say it did)"
u know, didn't mean exactly rip off, as I figured some of the same ppl were involved, but....u kinda know what I mean? I myself woulda loved those efforts to go towards continuing the original trilogy instead...ROTLD just seemed so...Troma when I saw it...

I'm a big fan of both series. I'm glad they took it in a different direction, but wouldn't mind seeing some more serious zombie flicks made.

here's my "HELL YEAH!" to that....

Cheeb, I know we discussed this before, but have you seen Undead? I remember us talking about it b/c you live in Australia but I haven't seen it yet. Is it serious, or comical?