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[kaijyuu]

The "cartoon version" is a superior version, if you're referring to BTAS, btw. Christopher Nolan's got nothing on Paul Dini and Bruce Timm.

[Jopax]

And once again I curse the internet, because I was actually looking forward to seeing batman unspoiled.

Yay~

[TallAsAHouseDwarf]

Sorry, I didn't think while ranting. I mean I did, but not that.

[Derekristow]

I have mixed feelings about this new Batman movie.

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How does Bane eat? Is he tube-fed? Or does he actually take the mask off? Either way, I bet the lunch hour won't be the highlight of his day.

And what about the ending? Batman just takes a few megaton blast to a few minute flight away from the city? And magically the sea winds don't just bring the fallout back? What happens in the inevitable sequel, does the Batman come back and blow the fallout back with Bat Fans before it reaches the city and delivers Bat Iodine tablets to the people? He better be a one fast latte drinker to get back in time to do that. Or does Robin loot his Bat Stash and give them to people and bring chosen people (=chicks) to the Bat Cave and then breed a new generation of Bat People to populate the city just because Batman chose to sit on his ass and slurp espresso instead? That would make an interesting movie, especially if he also killed all their parents to plant a right kind of mental states.

Other than that, the movie was ruined by making it PG-13, which resulted, among other things, to a bunch of people shot to death without a single bullet wound. Magic bullets, I say! This sort of movie ought to be brutal as hell and kids can just watch the cartoon version.

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If you look at the mask up close, you can see that there is a mesh in front of his mouth.  I was wondering the same thing, but I bet he can remove the mesh or something.  Either way, not a huge oversight so much as an unexplained oddity.
I don't see the issue with the bomb, either.  Getting cancer 30 years from now is a hell of a lot better than being vaporized today, so the celebration is still warranted.
I also didn't really notice it being PG-13.  There were still plenty of people getting very obviously shot to death and dying through various other means, including Bane brutally snapping a few necks.  I'm slightly surprised it managed to the get PG-13 rather than R, to be honest.

So, in essence, I disagree on all points.  Good day sir .

[Neonivek]

I'm slightly surprised it managed to the get PG-13 rather than R

Ohh that is because the ratings system is corrupt... No I am not even joking.

Note: I don't mean any bribing happened, they are just allowed to increase or decrease the rating according to how much they like the movie.

[Neyvn]

Which is why a real zombie outbreak would start in some poor, populous African country.

Actually I think there is a Webcomic out there that uses that basis to represent how the outbreak happens... Can't remember the name, lost the bookmark...

Basically it starts in a small African town, which gets sectioned off by the African Military who attempts to wipe out the infection, fails, calls in American backup, which also fails due to not knowing whats been going on inside the infected zone cause, hey, what African Army General tells anyone anything when you look at the media, all America knew was that it was a problem that the local militants couldn't handle and thus stuck their nose into it on request. They fuck up, the infection starts covering Africa, spreads via both land and air as the infected are Transported back to the States, Cause you know some stupid Egghead wants a living sample to study, which also breaks out cause no one knows how to truly handle something that can resist general pain and normal human restraints cause heck they still think its a "rage induced action" and they are still living people, so no head shots there. Which then leads to a general break down as the airport which the plane lands at when the zed breaks free and infects the crew and workers, which drains into a currently running airport infecting hundreds if not thousands, which then goes on into the city, leading to a sudden and rapid growth due to how commuters and general civil reaction time handles a large group of undead zeds charging at you. This leads to small forces being over run, small barracks deeply under prepared and thus over run before any information can get out that the area is becoming infected in the large standings that it is, the Military cocksup and thinks its something small and easily wiped out like normal and thus under prepares their troops who get swarmed, leading to a whole country being crippled. Meanwhile the Zeds have crossed into Europe and everything is hitting the fan...

Meanwhile in Madagascar...

[Jopax]

Ok, back from the movie, you didn't ruin it that much thankfully

Anyways, the most eggregious (damn that word) exampl of the 13 rating is when

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Foley gets shot by the batmobile clones or whatever, lying there in an akward pose without a drop of blood to give away his unlivingness

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The bomb thing isn't that much of an issue, unless you notice there were two bombs, the first one is a 4-5-6 (can't recall the exact number) megaton nuke, the one batsy fake dumps into the sea is a 10 (i think) megaton neutron bomb. So the issue I see here is the nuke would decay, destabilize and explode after the five months. Now the question is, what happens to the small nuke, it was the one that should have exploded, the reactor was not mentioned as having a liffetime before detonating. And only it was carried away.

Unless I'm looking at this wrong

Also

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The blast itself wasn't that dangerous, because it didn't have much stuff to create fallout from (most of the radioactively dangerous stuff that lingers around comes from earth and debris that was sucked into the center, where it's irradiated rather strongly. In this case only some water and water vapour would be dangerous, stuff that is quickly spread and dissipated in the air/ocean into small enough quantities that it's not that dangerous.

[kaenneth]

Plus I never could get as you guys pointed out, why do the zombies choose to only zombify certain people and eat the others.

Zombify the athletic/strong ones (who would get victims more easily), consume the rest?

Like a shark; sharks generally don't eat people, they give a little nip, then let go, because most of us don't have the body fat level of a seal.

So, fattys get eaten, fit get zombified, because this people get bitten a couple times, then released.

[Neyvn]

not shamblers, those are way too easy to outrun.

A Brisk Walk would outpace a Shambler... I mean, you just need to speed up a little more then normal, something lower then a jog and you would be ok...

[MorleyDev]

I think 28 weeks later got it nicely, how it would work, the only possible way for it to spread effectively would include running zombies, not shamblers, those are way too easy to outrun.

That or the Romero rules where *everybody* who dies becomes a zombie. Then the war never stops and the enemy has infinite resources so the idea humanity would be completely *fucked* is more plausible...

[Sheb]

Zombie who die become zombie?

[Vattic]

I can't help doing this either.

I'm related to a military nerd, mostly the Vietnam war. Rather than his knowledge ruining films he seems to enjoy picking them apart. Vehicles, uniforms, and other equipment are the main complaints.

I get irked whenever a sci-fi makes reference to genetic memory.  I know its sci-fi and I know I'm not supposed to think too hard about it, but for some reason the idea of storing all the information in your brain inside your DNA really bothers me. 

Looking at you Stargate SG1!
Looking at you Assassins Creed!

The film that pushes the limits on this hardest in my eyes is Alien Resurrection. It also has something else that bugged me.

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They make a clone of Ripley out of DNA from when she was carrying a queen. The clone has a queen inside her (from birth I assume). Not only that but the clone can remember things and is part alien.

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The pale alien at the end born from the queen grown inside the clone is given a human reproductive system. I want to know who it was supposed to breed with.

[JoshuaFH]

Note that viruses aren't above manipulating you as well. The flu makes you extra sociable, for example.

I want to backtrack a couple pages for this. Where did you read this? This is the first time I've heard of the flu making you sociable.

[kaijyuu]

A cracked article, iirc. Lemme see if I can find it.


EDIT: Can not find it. Alas.

I do remember the context, though. And probably not cracked, now that I think about it. It was about how some diseases aid in their propagation by affecting your behavior. Beyond the flu, the most obvious virus that makes you do stuff would be rabies; it doesn't make you aggressive out of pure happenstance.

[Kaleb702 Games]

The people come in too late to hear the guy's last words in Citizen Kane. :u