Would someone PLEASE explain the "zombie craze"?

Anyone that's claimed zombies don't exist, obviously has never been to Wal-Mart. Just because they're not trying to eat you alive, doesn't mean they aren't zombies.
 
I suspect that the current and seemingly never-ending zombie craze is meant to help us forget the Twilight movies. I could be wrong...
 
I like the Twilight movies and ve have vays of making you like them too.

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UffDa said:
I like the Twilight movies and ve have vays of making you like them too.

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Tie me to a chair and force me to watch that shit and I will hold my own breath until I die.

Terrible shit. Above posted gentleman would be turning over in his coffin. Hah!
 
sideways said:
The zombie films of the 70's were a critique of consumerism and how humanity in it's insatiable hunger for more more more would end up consuming itself.

The current crop seems to be more about playing to the fear-thy-neighbour paranoia brought on by the breakdown of community and workforce specialization. Essentially fulfilling fantasies about shooting the Jones and stealing their new toaster oven because you didn't really like them that much anyway and come the zombie apocalypse you'll need a toaster oven to make the poptarts you stole from Walmart. :D

Dunno. I'm making this stuff up as I go along.
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Dang.... and here I thought it's all because it's just plain fun. What was I thinkin'? :)
 
Randall2131 said:
Dang.... and here I thought it's all because it's just plain fun. What was I thinkin'? :)
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Yeah, I was naïve like that too. :D

Reminds me of the history of film course I took; I never knew that the fun could be so thoroughly sucked out of something so effectively.
 
So I have to admit I purchased a "zombie" green Esee 6 - not because I liked the color, but actually because it was the cheapest model 6 I could find. But the way I look at it I won't lose it in the woods ever with that color scheme, and nobody will want to steal it because it's so damn ugly. :D

I just think the craze has to do in general with some pretty good quality zombie movies and tv shows coming out the past 5-10 years. But if it helps people prepare in some ways for when an actual emergency comes around, I can't say I'm against it.
 
tr.slate said:
But if it helps people prepare in some ways for when an actual emergency comes around, I can't say I'm against it.
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It can make anything more fun.
Buying groceries becomes "stocking up on zombie apocalypse supplies."
Out of shape? Remember, cardio was rule #1 in Zombieland for survival. ;)
 
I lived in the back of a funeral home for 3 years in the early 1990's. By myself. Just me and the zombies. That's when I bought my first firearm for zombie defense - a S&W 357 K-frame. Seriously - its hard to sleep next to a room full of caskets, and directly above the embalming room. Especially during a thunderstorm when the electricity goes out.

A shotgun would have been more appropriate for zombie defense, but that's beside the point.

That first firearm purchase let me eventually to the great adventure of hoarding firearms, and I eventually collected enough to supply the Bolivian army. That led to knife hoarding, and MT hoarding, and SAK hoarding, and Maxpedition hoarding.

So living with zombies starting a chain reaction resulting in my love of knives. I would have never thought it at the time.
 
Come to think of it, I bet the zombie craze was a conspiracy led by Busse to make us want/need their INFI blades! It wasn't until I saw Daryl Dixon's knife on "The Walking Dead" that I knew had to get me one of those. I'm not complaining, as the TGLB has turned out to be my favorite fixed blade...love the way the G10 handle fills my hand, and it always strops up nice and razor sharp after use. I guess the TGLB would be my zombie knife as I don't own a Katana.
 
Charlie_K said:
Anyone that's claimed zombies don't exist, obviously has never been to Wal-Mart. Just because they're not trying to eat you alive, doesn't mean they aren't zombies.
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You need to hit walmarts in the better part of town. There is a fair amount of eye candy.
 
KLJTech said:
Come to think of it, I bet the zombie craze was a conspiracy led by Busse to make us want/need their INFI blades! It wasn't until I saw Daryl Dixon's knife on "The Walking Dead" that I knew had to get me one of those.
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1000x this. Have one on order right now. Can't wait to chop up some zombie wood and go zombie camping and fishing with it.
 
I only like vampire movies if they have armadillos in them. How could it be Transylvania without armadillos?
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perhaps it's because the military actually created Field Manuals regarding it?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/223872345/CONPLAN-8888

https://app.box.com/shared/154kr4e0vz


Initially created as a "not a joke" joke, but the fact remains that they had been training for that very thing:

http://news.yahoo.com/marines-police-prep-mock-zombie-invasion-180541102.html

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/16/politics/pentagon-zombie-apocalypse/



.....but also, with all the not-so-recent "recent" outbreaks of every cataclysmic plague known to the CDC......can you blame Hollywood for capitalizing on the craze?
 
stabman said:
Yeah, I was naïve like that too. :D

Reminds me of the history of film course I took; I never knew that the fun could be so thoroughly sucked out of something so effectively.
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Even if the director George A. Romero intended his first two (and possibly his third) zombie movies as social commentaries (which, according to him, he did), that certainly doesn't suck the fun out of them for me. They still are what they are.

Jim
 
James Y said:
Even if the director George A. Romero intended his first two (and possibly his third) zombie movies as social commentaries (which, according to him, he did), that certainly doesn't suck the fun out of them for me. They still are what they are.

Jim
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I tend to happily ignore what directors and artists say was the point of what they do.

Once art/film is in the public domain, what they intended isn't as important...art belongs to the public, not the artist. :)

We all impart our own meaning, and in the final analysis, that's the only meaning that matters.
 
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