Brad Pitt & World War Z

[mikeyis4dcats.]

Originally Posted by Ebolapox

I liked the movie (aside from the fact that it really wasn't WORLD WAR Z), but I have a few bones to pick with the movie...

Spoiler!

1) injecting yourself with a virus or lethal bacteria wouldn't give an immune response (aka, make you sick enough to be 'terminal') WITHIN A FEW MINUTES. it takes a while for a deadly pathogen to defeat your immune system; hell, Ebola can take up to a 3 weeks.

The point was that the zombies had some mechanism to identify that you were not going to be a viable carrier. They could "smell" the pathoen in you, whether you had begun an immune response or not

2) that isn't how deadly pathogens are stored. ugh.

I can't speak for the most deadly of them, but i have seen footage on tv in the past of research labs, and it was not that inconsistent. But I am sure the labs would have had better security and negative air pressure/airlocks and shatter-resistant glazing.

3) the mysteriously shifting C-130. consistency, please.

4) running zombies... UGH. also a bit annoyed that we didn't have zombies running over the building after the copter like we did in the previews.

5) a single microphone is enough to get the zombies' attention, but THE NOISE OF A WHOLE ****ING CITY ISN'T ENOUGH TO GET THEIR ATTENTION? REALLY?!? (israel scene) COMPLETELY implausible.

as mentioned above, it was like a dog attacking, the stimulus was always there, but ratcheted up until they went bezerk.

6) the whole chopping off of the hand scene. yeah, blood flows more quickly than that. he didn't react quick enough for the bitten wrist NOT to have spread the pathogen beyond the part that was cut off. once again, ****. please at least try to be plausible.

It takes about a minute for blood to circulate back to the heart. I didn't time it, but I'd say he waited what, 5 seconds? I'm not going to loose sleep over it. The practice is taken from that used as a last resort with viper bites by African natives.

7) why the differences in time it takes to infect humans? some people were ten seconds, and they mention 5-10 minutes in other parts. well, which is it? ****, TRY to be consistent.

as mentioned, it was to show the infection was evolving and becoming more efficient

8) any type of 'vaccine' that they make of deadly pathogens that is DEADENED in order to let people live... WOULD NO LONGER BE DEADLY OR WORK AS A MASKING AGENT AGAINST THE ZOMBIES. ****. WHAT THE ****, DID YOU NOT EVEN ATTEMPT TO HIRE A SCIENTIST TO CONSULT? JESUS TITS.

again, Pitt wasn't trying to make a vaccine IMHO. His plan was to infect, likely with something curable or at a level that was survivable.

[Ebolapox]

Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.

again, Pitt wasn't trying to make a vaccine IMHO. His plan was to infect, likely with something curable or at a level that was survivable.

here's the thing... I get the feeling that he was going into a BSL3 or 4 type of containment (rather, agents from those containments). nothing from the BSL0-2 would make you 'terminal,' as they are all TREATABLE. by definition, ANYTHING THAT WILL MAKE YOU TERMINAL HAS NO CURE (in general, we're not talking about cancer, we're talking about pathogens).

[mikeyis4dcats.]

Originally Posted by Ebolapox

here's the thing... I get the feeling that he was going into a BSL3 or 4 type of containment (rather, agents from those containments). nothing from the BSL0-2 would make you 'terminal,' as they are all TREATABLE. by definition, ANYTHING THAT WILL MAKE YOU TERMINAL HAS NO CURE (in general, we're not talking about cancer, we're talking about pathogens).

I guess it's semantics, but there are plenty of terminal pathogens if they aren't treated. IMHO they were looking for something like bubonic plague which is terminal in most instances if not treated. Something that would allow them to fight and stop the spread.