Achoo! You're Dead!: Trying to Make Sense of "World War Z"

                So you’re going to tell me that the best way to not be infected by the zombie plague is to already be sick?   If you’re DNA strain is not “pure” then the zombies will simply pass you by?

                Not only does this make a whole lot less sense than zombies being able to run super fast, it also beckons the moral issue.  If the zombie apocalypse is coming (and I’m pretty certain some people out there really believe it is) then this movie is saying you should drink, smoke and have unprotected sex… unless you want the zombies to get you. 

                The few pieces that I have found wrong with the entire Hollywood theory are that first off, zombies are dumb.   Zombies aren’t going to be able to tell anymore good from bad than any other animal.  You want an example?  Zombies are going to be dumber than your dog.   You know, the dog that farts itself awake and eats its own poop.  Yeah… A zombie will probably get drunk off of your wasted ass, but not simply walk on by.  (Not really, zombies not being able to get drunk is another story)

                If that’s not doing it for you, if you still believe some sort of theory about zombies being smarter than that, then consider this.  Zombies eat brains, correct?  So imagine a zombie eating someone’s brain, biting into their head, much like an idiot would.  If there was a disease in it, the zombie would react as if the brain tasted bad, spit it out and move along.

                Oh yeah, and whatever happened to the whole kill shot in the head idea?  If you blow up their head, they die—a flesh wound won’t stop them.    So, no offense to anyone out there suffering with disease, but why would a zombie care if it has cancer or the black plague?   It’s a freaking zombie—it’s already dead!!

                This movie was fun to watch, sure, and I was interested to see how they’d get out of it but illness is just not the answer.   If you’re fighting the dead, you can’t really taunt them with things that, you know, hurry on death. 

                It’s like if something was attacking you that was immune to fire (or made of fire even) and your defense was to throw unlit matches at it.   It is that absurd.