Corrected entry: In the scene where Jill and Angie are crawling around on the floor and are being attacked by dogs, a woman zombie crawls toward Jill and attacks her. Jill grabs the woman zombie by the neck and twists it, breaking it and "killing" the zombie. Jill then checks the zombie's neck for a pulse to make sure it is "dead". Zombies are already dead and wouldn't have a pulse in the first place.
dbfilms
29th Mar 2012
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
8th Apr 2011
From Paris with Love (2010)
Corrected entry: The scene where Caroline escapes from the apartment is a very weak attempt to further the plot. Wax previously eradicated the entire staff of the Chinese restaurant, the gang in the alley, and a whole terrorist cell. I understand this was probably used to further the plot, but if he could single-handedly annihilate all of the previous foes, he should have easily been able to kill Caroline who was by herself after Wax shot and killed her partner at the dinner table.
Correction: He didn't kill her right away because he needed information from her first. What her target was, who she was working with, etc. Remember at every encounter (except the street gang) Wax kept one person alive to interrogate. He got distracted trying to prove to Reese that she was in fact a terrorist, handing over his gun in the process. Caroline opened fire with her own gun to cover her escape through the window. If Wax had his weapon, or if she hadn't had one, or if he'd even been close enough to disarm her, then yes Wax absolutely could have stopped her. But he didn't, she did, and he wasn't. So she very logically got away.
17th Apr 2011
Home Fries (1998)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Dorian and Angus are with the dead body in the morgue, Angus lifts up the stiff and it bends at the waist. Rigor mortis would have been fully set at this point (the body was in a suit ready for a viewing) which would have made it impossible for the corpse to bend at the waist.
Correction: Depending on how long the body was held before funeral services, it is likely and expected that rigor would have subsided entirely. According to Wikipedia, rigor mortis sets in within a few hours of death, and has subsided by about 72 hours. This is very plausible because there was somewhat of an investigation, which would have forced authorities to hold the body for longer before interment.
11th Apr 2011
Meet the Fockers (2004)
Corrected entry: There are many times when one of the characters are talking to LJ and you can see that LJ is not looking directly at the character but off to the side.
Correction: Kids don't always look at adults when they talk to them, especially young kids like LJ. No mistake here.
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Correction: Zombies have to have a pulse. It is stated in Resident Evil, as well as many other zombie movies, that the zombies are reduced to primal instincts, and only have one objective: To feed. Also, for a human body to move as extensively as they do, (i.e. walking, biting, running) they would have to have, at the very least, a functioning brain stem. None of what they do is possible without some form of blood flow to the brain. Ergo, pulse.
This explication contradicts directly the one given for the cemetery. The buried dead do not have blood due to preservation and brain matter doesn't last long. Ergo one of those two explanations, resurrection or primal instincts is false as the two facts cannot coexist.
It should also be noted to have some form of blood flow to the brain stem means zombies have beating hearts and therefore any shot to the heart, or any shock that stops the heart, would stop the blood flow to the brain. By your logic, that would stop the zombie. Most zombie lore is only a headshot, or otherwise destroying the brain stem, can stop a zombie. Most of what zombies do is impossible to begin with.
Bishop73
Almost all zombies only have brain activity and nervous system, making the body move. Destroying the brain stops the nervous system and thus the zombie. Almost never do they have a working blood circulation. The zombies in resident evil don't have one either.
lionhead
Actually, watching the scene (so important to do before commenting) she is not checking the pulse at all, she just has her hand under the neck.
lionhead