Uncharted 2 and 3 (Gaming)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Monday, May 02, 2016, 18:52 (3131 days ago) @ Claude Errera

Implying that there were any in the first one... There weren't.

Come on. You can call a rose a tulip but it's still a rose, and it still has thorns.

By your standards, "The Descent" and "I am Legend" are just zombie movies, since the creatures in both were very similar to the Descendants in Uncharted (Except that the Descendants had their own customs were smart enough to build traps... that could also capture any wandering Will Smiths)...

Wait... you DON'T consider "I Am Legend" to be a zombie movie?

I consider Zombies as a movie theme to be an encroaching threat. The constant pressure pushing in on the last bits of humanity (which is often the metaphor for the character interactions). Zombies are mindless, which is why they're more of a faceless threat.

You said (in a later post) that there are movies with sentient zombies. So... which is it? Mindless, or sentient?

Initially I was talking about zombies as a movie theme, specifically with regards to I Am Legend (you asked if I didn't consider it a zombie movie). I wasn't talking about zombies themselves. The key thing is that despite being sentient, the zombies in the films that I mentioned are undead people; they died, then came back from the dead as moving corpses. Zombies.

In I Am Legend, the vampires/Dark Ones are used more as a metaphor for guilt and alienation. They are sentient, and they hate/fear the protagonist, but are only a threat at night. They have their own "civilization", which the protagonist threatens (he abducts and experiments on them, always leading to their deaths). It's not a zombie movie in any sense, literal or metaphorical.

Um... except for the 'afraid of the light' stuff, none of this is in the movie, just the book. I was under the impression we were talking about the movie (because you specifically say 'zombie movie' above). In the movie, they're zombies. Maybe enhanced zombies... but they're zombies.

We must have watched different movies, then. In the film, the so-called Dark Seekers are just mutated people with an extreme form of Erythropoietic Protoporphyria (a real-world sunlight allergy). They are still thinking creatures (the protagonist even points out his surprise that one of them consciously exposed himself to sunlight) that live together, have societal relationships, hunt, set lures and traps, and have a survival instinct. All of this is pointed out and shown in the film (heck, they even keep dogs as pets).

They are not zombies in any sense of the word. Heck, in one of the endings, the protagonist directly interacts with them in a non-violent way:

And that's separate from calling the movie a "zombie movie".