http://www.beyondhollywood.com/day-of-the-dead-1985-movie-review/ Hollywood, Indie, Asian, Foreign, Horror, and Genre Movie Reviews and News Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:06:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.beyondhollywood.com/day-of-the-dead-1985-movie-review/comment-page-1/#comment-79926 MrPezman Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:34:14 +0000 http://www.beyondhollywood.com/?p=744#comment-79926 HA! sure, maybe you'd think that a soldier ought to be mentally tougher than portrayed by the soldiers in this movie, but if you think about it, scientists come across all kinds of crazy crap in their research, viruses that mutate beyond belief, new bacteria that, if known about by the public, would cause world-wide hysteria (you saw how nuts everyone got about asian bird flu, right?) What does any normal everyday soldier have to deal with. Protocol, post procedures, supply for the maintenance of their vehicles, equipment, etc. When a soldier is in battle, for the most part, anyway, what is he faced with? Usually an enemy that wants to shoot him or blow him up, maybe even cut off his head and use his skull as an ashtray. But try fighting an enemy that just doesn't give up, that isn't slowed by bullets unless you hit one in the head, which is more difficult than the movies make it. Heck, try fighting an enemy that requires no sleep or rest, that doesn't know the meaning of mercy, and lastly, an enemy that if it infects you with its 100% fatal virus, turns you into one of them. Talk about demoralizing! So yeah, I think it's quite reasonable to assume that the everyday soldier's mental toughness is every bit as weak as that of the scientist, maybe even more so. Yeah, I'm longwinded, but I do a lot of research for my stories. HA! sure, maybe you’d think that a soldier ought to be mentally tougher than portrayed by the soldiers in this movie, but if you think about it, scientists come across all kinds of crazy crap in their research, viruses that mutate beyond belief, new bacteria that, if known about by the public, would cause world-wide hysteria (you saw how nuts everyone got about asian bird flu, right?) What does any normal everyday soldier have to deal with. Protocol, post procedures, supply for the maintenance of their vehicles, equipment, etc. When a soldier is in battle, for the most part, anyway, what is he faced with? Usually an enemy that wants to shoot him or blow him up, maybe even cut off his head and use his skull as an ashtray. But try fighting an enemy that just doesn’t give up, that isn’t slowed by bullets unless you hit one in the head, which is more difficult than the movies make it. Heck, try fighting an enemy that requires no sleep or rest, that doesn’t know the meaning of mercy, and lastly, an enemy that if it infects you with its 100% fatal virus, turns you into one of them. Talk about demoralizing! So yeah, I think it’s quite reasonable to assume that the everyday soldier’s mental toughness is every bit as weak as that of the scientist, maybe even more so.
Yeah, I’m longwinded, but I do a lot of research for my stories.

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