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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 6047492" data-attributes="member: 926">Undead Zombies vs Biological Zombies (But No P-Zombies, Please.)Yes, another Starship Troopers or I, Robot.   (Although I actually really liked Starship Troopers for what it was, as parody of that kind of jingoistic 50's sci-fi movies, it wasn't an adaptation of the book.)This just looks to be horrendously bad, and a huge slap in the face to any fans of the book.  "Hey, let's take an innovative and interesting book and turn it into yet another generic 'lone hero (American of course!) saves the world' story, but this time with zombies'"  I can just imagine the reasons the movie went through so many writers, with the execs in charge calling for "more action and less talking!" and the intelligence level of the script dropping with every rewrite. Now this is somewhat of a tangent, and I fully admit that this is purely a personal preference, but I absolutely loathe the entire "zombie virus" and biological zombie concept that has plagued horror fiction the past decade or so.  I have gotten really sick of zombies being the result of some kind of "virus", and unfortunately even this otherwise excellent book suffers from this idea.  I really hate the whole concept of biological zombies. (P-Zombies are a whole other ball of wax, although I despise the concept of them, too.)Is anyone else getting tired of this trend?  To my thinking it's just so writers can have zombies that can be "cured" by the hero and therefore make a zombie story with a happier ending than what a proper horror story would demand; it's kind of like science-fiction is trying to steal zombies away from horror.  I just don't like it.  I like my zombies to be undead, supernatural abominations.  The way God intended!</blockquote>

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