Ads & Ops

By Magnanimous Date 2008-10-06 01:49

>the ads are all about water treatment, power generators, etc

Be grateful they weren't for Gas-X and ED medicine.

I gave up trying to add titles some time ago. The database wouldn't accept certain titles.

By nitpickabc Date 2008-10-06 07:04

I still say that nitpicks and comments can be presented and discussed right here in moviechatter.com. I guess you're referring to this one:

I Am Legend - 2007 Power and Water? If Neville had been on his own in Manhattan for 3 years, and civilisation had broken down, where did he get electricity and water from? These things have to be regularly maintained by someone in a power station, or water treatment plant. He may have had a generator, in which case, where was he getting the fuel? Once you've bled a fuel station pump dry, there aint any more! And water would certainly not be coming through his taps anymore!

It seems like a good point to me and one often overlooked in other apocalyptic sci-fi movies.

Disclaimer: It is NOT my nitpick. I did not submit this nitpick.

By Argus Date 2008-10-09 15:54

My comment, which the site couldn't accept, was that there should be plenty of gas in underground tanks for the needs of one guy - provided it stays fresh. He could pump it out with a gas-powered pump, manually, or with an electric pump run by gas-powered generator. There should be plenty of bottled water around, and if the water system is powered by gravity it too should last for quite a while with only one user. After a while, the rivers would even become drinkable. He can get all the generators, pumps, and other supplies he needs. And we do see him growing and shooting his own food. There's nothing like disease, pollution, or radiation that's contaminating things.

A better question would be why he chose to stay isolated on Manhattan Island with thousands of hungry zombies around. Why not relocate to, say, Liberty Island and be safe? BTW, how did those zombies continue to function without anything to eat?

I heard there's a prequel coming out, so maybe we'll get a few answers.

By Poet Fander Date 2008-10-09 18:14

> A better question would be why he chose to stay isolated on Manhattan Island with thousands of hungry zombies around.

He was looking for a cure, so he was staying where he had an endless supply of test subjects. Also, IIRC, he was living in that house before the plague, so fortifying his existing home was probably easier and safer than starting over somewhere else.

By nitpickabc Date 2008-10-10 08:27

I am thinking of older doomsday films, from the cold war era. I don't recall all the names. In a typical scene, several months after The Nuclear War, the few survivors start to crawl out of their bunkers and travel around the country looking to reestablish society. They just pull up to the long abandoned gas station in the middle of the desert with thick dust and no signs of life and start pumping gas. Hello? That's an electric gas pump with dials that spin around, not one of the old style (1920s - 40s) hand pumps with the glass bowl on top. There's no electricity anyplace else, but this little gas station in the middle of nowhere has juice?

Somebody can have a field day with those films.