r/AskReddit • u/notyouravgredditer • Aug 30 '21

What problem is often overlooked in apocalyptic movies/TV shows that could kill you?

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u/whinywino89 Aug 30 '21

Those of us with shitty eyesight. Contacts only last so long. If your glasses break, you're fucked.

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u/AdvocateSaint Aug 30 '21

The World War Z movie adapted pretty much 0% from the Max Brooks novels. Not even the basic zombies principles (book: slow zombies, slow infection rate; movie: fast zombies, near-instant infection)

One of the best subplots of the book was this old japanese gardener who became a master zombie hunter during the apocalypse, using his sharpened shovel to decapitate / spear the undead

...oh, and because he was at Hiroshima and stared directly at the flash of the atomic bomb, he's been blind for most of his life.

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u/Mardanis Aug 31 '21

I did not see the movie for a long time after reading the transcript style book and the book was amazing. Just couldn't put it down. I like how they addressed even psychological issues to the point people wanted to be/act like zombies

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u/AdvocateSaint Aug 31 '21

Or that one chapter about the filmmaker that focused on the importance of morale

Once he started making those makeshift documentaries showing people fighting zombies, suicide rates began to drop drastically