Datalord said:
well, of course, How could a virus mutate its means of transference that quickly in Resident Evil?
Actually, pretty much any Zombie movie:How the FRICK is a zombie reanimated when the human body stops working for a good f*cking reason when you die.
Then the obvious LOTR one, why don't they ride the eagles to mordor?
Spaceballs, and every other spoof movie, 'nuf said
In Resident Evil, the virus mutating quickly is based in scientific fact. Many real life viruses do mutate very quickly, plus after all the experiments Umbrella were doing, I think it's safe to say that the virus wasn't like any natural one anyway. As for the reanimation, it wouldn't reanimate every single dead body it came into contact with, for example if you hid in a cemetery you'd be fine if you stayed away from the area with newly dug graves (incidentally that's where they are in the cemetery in RE: Apocalypse, outside the church). Again, it's based in science. After you die, the brain gives out electrical impulses and cells still multiply, even though the body itself stops working and you are, obviously, dead. This carries on for quite a while, perhaps a few months. The T-Virus simply converts the impulses to the same type of electrical signal that we use to function when alive, and literally rebuilds the biological system that keeps us alive. This could possibly happen should someone actually create a virus of that kind (remember that the T-Virus was a mutated strain of the virus used by an Umbrella researcher to cure his daughter's illness that was crippling her from birth). Note that I'm taking these facts from the films, the games still work in pretty much the same way, but have slight differences (e.g. the creator of the original T-Virus). I suppose if the T-Virus was infecting someone who had been beheaded or something, so the brain couldn't send the impulses anymore, or that had been dead for too long, then it would have no effect. That's actually why in most zombie fiction now (since now they mostly work on 'scientific zombies') they can be killed with severing the spinal column or destroying the head.
As for LOTR, it was based on the book, so the film needed to follow the book (although it made a bit of a mess of that, that said I preferred the films, couldn't really swallow the books, and I am a huge reader...). By using the Eagles, they would have ruined the potential for millions of pounds worth of profit with the whole film trilogy and all the merchandisng. Plus, the eagles would probably get tired after a while and need to rest, or maybe Sauron thought it would be the obvious choice so the allies had to outwit him, or something. Doesn't matter too much anyway, I enjoyed Helm's Deep and the Pelennor Fields.
Finally, spoof movies are meant to have plot holes. That's the whole point. It pokes fun at the serious films. (However, with the exception of Austin Powers and the first Scary Movie, spoof films are a load of crap anyway...).