Spoilers etc.
But first off, there is the spoiler warning at the top of the article, and second, these shows are so good they don't depend on surprises for their impact, do they?

Well
I'd argue it's not a choice they're making, it's a pre-conscious, brainstem-level reaction that adapted as a great way to help spread the virus, just like the symptom that makes them all ragey. Or something.

Thanks Oilcan
I don't think the infected's nonreaction to each other is conscious, actually. I think it's a symptom of the disease adapted to best spread itself. Some part of the lower brain detects the odor of a fellow infected, it's classified as a non-target, they move on.

The '00s
Children of Men captures the look of current times pretty well, but I'm not sure it has that much to say about them.

Infection
Look, in any meaningful sense, half the zombies every filmed were carriers of an infectious disease. How else do you explain how they pass along their condition just by biting people? Why isn't infection a valid explanation for becoming a zombie, but fallout or poisonous gas or hell's gotten full is?

My totally unsubstantiated guess
They can smell it on each other. Infections are scary-good at spreading themselves. If rabies can pass itself along by making its host aggressively bite things with a mouth full of disease-ridden spit it can't swallow, it's not completely absurd to think the Rage virus would make its…

More unnecessary zombie debate
I dunno about defining zombies as people that have necessarily died before they became undead. Lots of zombie movies don't have a clear differentiation between the time when a person dies and when they become a zombie. A lot of the time they're just bitten/gassed/infected, they writhe…

Hmm
Just in case anyone's wondering, my curious spelling of "dumb" stemmed from stupidity, not irony.

Blockbusters may just adapt
I have a critical weakness for big dumn action, but the thing that's really been winning me over about them lately is the acting.

2 minutes
His power is actually remarkably cool because it's so limited—what can you do with it other than hit on chicks and run a third-rate magic show? The parts where Cage is messing around with it are funny enough to just about carry the movie.

Another entry
Super Mario Bros. How do you screw that up? Movies about Nintendo-based ripoffs did better than that bomb, for Christ's sake. I will admit to being a sad 12-year-old when it began to be clear there wouldn't be a followup.

No Escape
It actually owes a lot to that awesome Ray Liotta movie mentioned way up near the top of the thread, No Escape. It even has exploding bracelets.

Master and Commander
I've never read any of the books, but I liked the hell out of the movie, which felt like action and verisimilitude in equal measure.

Not really
In fact, I think an American author like Norman Mailer would crush your windpipe if you called him anything but his full name.

This was a treat
Breathed has about the perfect sense of humor. Bloom County moving to a weekly was the same level of devastating as Bill Watterson's disappearance from this earth.

Yeah
All I was saying earlier is I think Vonnegut is sometimes given short shrift for making his thoughts so easy to understand. It should be hamfisted, but his humor is so disarming he's able to pull it off.

Subtlety
I've already explicitly stated I think subtlety is a tool for achieving truths without manipulation. So yes, I think the Mona Lisa's smile is a method, though really I'm talking about narrative art here. I don't know much about painting.

Meatlocker
Yeah, that was exactly my point—Vonnegut's downgraded for not using the same methods as authors who get a lot more respect, but he ends up achieving the same results.

What is it that makes an artist, Mr. Lebowski?
I'd never heard his quote about being pigeonholed as a sci-fi writer. It's always fun to hear people who mess around with genres defend themselves against the constant implication they're "lesser" authors.

You tell 'em
The horror, giving away the very linchpins they show in the trailer! The last 90 minutes were totally ruined by the reviewer's careless revelation of the first act.