World War Z Trailer - UGH
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Zombies can ether be fast (Dawn of the Dead, 28 Days Later) or smart (Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead), but not both. When they are both, it raises the question how anyone can survive.
GasBandit
Staff member
The original dawn of the dead didn't feature fast zombies, that was just the zack snyder remake. 28 days later, they were living infected that eventually starve to death. Left 4 Dead made me begrudgingly accept this paradigm, but they will never be true archetypical zombies, meant to convey horror and dread through creeping inevitability.
Because what they're presenting if physically impossible. Beetles have multiple sticky legs, that's why they can swarm the way they do. If they did move in huge packs like this, it would result in a huge pile of disjointed bodies scraping over each other, not like waves of water.
It's F'n retarded.
If you want to go waste your money to see this dreck, be my guest. I've simply decided that I'm through supporting trash and will give them none of my money. There's a reason I've seen only a quarter of the films this year than I have in years past. The fact that we accept these shitty movies is the reason they keep getting made.
Well, if we want to go by the CLASSICAL definition of a zombie, that being an undead servant risen by voodoo, then there hasn't been a true zombie movie since Weekend at Bernie's 2.
I am Legend got into that. Well, the movie version did. AFAIK the book's monsters didn't count as zombies.
Also, a zombie would not feel fatigue, or pain, or any need to conserve energy or maintain their own well being. So to me it makes sense that zombies would be able to sprint faster and longer than humans.
Having said that, though, if I wanted to watch Left 4 Dead: The Movie, I would just go play Left 4 Dead.
Just emphasizing? I think the entire plot of World War Z and the Z - survival guide revolves around slow zombies.
This pretty obviously has no connection to the book anymore. It's a Brad Pitt Action Movie Extravaganza. Be that good or bad, it's what it is now.
The monsters in the book were vampires.
Wasn't the monster in the book human? 
If the release date for this is actually running up against Iron Man 3, I don't think be seeing the returns they were hoping for.
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Jamesdawn
I am not big fan of horror movies. But i will watch this movie because Brad Pitt is playing the role as Gerry Lane and i am big fan of Brad Pitt.
But to watch Brad Pitt playing the role as Gerry Lane, and you are big fan of Brad Pitt, you must sit through horror movie. Worth it exchange?
I feel like grabbing a surfboard and riding that wave, dude!
Pile of doody.
Let's take a book with a great narrative style, license it, and then throw out everything that made it interesting.
Brilliant.
Brilliant.
The funny thing? The whole "zombies crawling over the dead bodies of each other up a wall" bit? That's actually in the book.
Except they do it slowly, many of them slip, trip, or stumble. And it's still scary not because they're fast (which they're not), but because of the sheer number of them that just keep coming.
Except they do it slowly, many of them slip, trip, or stumble. And it's still scary not because they're fast (which they're not), but because of the sheer number of them that just keep coming.
Yeah, it's just doing it like this is so sad. I actually listened to the audiobook, and it's fantastic. Listening to the doctor who treated patient Zero, the families stranded out in the cold, Mark Hammil as the army vet who fought in one of the last pushes of undead extermination...it was all so compelling. But this just looks like another disaster-porn setpiece-by-setpiece movie.
....BWAAAAAMMMMM ... <close-up of brad pitt's face>
... BWAAAAMMMMMM ... <cgi zombies at superspeed climbing onto eachother like athletes during the olympics>
... BWAAAMMMMMMM ... <needless romantic other saying 2 words like "Come back!"?
... BWAAAAMMMMMMMMMM ... <WATCH OUT, death count clock is rising with supreme accuracy>
... BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMM ...
WHAT THE FUCK!
They should have made an HBO series out of this, not this run of the mill cheap CGI family summer thriller bullshit.
Season 1 - "The Great Panic"
Open as the book does in the rural China. Move to the different settings where the outbreak started the most fierce, focusing on individual stories of survival this could include, the initial outbreak in South Africa, China (as it is supposed in the book,) the kid in Japan and so on. This would end with China's plan and the begin the Submarine story, General Rajh Singh and the last stand in India. Epic battle at Yonkers would make such a great ending to season 1. Include a few but very few regular heroes and focus on story.
Season 2 - "The Redeker Plan"
Open with Israel and the Middle East and their solution of self Quarantine, move on to things like the Russian Decimations, the Chinese wall of humanity solution. The American retreat west, the floating cities as witnessed by the Chinese Sub. The Indian final trek across the Himalayas bringing back General Raj Singh. This season would include the great human survival stories, the air pilot, the Russian Priest, the stories of the "safe zones" and the patrols there. The battle on the Pyramids in Mexico. Season ending is set at the Hawaii conference and the new U.N and lots of drama between nations.
Season 3 - "Total War"
Covering the stories of reclamation. Starting with France with a creepy scene of the French Divers going into the catacombs and the Z's swarming them. Initially focus on the Chinese sub's conclusion since its awesome. Have the stories of the K's, the Chinese Revolution, the "Mad Max" like bunkers and warlords across the US and Cubas new found affluence. It would move to the war effort in Russia and America but I think that it would be something like the battlefronts where they start moving, and then wrap it up in a jump to the Future. Add drama as fuck and this could easily extend another season if the rating are high.
And then... ... BWAAAAMMMMMM ...
... BWAAAAMMMMMM ...
... BWAAAAMMMMMM ...
... BWAAAAMMMMMM ...
... BWAAAAMMMMMM ...
... BWAAAAMMMMMM ...
... BWAAAAMMMMMM ... <cgi zombies at superspeed climbing onto eachother like athletes during the olympics>
... BWAAAMMMMMMM ... <needless romantic other saying 2 words like "Come back!"?
... BWAAAAMMMMMMMMMM ... <WATCH OUT, death count clock is rising with supreme accuracy>
... BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMM ...
WHAT THE FUCK!
They should have made an HBO series out of this, not this run of the mill cheap CGI family summer thriller bullshit.
Season 1 - "The Great Panic"
Open as the book does in the rural China. Move to the different settings where the outbreak started the most fierce, focusing on individual stories of survival this could include, the initial outbreak in South Africa, China (as it is supposed in the book,) the kid in Japan and so on. This would end with China's plan and the begin the Submarine story, General Rajh Singh and the last stand in India. Epic battle at Yonkers would make such a great ending to season 1. Include a few but very few regular heroes and focus on story.
Season 2 - "The Redeker Plan"
Open with Israel and the Middle East and their solution of self Quarantine, move on to things like the Russian Decimations, the Chinese wall of humanity solution. The American retreat west, the floating cities as witnessed by the Chinese Sub. The Indian final trek across the Himalayas bringing back General Raj Singh. This season would include the great human survival stories, the air pilot, the Russian Priest, the stories of the "safe zones" and the patrols there. The battle on the Pyramids in Mexico. Season ending is set at the Hawaii conference and the new U.N and lots of drama between nations.
Season 3 - "Total War"
Covering the stories of reclamation. Starting with France with a creepy scene of the French Divers going into the catacombs and the Z's swarming them. Initially focus on the Chinese sub's conclusion since its awesome. Have the stories of the K's, the Chinese Revolution, the "Mad Max" like bunkers and warlords across the US and Cubas new found affluence. It would move to the war effort in Russia and America but I think that it would be something like the battlefronts where they start moving, and then wrap it up in a jump to the Future. Add drama as fuck and this could easily extend another season if the rating are high.
And then... ... BWAAAAMMMMMM ...
... BWAAAAMMMMMM ...
... BWAAAAMMMMMM ...
... BWAAAAMMMMMM ...
... BWAAAAMMMMMM ...
... BWAAAAMMMMMM ...
The one they showed in the first trailer was likely before they were finished gussying up the CGI.
The animators really loved their floppy body effect.
Necronic
Staff member
I dunno. I'm still holding out. You would have to be stupid to have thought they could have remained very true to the book. It's too big. But it does look like they are taking the global perspective. I wonder if Pitt is supposed to be the Man with the Plan (whatever his name was) in the books, or some version of him.
That's not the problem, the problem is that it could have been done documentary style with amazing stories from around the globe. Pitt could have easily been the narrator/interviewer. It was an easy and perfect set-up ruined by Hollywood execs wanting Michael Bay style films.[/quote]
They didn't have to cover every single story. Just keep the premise of what made the book so fascinating.
Necronic
Staff member
They could do justice to maybe 3 stories. Which would have sucked. The whole premise of the story was that there were so many stories, so many angles. What do you cut? The New York/Hollywood House? The Canadian stories? The South African stories? Or maybe the stuff talking about the cleanup/Colin Powell? Or the Israel/Palestine stuff, or the stuff on the boats in India? Yonkers? Pick 3 of these and make it as good as the book. You can't.
Each one of these plays off the other to create a tapestry of the human experience. You can't remove most of them and have it still work.
Each one of these plays off the other to create a tapestry of the human experience. You can't remove most of them and have it still work.