World War Z Trailer - UGH

Necronic

Necronic

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Ok fair enough. I'm just not willing to write it off because it deviates from the book. The book was effectively unwriteable, and apparently it does follow one main shared theme of "this is what happens when civilization collapses overnight"
 
Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh

Necronic said:
Ok fair enough. I'm just not willing to write it off because it deviates from the book. The book was effectively unwriteable, and apparently it does follow one main shared theme of "this is what happens when civilization collapses overnight"
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Oh I didn't write it off for that either. I gave it the reviews I did for reasons completely unrelated to the book.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

It's not a bad movie, to be honest, but I don't think it's a great one either. It's pretty average and forgettable. It's got spectacular visuals, and the cast's acting is pretty good, but the plot and the writing are lackluster, and some of the directing choices were baffling. For example,

The scene where Gerry's trapped in the freezer, and there's a zombie outside waiting for him. Every time the zombie did that clicking thing with his teeth, the audience in my theater cracked up. Completely ruined any possible tension in that scene.
 
Tress

Tress

bhamv3 said:
It's not a bad movie, to be honest, but I don't think it's a great one either. It's pretty average and forgettable. It's got spectacular visuals, and the cast's acting is pretty good, but the plot and the writing are lackluster, and some of the directing choices were baffling. For example,

The scene where Gerry's trapped in the freezer, and there's a zombie outside waiting for him. Every time the zombie did that clicking thing with his teeth, the audience in my theater cracked up. Completely ruined any possible tension in that scene.
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Then you were surrounded by a shitty audience. Nothing like that happened in the theater I attended.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Haven't seen it, don't plan to, but I've heard from a few friends that happened in their theater too (as well as on other message boards).
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

I don't know, I originally raged against I, Robot, but once I was able to divorce it completely from the Isaac Asimov books, it was actually a pretty decent flick.
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

just rollin up to say that Rotten Tomatoes' percentage isn't like. a grade on how good it is. It's measuring what percentage of reviewers liked it. A movie could get 80% and almost all of that 80% is like "eh, it was alright" and a movie could get 60% and everyone that didn't like it, thought it was the worst thing ever made.
 
Tress

Tress

Charlie Don't Surf said:
just rollin up to say that Rotten Tomatoes' percentage isn't like. a grade on how good it is. It's measuring what percentage of reviewers liked it. A movie could get 80% and almost all of that 80% is like "eh, it was alright" and a movie could get 60% and everyone that didn't like it, thought it was the worst thing ever made.
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I'm just so glad you came by to explain that, since I'm incapable of rational thought or basic levels of understanding. Were it not for your condescending lecture on the simple system RT uses, I might have gone through life thinking that a number on a website was a natural law. Thank you, Charlie. Thank you.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Tress said:
I'm just so glad you came by to explain that, since I'm incapable of rational thought or basic levels of understanding. Were it not for your condescending lecture on the simple system RT uses, I might have gone through life thinking that a number on a website was a natural law. Thank you, Charlie. Thank you.
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AshburnerX said:
It's still only a D+. You show that grade to any parent and they'd ground their kid.
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Charlie just hates to use quotes when he replies to a single comment a page back.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

Tress said:
I'm just so glad you came by to explain that, since I'm incapable of rational thought or basic levels of understanding. Were it not for your condescending lecture on the simple system RT uses, I might have gone through life thinking that a number on a website was a natural law. Thank you, Charlie. Thank you.
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Honestly, I'm all for calling Charlie on his douchebaggery, but his post was perfectly civil.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

If there's condescension in that post, you're putting it there. If you keep jumping on Charlie's posts when they're civil, it's not going to encourage him to do it very often.
 
Dave

Dave

Staff member
I saw this movie Saturday and went in knowing it would be nothing like the book, so I just didn't worry about it.

I liked it to an extent. It was different from your normal zombie movies for a number of reasons, but the biggest is the tone & focus of the movie. Because the dead aren't rising (a person who is not infected dies they stay dead) and this is due to a virus of sorts, the movie was not about X number of people trying to get to safety and just survive. The movie is about Brad Pitt's mission to backtrack and find where Patient Zero originated and see if there was an underlying reason and possible cure. And that changes the whole genre. I can't think of another zombie movie where the focus wasn't just survival. (There may be one - I'm not the biggest Zombie movie guy.)

So I liked that it was different, even though
the plane crash where only the two people we know survived was very Giant Eagle.
 
Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh

Bowielee said:
If there's condescension in that post, you're putting it there. If you keep jumping on Charlie's posts when they're civil, it's not going to encourage him to do it very often.
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No matter what you respond to Charlie, he's always going to post the same way. Even when you correct him with facts against his made-up opinions, he will just move on and continue saying the same things in another thread. You should know that by now.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

Gilgamesh said:
No matter what you respond to Charlie, he's always going to post the same way. Even when you correct him with facts against his made-up opinions, he will just move on and continue saying the same things in another thread. You should know that by now.
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Would you two just get it over with and screw already?
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

Dave said:
I saw this movie Saturday and went in knowing it would be nothing like the book, so I just didn't worry about it.

I liked it to an extent. It was different from your normal zombie movies for a number of reasons, but the biggest is the tone & focus of the movie. Because the dead aren't rising (a person who is not infected dies they stay dead) and this is due to a virus of sorts, the movie was not about X number of people trying to get to safety and just survive. The movie is about Brad Pitt's mission to backtrack and find where Patient Zero originated and see if there was an underlying reason and possible cure. And that changes the whole genre. I can't think of another zombie movie where the focus wasn't just survival. (There may be one - I'm not the biggest Zombie movie guy.)

So I liked that it was different, even though
the plane crash where only the two people we know survived was very Giant Eagle.
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I feel like the story of the Korean Doctor was tacked on just to say that "Yes, these are actual zombies, they are actually rising from the dead. Well, one of them did." Because otherwise we see no evidence they're actually undead. Instead, they seem more like virus-fueled rage monsters, a la Left 4 Dead or 28 Days Later.
 
Frank

Frank

I thought WWZ was a huge and mighty EHHHH. It was alright I guess.

You know what I am sick of? Trailer for that Clap Phantom movie before everything I see. Clap Phantoms and the Carrie remake (which shows the entire progression of the film). Fuck Clap Phantoms.

I realize that Clap Phantoms is actually called The Conjuring, I just like the name Clap Phantoms better.
 
Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

stienman said:
But..but... You said I had a good shot at being the funniest poster...!
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Malcolm Tucker said:
Half an hour ago, you were in with a shot. Now it's half an hour hence. We've fucking time travelled, yes? We're in a new and wonderful world where everything is different. Maybe, outside, there are fucking robots knocking about. Maybe Davina McCall's the new Pope. Maybe you can download rice.
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Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Frank said:
I thought WWZ was a huge and mighty EHHHH. It was alright I guess.

You know what I am sick of? Trailer for that Clap Phantom movie before everything I see. Clap Phantoms and the Carrie remake (which shows the entire progression of the film). Fuck Clap Phantoms.

I realize that Clap Phantoms is actually called The Conjuring, I just like the name Clap Phantoms better.
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Because The Conjuring sounds so generic.
 
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