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I was intrigued at one point, but I had read months ago that this movie wasn't going to be anything like the book. They haven't been keeping it a secret. Looks like another generic zombie movie. Could be the latest Resident Evil from the trailers. *Yawn*
 
ImpulsE69 said:
I was intrigued at one point, but I had read months ago that this movie wasn't going to be anything like the book. They haven't been keeping it a secret. Looks like another generic zombie movie. Could be the latest Resident Evil from the trailers. *Yawn*
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im ok with generic zombie movies. but zombie movies with excessive (and bad) cgi? no thx
 
This looks like they'll be doing what a couple of other movies did where they ruined a source material I love.

Priest. Source material korean manwha (korean equivalent of manga). Premise, a priest allows himself to be possessed by a demon in order to exact revenge on another demon who killed his love in the old west. Bad guys are demon-resurrected zombies and demonic disciples of the main demon bad guy. Movie premise, futuristic priest order of humans fight vampires.

Wanted. Source, indy comic mini series. Premise, super villians took over the world in the late 80's and secretly control it after teaming up to kill all super heroes. Using magic and technology they alter the world so that no one remembers the war and that they don't know super villians rule it all. Main character leads boring life until he discovers that his dad was a badass super villain and he has the same powers. His power, murder, that's it he's just super poweredly really good at murdering things. Other villains include people with names like Shithead and Fuckwit.

Now we have World War Z. A collection of individual stories set in chronological order of people who witnessed and lived through a growing world wide zombie war and the path the world eventually took to win back against the zombies. Each story is told in first person by the person who experienced it and shows the individual human side of the events from about 30 different perspectives. Movie premise, generic zombie movie with excessive CGI and no real homage to the source material that I can see.

I have a feeling I will not like it the same as I did not like Priest or Wanted.
 
Other than the title it seems to share almost nothing with the book.

Considering that slow zombies were a pretty important focus point in the books it seems weird to make them fast in the movie though a movie about humanity methodically killing off slow zombies would probably seem more boring.
 
Red Storm said:
Those zombies look incredibly fake, so much so that I can't not notice it every time they are on screen.
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This too. The way they pile up and how fast they move makes it very hard suspend your beliefs.

It would have been better to spread them out and if you're going to do fast zombies at least do them like the 28 days later series.
 
I read, and absolutely loved WWZ, but you have to admit that the book would make a very poor movie in its original state. Honestly, I welcome the change in the way this movie appears to show zombies. Most zombie movies involved very enclosed spaces, whereas this one at least appears to be shot much in the open. Slow moving zombies just don't pose as much as a threat in open spaces to the view as fast moving zombies do.

It's a new take on a zombie movie. Enjoy it for what it is.
 
thedarkwolf said:
Alright it has been awhile since I read the book but other than zombies and people being in the movie I don't see anything to do with the book. The book was more like a bunch of short stories about how different people handled the zombie outbreak. And most importantly I'm pretty sure they were SLOW MOVING ZOMBIES!!!


" re-written by Matthew Michael Carnahan to set the movie in the present, leaving behind much of the premise of the book to make it more of an action film."
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I've read the book and I've read the story about the development of this project and at this point the only thing the book and the movie have in common is the name. The script went through about 100 revisions and rewrites and they never came up with anything that stayed true to the book that the people involved liked as a movie. So they just tossed it all and started from scratch.

And I'm glad they did. The book is VASTLY overrated and any project that used it as a base would be the most slow-moving, dull and useless zombie movie ever made. By dumping it and going with the new premise of fast zombies at least there's a chance to turn it into something good.
 
Rakewell said:
Really enjoyed the book, a quick and interesting read. (Still can't believe it's Mel Brooks' kid who wrote it LOL)

Post-apocalypse survivor interview perspective would've been very appropriate, and would make this movie different and very interesting. There'd be plenty of action in flashbacks, I don't understand why we need another cookie-cutter zombie movie.
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So much they could have done with it and now that the license is wasted it won't ever be. 4-6 20ish minute stories told in flashback from the view of the interviewee that could have told the whole arc from initial rising to resolution with 20-30 minutes of stuff tying it together overall. They could have gone one further and had different directors adapt each of the flashbacks so that each one had a unique voice. But no instead we get generic crap, maybe it'll be exciting crap but given what they could have done with the source material it is already a let down.
 
Ventanni said:
I read, and absolutely loved WWZ, but you have to admit that the book would make a very poor movie in its original state.
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I think it would make an outstanding movie. It likely would be critically acclaimed. It would likely also, however, be a commercial flop. I'm imagining someone like Alejandro González Iñárritu at the helm.
 
I think it would make an outstanding movie. It likely would be critically acclaimed. It would likely also, however, be a commercial flop. I'm imagining someone like Alejandro González Iñárritu at the helm.
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It would be doable as an episodic tale like Band of Brothers, but not a movie. Each short story of WWZ is too rich for the whole movie to be told in a 2 hour block of time.
 
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xSkyDrAx said:
Other than the title it seems to share almost nothing with the book.

Considering that slow zombies were a pretty important focus point in the books it seems weird to make them fast in the movie though a movie about humanity methodically killing off slow zombies would probably seem more boring.
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Part of the fun about watching these things at least for me is the What would I do factor. What I would do with fast moving zombies is shit my pants and die pretty quickly. Kind of ruins that part of the fun.


World War Z is over rated even as far as zombie books go. I've read a lot better slow moving zombie books but WWZ has the name recognition so I understand why they are doing this.
 
Never read the book, but the movie looks like a rip roarin action movie. I'd see it. I do agree they should have hired more than one graphics/modeler person to do the CGI work though. And both slow/fast zombies have their place. From what you guys say, they totally altered the book anyway.
 
Printer Bandit said:
hey, it's the detective from the Killing

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Married to Brad Pitt? LOL GTFO

This almost seems like this movie would take place in I Am Legend, between the time Will Smith's family dies and when he is cruising NY in the mustang. The only thing that puts me off is the wife and children. Its gonna be fairly predictable, but looks entertaining enough.
 
The zombies at the back are pushing against the zombies at the front.. which are getting crushed with nowhere to go.... Creating a zombie ramp into the fort..... shit!!!

Need to rethink my zombie defense plans!
 
Pocatello said:
CGI is way overdone.
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The movie isn't even cooked yet.

Every scene in that Summer trailer is half-baked.

They will spend tens of millions of dollars in the coming months to make the CGI as realistic as possible.

....Too bad they aren't following the book though.... :hmm:
 
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