World War Z (1 Viewer)

[snogger]

0% chance this movie is even remotely watchable. I will bet anything that it doesnt get past 25% on Rotten Tomatoes

That means those of us who LOVE summer movies are going to enjoy it.. Never read the book so have zero expectations other than mindless zombie summer block buster fun.

 

[stbugs]

found this infohttp://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/11/08/brad-pitt-world-war-z-photo/

Visual effects supervisor John Nelson (Iron Man) said World War Z’s zombies lean more toward sci-fi transformation victims rather than supernatural resurrection subjects. That led to a lot of research into animal behavior, especially for creatures under the amok-time sway of predator appetite or spawning urge.“They are like predatory animals that can’t control themselves,” Nelson said. “I worked with tigers [while shooting Gladiator], and if you watch them when a horse goes by they go batty, even if they know they can’t reach it. When Zs see humans they do same thing, they activate. They launch themselves.”He went on to add: “There are a lot of things in nature we’re mining as references. They move like birds or school of fish, too, in reactive formations, and it’s not because they have a higher level of [shared] thinking or communication – it’s about their nature and the fact that their instinct to infect is so basic, efficient, and overpowering. They will go through anything. If they lose both legs, they will walk on their hands. They lock in and they’re like salmon going upstream or sperm swimming to be the first to egg.”Unlike most fresh-water fish or spermatozoa, the zombies in the movie are resourceful when it comes to helicopter attacks. At one point in the film, a surging crowd of Zs climb up and over each other to create a writhing, wobbling column of infected flesh. “Everyone has seen everything in this genre,” Nelson said. “So of course we looked to try to find something new. And we have some.”

"Let's try to make it more 'real'"....turned Godzilla into this bastardized US version.At least when Toho got back to making Godzilla movies, they

Geez, that sounds like an awful idea. So, did he happen to see a horse on a cliff while filming Gladiator and the tiger's formed a writhing, wobbling column of stripes to get to the horse? Wow, so they act like animals, but somehow they are resourceful as well to plan out their attacks...dear lord this is going to be a CGI filled awful movie.

 

[The Football Freak]

0% chance this movie is even remotely watchable. I will bet anything that it doesnt get past 25% on Rotten Tomatoes

I hope it doesn't suck, but any movie that goes back to re-shoot after it's nearly done has a good chance of blowing. That, and extensive, post-shoot editing that pushes off the release date, are always big red-flags.

 

[stbugs]

0% chance this movie is even remotely watchable. I will bet anything that it doesnt get past 25% on Rotten Tomatoes

I hope it doesn't suck, but any movie that goes back to re-shoot after it's nearly done has a good chance of blowing. That, and extensive, post-shoot editing that pushes off the release date, are always big red-flags.

Really? You think they realized it blowed because the nano-bot swarm rolling wave of zombies didn't look realistic and wasn't quite the same as a tiger going crazy near a horse? Color me shocked!

 

[Tom Servo]

 

[pantherclub]

"tell the kids I am coming back"Looks absolutely horrible

Why do the feel the need to deviate from the book so much. I dont see anything that even remotely resembles the book in that trailer.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Still looks terrible.

 

[Kenny Powers]

I didnt read the book. I think it looks better than your average summer blockbuster, but it certainly couldve been better.

 

[pantherclub]

I didnt read the book. I think it looks better than your average summer blockbuster, but it certainly couldve been better.

The book is awesome. It tells the story in a piece together kind of way making it unique. This trailer just looks like Michael Bay crapped on a zombie movie.

 

[badmojo1006]

That is the same trailer I posted on page 1 of this thread

 

[snogger]

I didnt read the book. I think it looks better than your average summer blockbuster, but it certainly couldve been better.

The book is awesome. It tells the story in a piece together kind of way making it unique. This trailer just looks like Michael Bay crapped on a zombie movie.

Probably going to get hammered on this but.... I'm 85% of the way through the book (at least by Kindle Fire status) and I'm seriously just forcing my way to get through it.. I find myself barely getting through one "interview" before the hits..Probably shouldn't have titled this movie the same as the book to save the headaches and complaints they will get from the fans of the book.If the movie followed the book there is no way I'd spend money to go see it.. as it is I see what looks to be a fun, Zombie movie.

 

[Jobber]

I didnt read the book. I think it looks better than your average summer blockbuster, but it certainly couldve been better.

The book is awesome. It tells the story in a piece together kind of way making it unique. This trailer just looks like Michael Bay crapped on a zombie movie.

Probably going to get hammered on this but.... I'm 85% of the way through the book (at least by Kindle Fire status) and I'm seriously just forcing my way to get through it.. I find myself barely getting through one "interview" before the hits..Probably shouldn't have titled this movie the same as the book to save the headaches and complaints they will get from the fans of the book.If the movie followed the book there is no way I'd spend money to go see it.. as it is I see what looks to be a fun, Zombie movie.

I disagree with your assessment of the book. However, I'll be doing the same and just ignoring the movie title and sit back to enjoy a decent looking zombie movie.

 

[bentley]

I didnt read the book. I think it looks better than your average summer blockbuster, but it certainly couldve been better.

The book is awesome. It tells the story in a piece together kind of way making it unique. This trailer just looks like Michael Bay crapped on a zombie movie.

Probably going to get hammered on this but.... I'm 85% of the way through the book (at least by Kindle Fire status) and I'm seriously just forcing my way to get through it.. I find myself barely getting through one "interview" before the hits..Probably shouldn't have titled this movie the same as the book to save the headaches and complaints they will get from the fans of the book.If the movie followed the book there is no way I'd spend money to go see it.. as it is I see what looks to be a fun, Zombie movie.

It started out rough for me, but I eventually really got into it. I forced myself through the first 25 percent of the book. Once the stories got longer, I really enjoyed it. I did check out a bit on the wind down.

 

[badmojo1006]

I didnt read the book. I think it looks better than your average summer blockbuster, but it certainly couldve been better.

The book is awesome. It tells the story in a piece together kind of way making it unique. This trailer just looks like Michael Bay crapped on a zombie movie.

Probably going to get hammered on this but.... I'm 85% of the way through the book (at least by Kindle Fire status) and I'm seriously just forcing my way to get through it.. I find myself barely getting through one "interview" before the hits..Probably shouldn't have titled this movie the same as the book to save the headaches and complaints they will get from the fans of the book.If the movie followed the book there is no way I'd spend money to go see it.. as it is I see what looks to be a fun, Zombie movie.

It started out rough for me, but I eventually really got into it. I forced myself through the first 25 percent of the book. Once the stories got longer, I really enjoyed it. I did check out a bit on the wind down.

If I remember, the "Battle of Yonkers" was in the first 25% of the book. And that is the best of the whole book

 

[bentley]

I didnt read the book. I think it looks better than your average summer blockbuster, but it certainly couldve been better.

The book is awesome. It tells the story in a piece together kind of way making it unique. This trailer just looks like Michael Bay crapped on a zombie movie.

Probably going to get hammered on this but.... I'm 85% of the way through the book (at least by Kindle Fire status) and I'm seriously just forcing my way to get through it.. I find myself barely getting through one "interview" before the hits..Probably shouldn't have titled this movie the same as the book to save the headaches and complaints they will get from the fans of the book.If the movie followed the book there is no way I'd spend money to go see it.. as it is I see what looks to be a fun, Zombie movie.

It started out rough for me, but I eventually really got into it. I forced myself through the first 25 percent of the book. Once the stories got longer, I really enjoyed it. I did check out a bit on the wind down.

If I remember, the "Battle of Yonkers" was in the first 25% of the book. And that is the best of the whole book

IIRC, the Battle of Yonkers was in the "beat us over the head with every geopolitical stereotype of every form of government" part of the book. "The Chinese trade in bodies!" "Americans are media whores!" "Russians cling to the Cold War!" "Drug companies are crooked!" That part of the book sucked. Redeker Plan on was pretty good.

 

[flapgreen]

Pumped!

 

[Uruk-Hai]

I didnt read the book. I think it looks better than your average summer blockbuster, but it certainly couldve been better.

The book is awesome. It tells the story in a piece together kind of way making it unique. This trailer just looks like Michael Bay crapped on a zombie movie.

Probably going to get hammered on this but.... I'm 85% of the way through the book (at least by Kindle Fire status) and I'm seriously just forcing my way to get through it.. I find myself barely getting through one "interview" before the hits..

Probably shouldn't have titled this movie the same as the book to save the headaches and complaints they will get from the fans of the book.

If the movie followed the book there is no way I'd spend money to go see it.. as it is I see what looks to be a fun, Zombie movie.

I think what fans of the book are bothered by is that it never should've been a movie, but a TV series. The way the book was written lends itself to that format."Brad Pitt doing a zombie movie" is perfectly fine and I hope it's great. But it's not the WWZ novel adaptation in the way that Jackson's "Lord Of The Rings" films are of Tolkien's books.

 

[cstu]

I think what fans of the book are bothered by is that it never should've been a movie, but a TV series. The way the book was written lends itself to that format.

"Brad Pitt doing a zombie movie" is perfectly fine and I hope it's great. But it's not the WWZ novel adaptation in the way that Jackson's "Lord Of The Rings" films are of Tolkien's books.

Can't HBO just make a zombie show already?

 

[Kenny Powers]

I think what fans of the book are bothered by is that it never should've been a movie, but a TV series. The way the book was written lends itself to that format.

"Brad Pitt doing a zombie movie" is perfectly fine and I hope it's great. But it's not the WWZ novel adaptation in the way that Jackson's "Lord Of The Rings" films are of Tolkien's books.

Can't HBO just make a zombie show already?

If WWZ does huge at the box office, is it more like a writer or someone else approaches HBO about that?

 

[snogger]

I think what fans of the book are bothered by is that it never should've been a movie, but a TV series. The way the book was written lends itself to that format.

"Brad Pitt doing a zombie movie" is perfectly fine and I hope it's great. But it's not the WWZ novel adaptation in the way that Jackson's "Lord Of The Rings" films are of Tolkien's books.

Can't HBO just make a zombie show already?

If WWZ does huge at the box office, is it more like a writer or someone else approaches HBO about that?

My Seeing as the Movie title is the same as the book I'm going out on a limb here with a guess..

They start the movie off with an interview, which then goes into a flash back(s) of one or more of the interviews in the book.

If it does well at the box office, then a Part 2 will be created to bring more of the story lines in.

Similar to how there were rumors that a 2nd Cloverfield was going to be made showing a different perspective of the attack.

 

[bigbottom]

The zombie thing is within a whisper of being played out.

 

[dickey moe]

The zombie thing is within a whisper of being played out.

Within a whisper? It's like 8-Ball jackets.

 

[cstu]

The zombie thing is within a whisper of being played out.

I'm mainly interested in a serious post-apocalyptic show, it doesn't need to be zombies. I'd actually prefer it wasn't and go with radiation that causes mutant people/animals. That way you can get the same effect without dealing with the cheesy re-animated dead aspect.

 

[Kool-Aid Larry]

I think what fans of the book are bothered by is that it never should've been a movie, but a TV series. The way the book was written lends itself to that format.

"Brad Pitt doing a zombie movie" is perfectly fine and I hope it's great. But it's not the WWZ novel adaptation in the way that Jackson's "Lord Of The Rings" films are of Tolkien's books.

Can't HBO just make a zombie show already?

I'd rather not see zombie boobs

 

[Chaka]

The zombie thing is within a whisper of being played out.

I'm mainly interested in a serious post-apocalyptic show, it doesn't need to be zombies. I'd actually prefer it wasn't and go with radiation that causes mutant people/animals. That way you can get the same effect without dealing with the cheesy re-animated dead aspect.

I still find the whole zombie thing entertaining but I would also like to see something more like The Road in series format. Maybe not quite that heavy but something more real. They're trying to do something like that with Revolution but you just can't do something like that on network television with any sort of realism.

 

[Thunderlips]

I think what fans of the book are bothered by is that it never should've been a movie, but a TV series. The way the book was written lends itself to that format.

"Brad Pitt doing a zombie movie" is perfectly fine and I hope it's great. But it's not the WWZ novel adaptation in the way that Jackson's "Lord Of The Rings" films are of Tolkien's books.

Can't HBO just make a zombie show already?

I'd rather not see zombie boobs

I don't know if you read the book...but that was one of the cool things about it. The author specifically said that most people think of the shambling zombie in a three piece suit from the Romero movies. But alot of the ones here were half and full naked because they came from hospitals or their clothes just ripped off.

 

[Kenny Powers]

The zombie thing is within a whisper of being played out.

I'm mainly interested in a serious post-apocalyptic show, it doesn't need to be zombies. I'd actually prefer it wasn't and go with radiation that causes mutant people/animals. That way you can get the same effect without dealing with the cheesy re-animated dead aspect.

I still find the whole zombie thing entertaining but I would also like to see something more like The Road in series format. Maybe not quite that heavy but something more real. They're trying to do something like that with Revolution but you just can't do something like that on network television with any sort of realism.

Yeah, that show looks OK but Im guessing its not worth the time considering its on network TV. Watching a hockey game on NBC yesterday, they had a promo for a new show, Hannibal. How the hell can you do that right on NBC?! Come on now.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

The zombie thing is within a whisper of being played out.

Within a whisper? It's like 8-Ball jackets.

 

[dickey moe]

The zombie thing is within a whisper of being played out.

Within a whisper? It's like 8-Ball jackets.

 

[cstu]

The zombie thing is within a whisper of being played out.

Within a whisper? It's like 8-Ball jackets.

You guys got me wanting an 8 ball jacket now.

 

[badmojo1006]

Here is an updated trailer. Not sure how long it will stay up as Paramount keeps pulling it.

Doesn't look bad, I just have to keep telling myself it is completely different from the book

 

[BustedKnuckles]

Here is an updated trailer. Not sure how long it will stay up as Paramount keeps pulling it.

Doesn't look bad, I just have to keep telling myself it is completely different from the book

I keep trying to make out what the ''zombies'' actually look like but its all moving too fast.

 

[Dexter]

Here is an updated trailer. Not sure how long it will stay up as Paramount keeps pulling it.

Wrong! Wrong! It's all wrong!

 

[cstu]

Here is an updated trailer. Not sure how long it will stay up as Paramount keeps pulling it.

Wrong! Wrong! It's all wrong!

I repeat:Good lord, that looks like 2012 with zombies.

 

[pantherclub]

Here is an updated trailer. Not sure how long it will stay up as Paramount keeps pulling it.

Wrong! Wrong! It's all wrong!

I repeat:Good lord, that looks like 2012 with zombies.

Mother of God that looks horrible

 

[stbugs]

Here is an updated trailer. Not sure how long it will stay up as Paramount keeps pulling it.

Wrong! Wrong! It's all wrong!

I repeat:Good lord, that looks like 2012 with zombies.

Mother of God that looks horrible

Beyond horrible. The only zombie/virus/whatever movies I hate are the ones where the zombies become super human. Looks like everyone runs a 4.3 40 now and is strong enough to create a 10 story human pyramid and roll a bus over. Still looks like a swarm of nanobots to me.I might even still give it a chance once the real reviews come out if it doesn't get horrible reviews. Something tells me it will.

 

[flapgreen]

Here is an updated trailer. Not sure how long it will stay up as Paramount keeps pulling it.

Wrong! Wrong! It's all wrong!

I repeat:Good lord, that looks like 2012 with zombies.

Mother of God that looks horrible

Beyond horrible. The only zombie/virus/whatever movies I hate are the ones where the zombies become super human. Looks like everyone runs a 4.3 40 now and is strong enough to create a 10 story human pyramid and roll a bus over. Still looks like a swarm of nanobots to me.I might even still give it a chance once the real reviews come out if it doesn't get horrible reviews. Something tells me it will.

Can they fly too? Those things are booking it!

 

[BustedKnuckles]

Here is an updated trailer. Not sure how long it will stay up as Paramount keeps pulling it.

Wrong! Wrong! It's all wrong!

I repeat:Good lord, that looks like 2012 with zombies.

Mother of God that looks horrible

Beyond horrible. The only zombie/virus/whatever movies I hate are the ones where the zombies become super human. Looks like everyone runs a 4.3 40 now and is strong enough to create a 10 story human pyramid and roll a bus over. Still looks like a swarm of nanobots to me.I might even still give it a chance once the real reviews come out if it doesn't get horrible reviews. Something tells me it will.

Can they fly too? Those things are booking it!

its like 28 days later on steroids

 

[Socrates11]

Here is an updated trailer. Not sure how long it will stay up as Paramount keeps pulling it.

Doesn't look bad, I just have to keep telling myself it is completely different from the book

That's the only way to enjoy this movie, treat it as totally different entity and forget about trying to make it follow the book. I'm even changing the name of it in my mind, I call it 'Zombie Swarm'.

 

[pantherclub]

Here is an updated trailer. Not sure how long it will stay up as Paramount keeps pulling it.

Doesn't look bad, I just have to keep telling myself it is completely different from the book

That's the only way to enjoy this movie, treat it as totally different entity and forget about trying to make it follow the book. I'm even changing the name of it in my mind, I call it 'Zombie Swarm'.

and get stoned.or drunk

or both

preferably both.

then it probably will be watchable

 

[Chaka]

I just started reading the book a few days ago, maybe a third of the way through it, and while the author hasn't called them "fast zombies" he often refers to zombie "swarms" (and has mentioned that they are significantly stronger than a normal human).

 

[badmojo1006]

First Impressions of the movie. Ehh

 

[snogger]

First Impressions of the movie. Ehh

This quote may help those who love the book:

Q: The book has a reputation for being more reflective and everything we’ve seen here, seems pretty brisk and fast. Does the movie ever sort of take a break to absorb more of those elements of the book?

Forster: Yes, it does take a break and become more reflective. It’s not what you guys saw here

and this:

Q: Brad has been quoted in the past as saying he’d like to see a World War Z trilogy. Is that to say this ends on a good note? Is there more story to tell?

Forster: Definitely, there could be more story to tell, yes.

The trailer is to draw in the action crowds, but it does seem the movie will have more than just Run, kill, die, run, kill die..

 

[jamny]

While that's encouraging, I don't think something like this is made for a trilogy where you'll have to wait 2 or 3 years between films. While the story is broad in scope due to the many locations, it's not deep in thought. It's a zombie survival tale, not Star Wars or The Matrix.

I'll go in with no expectations from the book and just hope to enjoy it without making comparisons.

 

[cst2006]

If I remember correctly the zombies from the book definitely were not superhuman / fast in any way. Specific mentions of their deliberate movements that I can remember off the top of my head are when they set up the firing squad type lines and just picked them off for hours straight while they slowly came over the horizon, and when the pilot girl crash landed and made her way to safety talking to her imaginary friend they didn't seem to be too fast (she outran them with a severely sprained ankle I believe).

 

[kentric]

Here is an updated trailer. Not sure how long it will stay up as Paramount keeps pulling it.

Doesn't look bad, I just have to keep telling myself it is completely different from the book

Always loved me some blown out plane at 40,000 feet.

 

[snogger]

If I remember correctly the zombies from the book definitely were not superhuman / fast in any way. Specific mentions of their deliberate movements that I can remember off the top of my head are when they set up the firing squad type lines and just picked them off for hours straight while they slowly came over the horizon, and when the pilot girl crash landed and made her way to safety talking to her imaginary friend they didn't seem to be too fast (she outran them with a severely sprained ankle I believe).

right.. The article interview states the zombies are no faster then a "live" person.Also, as someone else mentioned above.. Zombies using others to "ramp up" was mentioned not only in the Firing squad part, but the pilot lady mentioned getting up in the tree to sleep and making sure there wasn't a way for them to "Ramp up" to her.The fact in the interview they mention this movie only covers a couple of days basically goes back to my point a couple pages ago. Where I thought they might be creating a "trilogy" of sorts where they start with the beginning of the apocalypse and, if the movie does well, bring out other movies to cover the rest of the book

 

[Chaka]

First Impressions of the movie. Ehh

This quote may help those who love the book:

Q: The book has a reputation for being more reflective and everything we’ve seen here, seems pretty brisk and fast. Does the movie ever sort of take a break to absorb more of those elements of the book?

Forster: Yes, it does take a break and become more reflective. It’s not what you guys saw here

and this:

Q: Brad has been quoted in the past as saying he’d like to see a World War Z trilogy. Is that to say this ends on a good note? Is there more story to tell?

Forster: Definitely, there could be more story to tell, yes.

The trailer is to draw in the action crowds, but it does seem the movie will have more than just Run, kill, die, run, kill die..

I remember they did that with the trailer for The Grey and many people who were expecting an action film were very disappointed.

 

[flapgreen]

If I remember correctly the zombies from the book definitely were not superhuman / fast in any way. Specific mentions of their deliberate movements that I can remember off the top of my head are when they set up the firing squad type lines and just picked them off for hours straight while they slowly came over the horizon, and when the pilot girl crash landed and made her way to safety talking to her imaginary friend they didn't seem to be too fast (she outran them with a severely sprained ankle I believe).

right.. The article interview states the zombies are no faster then a "live" person.Also, as someone else mentioned above.. Zombies using others to "ramp up" was mentioned not only in the Firing squad part, but the pilot lady mentioned getting up in the tree to sleep and making sure there wasn't a way for them to "Ramp up" to her.The fact in the interview they mention this movie only covers a couple of days basically goes back to my point a couple pages ago. Where I thought they might be creating a "trilogy" of sorts where they start with the beginning of the apocalypse and, if the movie does well, bring out other movies to cover the rest of the book

They look pretty fast while they're toppling over that bus.

 

[Chaka]

If I remember correctly the zombies from the book definitely were not superhuman / fast in any way. Specific mentions of their deliberate movements that I can remember off the top of my head are when they set up the firing squad type lines and just picked them off for hours straight while they slowly came over the horizon, and when the pilot girl crash landed and made her way to safety talking to her imaginary friend they didn't seem to be too fast (she outran them with a severely sprained ankle I believe).

Correct but the book did also reference swarming behavior, above average strength and in the story with the downed pilot she made the following comment "At least they couldn't ramp up, the ground wasn't solid enough." Suggesting that the Zs did, unintentionally no doubt, use the bodies of other Zs to form ramps to get over obstacles.ETA: I see someone already mentioned the "ramp up" comment.