06-05-2013, 10:42 PM | #1 |
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World War Z: Not World War Z
Link For fucks sake this is not Max Brooks' World War Z. All the problems compared to the book: Spoiler: show Looks god awful. Everyone should just read the book and skip this terrible film. I know I'm showing you guys the trailer and then telling you not to see it, but I'm only showing you the trailer to compare it to the book. |
06-05-2013, 11:03 PM | #2 |
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Wasn't planning on seeing it. However, I have to hand it to them that the special effects of thousands of humans piling on top of each other to scale walls and flood stuff is really really unsettling. Good job with throwing money at that, I guess?
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06-06-2013, 12:32 AM | #3 |
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I was planning on reading the book, but decided that it probably was another one of those books that has no thought put into it, plus zombies, but I may reconsider. I did as well see the trailer, and thought "yippee, another americanized production". As well, I found it kinda weird how some zombies could take down a helicopter.
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06-06-2013, 12:54 AM | #4 |
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06-06-2013, 02:05 AM | #5 | |
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Max Brooks actually writes very good zombie books. Zombie Survival Guide is extremely detailed and insightful despite being a guide for a fictitious apocalypse. His comics are also very well written stories about zombie attacks of the past and how people survive and how people ignored it as something more logical, like rabies or insane cannibalism. |
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06-06-2013, 05:57 AM | #6 |
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Film in being worse than the book shocker.
On a serious note, I saw the trailer for this the other night and a) I'm getting fucking sig of Zombie Apocalypse stories and b) I had no interest to see it at all. Nothing. Not even a 'Ooh, that looks cool, might check that out'. |
06-06-2013, 08:34 AM | #7 |
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I saw the trailer when I saw Star Trek: Into Darkness (it was the only trailer actually; go go tiny Northern Michigan theaters!) and I was like "This looks weird." I didn't remember WWZ being about Brad Pitt being As Gritty As Possible. For a majority of the trailer, I didn't know what it was, and it didn't look like a zombie movie at all. It reminded me a lot more of War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise than it did of anything even remotely zombie themed, like I Am Legend.
It really sounds like they wrote a script entirely different from the book and slapped the WWZ name on it. I haven't even read the book but from what I know secondhand about it, it seems my analysis is spot on (and Wikipedia's chronicle of the creative conflict seems to suggest that as well).
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Also I agree. Had I not known that this was a Zombie story, I wouldn't have known. It's never stated in the trailer or explicitly shown that they're Zombies - it just looks like some mass terrorist/protest sort of thing. |
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The thing is, some of Hollywood's most iconic or greatest productions have been rather unfaithful to the original novel or tale. Frankenstein ... Dracula ... Jurassic Park ... half of the Disney catalog (e.g. Alice in Wonderland, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 101 Dalmations) ... so while it's easy to jump aboard the "Let's Hate WWZ! " bandwagon and proclaim it the next Starship Troopers (oh God ), I think we should all consider that the product, unethically marketed though it may be, might be an entertaining adaptation in its own right. But yeah, it's probably going to suck.
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>I might have actually found War of the Worlds palpable had it been Tom Hanks starring, instead of Tom Cruise ruining it.
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I wish this was a TV or a Web Series and not this terrible movie. The review says it's an okay action/thriller, not a horror film. |
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06-10-2013, 03:54 PM | #12 |
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As soon as I heard Brad Pitt was cast in it, I gave up on it being anything even remotely close to the book. The book was awesome, the movie is just another big budget wasted on a single high profile actor "Saving the world" which isn't even the point of the book. The book was more about what was left of humanity struggling to hold onto life against a never ending swarm of dead people and learning to deal with their new lives in the post zombie apocalypse world. Really bummed they couldn't do better then Brad Pitt saving the world story.
So I won't be seeing it until it's out on Dvd or blue ray. There's a lot of cool movies coming out this summer and this is just not what I would have expected from such a well put together Zombie novel. |
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Well of course Brad Pitt was cast. He owns the company that made the movie -_-;;
So from what I've read, Max Brooks sold the rights to Brad Pitt around 2007, but was allowed no input for the movie. J. Michael Straczynski wrote the original script, which Max Brooks actually approved of as a nice way to make his book more cohesive. Brooks admitted his book doesn't make a good movie, but Straczynski's script somehow made it work. The script was leaked in 2008 and actually had good reviews! Quote:
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06-13-2013, 07:52 AM | #14 |
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Let us never speak of the Starship Troopers films.
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