World War Z (Brad Pitt)

[King Gizzard]

A new bio-pic of Greg's life. the first trailer is out

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(pretty sure Chewy or someone made a thread for this ages ago, find it if you can be bothered)

[Locke.]

Been looking forward to this for ages, written by the guy who wrote Lost and starring Matthew Fox

[King Gizzard]

The Zombies look quite ferocious and different in this, not like your normal ones that are just scattered about moving really slow

[Niall]

This looks quite good, but it's a bit irritating because the book it was based on specifically stipulated that zombies were slow and couldn't run full pelt like that. :suspect:

Either way I'm looking forward to it.

[Firewire]

I love that they filmed this on George's Square.

[MTVN]

Pretty crap trailer, I don't really understand anything that's happening

[Z]

The book was absolutely amazing and the film adaptation doesn't seem to have very much to do with it which is deeply disappointing. As Niall said, the book had slow zombies and, rather than being a novel about zombies, it was more a political dialogue with a background of 'zombies took over the world' but you could have quite easily replaced zombies with another international catastrophe and ended up with a book that was much the same. Regardless, it's exciting to see a film that was largely filmed in Glasgow and for it to be an adaptation of a book I loved so I'm excited to see it. Hopefully it'll be a good film in its own right, I'm going to try and not think about the fact it shares a name with the book and treat it as a standalone film.

[Z]

Pretty crap trailer, I don't really understand anything that's happening

I think Brad Pitt's character is supposed to be based on the character of the narrator in the World War Z book. The story of the book is set out like a report/interview - the narrator is like a UN type, who has been commissioned to gather data for a report, and he gets told that the human aspect of what he found isn't suitable for the report but that he should publish it as a book - so he does. All of that's in like the prologue of the book, and then after that it's a series of interviews with different characters, like soldiers from around the world, survivors etc, showing their experiences, and then is also a commentary on what would happen if the world as we know it collapsed and had to rebuild itself, and like Tibet ends up being a free country and has the world's largest population IIRC, Cuba is the leading economic power etc. It's a great book. Anyway, the character of the narrator isn't at all developed, he just asks questions of the other characters and you get lots of background about them. It's surprising they've chosen to build a film out of the book in this way, which is why I don't even consider it to be an adaptation.

[Josy]

The zombies look really fast :amazed:

This has taken ages though, I've been looking forward to it since they were filming in glasgow.

[King Gizzard]

Yeah think I prefer slow zombies actually, these are so fast and packed into one space that you can tell too much that they are CGI

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Brad looks good. Tired of zombie films though. Hope the Illuminati is not trying to warn us. :shocked:

[Josy]

Brad looks good. Tired of zombie films though. Hope the Illuminati is not trying to warn us. :shocked:

They are preparing you for the looming zombie apocalypse.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

They are preparing you for the looming zombie apocalypse.
*bites nails*

[Josy]

*bites nails*

Is that you practising biting for when you turn into a zombie? :laugh:

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Is that you practising biting for when you turn into a zombie? :laugh:
Yes and I am coming for you first. Beware.:devil:

[Tom4784]

It could be a decent film but it will be a terrible adaptation.

[Niall]

I think Brad Pitt's character is supposed to be based on the character of the narrator in the World War Z book. The story of the book is set out like a report/interview - the narrator is like a UN type, who has been commissioned to gather data for a report, and he gets told that the human aspect of what he found isn't suitable for the report but that he should publish it as a book - so he does. All of that's in like the prologue of the book, and then after that it's a series of interviews with different characters, like soldiers from around the world, survivors etc, showing their experiences, and then is also a commentary on what would happen if the world as we know it collapsed and had to rebuild itself, and like Tibet ends up being a free country and has the world's largest population IIRC, Cuba is the leading economic power etc. It's a great book. Anyway, the character of the narrator isn't at all developed, he just asks questions of the other characters and you get lots of background about them. It's surprising they've chosen to build a film out of the book in this way, which is why I don't even consider it to be an adaptation.

Yeah. I haven't read the book but I know a lot about it, and all the geopolitical shift it details is really interesting. I'd much rather it were more true to the book. It would've been a more interesting twist on zombie films then rather than this which seems like some standard zombie movie. :sad:

[Roy Mars III]

they have ruined a great book :bored:

[Jake.]

The Zombies look quite ferocious and different in this, not like your normal ones that are just scattered about moving really slow

this :amazed:

[Niamh.]

Oh I love Zombie films, looking forward to this

[Smithy]

Juan Antonio Bayona confirmed to be directing the sequel

-doesn't get how there's a sequel seeing as they sorted it out at the end of the first film-

[King Gizzard]

I love how I don't even watch 70% of all film threads I make

Terrible zombies put me off though.

[Smithy]

The film was kinda naff tbh, the original ending sounded a lot better

[Ramsay]

Always been meaning to watch this but cant be arsed since i've heard off so many people that it's crap

[GypsyGoth]

Always been meaning to watch this but cant be arsed since i've heard off so many people that it's crap

I thought it was up there with the best zombie movies I've watched.

I think you'll like it.

[Niall]

Always been meaning to watch this but cant be arsed since i've heard off so many people that it's crap

Well it depends on how little realism you can tolerate. In the film, the zombies can somehow climb over each other into strange pillar shaped crowds and clamber over 30ft walls. If the lack of there logic doesn't bother you, then you'll love it. You'll love it even more if you can stomach that it's a complete bastardisation of it's source material.

[Z]

Well it depends on how little realism you can tolerate. In the film, the zombies can somehow clamber over each other into strange pillar shaped crowds and clamber over 30ft walls. If the lack of there logic doesn't bother you, then you'll love it. You'll love it even more if you can stomach that it's a complete bastardisation of it's source material.

I've refused to watch it ever since I discovered just how much they'd changed the structure, plot and fundamental details of the book. It should never have been made into a film, it would be a fantastic TV program if it stuck to the source material and Max Brooks was part of the writing staff.

[Natalie.]

Seen this, was pretty disappointed really

[Smithy]

Well it depends on how little realism you can tolerate. In the film, the zombies can somehow clamber over each other into strange pillar shaped crowds and clamber over 30ft walls. If the lack of there logic doesn't bother you, then you'll love it. You'll love it even more if you can stomach that it's a complete bastardisation of it's source material.
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I've refused to watch it ever since I discovered just how much they'd changed the structure, plot and fundamental details of the book. It should never have been made into a film, it would be a fantastic TV program if it stuck to the source material and Max Brooks was part of the writing staff.

Everyone would have complained it was a rip off of the walking dead then, so they wouldn't be able to win either way

[Tom4784]

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Everyone would have complained it was a rip off of the walking dead then, so they wouldn't be able to win either way

The book isn't anything like The Walking Dead though. The book is basically a bunch of Survivors talking about their experiences.

[Smithy]

I haven't read it, but a tv show about zombies would just have people calling it a rip off from the start

[Z]

I haven't read it, but a tv show about zombies would just have people calling it a rip off from the start

Maybe if they hadn't watched any of it, but the book isn't like anything else in the genre, it's basically an unnamed UN reporter going around talking to survivors from all around the world and documenting their experiences of the zombie uprising and the book follows a general timeline from start to end by jumping between stories; so it'd be more like, I dunno, LOST in the sense that there would be lots of flashbacks - the characters range from soldiers to politicians to every day people...

It's one of the best books I've ever read; you could replace the zombies with any other kind of plague/infection and it would read the same, it's more about the impact on the world after a global catastrophe.

[Z]

Ugh the bit about little Sharon in the church makes me upset every time I re-read the book, all the parents killing the children to "save" them from the zombies outside, but she manages to get away somehow... Max Brooks wrote that part so well, I can picture both the church part and her in the ward part so vividly :(

[Smithy]

was gonna read the book, but now -＿-

[Z]

was gonna read the book, but now -＿-

Honestly couldn't recommend it more, I couldn't put it down the first time I read it and I've re-read it so many times over the years

[Niall]

I've refused to watch it ever since I discovered just how much they'd changed the structure, plot and fundamental details of the book. It should never have been made into a film, it would be a fantastic TV program if it stuck to the source material and Max Brooks was part of the writing staff.

Well it would be an okayish action film if it had a different title. I just don't get why they bothered to slap on the book's name as the movie's title. It makes no sense because the two bear absolutely no similarity whatsoever, the only thing that unites them both is their names.

You're right anyways, it would make an excellent TV series.

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Well a zombie isn't as unrealistic as the crap in the movie. The right combination of symptoms in a disease like rabies could probably whip up something remarkably similar.

It was the movie's flagrant disregard for basic things, like way people move, pissed me off. Those stupid 100ft zombie pillars, and the way the zombie crowds flowed around like they were made of water are both examples of that. It made no ****ing sense.

[Smithy]

Brad Pitt survived throwing a grenade in a plane and it crashing and you're complaining about the way zombies move :nono:

[Smithy]

I think i'm just playing devils advocate I really don't care :laugh:

-skips away-

[King Gizzard]

the main thing about zombie moves is the zombies and WWZ's are terrible and CGI-ey, the same thing that ruined I Am Legend

[Smithy]

the main thing about zombie moves is the zombies and WWZ's are terrible and CGI-ey, the same thing that ruined I Am Legend

most of them is make up (I think) it's only when they're in the massive herds(? idk what you call a group of zombies) that they look CGI

[Niall]

Brad Pitt survived throwing a grenade in a plane and it crashing and you're complaining about the way zombies move :nono:

tHE WHOLE THING WAS A MESS OKAY http://forums.llli.org/images/smilies/angrywife.gif

most of them is make up (I think) it's only when they're in the massive herds(? idk what you call a group of zombies) that they look CGI

Hordes. The word you're thinking of is horde.

[Smithy]

oh yeah, i was close :hmph: