Personally, I think it looks really bad if you compare it to the book it is "loosely adapted from".
For those who don't know, World War Z is a really famous zombie book by Max Brooks which tells the story of a reporter that interviews different people on how the zombie breakout happened, how they managed to survive and how they got "rescued".
According to this interview, the writers opted for the "Romero" style of zombies, that follow animal instincts instead of the usual "roaming dead body" we are used to seeing: + Show Spoiler +
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."
shit like this is so rage inducing on SO many levels. the only way ima watch this is if his whole family dies including the shit child actor. another herp derp zombie movie that is LOOSELY based on the book it is portraying on top of using the cliche as shit "ENTIRE WORLD DIES EXCEPT FOR MAIN ACTORS FAMILY THAT HE IS PROTECTING".
let me stop before my rage meter fills to new unforseen levels.
I don't understand the amount of hate that's going on here. It doesn't look too bad. Might be fun to watch with friends, pizza and alcohol when it comes out on dvd. ;D
I may think Brooks is an overrated hack, but at least his book had some good points and interesting characters. This shit is just I Am Legend meets 2012. I am severely disappointed.
On November 09 2012 16:34 Dosey wrote: What the... I don't even... no... Just No
I may think Brooks is an overrated hack, but at least his book had some good points and interesting characters. This shit is just I Am Legend meets 2012. I am severely disappointed.
no, i am legen was a good movie. this movie is more like 2012 with zombies added. zombies that are NOT ZOMBIES btw. romero style "zombies" are not zombies nor will i ever consider them to be. there just infected normal humans with a rage virus. the same virus i got infected with after seeing this trailer.
Is it me or I really have no clues about zombies after watching the trailer. Thought it was literally about some future world war (4 billion killed zomg) with shit like air fighters, tanks, atomic bombs etc.
On November 09 2012 16:34 Dosey wrote: What the... I don't even... no... Just No
I may think Brooks is an overrated hack, but at least his book had some good points and interesting characters. This shit is just I Am Legend meets 2012. I am severely disappointed.
no, i am legen was a good movie. this movie is more like 2012 with zombies added. zombies that are NOT ZOMBIES btw. romero style "zombies" are not zombies nor will i ever consider them to be. there just infected normal humans with a rage virus.
Hoping this is a typo. Romero style zombies is pretty much THE definition of a zombie.
On November 09 2012 16:34 Dosey wrote: What the... I don't even... no... Just No
I may think Brooks is an overrated hack, but at least his book had some good points and interesting characters. This shit is just I Am Legend meets 2012. I am severely disappointed.
no, i am legen was a good movie. this movie is more like 2012 with zombies added. zombies that are NOT ZOMBIES btw. romero style "zombies" are not zombies nor will i ever consider them to be. there just infected normal humans with a rage virus.
Hoping this is a typo. Romero style zombies is pretty much THE definition of a zombie.
edit: my bad, i was getting him confused with another director.
even still tho my point remains the same. i hate what modern day zombies have become. if you like them thats fine, but i personally do not.
Dawn (2004) wasn't released until AFTER 28 Days later, where people expressed undying love for the new fast, intense "zombie", causing everyone to adapt to the new fast zombie take.
Romero style Zombies are arguably the definition of zombies. The slow walking, stumbling lacking intelligence zombies are what defines zombies....Zombies that function on instinct alone/
Rage virus zombies was NOT romero. That was Danny Boyle in 28 days later.
Nothing in common between the book and the movie except the name. I really liked the book, and it would be awesome to see the movie following the book more-or less closely. IMHO you don't even need a big budget for this, World War Z is great book to adopt for an indie.
Dawn (2004) wasn't released until AFTER 28 Days later, where people expressed undying love for the new fast, intense "zombie", causing everyone to adapt to the new fast zombie take.
ya read my edit, i admit i was dead wrong and do not know my directors well, but my main point still stands. i really hate the more modern day "fast and intelligent" zombies that have showed up in more recent films and even some games (resident evil starting with 4 for example). i cannot possibly see how a literally brain dead animated being is intelligent even if its in a animalistic way. and the zombies in this movie look more like 28 days later zombies than anything else.
Dawn (2004) wasn't released until AFTER 28 Days later, where people expressed undying love for the new fast, intense "zombie", causing everyone to adapt to the new fast zombie take.
ya read my edit, i admit i was dead wrong and do not know my directors well, but my main point still stands. i really hate the more modern day "fast and intelligent" zombies that have showed up in more recent films and even some games (resident evil starting with 4 for example). i cannot possibly see how a literally brain dead animated being is intelligent even if its in a animalistic way. and the zombies in this movie look more like 28 days later zombies than anything else.
The sad thing is that Brooks' zombies are pretty much identical to Romero's zombies in his books. I honestly don't understand what was going through his mind when he agreed to this nonsense, and his decision pretty much solidifies my already very poor opinion about him.
On November 09 2012 11:40 Sub40APM wrote: To me the clips they have remind me of: The day after tomorrow for the disaster aspects, battle star galactica for the 'evacuate out to sea aspects', a questionable choice to portray Israel and their barrier walls [Sure in the book its South Africa and a white guy thinks of the plan but Apartheid has been gone for almost 20 years now. The Israeli wall issue is going on today]
It's from the book though. Israel is pretty much the first country to react. They draft the initial containment plan (the South African one was a war plan after containment has failed). And when nobody goes along with their recommendations, Israel goes into quarantine, sealing themselves off with walls.
Sad. For me they could have changed everything apart from the zombies.
Sure fast zombies make for awesome action scenes but if I wanted that I'd go watch RE or 28 or something.Seems like a shame, to throw away or not try to present that sense of latent terror and horror that WWZ had in the sense that no one really knew how big the problem was and it was just mushrooming. Nothing captured like that like the ending notes for North Korea in my opinion.
It will obsviously be a pretty good movie with all the money and brad pitt and i will go watch it, i just dont get it why they needed to name at after the book when it has nothing to do with it. It transformed a documantary about survival of the species into a action packed hero-central loud noise fest.