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Zurich15239 Posts
The story line will be:
Introduction of Good Guy Brad in normal life NYC, news of rabies coming in NYC catastrophe, including the battle from in the Bronx that the army fucked up Narrow escape of Good Guy Brad and family against all odds (possibly leaving wife or kids behind) Goes to join US military and provides some sort of intel for them Action to retake the country with new intel (Possibly dramatic rescue and reunification with lost family member) The End.
Haven't watched the trailer yet, am I close?
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Goddamnit, the original script leaked in 2008 written by j.m. straczynski and was awesome.. this looks completely re-written and a generic summer action movie.
Will not watch/10
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On November 09 2012 21:55 RowdierBob wrote:Show nested quote +On November 09 2012 21:46 Bloodash wrote:On November 09 2012 21:41 RowdierBob wrote: The book would have been too hard to translate into a movie given how it was written. hard but not impossible, coulda done it in a fake docu kind of way, problem was probably it wouldn't be interesting for a large part of the movie going audience (or mabye it would but the dudes with the money don't believe so) There were too many stories running in the original to translate into a 2 hour film. They perhaps could have extrapolated some of the major chapters into a full length feature, but a somewhat direct translation would be too all over the shop for me. I'm not willing to write this movie off after a two minute clip--there's a lot to work with there (although I agree with everyone that it looks like it has nothing to do with the book. War Z in name only!)
There's no way the could do a 1-1 translation of the film, that's not the point.
The point is that what made the book interesting was that it was "realistic", detailing how the whole event would develop and how the world reacted to it.
From this trailer we can see a few things:
1) Brad Pitt. 2) Brad Pitt's family who will somehow all survive in the end. 3) Zombies that don't look like zombies, run like Usain Bolt and are able to form zombie ladders.
Now, if this was named "generic zombie movie 83" then it would be ok, I would probably watch it, but calling it WWZ just ruins the name of the book.
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hmm... these running in horde zombies give a different feeling than the zombies of The Walking Dead (for example)... in TWD or Zombie Games you usually question the Zombie Apocalypse (If he can kill 20 zombies so easily, why the fuck couldnt trained soldiers not stop the outbreak? etc). WWZ Zombies are smarter(instinctively) than that, even though it sometimes looks rly stupid (undead ladder? wtf?). But what I dislike the most about this trailer(and probably the film) is that the Zombies are computer generated only(?), you dont see any detail (like in TWD). :<
Zombie design... A for effort?
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We don't actually know much from this trailer in terms of what elements of the WWZ vignettes will be included (for instance, we briefly saw what could be the ship convoy from the book). All we know for sure is that the zombies are definitely not the same. I'm sure it will still contain the overarching story of outbreak, denial, overconfidence, defeat, and scrappy comeback. It could still be good you guys!
As long as the family drama is just about the initial outbreak and the question of whether Brad will survive to see them again, I'm ok with it. If the central conflict of the movie shifts from man's global struggle against the zombies to Brad's quest to save his family from some overrun location, I will be very disappointed.
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On November 09 2012 22:29 Daumen wrote: hmm... these running in horde zombies give a different feeling than the zombies of The Walking Dead (for example)... in TWD or Zombie Games you usually question the Zombie Apocalypse (If he can kill 20 zombies so easily, why the fuck couldnt trained soldiers not stop the outbreak? etc).
Would you believe someone saying "There's a zombie outbreak!!"? Another problem are infected humans (before they're zombies) which move to multiple locations and leading to another outbreak there. So an early strike is quite difficult.
You might (if you're bored and have some interest in fun math, or in P2P networks (where I had to read it)) want to read this: http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~rsmith/Zombies.pdf
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On November 09 2012 22:03 zatic wrote: The story line will be:
Introduction of Good Guy Brad in normal life NYC, news of rabies coming in NYC catastrophe, including the battle from in the Bronx that the army fucked up Narrow escape of Good Guy Brad and family against all odds (possibly leaving wife or kids behind) Goes to join US military and provides some sort of intel for them Action to retake the country with new intel (Possibly dramatic rescue and reunification with lost family member) The End.
Haven't watched the trailer yet, am I close?
You forgot the most important part -- EXPLOSIONS!
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I would probably like that more as a generic zombie movie than as a project with the name "World War Z" attached to it. Guess we'll see how it turns out when we have more to judge by.
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On November 09 2012 12:00 Matoo- wrote: What the fuck at 0:38 the policeman is driving between two lanes full of cars, telling Brad Pitt to go back in his car, and two seconds later the cars are magically gone and replaced by a truck going at 60mph?
I thought the exact same thing.
Not really a fan of running zombies. I likes 'da slow ones. Did I say running? I meant hauling booty. Judging by the trailer, I'm not even sure I could keep up with them, and I ran track/cross country. (still run)
Whatever... I'd still watch it, lol.
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This looks so bad, like PEGI-13 movie or something
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Such shitty CGI. Every time you see zombies all I can think is "wow that is shit CGI". Besides that it looks like a very uninspired movie.
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Fun fact: This game was originally called World War. After the success of DayZ, this game tacked on a Z at the end of their title.
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On November 10 2012 02:21 Butterednuts wrote: Fun fact: This game was originally called World War. After the success of DayZ, this game tacked on a Z at the end of their title.
I think you may be a little confused. It's a movie based on a book of the same name. It has nothing to do with games.
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Why do people think it's going to be so bad? Finally a zombie movie where the government actually does something. Even if it's bad I have to watch it, I loooove me some zombie movies.
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On November 10 2012 02:24 CrimsonLotus wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2012 02:21 Butterednuts wrote: Fun fact: This game was originally called World War. After the success of DayZ, this game tacked on a Z at the end of their title. I think you may be a little confused. It's a movie based on a book of the same name. It has nothing to do with games.
oh shit, I did get it confused. There's a game that's coming out that isn't related to this at all.
My bad. >.>
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The book would be impossible to storyboard into a movie as it was, I know that. But the overall plot, the war itself, the stories told, that could all be adapted into a movie. Its next to impossible to even try and preserve the plot of the book with fast zombies like this. I guess we won't be seeing any adaption of the battle of Yonkers, or the Battle of Hope. Or any of the other conflicts depicted in the book. Oh well.
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so much bs in the trailer. RUNNIN ZOMBIES REALLY WTF?? AND WHAT IS THAT "RIDE THE WAVE DUDES" BULLSHIT
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It reminds me of I am Legend in every way. -Movie not like book -why are zombie things superpowered? -why is he in this movie?
I will probably see it going in hoping it is good but probably won't be which is said it had a lot of potential.
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Marc Forester is a terrible director (see Quantum of Solace). After reading about the multiple re-shoots / re-writes I have no faith in this movie.
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