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On November 10 2012 02:29 Sentenal wrote: 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.
What makes you so certain the mockumentary style won't work as a movie? District 9 did it pretty good job and replacing the alien/apartheid reference with a zombie apocalypse basically gives you WWZ. Obviously they wouldn't be able to do a direct carry-over, but it was the presentation of key events (Yonkers) through a series of interviews that made the book different from every zombie-related media. This "adaptation" largely ignores that.
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One of the worst trailers I've seen in years.
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On November 10 2012 02:29 Sentenal wrote:The book would be impossible to storyboard into a movie as it was, I know that....
I don't think it would be at all.
The audio-book for WorldWarZ was great(Mark Hamill and Henry Rollins!) and they could use a similar method for the movie. Follow a reporter interviewing different survivors telling their story and for each one have a flashback/cut to the persons story happening in real time. That way you wouldn't have to just listen to these people tell their stories, you could have all the action and whatnot being shown while allowing the story line to jump around between the different characters with the help of the interviewer or "narrator". Also, while following the reporter as he is traveling from interview to interview, you could see the effects the whole war had on different countries and cities.
This is one of those movies that would be amazing if it was made independently instead of by a huge studio with tons of CGI and Brad Pitt (nothing against him, great actor, but not for this).
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Love the book and hate the adaptation they're going with for the film.
Of course, that probably just means it will be a huge mainstream success.
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On November 10 2012 03:02 MooseyFate wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2012 02:29 Sentenal wrote:The book would be impossible to storyboard into a movie as it was, I know that.... I don't think it would be at all. The audio-book for WorldWarZ was great(Mark Hamill and Henry Rollins!) and they could use a similar method for the movie. Follow a reporter interviewing different survivors telling their story and for each one have a flashback/cut to the persons story happening in real time. That way you wouldn't have to just listen to these people tell their stories, you could have all the action and whatnot being shown while allowing the story line to jump around between the different characters with the help of the interviewer or "narrator". Also, while following the reporter as he is traveling from interview to interview, you could see the effects the whole war had on different countries and cities. exactly my thoughts if they were to make a world war z show
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I really wouldn't be hard to adapt the novel at all, but like I said earlier. Everything is described in the interviews. It's going to be an action movie with ridiculous sequences.
So throw all those relationships out the window.
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I personally don't know the book, so I can't judge it that way. But just by looking at it as a normal movie I think it isn't good. I've seen many zombie-(ish) movies in my life and this one doesn't seem to have stunning special effects nor an original story (as far as the trailer tells me). I might go a step too far on this but I think Brad Pitt might be the only thing that makes it worth watching. Replace Brad with unknown actor X and this movie would never ever make it into TL as a thread even. Seems very bad.
On the other hand... Brad Pitt seems to actually care about the movies he does (at least he cared in the past) since he was an active part of giving us the end of Fight Club (sidenote: that trailer for Fight Club also sucked dick but the movie itself was brilliant) where the movie ending was way cooler than the book ending. And all his movies in the last few years have been - at least - entertaining. So World War Z might actually be entertaining or even good despite the shitty trailer.
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On November 10 2012 03:21 Fleshcut wrote: I personally don't know the book, so I can't judge it that way. But just by looking at it as a normal movie I think it isn't good. I've seen many zombie-(ish) movies in my life and this one doesn't seem to have stunning special effects nor an original story (as far as the trailer tells me). I might go a step too far on this but I think Brad Pitt might be the only thing that makes it worth watching. Replace Brad with unknown actor X and this movie would never ever make it into TL as a thread even. Seems very bad.
On the other hand... Brad Pitt seems to actually care about the movies he does (at least he cared in the past) since he was an active part of giving us the end of Fight Club (sidenote: that trailer for Fight Club also sucked dick but the movie itself was brilliant) where the movie ending was way cooler than the book ending. And all his movies in the last few years have been - at least - entertaining. So World War Z might actually be entertaining or even good despite the shitty trailer.
Brad Pitt is just stuck getting the movie done. It was supposed to be completely different from what it is now. I doubt he would have signed with the current script.
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Hipster TL posters, claiming the movie will be bad but somehow brad pitt will redeem it. Please remember he was also in the movie Inglorious bastards.
Personally this movie looks really good, as much as some people seem to hate the idea of fast zombies, I like that there is a variety of styles that people approach this genre with (hell I think it would be cool if someone took the L4D approach and just went all out with special infected ect. ect.). Not to mention the fact that this is the only time I've seen an ad for a zombie movie that shows an insurmountable flood of people endlessly pouring over each other.
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Looks good to me. Granted I didn't read the book, it's in my backlog. Was getting really sick of the slow shambling zombies, so this should be refreshing.
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On November 10 2012 03:25 Myrkskog wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2012 03:21 Fleshcut wrote: I personally don't know the book, so I can't judge it that way. But just by looking at it as a normal movie I think it isn't good. I've seen many zombie-(ish) movies in my life and this one doesn't seem to have stunning special effects nor an original story (as far as the trailer tells me). I might go a step too far on this but I think Brad Pitt might be the only thing that makes it worth watching. Replace Brad with unknown actor X and this movie would never ever make it into TL as a thread even. Seems very bad.
On the other hand... Brad Pitt seems to actually care about the movies he does (at least he cared in the past) since he was an active part of giving us the end of Fight Club (sidenote: that trailer for Fight Club also sucked dick but the movie itself was brilliant) where the movie ending was way cooler than the book ending. And all his movies in the last few years have been - at least - entertaining. So World War Z might actually be entertaining or even good despite the shitty trailer. Brad Pitt is just stuck getting the movie done. It was supposed to be completely different from what it is now. I doubt he would have signed with the current script.
I don't think/hope that Brad would actually let his career get hurt because of that. He has enough power in Hollywood to actually change peoples decision and he could have done it this time. But you might be right and he let himself go. Who knows.
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On November 10 2012 02:52 Prime Directive wrote: 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.
He isn't a terrible director he just can't shoot action scenes and Brad Pitt actually hand selected him to direct the movie so that should say something. The thing that worries me most is the re-writes, especially the ending in which they actually brought in Drew Goddard to write... yes Prometheus screen writer Drew Goddard.
Edit: This would have been a GREAT HBO/Showtime series.. hopefully that can happen sometime in the future.
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that actually looks really really bad, dang, Pitt hasn't stop falling since fight club
having said that the wall scene near the end was kind of cool and fucked up
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I loved this book and watching this makes me feel sick. WHY!?
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On November 10 2012 03:31 mememolly wrote: that actually looks really really bad, dang, Pitt hasn't stop falling since fight club
having said that the wall scene near the end was kind of cool and fucked up
OFF TOPIC
You may forget some of the movies he's made since then. Its all a matter of personal taste ofcause.
Fight club 1999 Snatch 2000 Babel 2006 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007 The Tree of Life 2011 Moneyball 2011 (Killing Them Softly) 2012 - looking forward to it.
Its offcause not ALL the movies he's made since fight club that on the little list I made, but I personally think its some of the best he's ever made or been in.
If you havent seen them, I can recommend them. Espacailly Moneyball and Jesse James. Best performance ever.
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In the book(s), it wasn't the strength of an individual zombie that was scary, it was their numbers and the fact that they only died when their brains ceased functioning. This made it more likely for people who took their time, played it safe, and aimed at the head only to survive. Fast zombies that look like they can even die without being shot in the head (don't know about this quite yet though) completely kill that aspect of the book.
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On November 10 2012 03:27 MVega wrote: Looks good to me. Granted I didn't read the book, it's in my backlog. Was getting really sick of the slow shambling zombies, so this should be refreshing.
Where have you been the past 6 years? Fast zombies are all the rage these days to the point of being ridiculous. Give me slow classic zombies any day.
+ Show Spoiler +Edit - Fast zombies - all the rage these days. Get it? hahaha.
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Wow that does sound like a huge fuckup.
Just watched the trailer. Not quite as bad as I expected from reading this thread, but still.... The family story line is going to completely kill anything that could have been a good WWZ adaptation
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On November 10 2012 03:27 Leth0 wrote: Hipster TL posters, claiming the movie will be bad but somehow brad pitt will redeem it. Please remember he was also in the movie Inglorious bastards.
Personally this movie looks really good, as much as some people seem to hate the idea of fast zombies, I like that there is a variety of styles that people approach this genre with (hell I think it would be cool if someone took the L4D approach and just went all out with special infected ect. ect.). Not to mention the fact that this is the only time I've seen an ad for a zombie movie that shows an insurmountable flood of people endlessly pouring over each other.
Hipster TL poster, calling others hipsters for having a negative opinion but supporting an actor.
ONTOPIC: This is the type of movie I like, I have zero expectations for it, I don't think it'll be all that good but it could be awesome! Meaning that there is no hype and only reward. It was likke the Avengers, I went in expecting a relatively bad movie and I got a relatively good movie that seemed amazing just because I thought it was going to be bad. I like this kinda-placebo effect it holds on me.
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