World War Tee Hee - The Zombie Whisperer

[Massterloo]

World War Z - The Zombie Whisperer - **Spoilers**

Best comedy of the year.
Best part is Brad surviving a devastating plane crash. So he is not only The Archiver, that scene also makes him the female pilot character in the book.

Yes, had to see it cause wife needed a date day.

Where to start? I was hoping it wouldn't even try to put parts of the book in it. Nope! They actually tried to put pieces of the book in it. And I felt shitty to know I paid to see it. They totally butchered the Oriental Doctor part. Blended characters to make new worthless characters. They made the main guy (the archiver) the hero that can just about read the minds of the undead. Take what little clues given (never asking questions about them at the time), and use them to take the most far fetched leaps of faith.

Is there horror in the movie? Yes, every time you see Brad Pitt (the golden boy) kiss his wife...Gollum.

The new parts, other than fast zombies? That the zombie disease make gives corpses Canine type smell, and they choose to ignore those people that smell of a random, unknown disease that Brad Pitt picks out of 30 different vials of illnesses.

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My question is, would this movie have still sucked if it wasn't titled World War Z?

I haven't seen it yet, but I know I'm going to have a personal bias considering how good the book was & how far from it this movie is. The flip side is that it is Brad Pitt & Zombies, which sounds great.

Your review makes me

[Kulaf]

Not much different than all of the G.I. Joe movies. I have no clue what they have to do with the actual franchise.

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Not much different than all of the G.I. Joe movies. I have no clue what they have to do with the actual franchise.

Sad on the inside

[Harlowe]

Not reading spoilers, but definitely going to see it. I figure it can't be any worse than the Oz movie I recently saw!

[Massterloo]

I'm not sure, I guess it wouldn't be "as bad" if it was called something else. **But its bad.**

Imagine Walking Dead...and they find a way to stop the zombies from attacking in the second season.

Now imagine it all in a 2 hour movie. Maybe if it was a comedy on purpose, but this isn't that.

It's a brick forced down your throat.

[Arathena]

All the rewriting and re-cutting took a pretty awful toll on this too - I picked up two-three foreshadowed plots or conclusions that all got thrown away for the mystical moment of realization for Brad Pitt. The tangled up plot-salad just didn't work for me too well.

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And Pitt isn't pretty enough anymore to pull the whole movie on his looks alone anymore.

[Alluveal]

Folks I know who have not read the original source material are liking it (for the most part) and those who have read stuff before seem to hate it. I may have to see it myself. I've never seen the original stuffs.

[Jarochai Alabaster]

Once again, this isn't a movie I need to see to know is utter shit.

[Ddrak]

This thread inspired me to find the book!

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This thread inspired me to find the book!

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You'll love it Dd. One of the coolest approaches to the idea of actual zombies I've read. It's sort of what I have been wanting in a TV show forever. An no-punches pulled approach to an actual zombie apocalypse event. Yes there are reasons why it won't ever happen, but the book approaches it in just about the most in depth way for it to be possible. Reading it was the first time I actually contemplated the numbers. In all the movies & shows you see hordes of zombies, sometimes even up into the hundreds, but in the book it gives you a true idea of what it would be like to have 100,000 of them moving at you. And just how unrelenting it is. Like for instance at one point a solider is shooting a machine gun into a wave of them & mentioned the fact that you could shoot them with an 11 round per second gun, but unless you nail them directly in the head they are just going to keep coming. It's wild for real.

HBO needs to get the rights & do it up right. Would rival GoT

[Jarochai Alabaster]

This thread inspired me to find the book!

Dd

In all the movies & shows you see hordes of zombies, sometimes even up into the hundreds, but in the book it gives you a true idea of what it would be like to have 100,000 of them moving at you.

Remember the cosmonaut and his descriptions of the hordes so vast they were visible from space? Tens-hundreds of millions of Zeds, spanning the American Midwest, China, and India iirc.

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This thread inspired me to find the book!

Dd

In all the movies & shows you see hordes of zombies, sometimes even up into the hundreds, but in the book it gives you a true idea of what it would be like to have 100,000 of them moving at you.

Remember the cosmonaut and his descriptions of the hordes so vast they were visible from space? Tens-hundreds of millions of Zeds, spanning the American Midwest, China, and India iirc.

INORITE? So awesome

[Harlowe]

The Oatmeal was pretty spot on...
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/wwz

I didn't think it was too bad as far as movies go, but it was not the book World War Z. I know it's been quite a few years since I read the book, but I remember it enough to know this wasn't it.

[Arkaron]

My question is, would this movie have still sucked if it wasn't titled World War Z?

Fair question, really. I saw it as Brad Pitt v. Zombies and not anything to do with the text. The audiobook is loads of fun though.

[Harlowe]

I love the audiobook, it's a full-cast production and everyone is pretty awesome, but it's a big ol' abridged version iirc.

[Massterloo]

I think you guys are twisting what I wrote. Never said it was the book. I wrote they tried to fuse little things (minor things) into the movie.
What are some of the minor things?
1. Pitt has a different job (investigator, not archiver) but still hops all over the world to ask questions. That is big, because every scene you keep thinking he is supposed to be the Archiver.
2. Zombie stuck in seat belt. (airplane vrs car)
3. The first zombie being treated by oriental doctor. (book doctor in China lives, movie doctor in Korea dies)
4. Israel set up to survive the outbreak. Taking in anyone, and everyone as long as they are not infected. (They survive in the book, not sure with the movie)

To answer Minute, yes. From Brad Pitt's character surviving the plane crash, the Israeli soldier not turning after getting bit. The boy's father not accepting a free helicopter evac, The Russian roulette game with the deadly diseases, The fact that some random illness out of hundreds makes you invisible to zombies.....All stupid.

[Harlowe]

I don't think anyone was referring to your comment actually, just giving their own impressions. I know my comment had nothing to do with what you wrote.