this whole movie is on youtube for the time being. Doubt it will stay long.

9/17/2013 10:07:35 AM

Just watched the movie, it was much better than I expected. I read the book a free years ago and was hoping some elements of the movie would trigger memories from the book, but it didn't at all. Its good as a standalone movie, but not as a depiction of the book.

Oh well, there was action from start to finish, I was thoroughly entertained, and I think it was a unique look at a zombie apocalypse.

9/17/2013 10:22:24 PM

finally watched this with the girl yesterday afternoon. i read the book a few years ago and while i very much enjoyed it, i felt the movie had really nothing to do with it. i still enjoyed the movie for what it was though. on it's own, it was a good action flick with good suspense too. i'm not a big fan of these types of "fast zombies"; i prefer more of the slow, bumbling zombies ie The Walking Dead.

[Edited on November 4, 2013 at 10:35 AM. Reason : .]

11/4/2013 10:35:03 AM

Hated it. Seemed like a movie version of a video game, moving from one level to the next, even a sneak level. Also required way too much suspension of disbelief.

Also weird to give "zombies" superhuman strength, even "fast zombies". These zombies were actually super similar to the creatures in Last of Us, with the movements, sound, speed and strength.

Maybe most importantly, if you are going to ignore the book, maybe name it something else?

[Edited on April 9, 2014 at 10:29 PM. Reason : A]

4/9/2014 10:24:18 PM

Yeah it's bad, it wasn't the complete piece of crap I expected it to be(I really thought it was going to be scy-fy original bad), but it wasn't good. Sad that they wasted the title of a great book on that piece of crap.

Should have just named it, "A Bunch of Fast Rabid Humans vs. The Luckiest Man On Earth". Would have been much more descriptive of the movie.

4/10/2014 8:18:22 AM

What kind of treatment of the book did you want? A fake documentary about a bunch of survivors talking about the Zeds? Do you think that'd make money?

4/10/2014 8:59:30 AM

Personally I wanted a HBO show/miniseries that could go through each episode and show 1-2 of the accounts from the book. Have the person answering questions to the journalist and then show all the action that the narrator is discussing. Really wouldn't be hard to imagine and could definitely be a good vehicle for the story.

This movie never needed to be a "blockbuster" with a ton of explosions, rabid infected humans, and Brad Pitt defying all odds.

If they were dead-set on it being a movie, could have definitely gone the same route as "Interview With the Vampire".

4/10/2014 10:38:58 AM

It was ok for what it was...just shouldn't have been titled world war z.

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"What kind of treatment of the book did you want? A fake documentary about a bunch of survivors talking about the Zeds? Do you think that'd make money?"

Pretty much what I wanted, with flashbacks being the bulk of the movie, or not even revealing the live action is flasbacks until the end, it would've worked fine.

4/10/2014 1:19:20 PM

Yeah the super human zombies ruined this movie for me. I didn't expect it to be anything like the book, but the idea that you could die, come back with a thirst for human flesh, outrun cars and planes as well as inherit some super sixth sense that can detect diseases...all with a brain equivalent to a bell pepper took it from unbelievable to absurd.

4/10/2014 2:05:32 PM

How do super zombies ruin the movie? Its already a zombie movie, you can't expect realism.

I like running zombies WWZ/Dawn of the Dead style... it makes it way more intense when you have competent survivors fighting a lot of sprinting zombies.

Its the same reason I don't like The Walking Dead... the zombies are so weak and slow that it makes the deaths of characters comical... WWZ zombies though... intense.

4/10/2014 2:31:47 PM

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[Edited on April 10, 2014 at 2:38 PM. Reason : .]

4/10/2014 2:38:39 PM

Because if its going to be good fiction, it should it least be believable. It doesn't have to be remotely possible, but just not so far fetched that its absurd.
The walking dead zombies make sense and they do a very good job in the first season of explaining the virus and how it affects them. WWZ doesn't even attempt to offer an explanation as to how the virus can kill someone and then bring them back as an undead spiderman.

4/10/2014 2:46:21 PM

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"Because if its going to be good fiction, it should it least be believable."

lofuckingl

4/10/2014 2:54:10 PM

let's have a hard sci fi discussion

4/10/2014 3:10:23 PM

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"Personally I wanted a HBO show/miniseries that could go through each episode and show 1-2 of the accounts from the book."

Would have been ideal, yeah.

I could have settled for working the narrator/interviewer into some of the book's stories. As it is, they kinda-sorta used the Israeli guy and that was it. Nothing else remotely similar. Why couldn't he, say, have experienced the panic? Been in a room with the shitty chief of staff when bad decisions were being made? Any of that?

If the talk is true and they want a trilogy, they've already blocked themselves from picking up much of the later story threads with this whole "disease camouflage" thing. But you could have made a whole movie -- and a good one, I think -- out of the Todd Wainio chapters. And worked in a lot of the other stuff as well (the home front stuff, the international conference, the dog guy, etc)

4/10/2014 4:23:38 PM

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"What kind of treatment of the book did you want? A fake documentary about a bunch of survivors talking about the Zeds? Do you think that'd make money?"

Seriously? If you don't think they book plot will translate to the movie screen THEN DONT OPTION THE FUCKING BOOK!!

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"lofuckingl"

Fiction doesn't need to be believable in the real world but it absolutely needs to be believable in the fictional world that has been setup. Good fantasy/sci-fi writers set up a vivid world with its own set of established rule. Bad writers setup rules but then have exception after exception after exception that pull you out of the story. Like if wwz ha been resolved by saying "oh s Brad Pitt is a wizard and he cures all the zombies."

A lesser example is where this movie firmly establishes that this super contagious virus gives people super human abilities and seemingly no need to eat or breathe. Oh but wait, got a bum leg? Virus can'tovercome that horr ible malady! These things take brush off gunshots to the chest but can't handle a fever??

[Edited on April 10, 2014 at 7:31 PM. Reason : A]

[Edited on April 10, 2014 at 7:32 PM. Reason : Also in this world Brad Pitt can slice through a wrist with one swipe of a knife, I guess? ]

4/10/2014 7:22:03 PM

^+1

Also, Max Brooks has admitted he sold the rights to the movie for the payday. His dad was Mel Brooks and he was all too familiar with what Hollywood does to source material.

I liked how he handled the whole deal. I really enjoy his work as a writer, and when he sold the rights he made no secret of his distance between the movie and his material so I wasn't upset about the fact that the two stories aren't related in the slightest. As a zombie movie though, it was subpar when compared to it's budget. I thought The Dead was a better movie and was closer, though unrelated, to a story like Max Brooks was telling.

4/10/2014 7:44:32 PM

y'all need to listen to the 06 audiobook. you might get your fix.

4/11/2014 9:42:23 AM

^ Good cast too. And to be clear, it's really more of an audio play than an audio book. Most audio books are someone literally reading the book with good inflection and occasionally changing their voice a little for the characters. This has actors playing the different characters.

4/11/2014 10:11:03 AM

^Amen. I want to get my hands on the new, expanded auidobook, which I hear has the rest of the stories.

4/12/2014 6:09:27 AM

Saw this last night on Netflix. Was better than I thought it'd be, but since my expectations were basement level, it wasn't hard to land above them.

My biggest complaint about the movie was the superhuman zombies that apparently flow like a liquid in large enough numbers, move faster than any healthy regular human, can leap like bullfrogs, detect fatal diseases in humans through extrasensory perception, can neatly stack on top of one another to scale walls hundreds of feet high, have hearing as good as a dogs, require no food for energy nor air to breathe, telepathically detect when another zombie nearby is killed, and can turn a human to zombie with a single bite in approximately 12 seconds.

I can buy into scifi movies and suspend disbelief within reason, but this was ridiculous.

Also, at one point the Navy was 200 miles off the coast of the US. Why? You're going to waste a lot of fuel flying back and forth from fleet to mainland. 20 miles wasn't enough? Later they were 100 miles off the coast of Bermuda. Why?

I also really liked how the stockpile of deadly infectious diseases was kept in a lab with an automatic door and behind a 4 digit keypad. That's top security there Lou.

6/30/2014 11:20:22 AM

i too watched this last night. but i didn't get my panties in a bunch like this guy.

6/30/2014 1:20:49 PM

From two of my favorite youtube channels

6/30/2014 1:40:02 PM

I still hope they make a sequel. Late May they mentioned the script is being worked on. I hope they return to the book. I can almost look at the first movie as the actual breakout event itself, and then the sequel being the series of interviews, highlighting stories of survivors..... doubt it though :/

7/2/2014 3:10:15 PM

I dont give a fuck. I enjoyed this movie. Haters gon hate- wurd to your moms, i cam to drop bombs.

7/3/2014 1:46:05 PM

i enjoyed it as well.

Whats the difference between the original movie and the unrated one that is on netflix?

7/3/2014 1:51:22 PM

Unrated has cgi blood spray. Somehow it's 6 minutes longer... I didn't notice anything that they added.

7/4/2014 12:27:44 AM

Forget about the book, stop being a nerd, enjoy an action/zombie movie.

7/4/2014 2:01:48 AM

Watched this on Netflix last nigh. It was OK. Decenct action flick, decent tension in spots.

7/4/2014 9:12:43 PM