|
Post by ZombieGeorge on Jun 27, 2013 7:23:14 GMT -5
It's not the book and I okay with that. I don't think the book could be made into a movie and still retain its soul. I could see World War Z and a TV series or even a mini-series, but not a two hour movie.
The zombies are undead, fast and unrelentingly aggressive. The zombie horror here comes from that aggression. These zombies have no sense of self preservation. They throw themselves at you in wild abandon, crawling madly, hoping to get a bite.
Two themes that are common in zombie films: humans screwing each other over and flesh eating aren't here. Instead, we have Brad Pitt traveling the globe looking for a cure, meeting interesting people alone the way, and seeing them get killed by zombies.
World War Z tries to capture the global scale of the book, but does it in a Hollywood action movie kind of way. Is this a bad thing? Not really. It had some tense moments and was entertaining. I can't punish for being something it's not -- the book.
|
|
|
Post by Petite Fille on Jun 27, 2013 8:19:56 GMT -5
Before the movie was even released, I'd already picked up on it not being anything like the book. My first clue??? That Brad Pitt was involved in it. I figured it would be like Tom Cruise in "Oblivion" -- a forty-something year old "starring" in a ego fest of his own imagination.
My second clue??? All of the previews I've seen shows Brad Pitt running around. No one else of consequence is shown. Ergo, a Pitt ego fest.
If I may make a recommendation, listen to the audio book. The book WWZ was great but I thought the audio version of the book was even better, George. It's true to the book and the various readers' voice inflections as they recount their tales of fighting and surviving a zombie apocalypse can leave a chilling, visceral effect on its audience.
I've watched brain surgery on the Discovery Channel while eating spaghetti for dinner and it didn't bother me at all. And I watch zombie movies and read zombie books all the time but that audio book of WWZ is the only time that something has ever made me feel sick to my stomach enough that I actually had to stop listening to it for a little while to let my stomach settle.
|
|
|
Post by ZombieGeorge on Jun 27, 2013 19:40:19 GMT -5
I agree. The audio book is the best
|
|
|
Post by Petite Fille on Jul 5, 2013 22:31:41 GMT -5
I watched it tonight and WWZ did not suck.
If Brad Pitt had just named his movie anything else but World War Z, there still would have been an expectation regarding the genre but he wouldn't have taken so much heat over capitalizing on the name of the book and not delivering what everyone wanted and felt they should have gotten with this movie.
|
|