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Post by Marcus on Nov 12, 2012 7:54:59 GMT -5
Watched a trailer for this on YouTube yesterday.
Must say it wasn't what I was expecting. From the trailer it looks to be an action/zombie film, rather than a horror/zombie film.
They had the zombies looking like an unstoppable tied, washing over people, cars (including knocking over a bus), piling on top of each other to wash up the side of a building/wall.
It was a very energetic style of representing a horde of zombies.
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Post by slaughteredlamb on Nov 13, 2012 9:01:26 GMT -5
The book is superb and is a series of stories told in a flashback format by various survivors of a zombie apocolypse that almost wipes out mankind.
The main protagonist of the book is a reporter sent by something like the U.N. to investigate just what happened..........
The film adaption has gone away from this & has set it as more of an action film so Im a bit dissapointed..........Time will tell though
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Post by Werewolf on Mar 15, 2014 19:26:59 GMT -5
This is the showing on Sky Premier this coming Friday if anyone has Sky.
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Post by someoldguy on Mar 18, 2014 17:52:56 GMT -5
I have not seen World War Z but I know two people who have. One says that it is very interesting in the new twist on zombie lore and how it is played out, detective style. (Nope, no spoilers from me!) The other says that it is a confused action flick that just got tiresome after awhile. Both agreed that the over the top CGI intensive early segments are the worst part, being just too much to take seriously. I think I will wait until it is on a cable channel I already pay for.
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Post by Werewolf on May 26, 2014 9:33:06 GMT -5
Saw it a couple of weeks back at the Leeds Zombie Film Festival, apparently we got the extended gory version not that i recall any real gore. The only good thing i can say about it is that the action started very quickly. I personally didn't enjoy it. I was bored the whole way through and didn't take to any of the characters so didn't really feel bothered when anything happened to them. I feel it could have been so much better and they missed a good opportunity.
Again just my personal thoughts. I know others who have enjoyed it.
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Post by silverbullet63 on Sept 26, 2019 9:36:54 GMT -5
This is basically Brad Pitt vs. Roid Rage Zombies.
Had some decent action sequences, like the Fall of Philly in the beginning.
But World War Z was adapted into a forgettable Popcorn movie.
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Post by silverbullet63 on Oct 5, 2019 16:56:11 GMT -5
Watched this again last night.
Sometimes I wonder what would've happened if DiCaprio/ won the bidding war?
For film rights to the book, instead of Brad Pitt/Plan B
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Post by someoldguy on Oct 5, 2019 17:00:48 GMT -5
Watched this again last night. Sometimes I wonder what would've happened if DiCaprio/ won the bidding war? For film rights to the book, instead of Brad Pitt/Plan B More real blood? DiCaprio was good at that.  |
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Post by silverbullet63 on Oct 5, 2019 19:06:26 GMT -5
World War Z should've been adapted to a miniseries.
For Cable, like Band of Brothers.
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Post by someoldguy on Oct 5, 2019 19:41:26 GMT -5
World War Z should've been adapted to a miniseries. For Cable, like Band of Brothers. I have not read the book, just the lengthy summary in Wiki. It would take at least a miniseries to do it justice. As I recall Alex Haley's Roots became three miniseries shown at intervals. This was reasonable as it dealt with events over a long period of time, with natural 'endings' in between. The novel World War Z could not be reasonably split up like that since it needs to reach a single ending. But a mini-series of reasonable length might not be able to portray enough detail to generate the proper impact. Although not directly comparable, I am reminded of when the Shogun mini-series later got compressed into a 2 hour TV movie with results as could be expected. |
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Post by someoldguy on Oct 5, 2019 19:41:45 GMT -5
World War Z should've been adapted to a miniseries. For Cable, like Band of Brothers. I have not read the book, just the lengthy summary in Wiki. It would take at least a miniseries to do it justice. As I recall Alex Haley's Roots became three miniseries shown at intervals. This was reasonable as it dealt with events over a long period of time, with natural 'endings' in between. The novel World War Z could not be reasonably split up like that since it needs to reach a single ending. But a mini-series of reasonable length might not be able to portray enough detail to generate the proper impact. Although not directly comparable, I am reminded of when the Shogun mini-series later got compressed into a 2 hour TV movie with results as could be expected. |
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