@SS a lot of A-list actors have accepted a bifurcation of their careers into summer movie / teen demographic shite and more enduring work. Brad Pitt isn't one of the best of his generation, granted, but he does do decent craft in his fall/winter films.
― in the Land of the Yik Yak (Sanpaku), Friday, 9 November 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
can't watch this because glasgow
― conrad, Friday, 9 November 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
looks kind of run-of-the-mill
sanpaku otm about "not tied to human family scale events", most of the energy of the book comes from longer-term institutional response
― goole, Monday, 12 November 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
. It was scenes like Nelson Mandela embracing the Redeker apartheid-era plan for urban security
And the guy whose absolutely convinced Michael Stipe is on his zombie killing patrol
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Monday, 12 November 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
why would pitt be asking "what is this," when in the book iirc the outbreak had happened from china and everyone kind of knew it was coming one way or another? agh this is already making me (minorly) mad. oh well.
― goole, Monday, 12 November 2012 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
The zombies rushing and overturning the bus makes this look so so bad.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 12 November 2012 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
ugh this looks awful
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 12 November 2012 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
I would rather watch starship troopers again instead of this movie I think
― 乒乓, Monday, 12 November 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
World War Zzz
― suggest butt (Pillbox), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 05:32 (eleven years ago) link
In June 2012, the film's release date was pushed back and the crew returned to Budapest for seven weeks of additional shooting. Damon Lindelof was hired to rewrite the third act, but did not have the time to finish the script and Drew Goddard was hired to rewrite it. The reshoots were due to take place between September and October 2012.
promising!
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 05:43 (eleven years ago) link
jesus, they initially got Lindelof of all people to rewrite the ending? desperate move
― don't trust the lil b in apartment 23 (fadanuf4erybody), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 05:47 (eleven years ago) link
Looks like Cloverfield, as far as epic-scale monster movie from single POV.
Before rewrites, written by Scott Z. Burns (Informant, Contagion).
― cruel silver of hope (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 05:49 (eleven years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z_%28film%29
The screenplay was written by Babylon 5 and Rising Stars creator J. Michael Straczynski, who identified the challenge in adapting the work as "creating a main character out of a book that reads as a UN Report on the zombie wars"
...in 2008
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 05:53 (eleven years ago) link
4 years later and they're showing us cruddy CGI and.....WHAMMMMMMMMMP
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 05:54 (eleven years ago) link
Why do I feel that this statement means different things to you than it does to me.
― before you post, consider just admitting you are wrong (jjjusten), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 05:54 (eleven years ago) link
that whole wiki description is amazing. 2008: "could a zombie movie win best picture?" 2012: "alright everybody back to budapest!"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 05:57 (eleven years ago) link
I mean "I would rather drink the finest 18 year old scotch while hanging out in a room full of happy puppies than watch this movie" gives me abt the same amount of information man c'mon.
― before you post, consider just admitting you are wrong (jjjusten), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 06:00 (eleven years ago) link
The mass zombie attacks look dope imo but ugh @ the whole "In a world... of four billion zombies... can one good looking dude save his own family?"
― Dog the Puffin Hunter (ledge), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 10:22 (eleven years ago) link
I dunno, it worked pretty good for War of the Worlds, but this looks like Brad Pitt will be spending less time Running in Panic and more Being Heroic. WoTW was also pretty good at establishing a framework for eg episodes with Tim Robbins exhibiting some of the psychological effects of invasion that the WWZ book was good at - as I see someone's just said over on the Walking Dead thread :)
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 10:32 (eleven years ago) link
Here purely because Glasgow.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 10:39 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, it's weird to see Glasgow somehow looking both just like Glasgow and just like an American city at the same time. Quite impressed by the subtlety of the CG they've added to the streets and buildings, especially compared to how godawful some of the other CG is.
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 10:48 (eleven years ago) link
it's weird to see Glasgow somehow looking both just like Glasgow and just like an American city at the same time
Yeah, this.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 12:29 (eleven years ago) link
The zombie floods look like Transformers transforming, i.e. a visual effect so fluid, it's distracting instead of terrifying or awesome.― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, November 9, 2012 1:09 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, November 9, 2012 1:09 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yes, kinda like this guy too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOACsaFA_FY
― how's life, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 12:47 (eleven years ago) link
the hordes of zombies cgi also reminded me of the hordes of agent smiths cgi from Matrix II
yeah this was pretty 2012
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
italics to mean the movie 2012 not "this was pretty so this year"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
Always felt like Contagion was WWZ without zombies. And incredibly dull.
― johnathan lee riche$ (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty sure World War Z is this instance has been reduced to World War NYC or whatever city that is.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
World War Wherever Brad Pitt Is.
apparently it's part of a trilogy (or at least for now) ... so there's v faint hope that they might explore more of the story. Maybe. Assuming the other 2 movies get made.
so far, so meh
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
It's Glasgow Philadelphia.
xpost
― ailsa, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
I've only seen one of these movies all the way through but Marc Forster may have the most diverse record of underwhelming movies of late
2000 Everything Put Together 2001 Monster's Ball2004 Finding Neverland 2005 Stay 2006 Stranger Than Fiction 2007 The Kite Runner 2008 Quantum of Solace 2011 Machine Gun Preacher 2013 World War Z
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
I've seen three of those, and of those three I only like one.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
Whoops.
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2013/04/brad-pitt-world-war-z-budget
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 May 2013 01:14 (eleven years ago) link
In her revealing report, Holson also speaks to director Marc Forster and Paramount executives Marc Evans and Adam Goodman about the many problems that plagued the set—which included re-writing and reshooting 40 minutes of the film to find a coherent ending—and, most astonishingly, how the budget ballooned to around $200 million.While closing down the production in Malta, for instance, the wrap-up crew found a stack of purchase orders related to the cast and extras that had been casually tossed into a desk drawer and forgotten; the amount totaled in the millions of dollars.
While closing down the production in Malta, for instance, the wrap-up crew found a stack of purchase orders related to the cast and extras that had been casually tossed into a desk drawer and forgotten; the amount totaled in the millions of dollars.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 May 2013 01:15 (eleven years ago) link
If this and Gatsby bomb...
― cougars and sneezers (Eazy), Thursday, 2 May 2013 03:37 (eleven years ago) link
lol it's waterworld
with a z
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Thursday, 2 May 2013 03:42 (eleven years ago) link
I so wanted to be in zombie-summer-event-movie's corner, but this is about 20 percent dece and 80 percent dull, ± roughly 20 percent. The "third act" is also the lamest part, so I shudder to think of how bad it was originally.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 03:05 (ten years ago) link
seeing it tomorrow night.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 03:10 (ten years ago) link
The more that is revealed in trailers the worse this looks
― Moulden Honaro (S-), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 04:46 (ten years ago) link
otm
― the late great, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 06:13 (ten years ago) link
Damon Lindelof was brought in to rewrite the ending, so what more do you need to know?
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 14:41 (ten years ago) link
zombies on a plane has some scare potential but then they decided to resolve that, in the trailer, with rupturing the cockpit and having everybody fly out and oh wait iron man 3 already did that just earlier this year
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:02 (ten years ago) link
Except I bet no one catches these people.
Though it would be awesomely shark-vs-zombie stupid if it featured a zombie in a parachute attacking Brad Pitt in a parachute as they plummet down to earth.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
NYPost sowing controversy!
To the extent there is a story — detective work so easy it could have been done on the phone — it takes a pernicious turn when Israel, alone, is said to have known about the zombie apocalypse in advance. In a world where perhaps hundreds of millions believe Israel knew about 9/11 beforehand, this shows poor judgment, to put it mildly. The movie backtracks by saying Israel is quick with the panic button because of its history, but that only makes it worse: Sorry, but Hitler and Munich aren’t to be used as cover for propagating the rancid fiction that Israel is suspiciously adept at predicting disaster in advance.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link
"Z" is for "Zionists" DO U SEE?
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 18:23 (ten years ago) link
goooooooooooood this thing was really not good
First third was ok, wheels pretty much fell of anything that was remotely good about it by the time they hit Jerusalem, and the whole lab everything was like whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat the fuck am I even watching now, when is this moving going to be OVER
whoever decided that the zombies should behave like pterodactyls needs a dickpunch. and I felt very shortchanged, goddamn hippies making me sit through a boringass UN zombie movie and of course there's barely any gore, I don't even get to laugh in gleeful delight at a headshot or anything. HIPPIES.
Brad Pitt is handsome. Is about my only take away.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 June 2013 05:01 (ten years ago) link
*moving = movie
oh and you know that a movie is really not doing a very good job when husband and family are separated and you could care less if he ever sees them again
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 June 2013 05:02 (ten years ago) link
If this is a big enough bomb, it could finally kill the sad careers of Marc Forster and Damon Lindelof. Here's hoping.
― oxygenating our wombspace (abanana), Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
The twist is that Lindelof's career been dead the whole time.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:25 (ten years ago) link
I thought the book was pretty good, save a blind samurai zombie killer or two.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 1 August 2013 23:53 (ten years ago) link
You might be asking: was that a spoiler? Could that really have been a spoiler? Well, I'm not telling.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 1 August 2013 23:54 (ten years ago) link
like the individual stories are good as nutshells in and of themselves - snapshots, I guess -- and then as you get more and more stories you get a much bigger picture of the global impact, political ramifications, military ramifications, as well as how it affects individuals on a personal level.
i love the hell out of it imo
― the pen is mightier than the penisword (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 August 2013 23:56 (ten years ago) link
Loved this book so much, and also love the super-nerdy books it owes a heavy debt to: 'The Third World War: August 1985' and 'Red Storm Rising'.
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 2 August 2013 00:36 (ten years ago) link
The audiobook was a lot more engaging than the print. Perhaps the best cast ever assembled for an audiobook.
― Sanpaku, Friday, 2 August 2013 01:01 (ten years ago) link
spencer don't forget "warday"
― the late great, Friday, 2 August 2013 01:13 (ten years ago) link
Huh, did you see this?
On May 14, 2013, the unabridged audiobook was released by Random House Audio as World War Z: The Complete Edition (Movie Tie-in Edition): An Oral History of the Zombie War. It contains the entirety of the original, abridged audiobook, as well as new recordings of each missing segment. A separate, additional audiobook containing only the new recordings not found in the original audiobook was released simultaneously as World War Z: The Lost Files: A Companion to the Abridged Edition.
That means they reissued the audio book with even more speaking parts.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 August 2013 01:19 (ten years ago) link
Yeah audiobook is 10x more enjoyable than the book.
― the pen is mightier than the penisword (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 August 2013 02:07 (ten years ago) link
the movie was p good
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 2 August 2013 02:08 (ten years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0a3fg-fUWdw/T3On8vGgmVI/AAAAAAAAA4A/PJg-1gRMH5Y/s200/bunk-the-wire.gif
― the pen is mightier than the penisword (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 August 2013 02:25 (ten years ago) link
Did the first seven(!) hours of the unabridged audiobook a couple weeks ago en route to summer vacation, looking forward to the remaining five on the way back next week. Pretty well done, forgot how much I like the scope and mundane/"well of course that would happen" things I never pondered about global cataclysm.
― joygoat, Friday, 2 August 2013 05:15 (ten years ago) link
Far be it from me to smh at anyone this summer. I loved White House Down.
― Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Friday, 2 August 2013 06:02 (ten years ago) link
i agree w/s1ocki. nothing special but it was a competently executed "breezy romp" (which i guess you shouldn't say about an apocalyptic zombie movie but still...)
it was a pretty swift movie, almost too swift. brad pitt seemed to show up in israel so he could get a quick tour, point out that the wall was breached, and then escape. best part was the philly/newark shit.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 19:24 (ten years ago) link
my friend's from newark and he said the theater was goin nuts at that stuff
― Hungry4Ass, Tuesday, 24 December 2013 19:46 (ten years ago) link
part of the original score sounds a lot like this fwiw, cfcf shd sue and get that zombie money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-eA1yILxYM&list=PL33CAB39CCC8FB7BE&index=2
― johnny crunch, Monday, 23 June 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
this was on tv at the gym the other day and i can't remember this actor's name (in the middle) or what i associate him with, and it's killing me inside. please help.
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/274/full/1379394091_1.jpg
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 25 February 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0401264/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t25
― Cornelius Pardew (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 25 February 2016 16:58 (eight years ago) link
i guess he looked familiar to me too
― goole, Thursday, 25 February 2016 16:58 (eight years ago) link
this film was a pos but notable - to me - because the opening scene, set in Philadelphia, was filmed in George Square, Glasgow
― Cornelius Pardew (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 25 February 2016 17:00 (eight years ago) link
that was literally the only thing i enjoyed in this movie
― Butt here is always time for the John Mayer Trio or Sting. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 February 2016 17:01 (eight years ago) link
apparently i posted itt about glasgow already but i have no recollection of it ;_;
― Butt here is always time for the John Mayer Trio or Sting. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 February 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
― the late great, Thursday, August 1, 2013 6:13 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
YES!
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 25 February 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link
I watched this the other week in a slump of exhaustion & boredom that left me unable to find anything more worthwhile and it was wholly unremarkable except for the aforementioned Glasgow connection.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Thursday, 25 February 2016 18:16 (eight years ago) link
ohhhh of course, he's the annoying guy in Treme who is now in Orphan Black etc, THANK YOU.
the only thing i liked about this movie was setting up the young scientist who is going to solve everything, then having him slip and accidentally shoot himself to death within 30 seconds of getting on the ground.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 25 February 2016 18:58 (eight years ago) link
"ohhhh of course, he's the annoying guy in Treme"
for a second there I thought you were talking about Steve Zahn
― calzino, Thursday, 25 February 2016 21:29 (eight years ago) link
i was going to write 'most annoying guy in Treme' until i remembered Zahn (but his character got less annoying as it went on, and at any rate is far less annoying than the real-life inspiration).
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 25 February 2016 21:41 (eight years ago) link
I didn't mind him in Treme after the first season.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 25 February 2016 22:10 (eight years ago) link
so uh i guess david fincher is directing the sequel to this hunk of shit
wtf
― ben "bance" bance (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 27 April 2017 13:02 (seven years ago) link
guy makes some weird choices
― circa1916, Thursday, 27 April 2017 13:18 (seven years ago) link
a sequel to a largely-unloved zombie movie seems particularly weird even by his standards tho
― ben "bance" bance (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 27 April 2017 13:50 (seven years ago) link
1st book was awesome?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 27 April 2017 14:00 (seven years ago) link
almost none of it showed up on screen!
― ben "bance" bance (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 27 April 2017 14:04 (seven years ago) link
kinda unfilmable. unless it was a talking head documentary about a zombie apocalypse
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 27 April 2017 22:22 (seven years ago) link
Voiceover: Peter Fincher never made the sequel, allegedly because of the Chinese government's ban on film with zombies, which uh seems like it would have come up at some point with the first film.
Also from the wikipedia page, along with the normal troubles of a film which involves Damon Lindelhof:
Filming in Budapest commenced on the evening of October 10, 2011. That morning, the Hungarian Counter Terrorism Centre raided the warehouse where guns had been delivered for use as filming props.
The 85 assault rifles, sniper rifles, and handguns had been flown into Budapest overnight on a private aircraft, but the film's producers had failed to clear the delivery with Hungarian authorities, and while the import documentation indicated that the weapons had been disabled, all were found to be fully functional.
On February 10, 2012, the charges were dropped after investigators were unable to identify exactly which "organization or person" had "ownership rights"; therefore they could not "establish which party was criminally liable".
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 7 October 2019 13:18 (four years ago) link
Watched this again bc my kid wanted to see it. I still think it's alright but the story is just an excuse for brad pitt to visit somewhere immediately before shit goes haywire. He's less a character and more a witness to catastrophe. And how the Israel aspect is introduced is amazingly bad, I mean talk about dropping in a loaded implication into the middle of a movie that doesn't even have the ability to smartly handle a zombie apocalypse plot, let alone pivot away from that bit of nonsense.
― omar little, Saturday, 12 August 2023 23:25 (eight months ago) link
iirc one of the few apocalypse movies where people ride bikes?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 13 August 2023 00:37 (eight months ago) link