The most zombies ever: World War Z

4 years later and they're showing us cruddy CGI and.....WHAMMMMMMMMMP

I would rather watch starship troopers again instead of this movie I think

Why do I feel that this statement means different things to you than it does to me.

that whole wiki description is amazing. 2008: "could a zombie movie win best picture?" 2012: "alright everybody back to budapest!"

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.

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?"

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 :)

Here purely because Glasgow.

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.

it's weird to see Glasgow somehow looking both just like Glasgow and just like an American city at the same time

Yeah, this.

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

Yes, kinda like this guy too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOACsaFA_FY

the hordes of zombies cgi also reminded me of the hordes of agent smiths cgi from Matrix II

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?"

yeah this was pretty 2012

italics to mean the movie 2012 not "this was pretty so this year"

Before rewrites, written by Scott Z. Burns (Informant, Contagion).

Always felt like Contagion was WWZ without zombies. And incredibly dull.

Pretty sure World War Z is this instance has been reduced to World War NYC or whatever city that is.

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

It's Glasgow Philadelphia.

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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 Ball
2004 Finding Neverland
2005 Stay
2006 Stranger Than Fiction
2007 The Kite Runner
2008 Quantum of Solace
2011 Machine Gun Preacher
2013 World War Z

I've seen three of those, and of those three I only like one.

Whoops.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2013/04/brad-pitt-world-war-z-budget

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.

If this and Gatsby bomb...

lol it's waterworld

with a z

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.

seeing it tomorrow night.

The more that is revealed in trailers the worse this looks

otm

Damon Lindelof was brought in to rewrite the ending, so what more do you need to know?

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

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.

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.

"Z" is for "Zionists" DO U SEE?

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.

*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

If this is a big enough bomb, it could finally kill the sad careers of Marc Forster and Damon Lindelof. Here's hoping.

The twist is that Lindelof's career been dead the whole time.

I'm getting really tired of his handwavey bullshit writing

the whole 'resolution' to that story was such a bunch of baloney

on way home tonight, radio one film reviewer (i was in car and could not be arsed to change channels, as five live was dreary as f*ck), gave this a massively positive review.

so i was all 'who do i trust more, VG, or this girl who gushes over brad ?'

no choice in my world.

i am avoiding this until on tv for free. cheers for the real groove VG ..

(truthbomb : i saw the trailer pre iron man 3 screening, and thought the excess zombies scenes just looked ott cgi'd crap .. so i was halfway there already but you've confirmed my reservations .. )

Wait a minute this movie is rated PG-13? Fuck that.

exactly.
a zombie movie for teletubbie viewers ..

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-43Li92VvYpQ/UZ5qMPDruoI/AAAAAAAAA_o/-DTqPey9k-E/s320/my+boyfriend%2527s+back.jpg

yeah for some reason I didn't notice the pg13, but cmon seriously what is even the point of that

Mr Veg and I were talking about the movie last night, and we both agreed it's not that is SO horrible that you would walk out, or come out feeling annoyed that you'd wasted 2 hours on it. It's just more of a, "well that was a thing that happened that was dumb."

I want to hear more about pterodactyl zombies

they clack their teeth!

actually I just realized what they remind me of: Skeksis, in the Dark Crystal.

you don't really get a sense of the pterodactyl-ness early on, it's not til later when they feature a few isolated zombies that it becomes noticeable

it's really stupid

Skeksis? Now I'm suddenly MORE interested.

Do the zombies merger with the Ur-Ru at the end to become Ur-Zoms y/n?

crossed this off my list of things to do this weekend thanks to you, vg

my friend's from newark and he said the theater was goin nuts at that stuff

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

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

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0401264/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t25

i guess he looked familiar to me too

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0401264/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t25

this film was a pos but notable - to me - because the opening scene, set in Philadelphia, was filmed in George Square, Glasgow

that was literally the only thing i enjoyed in this movie

apparently i posted itt about glasgow already but i have no recollection of it ;_;

spencer don't forget "warday"

― the late great, Thursday, August 1, 2013 6:13 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

YES!

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.

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.

"ohhhh of course, he's the annoying guy in Treme"

for a second there I thought you were talking about Steve Zahn

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).

I didn't mind him in Treme after the first season.

so uh i guess david fincher is directing the sequel to this hunk of shit

wtf

guy makes some weird choices

a sequel to a largely-unloved zombie movie seems particularly weird even by his standards tho

1st book was awesome?

almost none of it showed up on screen!

kinda unfilmable. unless it was a talking head documentary about a zombie apocalypse

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".

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.

iirc one of the few apocalypse movies where people ride bikes?