The most zombies ever: World War Z

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?