Same. I’ve seen shambling extras in makeup. I welcome CGI showing us a take on zombies that traditional effects can’t. The swarm is very reminiscent of ants, which is positively terrifying.
Also, the book reads like a UN Zombie Report. A blockbuster needs a story arc and protagonist. No one would option WWZ to make a small budget low-fi sleeper in a world that already has The Walking Dead. This flick gives us the scope I’ve always wanted to see.
That was the old leaked script. It was incredibly good, but it got tossed aside and never made. Instead we got this dreck. Those aren’t zombies, they are locusts.
Love zombie movies. The trailer was disappointing, more focus on Brad Pitt’s hair than zombies. Doesn’t look promising. Pitt’s movies are usually good though so I’ll check out the reviews.
One of the main points in the book was that people thought fighting slow, plodding zombies would be easy… but they were very wrong. Fire doesn’t kill them- you just end up with zombies that set you on fire as they eat you. Drowning doesn’t kill them- you will never know if the water you’re wading through or drinking from is safe, ever again. Explosions don’t kill them- all it does is knock them around. Bullets don’t kill them- unless you hit the head, and soldiers are trained to shoot in the center of mass, which is completely useless against a WWZ Zombie.
They don’t stop. They never get tired. They never starve to death. The only thing that kills them is to destroy the brain (or detach it from the body). Traditional warfare is worse than useless against them.
Personally, I find fast zombies much more terrifying. But that’s another book or movie, it’s not World War Z. I’ll go see this movie, but only because I loves me some zombies.
I’d love to see an actual World War Z series on FX or one of the movie channels. Every week would focus on a different part of the war, with different actors.
Oh, great, now I’m worried - I hope it isn’t going to be just your usual, run-of-the-mill, substitute blowing things up and car chases for plot and character development Hollywood dreck!
I have absolutely no idea what movie that was a trailer for.
I am certain that what it was not was a trailer for a movie adaptation of World War Z.
Welp, one less movie I have to see this year.
Why the fuck do they bother to buy the rights to good books, just to shit on them like this :-/
They think everyone who likes the book will come to see their film.
Heath Ledger is going to be a terrible Joker! Batman is ruined forever!!!
No, they were the regular ‘slow’ zombies in the book. They managed to wipe out several army groups because the army folks tried to fight them like you’d fight a traditional enemy (i.e. suppression fire, artillery, etc), but not because they were super fast like in that trailer.
Not sure how I feel about this…really loved the book, but this ain’t it. It’s not like any of the sub-stories that I remember, and the zombies are more like the Posleen than any zombie I’ve ever seen…
Focusing on Brad Pitt’s hair how? Like, by showing him on the screen? I don’t get it.
I think they could have made an interesting movie out of World War Z by filming it in “mockumentary” style (the Ken Burns approach as others have put it). But they obviously decided to abandon the book’s style and go for a conventional (and more commercially appealing) narrative approach. So it obviously won’t be like the book but it might turn out to be a decent movie.
No, they managed to wipe out several army groups because Brooks doesn’t know shit. Suppression fire and artillery is more effective, not less, against an enemy too stupid to duck.
Then you missed the point of the whole book…and don’t understand how suppression fire actually works (or zombie lore and how indirect fire doesn’t do much to zombies unless you are lucky enough to hit them in the head). You can’t suppress an enemy who isn’t afraid of gun fire or artillery (and who doesn’t shy away from wounds, or fall down when they are wounded hard)…which is why, when the army relies on it, they end up getting overrun.
Seriously, did you READ the book??
Another main theme of the book was that everyone was in denial of the situation for a long time. Nobody wanted to admit that people were turning into zombies. This allowed the zombie numbers to grow large enough to be a serious threat. It’s easy to kill a few hundred slow zombies but it’s hard to kill tens of millions of them.
But a movie doesn’t want to portray this long period of denial. They want to skip ahead to the exciting climax of the full zombie war.
I think you’re mistaken.
To stop a zombie you need to hit their brain. An explosion, if it doesn’t blow them to bits wouldn’t be very effective. Shrapnel or blast overpressure is hardly a big deal unless it shreds the brain. A bullet wouldn’t do much unless you hit the brain. You might be able to shatter a femur and make the zombie crawl, but most bullets are near worthless against them.
Also: Ninjaed.
Exactly. Suppression fire wouldn’t work against zombies because they’re too stupid to realize they’re being suppressed. Humans, and even animals, have a sense of self-preservation and they’ll avoid exposing themselves to harm. Zombies, like the honey badger, don’t care - they’ll walk right through the middle of an artillery barrage and ignore the danger. And because any wound other than a head shot doesn’t stop them, they’re capable of surviving suppression fire much better than humans are.
Yes, it works great against enemies who are too stupid to duck, if those enemies are the types of enemies who can be killed or incapacitated by getting hit by a bullet or shrapnel. If a human soldier gets winged by a tiny bit of flying metal, he’s out of the fight for hours or days or forever. Does that happen to zombies? Of course, zombies aren’t real, so we get to decide what happens when a zombie gets hit by a bullet. Most people like to pretend that shooting a zombie with a bullet doesn’t do anything. If you prefer another type of zombie, then feel free to make up your own stories.
Yep, exactly. If you take the basic premise of zombies as a given, the logic is pretty inescapable…you need to fight zombies in a completely different way than you’d fight a rational human opponent (that’s part of the terror and adds to the anxiety). So, saying ‘Brooks doesn’t know shit’ is pretty silly, since it’s the entire basis for not just this book but most books on this subject. Sure, zombies AREN’T real…but, if that’s your attitude then it’s pretty stupid to read zombie books. 
All that said, super fast zombies who come in waves and are able to scale up buildings and such (hell, even able to go up stairs) AND still have all the basic abilities of zombies would be…well, it would be game over. Nothing could withstand them in reality. Hell, even slow zombies who can’t climb stairs or buildings usually tend to wipe out most humans in these books…imagine if they came in fast waves and COULD climb stairs… :eek: