Comments on: ‘World War Z’ trailer debuts, and the movie looks terrible

By: ElitistZombiePurist

ElitistZombiePurist — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 02:26:39 +0000

@BrooksFan
Wow, you could serve a four course meal on that chip on your soldier. The ironic thing is you are lambasting fanboys, yet the style in which you are attacking fanboys is completely foaming-at-the-mouth, blindfaith method that makes me wonder if you actually work for the studio that is producing WWZ. Calm down, you look like a fool. Also, the “trilogy” rumors were a year ago during development hell when the movie ideas were all over the place. The trilogy idea died when the trailer and summer release came out. Nice try, fanboy.

This movie is about as far away from what made the book wonderful. Running Olympian poorly CGI’d (I Am Legend CGI studio doing same work for WWZ?) zombies take everything out of the book. The slow, creeping way the zombie virus spread globally what was truly wonderful about Max Brooks creation. The zombie virus was slowly spreading yet no one knew what to do and international responses to the growing crisis and confusion was mixed, deadly and often times frightening. When zombies are fast and happen over night, it takes away all the potential for gritty political intrigue and international politics with a humanist study and replaces it with run of the mill, straight-to-Netflix style zombie-pacolypse shlock.
WWZ should have been a Children of Men style study on international response to a frightening crisis. Max Brooks and Robert Kirkman brought life back into the now oversaturated zombie genre…I was hoping this film would bring the genre to a respectable close, but hey, that’s Hollywood for you. They love money and know how to squeeze it out of things.

By: Richard Hall

Richard Hall — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:01:44 +0000

I’m not too sure what the original script was like, but I imagine it was more true to the book, and that’s why things were changed. I read yesterday that director Marc Forster struggled to decide if he wanted walking or running zombies, and finally settled on running zombies just days before shooting began. Maybe that’s why they look a mess in the trailer?

By: Survivor

Survivor — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 07:59:19 +0000

I was really looking forward to having a “District 9″ style interview and then flashbacks in this film. I think it would have been a great hit. I can understand that they want to get 3 movies out of this, but if they flop on the first movie, no one is going to watch the next two.

Slow moving zombies makes for interesting fight scenes because it would take a bit of intelligence and strategy to kill them. Even if you have a cache of bullets if you were just firing blindly into a crowd of zombies you would soon be overtaken by the pure volume of zombies coming at you.

I wonder if the original script was written like the book but the producers decided to rewrite it because it was too overbudget. What do you think?

By: Richard Hall

Richard Hall — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:24:31 +0000

Nothing about the trailer indicated it would explore any of the themes of the book. And that’s fine, we have a long time before the movie comes out so we’ll get more trailers and featurettes and the so on to further react to. But based on this trailer, the movie looks like it’ll hold little resemblance to the book it’s adapted from, even if it is telling one-third of the story.

By: BrooksFan

BrooksFan — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:10:12 +0000

The zombie purists with their elitist litmus tests autojudge thumbs down, as expected. You can easily tell those who have read the book. They already know this is not a zombie story. Fast versus slow zombies – yeah you’re the coolest geek fanboy. Congratulations on your ongoing virginity. WWZ is a critique of government, culture, and internationalism. Zombies are the MacGuffin. Google it. The Hollywood owners have already said they are planning this as a trilogy. This movie is setup. The third film will cover the book’s narrative time frame of the end looking back. Hollywood needs franchises or they can’t make money. If you can’t get past the zombie “rules” feel free to stay home worshiping your Romero shrines. The theatre experience will be much more enjoyable without you.

By: Richard Hall

Richard Hall — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:36:13 +0000

Thanks for the comments!

Ryan: Sure, we suspend our belief so things like zombies can exist. But there are rules to be followed. Every monster has a weakness, and zombies are dead and slow. Thus, they are restricted by their own biology. It’s a simultaneous strength and weakness. Running zombies aren’t avoidable, like you said. It makes for very short stories and very small survivor rates. Like Simon Pegg once said: Being dead is a disability, not a super power.

By: Ryan Bailey

Ryan Bailey — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:26:37 +0000

The point of them running is that they are nearly unstoppable. Unless one was injured or in a small space, walking Zombies could be easily avoided, even in massive groups. But the fact that they can sprint makes them overwhelm all of our weapons and tactics. How do you avoid billions of sprinting corpses?
You can’t.
Also, anything dead couldn’t move. It’s dead. You have to suspend reality to allow for fiction to plausible.

By: Jeremo

Jeremo — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 22:02:56 +0000

I knew this would happen, what a wank job by Hollywood, just what I didn’t want more cartoon bogus CGI. Its sad its been turned into a star vehicle for Pitt, also knew thats what was going on after so many rewrites. I Also just read that Damon Lindelof of Prometheus infamy was hired to smear his writing feces on the third act of this travesty. I will not even go into the tidal wave wall crawling zombies, its… just stupid. I will just have to live with my Walking Dead, Romero movies (minus the diary and survival piles) and skip this turd hurdler.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 07:58:14 +0000

Looks terrible. Completely ruined my expectations. I love World War Z.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 06:21:02 +0000

It really makes me angry the way they did this. It just takes everything that made the book good and threw it out the window and for some reason just kept the name.