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“Hello. Yes, this is dog. No, I can’t save your movie.”
The early reviews for World War Z aren’t as bad as we expected considering the less-than-glowing Vanity Fair article which suggests the movie has to gross $400 million just to break even. There were also rumors Brad Pitt and director Marc Forster weren’t even speaking during extensive reshoots. Then the first footage was filled with rolling balls of bad-CGI zombies (because screw physics).
Paramount isn’t giving up on World War Z, though. They released an extended clip via the music video for Muse’s “Isolated System” which was surprisingly compelling. Well, compelling when compared to their previous footage, anyway. Which is like saying unfrosted Pop Tarts are more compelling than eating packing peanuts. Technically true, but frost that sh-t.
Now Paramount has dropped several TV spots and 33 pictures from the film. The TV spots inform us that The President is dead and Europe’s gone dark, which is exactly what I’ll be worrying about during a zombie apocalypse. One of the spots also warns us, “Try not to kill one. It only makes the rest of them more aggressive.”
Yeah, they still aren’t calling them zombies. Even the 33 pictures are loaded with scenes of Brad Pitt and only one or two pictures of zombies, one of them photographed from behind and the others photographed from far away. The closest thing to an admission these aren’t regular humans is the black blood visible on Brad Pitt’s clothes after he kills one.
In a perfect world, those black spatters would be ink from Brad Pitt breaking the screenwriter’s pen and yelling, “This has nothing to do with World War Z the book! Rewrite it now.”
World War Z opens June 21st.
Potential spoiler on the next page.
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Taping a knife to a long object? Sounds like someone went to the “Peggy Olsen School of Arming Yourself”
Hey, remember when ABC remade V and they didn’t want to say “aliens?” How’d that work out for them?
Also, it’s kind of funny to me that they used the WWZ name, obviously thinking it would have a built-in audience, but all they did was alienate said audience. If it was just a big budget zombie movie with Brad Pitt, we wouldn’t be bitching about it and probably just going, “Eh, I’ll see a matinee.”
I probably would have gotten past the fast moving zombie part if it weren’t for the crappy CGI that makes them do things that just don’t fit the genre. The Battle of Yonkers just won’t have the same physiological impact like it is supposed to when instead of a mass of undead that can’t be stopped it’s a CGI army of not zombies that can jump and run and be in many ways better soldiers than the army.
If Dog showed up, unannounced like this, total non-sequitor, it would ABSOLUTELY save this movie.
I’d rather watch the creative process behind the scenes of this shit movie.
Producer A: “World War Z?” ::looks at book:: “What’s it about?”
Producer B: “Wikipedia says its about a Zombie Apocalypse.”
Producer A: “I like that idea. Minus the Zombies.”
I can’t help but feel like the fast zombies were done almost out of a production fear that the action scenes (Battle of Yonkers, for example) wouldn’t feel as terrifying or have the same psychological fuckery as your standard zombie onslaught might. This is a shame.
George Romero needs to slap the shit of said production team.
I don’t know, this may end up being better than I anticipate. However, that’s because I have such very low expectations.
I love everything zombies, gonna watch it
Guys, I understand your love for the book. However, the movie is going to be a smashing success. I’m going to see it. All or most of y’all are going to see it. I like the idea of a fast, zombie-ish horde that can climb over any wall due to sheer numbers. Romero zombies are cool in their own universe, but you can protect against them with a simple metal fence. World War Z presents a different dynamic. Even with a posse of badass military guys or hired guns armed to the teeth, a modest amount of fast infected can still take you out.
The issue is that they bought the name, material, and the rights to the book. So, yea, this movie doesnt look like total shit.
But its not the book. At all.
And since they bought the rights, Ill never see a proper version of the book on screen. So fuck these assholes!!
*runs back to moms basement*
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I really feel that WWZ would work way better as a television show instead of a movie. I could see HBO or Showtime picking it up to compete with AMC’s The Walking Dead.
To be fair, they never actually say “zombies” in the book either….they’re usually referred to as Z’s or Zack.
To not be fair, this movie looks like a shitty pile of shit, and I’d like to find whoever raped this excellent book and kick him square in the dong.
He is the guy in all of the pictures above. The one with the exact same facial expression and even facing the same goddamn direction at all times. Director: “stare blankly to your right and hold something.”
I was going to say: if you weren’t aware of the source material or the controversy surrounding it, would you know what this movie was about from looking at the trailer alone? The trailer never shows an up close zombie, or anyone actually killing a zombie. The CGI is so shitty I couldn’t really tell, except I already knew. I had to tell my Dad they were zombies.