World War Z officially a train wreck

[nvek86]

While things could have changed, the director originally agreed to aim for a PG-13 rating:

http://www.screened.com/news/world-war-z-movie-needs-money-gets-pg-13-rating-target/1939/

 

[DarthTom]

While things could have changed, the director originally agreed to aim for a PG-13 rating:

http://www.screened.com/news/world-war-z-movie-needs-money-gets-pg-13-rating-target/1939/

I cannot believe all those folks are complaining about that on that website. Considering the level of gore and profanity that is on the Walking Dead and that's on cable television and watchable by children under 13 - I don't how they could juice it up above the level of the TWD is already at?

 

[sojourner]

^Show a nipple.

 

[Alpha Romeo]

Sorry, my search foo wasn't good enough to find the old thread.

io9.com has the first footage from the movie posted.

Yep, cgi zombies that run and behave like fluid when in large numbers. This movie is toast.

You have seen a 15 second clip...how can you say it's a train wreck....

 

[Mister Fandango]

You have seen a 15 second clip...how can you say it's a train wreck....

If that's the material they chose to display to lure you in, it's not hard to assume that the rest of it is going to be even worse.

 

[Deckerd]

Well I'm finding it hard to make any assumptions.

 

[sojourner]

You have seen a 15 second clip...how can you say it's a train wreck....

I've read the book, the clip showed the zombies acting like some kind of fluid dynamic's presentation. That's enough for me.

Granted it might be a fun train wreck, but it's not WWZ.

 

[Immolatus]

they move like the bugs from starship troopers

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Full trailer:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HcwTxRuq-uk[/yt]

It's impressive how that garbage truck comes from out of fucking nowhere amidst packed traffic to hit that cop as payback for his terrible acting. Seriously, watch the scene looking behind him about a second before, and there's no garbage truck on the road or any space for it to silently sneak up on him at 80 MPH.

So, I guess someone watched that Indian Terminator movie or the Crippletron from Family Guy and decided, "that's how our zombies should move." WTF? They're decaying humans with bones, not an insect hive mind Jell-O monster with superspeed and magnetic assembling ability.

Parts of this look like it could be sort of enjoyable on its own (the epic scope of the action), but it has fuck all to do with World War Z.

 

[Cutter John]

Yeah, I'm going with "based on" here. Looks almost nothing like the book. I still think it looks more like 28 Weeks later than a zombie film.

As for the garbage truck, I think that was just two totally different shots edited together.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

This has got zip to do with the book anymore, it looks like standard Hollywood action schlock.

So, I guess someone watched that Indian Terminator movie or the Crippletron from Family Guy and decided, "that's how our zombies should move." WTF? There decaying humans with bones, not an insect hive mind Jell-O monster with superspeed and magnetic assembling ability.

Yeah, zombie bug thing makes no sense. If they wanted to make a movie with superdupercool buglike CGI, do an alien invasion movie or maybe Attack of the Grey Goo (nanobots).

 

[sojourner]

As for the garbage truck, I think that was just two totally different shots edited together.

Maybe the garbage truck is part of the reshoots they did. They may have CGI'd in the truck to shorten a much longer scene with the cop.

 

[throwback]

I don't believe in the possibility of zombies. However, I feel the portrayal of them in the Walking Dead is the best presentation of them that I have seen.

The zombies in this movie feel unreal to me. Zombies are rotting flesh driven by instinct to hunt and to spread the virus. They aren't ants. Ants are smarter than zombies.

 

[sojourner]

Best comment I've read about the trailer:

"This is actual footage of Walmart on black friday"

 

[Immolatus]

I'm not feeling it. if they named it something else then maybe. But I enjoyed the book so much that this movie kills it (not the book that's still great)

 

[Cutter John]

I don't believe in the possibility of zombies. However, I feel the portrayal of them in the Walking Dead is the best presentation of them that I have seen.

The zombies in this movie feel unreal to me. Zombies are rotting flesh driven by instinct to hunt and to spread the virus. They aren't ants. Ants are smarter than zombies.

Damn right. That why I keep making the 28 Days Later comparison. Half the fun of zombies is their creative injuries, blood, rotted body parts, etc. These look like normal, intact humans. Might just as well be the rage virus.

 

[Samurai8472]

I don't believe in the possibility of zombies. However, I feel the portrayal of them in the Walking Dead is the best presentation of them that I have seen.

The zombies in this movie feel unreal to me. Zombies are rotting flesh driven by instinct to hunt and to spread the virus. They aren't ants. Ants are smarter than zombies.

For me, giant masses of CGI creations just tune me out.

There's no connection to the scene. It's just emotionless.

The mass horde of CGI zombies looked boring and looked liked something from "I am Legend"

 

[sojourner]

The scene that kills it for me is the final one of the zombies creating a pillar of bodies to reach the top of that wall. The behavior there is way too much "swarm" and not nearly enough "horde", no matter how slow they move.

Anybody think the producers are starting to shake in their shoes after reading some of the internet feed back they must be getting?

 

[Candlelight]

I don't believe in the possibility of zombies. However, I feel the portrayal of them in the Walking Dead is the best presentation of them that I have seen.

The zombies in this movie feel unreal to me. Zombies are rotting flesh driven by instinct to hunt and to spread the virus. They aren't ants. Ants are smarter than zombies.

For me, giant masses of CGI creations just tune me out.

There's no connection to the scene. It's just emotionless.

The mass horde of CGI zombies looked boring and looked liked something from "I am Legend"

I agree. I wouldn't describe it as a train wreck but I don't see anything that invites me to this movie.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I agree with the consensus. It may or may not be fun, but it's not World War Z.