World War Z (starring Brad Pitt)

[jedibear]

Well, just saw it and...what a mess.

Won't get too specific but...it starts out pretty well and does okay for about the first hour or so...than it just meanders along until the very obviously tacked-on ending. Any intensity was undone by it's apparent need for that PG rating....heck, I felt like I was watching an edited-for-TV-time compressed version. It was very odd....any time there was about to be some visceral, intense terror the scene was heading for...it would pull back or cut away. Totally undermined any sense of menace or thrills...

Pitt was fine, but other than the wife, the rest of the cast barely registers.

The are pieces of a good movie in there, but....I'll chalk this one up as a "noble failure"....

 

[The Josh]

Yes. ........

Thank ya

 

[JAWS]

Ok.... I actually thought the film was OK. I found the characters to be interesting enough... Well Pitt's and the Israeli female soldier (funny she had much less screen time and few lines but was much more interesting then Lois Lane in MoS )

I liked the music. The main theme had a very Italian horror vibe to it.

I thought the Zombies were cool. I liked how they were done and how they moved.

My biggest complaint.

WHY DO TRAILERS HAVE TO SHOW ALL THE GOOD STUFF????

I mean seriously I knew how many scenes were going to end before it even got to it because the trailers showed everything. I know you want to put ***** in the seats but come on..... Save something. It almost ruined the film for me. Had the trailers not shown all the Money shots I would have enjoyed this much more.

My second biggest issue was the lack of an R rating. This film needed some red. As is it is still a pretty violent and intense zombie flick but it could have been much better with the gore. I usually say Story over Gory but when making a zombie flick you need he gooey gross stuff.

I Never read the book.... Well I read the first few chapters but I could not get into it at the time for whatever reason. Perhaps I enjoyed it more because I did not have the book to compare it too.

Overall I enjoyed it just fine. Horror films are my fav. genre so perhaps I give a little more leeway when it comes to them. But I tend to think I am harder. there have been a lot of Zombie movies and this one did enough different that I was entertained... It's just too bad they showed all that different stuff in the trailer.

 

[JAWS]

So. World War Z...well....uh...Brad Pitt is the most perfect ****ing human being alive in the universe, and the Zombies don't do jack ****ing ****. **** this movie. It ignores everything related to a Zombie. It ignores the quintessential book related to them...fine...I guess...but why the **** would you ignore EVERY SINGLE THING IN THE UNIVERSE. No blood. No gore. No ****ing real Zombie makeup.

Nerdyness aside..the movie was really, really boring. We get it. It's a zombie apocalypse. So show it. I don't give a **** about Brad Pitt's non character. The most perfect person alive. I want to know more about this virus you presented, that you DIDN'T EVER COME BACK too. *******. I;'m so drunk. And so angry. **** this movie. **** this movie in it's stupid ****ing face.

CelticPredator - Just wondering... Do you think you would have enjoyed the film more had they not shown all the "big" moments in the trailers.. Just wondering as it did lessen my enjoyment. I still would have liked it more then you but I did not read the book...

However I just feel that it could have felt a tad more apocalyptic had they not shown everything in the trailer.

I'm not going to see it and I liked the book.

No Battle of Yonkers? No South African ocean freighters and slums? No trek into Canada in the family car? No Indian nuke crisis? No blind Japanese gardner? Oh, but it has Brad Pitt and CGI ant zombies.

As if.

Ok I am going to have to try and read the book again. Just could not get into it the first time but what you describe sounds like some good ****.

Just got back from watching it. I thought it was awesome and really glad I went to see it. It up their with one of my favorite zombie movie. The zombies that weren't cgi were badass. Hoping they make a part 2, and show how the outbreak started from someone else view.

How many was that? Two...?



Sensible suggestion.

Less then 20. **** you not.

Come on. There is mire the 20.. There were almost 20 at the end. There were others ones all threw the film.

PS - I like the look of the zombies

 

[JAWS]

Did anyone else laugh at Dr. Chatterbox P.H.D at the end?

most of the theatre laughed at that.

See I liked that.. They did it a few too many times but while there was some laughter in the theater I was in it was nervous laughter.

 

[CelticPredator]

I don't. I like my Zombies raw and make up heavy. Not just vainy and old looking.

 

[devilof76]

Ok I am going to have to try and read the book again. Just could not get into it the first time but what you describe sounds like some good ****.

I don't think the book was all that special, but I treated each chapter as a short story and I got a lot out of them. I have a hard time telling how much of the author's work I do for them sometimes. If a story has enough to hook me, my imagination can make a lot more out of it than there is on the page. That may or may not be the case with WWZ. What I do know is that it had the potential to be a badass movie.

 

[JAWS]

I don't. I like my Zombies raw and make up heavy. Not just vainy and old looking.

I like those zombies also.. However I don't mind that the film tried something different with it's look. Throw a little blood on them and around their mouths they would have looked more classic looking but I was fine with them overall.



Even though they called these guys Zombies they did not come across as true zombies to me.

Spoiler

the whole they won't eat a diseased human/ can't see them made them more of just a virus with legs then a true zombie that just wants to eat. These guys seemed content with just biting and spreading rather then eating

Was it that way in the book??

Also Funny how a show on a regular cable network (walking dead) can have so much gore.

 

[CelticPredator]

The book is about Zombies. Not 28 Days Later Rage Virus rejects.

 

[JAWS]

I don't think they are that bad (and this is one of weaker looking F/X apps)... Just lacking the gore.

Of course it's nothing like the classic Savini and Nicotero zombies.

 

[JAWS]

The book is about Zombies. Not 28 Days Later Rage Virus rejects.

Ok I can see why his film would get under your skin. Especially if you are a fan of the book. I had no idea what they were supposed to be so the lack of true zombie characteristics did not bother me.

I thought it was a far better zombie film then any of the Resident Evil crap or Romero's Post Day of the Dead films.

It was far from perfect but I still had fun. I really believe I would have really gotten a kick out it had the trailers not shown everything.

 

[CelticPredator]

Well. That's fine. But these weren't zombies to me, and I don't see how it was better then anything in the genre IMO. Zombies are way over played, yes...but if you're going to do them. Do them right.

 

[JAWS]

Well. That's fine. But they look bland to me.

That's cool. I just thought some of them looked cool (The black chick in the glass cell).

It probably didn't hurt that your review about them not looking like zombies had me prepared for them just looking like Humans. So when they turned out to look more zombie like I was relieved.

 

[batfan08]

Yes. ........

Wait, so they filmed that? I'd actually watch it again on Blu if theybincluded that.

 

[batfan08]

See I liked that.. They did it a few too many times but while there was some laughter in the theater I was in it was nervous laughter.

I liked the film, but some of that stuff was just too much. Chatterbox, a country being doomed by Karaoke, etc.

 

[CelticPredator]

They filmed it yes. Personally, I wish this film had a bleaker ending. I didn't care about Pitt, or his family. I don't know, That ending sounded a lot more entertaining.

 

[batfan08]

They filmed it yes. Personally, I wish this film had a bleaker ending. I didn't care about Pitt, or his family. I don't know, That ending sounded a lot more entertaining.

They really should include that. I'd love if they had two cuts of the film with both endings. Makes me wonder what else they cut.

 

[JAWS]

Well. That's fine. But these weren't zombies to me, and I don't see how it was better then anything in the genre IMO. Zombies are way over played, yes...but if you're going to do them. Do them right.

I think your hate is coming from the love of the book. I could be wrong and don't want to tell you how you are thinking.

But man this is far above Land of the dead and the other Romero cash in's and the Resident Evil stuff.

I thought they made Pitt likable enough to make me give a ****.

Oh well. Sorry it did not work for you.

I wish I could have seen this before I saw the trailers at the beginning of every film I saw this summer as that is the main thing that ruined it for me.

But I like my Zombies Slow, Fast, Infected, Possessed, or as God's Curse on Humanity so I was Ok with it. But I get where you are coming from.

 

[CelticPredator]

I've never read the book. I've already stated why I didn't like this movie. No character development, no humanity, just some dull action scenes, lifeless (pun intended) zombies, and a climax that frustrated me as a fan of Zombies.

Pitt was no different then Milla's character in the Resident Evil movies. A character people will die for, a character who does nothing wrong, a character who everyone needs to save them....I can't stand characters like that in a deadly serious drama film.

 

[JAWS]

They filmed it yes. Personally, I wish this film had a bleaker ending. I didn't care about Pitt, or his family. I don't know, That ending sounded a lot more entertaining.

While I liked Pitt I was not emotionally involved at all for his family. Didn't help that they were either safe on a ship or off in some safe haven. If they don't show them in some sort of danger why should I care??

A bleaker ending would have been nice. Apocalyptic Zombie films should always have bleak endings.