World War Z film is going to be a generic zombie action thriller, Internet ragefaces - Polidicks

And, you can't make a fucking PG-13 zombie movie, it's just fucking stupid.

What the [B]FUCK[/B] No deep amazing story? I loved the story behind WWZ, super disappoint!

[QUOTE=Cl0cK;31739235]And, you can't make a fucking PG-13 zombie movie, it's just fucking stupid.[/QUOTE]This. I don't get what the OP's article is going on about with this "Remember when the World War Z movie held such promise?" because it hasn't held any promise for a pretty long time now. Making a PG13 movie about people being ripped to shreds, getting back up and ripping other people to shreds and getting shot to pieces doesn't really work. [editline]15th August 2011[/editline] Hell, why stop at PG13? Lets just bump it all the way to G so more people will go see it just to find out how they pulled it off.

[QUOTE=ewitwins;31739274]What the [B]FUCK[/B] No deep amazing story? I loved the story behind WWZ, super disappoint![/QUOTE] To be fair you [I]can[/I] have a deep, amazing story and have it be an action thriller. Inception and Bourne Conspiracy come to mind. The problem with this movie is that the essence of World War Z, why it was popular in the first place, is not going to be captured. [quote]This. I don't get what the OP's article is going on about with this "Remember when the World War Z movie held such promise?" because it hasn't held any promise for a pretty long time now. Making a PG13 movie about people being ripped to shreds, getting back up and ripping other people to shreds and getting shot to pieces doesn't really work.[/quote] That, and it really needs to be handled Band of Brothers style, ie a mini-series.

Battle of Yonkers is going to take place entirely offscreen.

Well, I'm not surprised. All they really wanted was marketable name and that's pretty much it, 'cause baby, they's in the business of [I]makin' monaaaaaaayyy[/I]

if the movie is shit then it will have been exactly like the book

What is it with Hollywood and ruining good stories I haven't read the book, but I can tell just by your reactions that this is another great book that Hollywood is going to stick its ass over and fuck up. I want to be in the film industry one day, and I'm not going to do any movies like these where the business end of movie-making screws over the artistic side. Fuck money over quality

[QUOTE=Sexy Eskimo;31736183]Who the fuck cares, it's zombies in it.[/QUOTE] I guess that means the Resident Evil movies were ok then. I mean they had zombies in them!

[QUOTE=LiquidNazgul;31739161][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygvLq8WfOuM&feature=related[/media] Skip to 5:40, and he'll answer you himself. But watch all the parts, he's hilarious and entertaining. He actually liked the first script draft, but that was ages ago. He's said nothing on the current script.[/QUOTE] I remember when Max came to the university here in Utah, he's a funny motherfucker :v: But damn, sucks that he has no say in the movie, that's really fucking stupid.

[QUOTE=Antonahill;31739683]I remember when Max came to the university here in Utah, he's a funny motherfucker :v: But damn, sucks that he has no say in the movie, that's really fucking stupid.[/QUOTE] That's Hollywood for you.

Man, how is this PG-13? I remember a quote from the book, if not exactly because I do not have it on me right now, so here goes. "And if you see a Z with his two airbags hanging out, refer him to me. I am always up for meeting other survivors of Yonkers." Now, I probably completely butchered that quote. The thing is, the book was incredibly graphic, but not just to have it in there for its own sake, but to convey the brutality of the times. I will have a hard time thinking about what they are going to do to the story to make it so kid friendly. The real shame is that people will go and buy the book after the movie who have not read it and then turn around and say that the book is nothing like the movie. I suppose that maybe a few of them will take the book for what it is worth rather than prejudging it. I just hope the movie does not marr the book's good name.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;31736331]Can't Hollywood get any fucking book right into film?[/QUOTE] It's take a book that takes 4+ hours to read and cutting it all down to the important things, There was once a film that the director made that was 9 hours, took [I]every single scene in the book.[/I] And it was fucking brilliant to the critics and family members and friends [sp] Although could be slightly biased [/sp]. But they scrapped it down to 2 hours and fucked it all over.

[QUOTE=RichyZ;31740156] the average person doesn't want to sit in a smelly theatre for 9 hours, regardless if its a great movie or not[/QUOTE] Yeah, nine hours is pushing it, even for me. Still doesn't mitigate how angry this makes me.

I wanted District 9-level of zombie movie. Looks like we're getting Transformers-level zombie movie after all

[QUOTE=qwerty000;31740258]I wanted District 9-level of zombie movie. Looks like we're getting Transformers-level zombie movie after all[/QUOTE] No, a Transformers 1 level zombie movie would be acceptable (not so much for WWZ, but on the whole). This is more of an...I Am Legend style adaptation. Good movie, horrible adaptation that butchers the original text and completely misses the point of the novel.

[QUOTE=RichyZ;31740359]zombieland was a pretty transformers 1 tier movie[/QUOTE]Zombieland didn't try to be like other zombie movies though. It was supposed to be a humorous take on the genre with some aspects reminiscent of comic-books. Shaun of the Dead was an incredible zombie movie that even managed to work in a good romance angle. What both of those movies did was unique and even risky, and they nailed it. Really, all this seems like is them trying to make a Mission Impossible or James Bond or Bourne movie, and they are using the zombies as a background plot. It will probably end up being "HOLY SHIT! LOOK AT BRAD PITT SHOOT THOSE EVIL VILLAIN TERRORIST TYPES! HE JUST BLEW UP THEIR SECRET ZOMBIE LAB! NOW HE IS RACING ACROSS THE COUNTRY SO HE CAN HAVE A SEX SCENE WITH HIS WIFE RIGHT BEFORE SHE IS HAULED AWAY BY ZOMBIES THAT DON'T EAT HER FOR SOME REASON AND HE HAS TO KILL THAT EVIL RUSSIAN GUY CONTROLLING THEM ALL!" And I'm sure they'll have it somewhere in there that it was spread by the Chinese, North Korean, Russian, or Middle Eastern Terrorists and Bond Pitt has to go and punch them all to death.

[QUOTE=MasterG;31740724]Maybe they'll opt for a sequel that is more close to the books in coming years.[/QUOTE] No, this will do terribly and there will never be another opportunity for a good adaptation to be made because they will see how bad this one did.

The book is so awesome, how the fuck do they do this!

Oh boy.

why wouldn't max brooks just say "fuck you faggots" to begin with and make like a miniseries or a cartoon or some SHIT

Somewhat related but, I can't wait for the next season of Walking Dead to start.

I saw the title and instantly felt the strong sensation of not giving a fuck washing over me. I never saw the fascination some of you diehard fanboys have with Brook's shit, it's pretty generic.

It sounds better than the book, just looking at the plot on wikipedia and it sounds fucking stupid like derp these zombie can now somehow survive walking on the fucking ocean floor to cross the world oh and let's form a giant ass line across America and start walking across some mountains.

[QUOTE=markg06;31741227]It sounds better than the book, just looking at the plot on wikipedia and it sounds fucking stupid like derp these zombie can now somehow survive walking on the fucking ocean floor to cross the world oh and let's form a giant ass line across America and start walking across some mountains.[/QUOTE] Uh...what?

Oh for fucks sake, I had so much hope for this movie.

Hollywood........destroying credibility and originality since time immemorial.

[QUOTE=Scar;31741291]Uh...what?[/QUOTE] Determined to lead by example, the United States military reinvents itself to meet the specific challenges involved in fighting the living dead: automatic weapons and mobility are replaced by semi-automatic rifles and formation firing, troops are retrained to focus on head shots and slow, steady rates of fire, and a multipurpose hand tool, the Lobotomizer or "Lobo", is designed to destroy zombie heads close up. In two north–south lines stretching across North America, the U.S. military leaves its safe zone west of the Rocky Mountains and crosses the continent, systematically destroying the zombies and reclaiming outposts of survivors (whether they want to be reclaimed or not). The United Nations fields a large military force to eliminate the remaining zombies from overrun areas, defeat hordes surfacing from the ocean floor, and kill frozen zombies before they thaw.

I never read the book, but I read a small synopsis of the plot on wikipedia, and I have a question- Why was Israel the only country that initiated a state-wide quarantine? What caused them to do that?

[QUOTE=Glorbo;31741821]I never read the book, but I read a small synopsis of the plot on wikipedia, and I have a question- Why was Israel the only country that initiated a state-wide quarantine? What caused them to do that?[/QUOTE] Their government wasn't full of dumbshits and realized that there was a huge ass outbreak because of a boat lot of refugees coming into the country. The United States didnt officially respond until Yonkers, and by then half of new york was gone and the army had its ass handed to them because nobody had enough ammo. IIRC