Why did YOU hate World War Z?

[Clippy]

I never got into this at all in any capacity. All I know is it's a zombie book turned movie. It has zombies. All I know. Zombied are played out I can't be bothered. A friend tried to get me into walking Dead but I'm so over zombies, hate walking dead

Game of Thrones or get out

 

[Loiosh]

I may be the outlier here but I loved the movie and absolutely hated the book. It never made sense when people compared the book to the film in this case. If you adapted the novel it would be the most boring film ever. Sure there were some parts that, if adapted, may have made for some great scenes but other wise it wasn't really good for an entire film.

The way they make movies now in Hollywood, you're probably right.

Japan would have the best shot at doing this material properly. Maybe Spain. American mainstream films are too concerned with a splashy payoff.

 

[bufetadanacara]

I didn't like it but I never got onto any zombie craze, I might be too old.

 

[PUO3]

I hate most zombies movies. So thats why.

What about Zombieland?

Arguably the greatest movie ever.

 

[rearnakedchoke]

Was antisemetic.

 

[The Clinch]

Fluidlike zombies, main character never in any real danger, shitty solution, shitty pacing.

 

[JinKazama]

never watched it, just didn't look all that interesting

 

[SouthoftheAndes]

One of those films you can watch over and over again. Also, great for social events via having it on as background noise and entertainment.

Love the film

 

[Frode Falch]

What about Zombieland?

Arguably the greatest movie ever.

Never seen it

 

[MMouse]

I thought the movie was cool.

Zombies + brad pitt. Pace was ok as well. I hope the sequel does the reverse (slow then fast).

Can anyone tell me the difference between the book and movie

- cause of the outbreak?
- solution of the outbreak?
- brad pitts character?

The book is a series of interviews who tell their partial version of the zombie apocalypse. The zombies aren't fast. It tells about how society begins to crumble until the reddeker plan comes into effect. The plan is instead of rescuing people you leave them where they are at surrounded by zombies as bait and a delaying tactic so others can survive. The US has to dump all its military technology and goes old school revolutionary war tactics.

The book itself itself isn't very good literary wise, what really makes it stand out is its common sense approach to defeating a world wide zombie outbreak.

The book really took off because its written by the guy who wrote the zombie survival guide and its 10 rules.

1. Organize before they rise!
2. They feel no fear, why should you?
3. Use your head: cut off theirs.
4. Blades don't need reloading.
5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.
6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it.
7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.
8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!
9. No place is safe, only safer.
10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on

I wonder why bike?

 

[The Clinch]

I wonder why bike?

Car runs on gas/battery, once that's out you're trapped in a car with a horde surrounding you. Buffet time.

Not to mention cars can be kinda noisy.

 

[drstrangelov]

I read the book in college and liked it well enough, it wasn't great but good fun that seemed like an obvious setup for a film adaptation.

The movie wasn't faithful to the book and came along a little late in the zombie craze to be as popular as it might have been a couple years earlier. If anything, I thought it would have benefited from a little framing in the style of an oral history.

Even though Interstellar was, if anything, a bigger disappointment, it had enough of that structure to illustrate how a simple trick could have tied it back to the structure of the book and made it stand out a little.

Anyway, I think the movie will hold up as well if not better than the book. There was an ugly political message in the Israel scene, but that didn't derail it or anything.

 

[Nesk]

Didn't read the book but watched the movie. It 's not the worst movie ever but is it good...hell no, and everyone who thinks the movie is great has a shitty taste in movies. Yes I said it!!!

 

[Sir Galahad]

Not a Zombie film in the sense that these people died and came back to life.

 

[KnightTemplar]

If you'd read the book, you'd know why the film was hated

/Thread

 

[Roxxo]

I would like to have seen what the movie was like before they reshot like half of it and changed everything.

 

[NRG]

I didn't know there was a book until this thread. I liked the movie.

 

[Jack Handy jr]

You can arguably enjoy this as a C- sillyish sci fi pic if you're bored on your day off.

an example of why I say it's sillyish would be saaaay for example someone walking a way with less than a scratch from a commercial airliner nosediving into the ground...not a spoiler....not saying that happened in the movie but if it did it would be silly.

And after there was no battle of Yonkers portrayal I seriously wanted to leave. It's just after you spend $700 dollars on a ticket, cola drink, and nachos you feel a certain way if you leave early.

Overall Movie gets two thumbs down from Mon Senor Handelolini

 

[Exi]

I loved it. Saw it when it came out in the theater, then recently rewatched it a few months ago. Great movie.

Fun Fact: I once randomly talked with Bas Rutten (it was right after this came out) and we talked about how awesome this movie was & shared what our favorite scenes were

Did he make sound effects while describing the movie?

 

[Aed]

one of the worst Film adaptations of a novel ever...

this was worse than Congo.

"I am Legend" has to be in the discussion of worst book-to-movie adaptations.