Soloman Tump Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 http://youtu.be/KZgverYyTz8 First trailer online. A lot of this film was shot in Glasgow last year. Are we facing "zombie overload" as we did with Vampire's a few years ago, and is this just the culmination of the successes of The Walking Dead / 28 days later etc. finally being realised by Hollywood. I'm not sure what I think of this so far. Depends if they go for a PG-12 style damp squib - or whether they ramp it up to full-on adults only. With the kids and Brad Pitt, I'm guessing its going to be (unfortunately) fairly family friendly viewing. Some of the scenes look quite cool (especially with the hordes rolling over the top of the bus) but with films of this nature (especially with Zombies), less is definitely more, and suspense is the key. Will wait and see how it develops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest isaki Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 it looks alright, although the only reason I'll see it is so I can scream "FREEDOM" every time Glasgow is showed also got a few photos of the props and stuff "on set", I'll put em up if anyone's interested Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcock Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 it was pretty cool ambling round a film set, and they changed shitloads of traffic lights into american ones which was a bit weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptowen Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 I've never really gotten into the whole zombie craze, main problem being how samey all the stories tend to get, with no sense of resolution But this looks like it might be fun. And if they go the "natural disaster/war movie with zombies" route instead of the usual "normal people hiding in the woods from shambling monsters" route it might actually cover some newish territory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patternoverlap Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 I'm typically not a fan of the "fast zombies" but the piles of them going after people and trying to climb up walls and whatnot was pretty intense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Npoess Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 I thought this was video game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLA FUR BIS FLE Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Seems to have next to nothing to do with the book, (not just World War Z, but the Zombie Survival Guide as well). For as tired as the genre is, I was really looking forward to a book based on the ideas in World War Z, as I thought they were kind of clever (and funny at times). That "Ball of Zombies" effect already looks over done. It happened what, 3 times in the trailer? wtf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vamos scorcho Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 there were about 2000 individual comments on Reddit by people who had read the book saying that it looked like shit. didn't realize that many people read the book. Anyway, I thought the movie looked awesome at first, when the truck came blasting by. I was like, "nice, looks like it might be a real movie." the the trailer kept going, it had the whole "family" vibe of the War of the Worlds remake... you know, "cool dad" has to guide family through disasterous circumstances. on top of that was the shitty looking CGI of the zombies... I don't care what anybody says, that kind of CGI just turns me off 100% to a movie. faggy CGI = producer paycheck, saving money, anti-art, anti-film fuck these producers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 I fucking hate zombie movies. boring as fuck and been done to death. certainly do not need another one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vamos scorcho Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 On closer analysis: I thought the movie looked fantastic, even up to the CGI "zombie wave" that people don't like. What actually makes this movie look like an abomination is the whole miltary thing, combined with the "I'm scared" from the kid in the subway tunnel. I HATE when these movies devolve into the family wandering around in a fucking subway system. It always gets boring right about then. The other part I hate is when Brad Pitt's character says he's "coming back" like 10 times. Like, do we really need another fucking military film? I think 28 Days Later might be the pinnacle of these kinds of movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 No more fucking zombies plz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squee Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Tidal waves of zombies? Sure why not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 CG zombies are the worst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Member Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 CG zombies are the worst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goiter Sanchez Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 CG zombies are the worst. I agree where a film like 'I Am Legend' is concerned where the zombies looked so heavily stylized to the point of being laughable. I thought the CG zombies looked fine in the World War Z trailer. Moreover, I think the trailer looks great! I enjoy that they didn't show any closeups of the zombies; just a tumbling desperate mass of faceless people solely concerned with killing. This looks to be the zombie film I've been waiting for; a zombie film of this scope (and by that I mean transparently showing that it is a worldwide epidemic) hasn't really been pulled off successfully yet imo. Very excited! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghOsty Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Fucking Hollywood, the book is one of my favorites... A tale of a global zombie outbreak and how humans fought it through multiple perspectives? This movie looks nothing like that, this looks like Brad Pitt looking faggy while he and the kids run from CGI zombies... World War Z would work better like an HBO Band of Brothers-esque miniseries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Brad Pitt phones in another movie, acts like a ghost-robot, News at 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skotosa Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 The whole zombie idea is a contradiction. Why does something that is dead, need to feed. Espcailly when considering all other organs except for the brain are rotting away and not functioning... Its like even if they ate something so they wouldn't starve, its not like that food has anywhere to go. But I love zombies despite all the irrationality :) Zombie games, movies,etc love them all and can't get enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 not sure if this has already been mentioned, but World War Z was one of those big budget films in production hell, and not even before the production started but AFTEr the movie was 'done' filming. Apparently the studio was very unhappy with the 3rd act, and they got none other than wait for it...... Damn Lindelof to re-write parts of the script. They had to send the entire crew back to the filming locations for almost a month of re-shoots long after they had completely edited film. Sounds like a polished turd right out of the gates to me. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/brad-pitt-world-war-z-production-nightmare-336422 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atop Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 and it will be nothing like the book. A fun read Robbie, if you get the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/brad-pitt-ad-2/1421367/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YO303 Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 It's gonna be a fun movie while it last. Fucking Hollywood, the book is one of my favorites... A tale of a global zombie outbreak and how humans fought it through multiple perspectives? This movie looks nothing like that, this looks like Brad Pitt looking faggy while he and the kids run from CGI zombies... World War Z would work better like an HBO Band of Brothers-esque miniseries. You stole this comment from reddit. Who cares if its nothing like the book, even if it was similar to the book people would find stuff to complain about "oh this character didn't fart like he did in the books , blah blah blah". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tec Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 Those CG zombies look fucking gash, almost as bad as the I Am Legend vampire things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squee Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 Since some of you mentioned the overly fake looking CGi freaks from I Am Legend I thought I would post this... Could have been interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FuncRandm Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 The book was pretty amazing. I was hoping to see the zombie epidemic from a variety of points of view, with the sheer implacable, relatively unkillable nature of the zombies coming through against a technologically advanced and "prepared" nation. There really hasn't been anything that approaches the scale of the book. Unfortunately it looks like the film is going to be entirely different from the book, and even have fast moving, hive mind, zombies which are closer to the Robots Vs Zombies Ashley Wood comic. It might still be good... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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