World War Z

[LongBlade]

This is an interesting article:

The movie just doesn't really make sense: The lead characters are constantly getting on planes to fly places, mostly because this is the kind of movie where people fly places. However, if you read between the lines, the plot of World War Z is actually very clear-cut. It is the story of Brad Pitt, famous celebrity and family man.

Consider. The film begins with Brad Pitt trying to live the life of a normal family man with his wife and children. But they are immediately besieged by a horde of terrifying drooling creatures who thirst for their blood. (In this metaphor, consider zombies as a stand-in for the paparazzi — or, more likely, a stand-in for anyone who clicks on a link just because the name "Brad Pitt" is in the headline.) It's clear that Pitt and his family cannot return to their normal home; they need to live in a safe place, removed from the rest of the world. So they go to a safe place — in the movie, it's the UN's command center onboard a ship. (Along the way, they adopt a war orphan.)

http://popwatch.ew.com/2013/06/22/world-war-z-brad-pitt-autobiography/?hpt=hp_t5

[Centurion40]

"Along the way they adopt an orphan".  That's some funny shit!  :D

[JasonPratt]

The actual movie was much better than that review makes it sound. Granted, I have a low tolerance for zombie movies anyway, but the movie sold me. Very much a zombie movie for people who don't care for zombie movies.

[Staggerwing]

I have to admit that the trailers' depiction of the zombie swarming behavior disturbingly reminds me of those documentaries showing Army Ants bum-rushing some poor jungle creature by using each other's bodies to build an instant siege wall up onto the much larger victim's back and smothering it with a billion painful bites.  :o :o :o

[mirth]

Very much a zombie movie for people who don't care for zombie movies.

lol. that fits me perfectly.

[GDS_Starfury]

I saw it today.  meh.

[JasonPratt]

It does seem unrealistic that Israel would lose a war against zombies, even fast-running ones.  ;D

[Staggerwing]

^ Spoilers!!!

I have not read the book or seen the movie yet.

[GDS_Starfury]

at this point thats your problem!  the books been out for years FFS.

[Staggerwing]

 :P

[GDS_Starfury]

and the movie is nothing like the book.  so it is possible to talk about one without the other.

[Gusington]

The book rocks.

[GDS_Starfury]

and the movie is NOT the book.

damn that was a lame ass ending.

[GDS_Starfury]

no skull bashing.
no head shots.
no Battle of Yonkers.
just blaaaah.......

Im glad I saved my Ipic movie for Pacific Rim.

[GDS_Starfury]

the season 4 walking dead trailer is a better zombie flick then this movie was.