World War Z
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Noodleface
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Yeah I was wondering why the fuck he was in the movie with no lines and not really showing his face. I actually completely forgot about it until now. Fuck this movie.
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The only criticism I've heard that really, really is turning me off to the idea of seeing this is the use of fast edits and camera shaking to obfuscate the violence. Is it a problem? If they start whipping that camera to and fro too much I'll get motion sickness.
Noodleface
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There is minimal violence. The best was when that one zombie ran headfirst into the wall, but everyone laughed.
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Wow that Matthew Fox ending is horrid. I definitely understand going away from that. I mean, the whole 'if you have a limp the zombies ignore you' thing was dumb but it was better than that.
As a whole I thought the movie was ok but nothing special. I wouldn't call it bad, but I wouldn't call it good either.
Some observations:
As a whole I thought the movie was ok but nothing special. I wouldn't call it bad, but I wouldn't call it good either.
Some observations:
-Definitely could have used the R rating. The level at which they had to reach to obscure the gore was dumb.
-The Israel storyline really bugged me. I loved for a second that this was the first real decent call back to the book. The wall, the immigration, the 9/10 rule. I really enjoyed all of that. And then suddenly we learn mic feedback causes zombie rage and all of Jerusalem dies. I would have much preferred they just left Israel as a part of the world actually succeeding in fighting back thanks to their quick actions that no one else took. Have Pitt go into India with a squad to continue the clues toward sick people not getting attacked. Now this ignores the whole civil war that happens in the novel, but would have been a whole ton better than zombie pillar from loud singing. Gah.
-Why is our field trained UN specialist protagonist always have to be the guy that steps on shit which makes noise and attracts zombies? This is a pretty minor complaint, but I had a really hard time thinking this dude was going to keep doctor guy safe when he was just a big klutz during any stressful moment. We want to see smart characters not dumb ones right?
-Can someone explain to me how the outbreak in the B Wing of the WHO building started? They show that security camera footage of one of the docs working with blood samples suddenly turning right? Didn't they establish pretty clearly that it's only bites that do it? And then all the other docs suddenly turn which makes you think it's airborne even though up to that point in the movie that obviously wasn't the case. But if it was, why didn't Pitt turn after walking into those labs? I'm seriously not trying to be critical here I think I must have missed something.
-The Israel storyline really bugged me. I loved for a second that this was the first real decent call back to the book. The wall, the immigration, the 9/10 rule. I really enjoyed all of that. And then suddenly we learn mic feedback causes zombie rage and all of Jerusalem dies. I would have much preferred they just left Israel as a part of the world actually succeeding in fighting back thanks to their quick actions that no one else took. Have Pitt go into India with a squad to continue the clues toward sick people not getting attacked. Now this ignores the whole civil war that happens in the novel, but would have been a whole ton better than zombie pillar from loud singing. Gah.
-Why is our field trained UN specialist protagonist always have to be the guy that steps on shit which makes noise and attracts zombies? This is a pretty minor complaint, but I had a really hard time thinking this dude was going to keep doctor guy safe when he was just a big klutz during any stressful moment. We want to see smart characters not dumb ones right?
-Can someone explain to me how the outbreak in the B Wing of the WHO building started? They show that security camera footage of one of the docs working with blood samples suddenly turning right? Didn't they establish pretty clearly that it's only bites that do it? And then all the other docs suddenly turn which makes you think it's airborne even though up to that point in the movie that obviously wasn't the case. But if it was, why didn't Pitt turn after walking into those labs? I'm seriously not trying to be critical here I think I must have missed something.
Gavinmad
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To answer your third point
He jabbed himself with the slide, or broke the slide, or something along those lines that would be profoundly unlikely to ever happen in a lab where people routinely handle dangerous shit. I don't think it went airborne, they showed that first doctor infecting himself and the implication is that he started biting people, infecting the wing in that fashion. Pitt got the zombie blood in his mouth, not in a wound. It's not impossible for a blood borne pathogen to fail to transmit through ingestion.
Noodleface
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I just thought of this too.. did the zombies even show physically on their bodies where they were bitten? I mean... I can't recall seeing any parts of their bodies being damaged
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Blackyce
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Yeah, the other guy is very correct. A virus can spread but many times, like the aids virus, needs to be transmitted to another via blood. So when Pitt got it in his mouth, he was OK because he had no open soars the virus could be transmitted too.
In the movie the doctor accidently stabbed himself with the a needle with the blood of a zombie. The virus infected him immediately and then the rest of the wing via biting. The doctor contracted the virus much like you can get aids via sharing needles with someone who's infected.
In the movie the doctor accidently stabbed himself with the a needle with the blood of a zombie. The virus infected him immediately and then the rest of the wing via biting. The doctor contracted the virus much like you can get aids via sharing needles with someone who's infected.
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Yeah I understand the explanation now it just still seems like there are some gaps there. One doctor is the cause of the spread among 80 employees. Yet they're all just standing in their normal labs behind closed doors. It just seemed poorly planned out, but that could probably be explained by the fact that it was shot way after the fact.
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I had not been to the theater this entire year and seeing this reminded me how much I despise the current advertising model. I sat down six minutes after the posted show time and it was commercial after commercial after commercial after commercial. Then I started remembering how last time I was there I actually got up during all of it, walked back to the lobby, and asked the cashier what time it was. I just had to know how goddamn fucking long I had been sitting there watching car ads. I'm here, I paid my money, stop punishing me.
As far as the film itself goes it's just average. It's nothing to hate but there isn't anything good here either. I thought the stuff with Israel looked cool and I thought the stuff at the end was rather interesting in its approach but there just aren't any characters. We don't know anyone or what they do or what their motivations are or anything aside from the most basic characteristics. No one has any depth and there isn't any weight to anything that happens. We aren't given time to develop a connection to anyone Pitt meets as he travels from action set piece to action set piece and even the main characters don't have much that can be said about them. Can anyone name a trait of Gerry's wife other than she's a wife and has two daughters? Or something about his old friend from the U.N? Or the girl from Israel? Or the fleet's Captain? Or any of the Seals? Or any of the pilots?
It's nowhere near the "oh god why did I even leave the house" category. I wasn't bored. The audience I was with seemed to have a good time. The film will probably lead to additional book sales. That's good enough I guess.
As far as the film itself goes it's just average. It's nothing to hate but there isn't anything good here either. I thought the stuff with Israel looked cool and I thought the stuff at the end was rather interesting in its approach but there just aren't any characters. We don't know anyone or what they do or what their motivations are or anything aside from the most basic characteristics. No one has any depth and there isn't any weight to anything that happens. We aren't given time to develop a connection to anyone Pitt meets as he travels from action set piece to action set piece and even the main characters don't have much that can be said about them. Can anyone name a trait of Gerry's wife other than she's a wife and has two daughters? Or something about his old friend from the U.N? Or the girl from Israel? Or the fleet's Captain? Or any of the Seals? Or any of the pilots?
It's nowhere near the "oh god why did I even leave the house" category. I wasn't bored. The audience I was with seemed to have a good time. The film will probably lead to additional book sales. That's good enough I guess.
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The entire movie essentially falls under this rubric. A lack of logical coherence is an inherent part of the script, and was not something that occurred post production. The script writers were possessed of such little creativity that the only way they could think to move the film forward was through the introduction of gimmicks.
For example,
At the beginning of the film when things start going crazy, generic white family #187B is in the car driving, with daughter#1 hiding behind the passenger seat while Pitt & Wife try to pull her out. It is not safe, she needs to be sitting down wearing her seat belt! What kind of person, while driving a vehicle at rapid speed through an urban environment in the midst of a "riot", not only stops watching the road, but turns their entire body towards the back seat to tell crybaby it isn't safe to not wear her seat belt? Brad Pitt of course, father and driver of said car. He is the kind of person who needs to get into a car accident, so that the story can move forward with them out on the street.
The entire film is basically this, over and over and over again. Stupidity (the non-believable kind) is the only mechanism the scriptwriters use to move the plot, or to create tension.
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If the film was rated R he would've just kept screaming "SHUT THE FUCK UP, GET THE FUCK BACK IN YOUR SEAT OR YOURE GOING TO DIE YOU LITTLE ANGSTY BITCH", but that wouldn't have been nice.
The movie was alright. I've read the book and I knew going in not to get my hopes up.. at all.
I dont know why they didnt just go for the R rating and make the zombies actually scary, and add some gore and make the movie right.
I dont know why they didnt just go for the R rating and make the zombies actually scary, and add some gore and make the movie right.