[Closed] World War Z - Going cheap in Tesco on DVD.

There's a reason it's cheap.

It's pretty good IMO.
Some proper jumpy/tense bits.

If I'd never read the book it's based on I might of thought it was an ok generic zombie film.

Not a bad film, and certainly one of the best with zombies in it. The music (by Muse) is also superb.

Insanely bad film.

It's basically an hour and a half of Brad Pitt surviving the most ridiculously life threatening situations possible.

28 Days Later is 10X the zombie film.

It gains a point for the start being filmed in Glasgow...... that's probably the highlight

Its streaming at the moment on Now TV. I turned it off after 25 mins.

Needs to be it was crap lol

Insanely bad film.

It's basically an hour and a half of Brad Pitt surviving the most ridiculously life threatening situations possible.

I thought the same about Sandra Bollock in Gravity.

WWZ, it was ok. But I like a Zombie bloodbath, so it had a head start. Wouldn't watch it again tbh.

Some half decent action bits in it and the idea of the fast zombies is good but overall it's poor.

Well this may have saved me the cost of watching it on sky box office tonight. Is it really that bad?

Yup

I'll let you know in about 3 hours. Looking forward to it.

I thought it was great. Looking forward to the next one.

I watched it last night on sky movies. Would have been upset if I'd paid for it on box office. Some good set pieces, but overall plot was a bit rubbish. Found myself fast forwarding quite a lot.

28 Days Later is 10X the zombie film.

I watched this again recently after harping on to mrs file for years about how good it was. It's not 🙂

Perhaps The Walking Dead has changed my tolerance of zombie stuff, but it's nowhere near as good as I remember.

Just watched Rec (spanish zombie movie) last night....it's great!!!!

I wanted to hate World War Z before I'd ever watched it, but had to admit that it is pretty entertaining. Probably wouldn't watch it again, but good saturday-evening-in viewing

28 Days Later is pretty good it's different style of zombie flick.

28 Weeks later is awful and should have never been made.

REC is pretty good.

What I found odd after watching 28 Days Later again Drac, was how low budget and rough around the edges it is. I don't know why, but wherever I remember my favourite scenes in my head, they look nothing like how they were actually shot!

It was a great movie, was cutting edge at the time, I think maybe we've just had too many following the same path now which has tainted it for me. I'll never forget walking home through Glasgow at 1am after having watched it at the cinema 🙂

I would happily watch it again. It isn't that bad.

Yeah very low budget but that some how added to the 'Realism' of it. With that and it's age it maybe hasn't held up too well.

28 Weeks later is awful and should have never been made

The scene where Robert Carlisle leaves his wife as she is being attacked and runs to the river with massive attack playing is utterly epic!!!

One of the best and most powerful scenes I have ever seen in a movie that has really stayed with me.

And that's where it ends.

Admittedly I can remember much after that. Though the scene where robert Carlisle is infected is another cracker.

I seem to be immersed in zombies at the minute. Watched world war z for the second time yesterday. Am
currently playing Resident Evil 4 on the Wii and Resident Evil Revelations on the 3DS, just bought Resident Evil Archives (remake of the original but with better graphics) and I'm literally watching the Walking Dead as I type this.

If your into zombies, try reading the marvel zomnibus - expensive but fantastic, loved it. I tried telling the wife it was a graphic novel but she just looked at me pityingly, and muttered something about me being too old for comics.

peterfile - Member

28 Days Later is 10X the zombie film.

I watched this again recently after harping on to mrs file for years about how good it was. It's not

I think it's superb. 😀

peterfile - Member

What I found odd after watching 28 Days Later again Drac, was how low budget and rough around the edges it is. I don't know why, but wherever I remember my favourite scenes in my head, they look nothing like how they were actually shot!

I thought that the down to earth production made it much more believable.
And there's not a bad performance in it.
One of the best British horror films ever, imo.

loddrik - Member
currently playing Resident Evil 4 on the Wii

Brilliant, isn't it? 🙂

[url= http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-03-24/neighbours-to-face-a-zombie-apocalypse-on-ramsay-street ]zombies down under in Neighbours soon[/url]

What gets me is that civilisation has crumbled, the world is burning, they go to Wales, and IT LOOKS COMPLETELY NORMAL As in just like Wales looks without a zombie apocalypse.

Then they go and see Dr Who

That's because there is no civilisation in Wales, hence no change after the zombie apocalypse. 🙂

Insanely bad film.

+1,000,000

Good Zombie films have something called blood & gore.

There is the slow suspenseful feeling of dread creeping up all the time, there is never a happy ending, no matter how fast you run you won't escape.... & most of all...most of all, remember kids a decaying human corpse should not develop superhuman running & stamina their only interest should be the next meal...

What's with human obsession with zombie movies? Just cant figure out for the life of me..

WWZ zombie is in different league though, watched it in cinema.. I was in the edge of my seat the entire time.brilliant zombie movie...walking dead zombie are gay, even kids can kill it .

I enjoyed it as a comedy really,

Good Zombie films have something called blood & gore.

I found it more of a Saturday night light hearted action film.

Do I really have to be the first person to say that the film sucks and the book is a million times better. If you haven't read it yet get ready to spend an entire day reading it and having watched the film already won't spoil it for you.

It was a massive let down from the book.

It gains a point for the start being filmed in Glasgow...... that's probably the highlight

**** me, I didn't know it was a documentary!

Update.

We enjoyed it. That is all that matters to me.

Free on XBMC for what a friend tells me

It was OK, but if we're talking "fast zombies" rather than classic shuffling "romero" zombies, then 28 days later smashes it out of the park. 28 WEAKS later (spelling deliberate) was weak, had potential, but just got too silly towards the end, although Paris falling at the end was a highlight.

Walking Dead is great. The whole reason Zombie films work (shuffling versions) is the inevitability that you will succumb as a result of their ever increasing numbers & the collapse of the support structures you have come to rely on, a conceptual metaphor for the growing global population and the struggle for increasingly scarce resources.

If you fancy a zombie movie with a bit of a twist, then Warm Bodies is worth a watch. I quite liked WWZ, but it was all a bit predictable. Definitely more of a fan of the shuffling, brain hungry zombie genre myself 🙂

World War Z was turd.

28 Weeks Later is a better film than 28 Days Later. Nowt happens in the first one, it's boring as hell.

Nothing would have happened in 28 weeks later if they hadn't put the yanks in charge.

I watched WWZ last weekend. It was OK but lost interest when the Zionist nonsense started.

the idea of the fast zombies is good

Zombies aren't fast!

Saw I Am Legend at the cinema - me and mrs nipper nearly had to leave at one point.

28 Weeks Later is a better film than 28 Days Later. Nowt happens in the first one, it's boring as hell.

The difference was almost as stark as the difference between Alien & Aliens. 28 days being a slower, cleverer film showing us how society breaks down and how those with power (guns) might respond in the breakdown.

I am legend is Vampires...

Zombies aren't fast!

Any academic literature to confirm this?

I enjoyed it. Cartoon HD has it for free. Apparently.

I suppose people have different tastes in films ....I found world war z very good..

Zombies aren't fast!

Any academic literature to confirm this?

"You cannot kill a vampire with an MDF stake; werewolves can't fly; [i]zombies do not run[/i]. It's a misconception, a bastardisation that diminishes a classic movie monster. The best phantasmagoria uses reality to render the inconceivable conceivable. The speedy zombie seems implausible to me, even within the fantastic realm it inhabits. A biological agent, I'll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It's hard to run with a cold, let alone the most debilitating malady of them all."

- [url= http://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/nov/04/television-simon-pegg-dead-set ]Pegg, (2008)[/url] emphasis mine

😉

loddrik

Any academic literature to confirm this?

[url= http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304851104579361451951384512 ]Article in the Wall Street Journal[/url] about the study of the undead

These threads are great as they allow for opinion calibration, there are several who I wouldn't take a film recommendation from, this needs some kind of reference table.

Alien better than Aliens unless you like "Hey look at the size of my gun"
28 Days better than 28 weeks one was original, clever and surprising the other was pop the same idea back in the blender and pour it back out.

My general rule of thumb is to see if the original director of something I liked came back for part 2. Nobody came back for the last Bourne film...

My general rule of thumb is to see if the original director of something I liked came back for part 2. Nobody came back for the last Bourne film...

Is the Matrix Trilogy the exception that proves the rule?

quite probably, as with anything you have to try some things to see if it's any good.

I thought it was OK - not something I'd have wanted to fork out for in the cinema but a couple of hours of reasonable entertainment at home.

I am surprised that no one's mentioned the missing scenes in Russia and reason for the film ending the way it did

SPOILER ALERT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z_(film)

In May 2012, production returned to Budapest for seven weeks of additional shooting.[54] The following month, screenwriter Damon Lindelof was hired to rewrite the film's third act with reshoots scheduled to begin in September or October 2012.[55] However Lindelof, who also reworked Prometheus and co-wrote Star Trek Into Darkness, did not have time to script the new ending and in July 2012, Paramount hired Lindelof's Lost partner, Drew Goddard.[56] Lindelof explained there were inefficiencies in the script in relation to the shooting, which started before the script was finalized thus making the ending "abrupt and incoherent" and was missing a large chunk of footage. Lindelof presented two options to executives, who ultimately chose to shoot 30 to 40 minutes of additional footage to make a coherent ending. The re-shoots coupled with other overages caused the budget to balloon to around $190 million, which shocked Paramount president Marc Evans.[2][3][57] Several of the scenes shot in Budapest, including a large-scale battle with the zombies in Moscow's Red Square,[58] were dropped from the final cut in order to water down the film's political undertones, and steer it towards a more generally friendly summer blockbuster.[59] The climactic battle scene in Russia, for which there was 12 minutes of footage, had Pitt's character fighting through zombies more like "a warrior hero" than "the sympathetic family man" of the earlier acts. The second-unit director, Simon Crane, said, "It wasn't character-driven anymore... [The filmmakers] really needed to think about what they wanted to do with the third act."[50] Additional scenes were also filmed at the Pfizer building at Discovery Park in Sandwich, Kent for scenes where Gerry tries to find a cure for the zombie pandemic.[60]

Is the Matrix Trilogy the exception that proves the rule?

Yes, but it was a completely greed driven anomaly. I didn't rate the first one that highly, it was OK, but not the "game changer" that everyone else made it out to be.

I saw shades of Terminator all through the plot, but using "reality" as the vehicle rather than "time travel". Terminator on acid I think was how I described it as we left the cinema.

Reeves was nearly as wooden in that as the remake of the Day the Earth Stood Still, a film which suited his acting style perfectly. The only other film I could see him beimg perfect for would be Pinnochio.

Good moments but they made Brad Pitt ridiculously heroic and the ending was awful. The book is indeed much better.

Oh, and 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later are both great IMO.

Movie was enjoyable enough, but didn't bear much resemblance to the book.

To be fair, my first thought on reading the book was "how the $%£* are the going to film THAT?"

A whole thread about Zombie movies and nobody has mentioned Shaun of the Dead? Given that's it's a gore packed, comedy, action horror, does it count?

No matter, it's certainly the best (only) Zombie movie that I've seen. Though given the Zombirati's general hatred of World War Z I'm now seriously reconsidering my prior decision to give it a very wide berth 😉

A whole thread about Zombie movies and nobody has mentioned Shaun of the Dead? Given that's it's a gore packed, comedy, action horror, does it count?

No matter, it's certainly the best (only) Zombie movie that I've seen. Though given the Zombirati's general hatred of World War Z I'm now seriously reconsidering my prior decision to give it a very wide berth

Dead Set is a very good zombie 'movie' not mentioned yet, too. (Though, technically, not a movie.) Despite the fast zombies.

Is it/was it to be part of a trilogy?

Just it re-enforce the points others have made. Here is a quick reference I have linked from The Oatmeal as to how the film and book compare. 🙂
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The book is great.