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Oh Brad! This zombie flick is brain dead: CHRIS TOOKEY reviews World War Z
UK Daily Mail ^ | June 2, 2013 | Chris Tookey

Posted on 06/03/2013 7:11:06 AM PDT by C19fan

Movies don’t come bigger than this, and zombie flicks tend to come an awful lot smaller. In Shaun of the Dead, the undead had to content themselves with snacking off a handful of British actors in a deserted pub. Here, it’s the future of humanity at stake. This time, Brad Pitt is here to save us, and the skies are soon full of crashing helicopters, screaming jets and stuntpeople being sucked out of aircraft. So what’s it like? Well, it’s awfully like all the epic action films made by Roland Emmerich, ranging from the nearly sublime (Independence Day) to the totally ridiculous (10,000 BC). It’s slap-bang in the middle of that quality spectrum, round about the level of Godzilla and not quite as classy as The Day the World Ended.

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: bradpitt; horror; pitt; scifi; worldwarz; wwz; zombie; zombies
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To: Vaquero

I loved Shawn of the Dead.

“Well, he was awfully bitey”


21 posted on 06/03/2013 7:55:51 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: MrB

Yeah, but the, “FAIL,” zombies aren’t fast until they see you. THEN they run after you.
Stealth would be a good option if you lacked overwhelming force.


22 posted on 06/03/2013 7:57:15 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (IRS = Internal Revenge Service)
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To: C19fan

It’s not as though anyone actually believes zombies are real (huge retail market for the Z-prepared notwithstanding), but this looks like the only way to get through to a callused audience.

Zombies = undead = pretty scary
Zombies being slow but persistent..scarey
Zombies much faster and absolutely requiring a head-shot-stop...scarier
Zombies proportionally running and swarming like soldier ants (a primal fear), resistant to all but complete immolation or being ‘blowed up’....much scarier

No art intended, just a movie....$$$$$ to make, but just another movie.

YMMV


23 posted on 06/03/2013 7:57:54 AM PDT by petro45acp (It's a fabian thing.....how do you boil a frog? How's that water feelin right about now?)
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To: woodbutcher1963

Heh!

“Pete?”
“Peeete?”

“Oy! PRICK!”

“He’s not home.”


24 posted on 06/03/2013 7:58:59 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (IRS = Internal Revenge Service)
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To: ArrogantBustard

I agree, i have just gotten into reading these books, though I havent read that one... great stuff.

its a movie for petes sake!! just enjoy it!!

some of the critic recommened ones have totally sucked!!


25 posted on 06/03/2013 8:03:40 AM PDT by wyowolf
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To: wyowolf

What books, if I may ask?
Max Brooks’s books?


26 posted on 06/03/2013 8:04:46 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (IRS = Internal Revenge Service)
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To: PetroniusMaximus

“Hey, I kind of liked 10,000 BC”

Me too. LOL!! I loved “Independence Day”


27 posted on 06/03/2013 8:06:07 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: petro45acp

I saw the original Romero zombie flicks once as a kid, nightmares for months. So I am totally going to be terrified while watching this movie. It will be great! Most movie monsters just aren’t that scary anymore.


28 posted on 06/03/2013 8:08:39 AM PDT by chae (I was anti-Obama before it was cool)
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To: C19fan

My son really liked After Earth.


29 posted on 06/03/2013 8:09:21 AM PDT by chae (I was anti-Obama before it was cool)
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To: RandallFlagg

http://www.amazon.com/This-Shattered-Land-Surviving-ebook/dp/B008LI16RE/ref=pd_sim_kstore_1
this series and the DJ molles books have been excellent... i just wish they would write faster!!

http://www.amazon.com/The-Remaining-ebook/dp/B0070B0JW6/ref=pd_sim_kstore_13


30 posted on 06/03/2013 8:12:59 AM PDT by wyowolf
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To: Perdogg

Thanks for the ping!

The trailers look like the movie is very different from Max Brook’s book. And the zombies look like they’re the cheetah-fast zombies. But I still want to see it.


31 posted on 06/03/2013 8:13:24 AM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: petro45acp
It’s not as though anyone actually believes zombies are real

I see real zombies all the time. They are shuffling slowly down the street, J walking, and aimlessly wandering through parking lots. The bus stop is a popular gathering site.

32 posted on 06/03/2013 8:14:54 AM PDT by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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To: RandallFlagg

http://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-The-Beginning-End-ebook/dp/B0089LQJ3E/ref=pd_sim_kstore_10

this was the first one i read, very well written. by a Spanish , Spain, dude... thats what got me started...

never read MB yet...


33 posted on 06/03/2013 8:17:23 AM PDT by wyowolf
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To: BubbaBasher

“I see real zombies all the time. They are shuffling slowly down the street, J walking, and aimlessly wandering through parking lots. The bus stop is a popular gathering site.”

Tracking!

We like to refer to them as yipsters (yuppie hipsters). They prowl the city in search of unconventional food, drink, and hooka-bars.

bizarre!

KYPD


34 posted on 06/03/2013 8:21:28 AM PDT by petro45acp (It's a fabian thing.....how do you boil a frog? How's that water feelin right about now?)
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To: wyowolf

Thank you.


35 posted on 06/03/2013 8:29:02 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (IRS = Internal Revenge Service)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

That’s funny. I guess I am the odd man out. But in all seriousness....if you have read Robert E Howard (the original Conan author), this movie resonated. It was sort of like his worlds.

I may go onto Rotten Tomatoes and check out the reviews. There is nothing like a scalding movie review for entertainment.....


36 posted on 06/03/2013 8:38:33 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: woodbutcher1963
"loved Shawn"

Liked it as well. The only way to do zombie flicks is with a lot of humor.

37 posted on 06/03/2013 8:42:05 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: C19fan

I won’t see any movie that glorifies the UN. Sorry.


38 posted on 06/03/2013 8:47:04 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: BipolarBob

” It certainly wasn’t the worst movie ever made by a long long shot. “

You mean The English Patient?


39 posted on 06/03/2013 8:53:28 AM PDT by Pan_Yan (I believe in God. All else is dubious.)
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To: C19fan

Ill watch it after I illegally download it. The film being released is the second or third version of the movie. The first version was apparently so bad the studio spent over $40mil just to make it watchable. If Braindead Brad Pitt cant buy himself a decent script writer or even follow the book, which would have made a mint because.the book’s premise is actually scarey ,then he needs to lose his ass on this(his.film company made the movie). As a zombie movie fan, wwz is an abomination.


40 posted on 06/03/2013 9:03:39 AM PDT by Necrovore (Lu"gen offenbahren Kontrolle)
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