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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

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To: Pan_Yan
"You mean The English Patient?"
Heavens no. Heavens Gate - yes.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080855/

41 posted on 06/03/2013 10:00:00 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I have sexdaily. Oops, I meant dyslexia.)
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To: BipolarBob

I haven’t seen that one. Maybe I was thinking of the most overrated movie, not the absolutely worst.


42 posted on 06/03/2013 10:22:23 AM PDT by Pan_Yan (I believe in God. All else is dubious.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

Please do report back.


43 posted on 06/03/2013 11:06:34 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of opression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: woodbutcher1963

Shaun of the Dead is one of my all-time favorites... it’s up there with Galaxy Quest.


44 posted on 06/03/2013 12:37:43 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: C19fan

This whole global “We have to cater to everybody” in order to capitalize $$$ on the return mentality seems to be ruining everything in life lately.


45 posted on 06/03/2013 12:38:27 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: C19fan

Got about 4 or 5 Blu-rays that i’m now looking forward to coming out on Netflix in the coming few weeks/months...


46 posted on 06/03/2013 12:47:52 PM PDT by mowowie
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From what I am seeing on the previews, this has little to do with the original book. That’s too bad, as the book was absolutely great. If they would have just followed that, they would have had a potentially great flick.


47 posted on 06/03/2013 2:32:40 PM PDT by tarawa
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To: C19fan
good... i hope so!!!
48 posted on 06/03/2013 2:46:50 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: tarawa
Yep, marvelous book. It just wasn't a Brad Pitt-esque action adventure shoot-em-up, and so they had to rewrite the screenplay. Good luck with that.

There are some written scenes that don't translate to the screen very well. One such is a narration of a young woman who had been a little girl sent to a camp full of starving people, whose parents did...something they didn't talk about. And then she says in a matter-of-fact voice, "By Christmas there was plenty to eat." I had to re-read it to figure out exactly what she meant, and then, brrrrr...

49 posted on 06/03/2013 2:57:57 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: C19fan

I heard this thing cost like $200+Million to make


50 posted on 06/03/2013 5:25:22 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Necrovore

Following the book would have actually been rather cheap, as a series of interviews in eco-friendly communes, talking to the artist in the wheelchair with a CGI mural of the zombie war victory in the back, a dense hospital talking to a Russian survivor. Throw in a few flashback action scenes with mostly interviews, and it is very cheap to make.
Instead, they tried to create a super-fast monster action movie out of a rather sedate but emotionally packed book. You’d think the movie would be closer to the book, with a “WWZ” administrator talking about how he had to dredge up memories of FDR for the war commission, people talking about the environmental damage by both people and zombies, the discussion of appreciating living simply because you’re happy just to be alive.


51 posted on 06/03/2013 6:39:37 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: GeronL

World War Z: is Brad Pitt making the most expensive disaster of all time?

The negative hype surrounding Brad Pitt’s zombie epic World War Z is getting worse all the time, with news of rewrites, reshoots and a budget that has ballooned above $400m


52 posted on 06/03/2013 6:41:43 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: A_perfect_lady

Shaun is one of those movies I can watch over and over like:
Animal House
Caddy Shack
National Lampoon’s Vacation and Christmas Vacation
A Christmas Story
Its a Wonderful Life
Goodfellows


53 posted on 06/04/2013 5:43:03 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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