Brad Pitt & World War Z

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Almost want to refuse to see it altogether because of this stupid zombie phenomenon that everybody thinks is so cool.

Forget that the other dumb zombie movies were ever made. This is the best zombie movie thats been recently made. Look at this one as "huh, a zombie apocalypse movie? Wow, I haven't seen a zombie movie in decades, how quaint! OK, sure why not" (exception: if you hated the old-timey "zombie classics" too, then forget it)

[Micjones]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Almost want to refuse to see it altogether because of this stupid zombie phenomenon that everybody thinks is so cool.

That's exactly how I felt from the outset.
I only saw the film because my teenage son wanted to.

You don't have to be into the zombie phenomenon to appreciate the film.
If ANYONE isn't a zombie stan, it's me.

Go check it out. I'm glad I did.

[mikeyis4dcats.]

Originally Posted by Micjones

That's exactly how I felt from the outset.
I only saw the film because my teenage son wanted to.

You don't have to be into the zombie phenomenon to appreciate the film.
If ANYONE isn't a zombie stan, it's me.

Go check it out. I'm glad I did.

as am I....I'm not a zombie fan, but my wife wanted to see it.

[Ceej]

FWIW:

http://ihorror.com/world-war-z-2-is-in-the-works/

[ThaVirus]

Entertaining.

[Fire Me Boy!]

[mikeyis4dcats.]

haven't read the book, but not sure how people expected them to adapt it to a movie without creating a single protagonist.

[frankotank]

Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.

haven't read the book, but not sure how people expected them to adapt it to a movie without creating a single protagonist.

well....they could have made it a series of shorts, which would be like the book. you know it coulda been kinda like the creepshow movies.

oh well...I think I'm going tonight.
Ive worked with this one guy for over 20 years. if he hates a movie I usually like it and vice versa. welp....he hated it!

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.

haven't read the book, but not sure how people expected them to adapt it to a movie without creating a single protagonist.

There was in the book.

Hell, they could have done it like they did Stand By Me or Fight Club. A narrator over some parts and mostly flashbacks...

[Chiefspants]

The word is that the studio completely overhauled the original ending at the last minute to one that would be more of a "audience pleaser"

Spoiler!

This more or less explains why Matthew Fox ended up being a glorified cameo in the movie's finished product.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by Chiefspants

The word is that the studio completely overhauled the original ending at the last minute to one that would be more of a "audience pleaser"

Spoiler!

This more or less explains why Matthew Fox ended up being a glorified cameo in the movie's finished product.

It's been known for awhile they redid the original ending. That's why the release date got pushed back. I think it was supposed to open last Christmas originally. Anyhow, here's the original ending, and yes sounds like Matthew Fox had a bigger role.

Spoiler!

Key portion: “Gerry (Brad Pitt) reaches Karin (Mireille Enos). He explains to her that the cold is the way they’ll win battles, which does her no good because it just so happens she and the kids are in a refugee camp in the sweltering heat of the Everglades. They’re in the type of camp where you have to have something to trade to survive, and it just so happens the one thing Karin had to trade was herself. She doesn’t explicitly tell Gerry this, but after she hastily hangs up the phone we see that she’s in some kind of reluctantly consensual relationship with the soldier who rescued them from the rooftop at the beginning of the movie.

“Did you happen to notice that soldier on the helicopter was played by Matthew Fox? Did you wonder why they bothered to cast someone as recognizable as him in a role that was pretty inconsequential and had almost no lines? That’s because his real payoff wasn’t until the end.

“Fox’s parajumper soldier then calls Gerry back and explains to him that he should just stay wherever he is and start a new life like he and Karin have. Gerry refuses to accept this, though, and he embarks on a rage mission to get back to his wife and daughters. Trouble is the nearest port that won’t be frozen is thousands of miles away, so there’s a montage of Gerry, Simon and Segen crossing various terrain until they ultimately end up on a boat. They’re now off of the Oregon coast and they attack the American shore like it’s D-day. And that’s how the movie ends. Not with Gerry having discovered a cure, but with him storming across the United States of America to get Karin back.”

http://www.movies.com/movie-news/wor...l-ending/12638

[mikeyis4dcats.]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

It's been known for awhile they redid the original ending. That's why the release date got pushed back. I think it was supposed to open last Christmas originally. Anyhow, here's the original ending, and yes sounds like Matthew Fox had a bigger role.

Spoiler!

Key portion: “Gerry (Brad Pitt) reaches Karin (Mireille Enos). He explains to her that the cold is the way they’ll win battles, which does her no good because it just so happens she and the kids are in a refugee camp in the sweltering heat of the Everglades. They’re in the type of camp where you have to have something to trade to survive, and it just so happens the one thing Karin had to trade was herself. She doesn’t explicitly tell Gerry this, but after she hastily hangs up the phone we see that she’s in some kind of reluctantly consensual relationship with the soldier who rescued them from the rooftop at the beginning of the movie.

“Did you happen to notice that soldier on the helicopter was played by Matthew Fox? Did you wonder why they bothered to cast someone as recognizable as him in a role that was pretty inconsequential and had almost no lines? That’s because his real payoff wasn’t until the end.

“Fox’s parajumper soldier then calls Gerry back and explains to him that he should just stay wherever he is and start a new life like he and Karin have. Gerry refuses to accept this, though, and he embarks on a rage mission to get back to his wife and daughters. Trouble is the nearest port that won’t be frozen is thousands of miles away, so there’s a montage of Gerry, Simon and Segen crossing various terrain until they ultimately end up on a boat. They’re now off of the Oregon coast and they attack the American shore like it’s D-day. And that’s how the movie ends. Not with Gerry having discovered a cure, but with him storming across the United States of America to get Karin back.”

http://www.movies.com/movie-news/wor...l-ending/12638

that really is a terrible ending. And explains why I was like "Wtf" when i saw matthew fox listed on IMDB.

[notorious]

They should have used a different title. At least it would leave the door open for a "True" World War Z movie.

No battle of Yonkers?

[Fairplay]

Sequel seems likely..........

http://hereisthecity.com/2013/06/25/...al-box-office/

World War Z earns sequel after gobbling up global box office

Brad Pitt zombie apocalypse movie World War Z, which has been mired in bad press and was predicted to be one of the year's biggest turkeys, is to get a shock sequel after storming the global box office at the weekend, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Director Marc Forster's loose adaptation of the Max Brooks novel about the aftermath of a worldwide zombie pandemic took a highly impressive $118.8m (£77.3m). While it opened at No 2 in the US behind Pixar animated prequel Monsters University, the film's $66m (£43m) haul in the world's most profitable territory was the best for an original live-action movie there since Avatar. Studio Paramount said the film was now certain to get a followup.

Such comments allude to the extensive rewrite – reportedly of the entire 40-minute third act – undertaken by Lost creator Damon Lindelof after World War Z had wrapped for the first time last year. A Vanity Fair feature published in May suggested that Pitt and director Marc Forster were refusing to talk to each other on set by the end of production, and hinted at an amateurish approach that saw the film's budget balloon to a reported $400m. It is now widely accepted that the true figure is closer to $200m, though World War Z will still need to continue its impressive box-office run at some pace to have a hope of recovering its costs.

Pitt, who plays a UN worker torn between protecting his family and finding a cure for the zombie infection, hinted at a sequel during the film's Moscow premiere last week. "There is enough [material] to mine from the book," he said. "We could barely get a fraction of the book in [this movie]. So we'll see. We'll see."

[frankotank]

saw it last night.
I liked it. very much. it's very surprising the LACK of gore and blood. a good story doesn't NEED it...but imo could be enhanced with a little EWWWWW. the things they show on Walking Dead.....good GRIEF!!!! nothing like that in this movie. good flick.....good story.
I'm the king of knowing who some dude is in a bit part....and I TOTALLY missed that Matthew Fox was in this albeit however briefly!

I did have to crack up when...

Spoiler!

Brad Pitt is walking towards a door with a big ole bio-hazard warning sign on it and.....swoosh! the doors automatically slide open like he's walking into price chopper. cracked me up. that and the tooth clacking zombie outside the drug storage room. pretty funny.