Movie Trailers: World War Z - Teaser Trailer

[LordChhaya]

*Raises hand and points weakly at screen* Wh-Why was that zombie horde moving like water would? And why are they forming what appears to be a living tower...Like those Ants from Crystal Sku...This just reminded me of THAT...*Sigh* When I first heard about this, I was apprehensive, but was willing to give it the benefit of the doubt, but this? It looks like one of those films like Trans-Bloody-Morphers! MAybe this will be the final nail in the coffin on the recent Zombie craze? That'd be nice, right? We can put it in the basement next to Warfighter on the "What were they thinking shelf".

 

[schwitz]

After watching this Trailer, there are a few things that come to mind.
The first being 'OMG Zerg Rush'.
After watching it a second time with a much more serious face on, I gotta say. I'm a little disappointed.
Now, I haven't read the book (It seems to get mentioned a lot in this thread so I might go get it) but even without that as a reference, this seems like a massive waste of my money.

Big Budget films just aren't what they used to be... There doesn't seem to be a great plot and it seems that all the movie has to offer is a ton of CGI Zombie Tsunamis.

 

[Furbyz]

I'm of the same opinion as everyone else here. Terrible waste of an amazingly fresh take on the zombie genre. World War Z is THE zombie story you recommend to non-zombie lovers.

The only, I repeat only, way the original could have been honoured would be a 10 to 20 episode mini-series. Take the best chapters from the book, and let them tell the story. A few of my recommendations would have been 3 centered on the american soldier, the decimation of the russian troops, the grown feral child, the K-9 corps and the stranded pilot.

Personally, I couldn't imagine a real WWZ film without an interview from the French soldier who worked the sewers. That is some hardcore stuff right there.

 

[TeacakeWeasel]

Interview with Max Brooks (author of World War Z) saying how he hates fast zomibes. Way to sell out and give up creative control Mr. Brooks.

Max Brooks: "Fast zombies are gay".

So THAT'S why they're piling into massive man mountains.

All I can say after seeing the trailer is that this cannot end well.

 

[Product Placement]

Looks like the director saw news about this study [http://chemoton.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/ant-swarms-acting-like-viscous-fluids-2/] and thought to himself: "This is sooo cool! We should do a zombie movie that focuses around this one thing!"

 

[dragon60fe]

I'd also hope that they'd cover some of the "people acting like zombies" parts from the book - they had a name something along the line of "Quinceys" in the book, I can't remember exactly.

The term you're looking for is "Quisling [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quisling]", and was in fact not invented by Brooks.

 

[Your Gaffer]

I really liked the book and I am very much looking forward to the movie. Summer blockbuster?

 

[otakon17]

What the HELL is this crap? I was expecting something at least SIMILAR to what Max Brooks wrote not another goddamn summer action flick... Goddammit Hollywood you are getting STUPIDER AND STUPIDER. And I was so pleased with Wreck It Ralph too... dammit you disappoint me so.

 

[Ninjat_126]

I will defend 28 Days later as it WAS quite frightening. The scene when they run through the window was genuinely horrible as well as in 28 Weeks Later when they were running over the hills after Carlye and he left his wife behind.

That opening scene from 28 Weeks Later... best case "for" fast zombies I've ever seen. No time to think, no time to plan, barely any time to react. That scene with slow zombies would have been "Oh no! Let's go wait and plan for a few hours before they get here!" Fast zombies, its just pure brilliance.

World War Z, however, is not a mad rush. It's slow decay. The only time that a barrier is overrun in a manner of seconds is the time when it's humans attacking it.

Why? Why license the name? It probably cost the studio a heap, and they haven't used a single thing from the book. Even the whole Solanum thing (you know, the zombie disease the entire thing is based off) has been thrown out the window.

 

[MPerce]

Bad CGI is BAD.

Also holding out the tiniest bit of hope that maybe the movie just looks like shit because of the marketing team trying to appeal to a broader audience by making it look like generic zombie shoot'em up.

It's a small hope, but one I will illogically cling to with all of my being.

 

[Lord Draenor]

I actually hoped this would turn out good. Silly me; of course they couldn't make it good. That would require them to take the book seriously. And who does that, it's a book about zombies right - so screw it, just have Brad Pitt run around shooting things

 

[Wolfhowl the shadow lurker]

As i recall, world war z was more about how people where acting around and in the zombie end of the world. With panic and people acting in fear being the killer not the zombies themselfs. This kind of looks like 28 days later and im going to say this now I HATE CHILDREN IN FILMS. No not all children but a lot of them.

 

[Basement Cat]

...At least if it flops, they can just edit the zombies out for scarabs and make it a new "The Mummy" movie.

Funny! And the funniest part is that once you mentioned the scarabs I realized that that was exactly what the scenes of 'gushing' zombies reminded me of. I award you 5 Internet points, sir.

OT: I've never read or even heard of World War Z before clicking this trailer. The idea of Brad Pitt being in a Zombie movie amuses me. The "You want me to leave my family" line made me cringe inside, though. It's...lame.

The zombie 'waves' looked like the inevitable eventual extreme that zombie movies have been moving towards--who's going to make them faster than anyone else, if you take my meaning.

I'm not worried about the CGI. The movie won't be released until June, so they've months to improve on it. SURELY everyone knows enough about Star Wars history to know what UTTERLY PUTREFYING pieces of crap the Original Trilogy's movie trailers were.

Is the book WWZ really that good? Or is it a series of books?

I'll Wiki it. But is it that good a read, folks?

 

[marurder]

I've never read the book, but I have to say this trailer left me unimpressed. It seemed rather generic and a cash in using a famous star. It also told me the whole story and how it would end. I think as other posters above have said, that the whole tone needed to change and when I was watching the shots of the zombies dying, it appeared as if they were waves breaking on the shore.

 

[bificommander]

Hey, did they remake the Starship Troopers scene with the horde of bugs crawling over the wall? Why do the bugs have only two legs now? And look faker?

Oh, it's supposed to be WWZ. Well. Fuck.

Seriously though, tell me those zombie hordes don't look like the Battle of Whiskey Oupost, without even improving on the decade old CGI there: <youtube=jPE00A6b9TY>

 

[Kajin]

Fail Movie doesn't read source materials. WWZ is a book about zombies, NOT swarms of humanoid alien locusts.

 

[BrionJames]

I guess we'll see where it goes, I might go watch it when it hits the budget screen but definitely not on opening night.

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

Interview with Max Brooks (author of World War Z) saying how he hates fast zomibes. Way to sell out and give up creative control Mr. Brooks.

Wait, that guy actually used "gay" to summarise his problems with fast zombies? As an insult?

Okay, fuck that guy. His dreams can't be pissed on fast enough now. I sincerely hope that Hollywood screwed him over for this.