Aside from completely dumping on an amazing book and betraying everything that made it good (even if this defies all expectations and ends up not being awful it still won't even resemble the book) and looking terrible there's something that I can't help but notice every time I watch this trailer (I've watched it multiple times).
I'm referring to the CGI and I'm not talking about the piss poor integration. I'm talking about how packed in they seem to be without touching each other if that makes any sense at all. One particular section of the trailer gnaws at me every time. Watch 1:54-1:56 again, the section where the running zombies are tripping and spilling over one another. Before they really start to stumble it looks like they're fully 3-dimensional creatures yet they're somehow heavily bunched together yet not touching at all whilst running properly, then when they do trip they continue to have this effect despite now touching each other and managing to feel like they're not really touching each other and while spilling down and over end up looking like "flowing water" as another poster put it.
Also, the way they're climbing near the end. How does the fuck does that work? It worked in the book because the shambling variety of zombie is very slow and doesn't move a whole lot. If one goes down and other zombies are atop it then it's probably not going to be able to do much. But those zombies? Those insane spastically flailing, rapidly moving failures? They're going to be flipping their shit, they're not going to be down for long at all, and being so uncoordinated they're not going to be able to coordinate a massive pyramid for themselves to climb up.
Also, Why the fuck are they inhumanely fast? Not even sprinting humans are going to move at such a rate, what the fuck is that? I guess one MIGHT be able to explain this with what I'm going to post below, but that wouldn't really work too well since strength doesn't play a very big role in a person's sprinting/running capabilities.
thiosk said:
I thought the propensity for zombies to pile up into climbing structures was a little silly; they move way too fast. The WWZ writer layed out what I consider the definitive zombie rules, and these look like insane rage zombies rather than proper WWZ zombies.
In WWZ, zombies had 100% of the strength of the former human at their disposal, but they would in effect weaken continuously until they decayed over the next decade (at least, in warmer climates). I'm fairly certain that the tendency for them to pile up a bit was mentioned, but crawiling up a DAM in a zombie pile? Puhleeze.
I'm not 100% on the whole dogpile climbing thing either (though I 100% agree with the dam section of the trailer being totally retarded, even in the book it was just talking about them piling up to the height of small structures, not literally looking like ants climbing up a wall), even with what I said regarding the slow zombies being the only ones likely to be able to do this because of their sluggish nature it seems like the pile would quickly end up being too steep for them.
You also mentioned their strength. I recall the section from both the Zombie Survival Guide (it's written in a 100% serious manner and acts like a real survival guide and also contains some short stories, it's brilliant for those who haven't read it), which is essentially a sister book to WWZ, where it details a zombie's strength (I actually memorized this tiny bit because for zombies not only was it cool but it was, in my opinion, fucking brilliant), stating that, yes, a zombie has 100% of the strength of what it would have had as a human, but in practice was far more effective because human's have twitch reflex muscles, meaning when we exert force (eg. push, grab, etc) we initially use a great amount of pressure which rapidly weakens, however as a zombie they use their muscles to their maximum capabilities at all times, however doing this essentially tears muscles apart, causing zombies to grow weaker, leaving old zombies somewhat ineffectual, but it means that even something as seemingly harmless as a frail elderly person who has been freshly turned is a serious threat.
Geo Da Sponge said:
rembrandtqeinstein said:
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 summarize 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.
First off that interview was from a fair few years back when it was far more socially acceptable and common to use "gay" as a stand in for "lame". Secondly your response is rather zealous, regardless of whether or not this sort of statement is no longer considered OK in the public eye your idea of punishment to crime is skewed to an absurd degree. I say this as a supporter of gay rights, a close friend to many gays, someone who has gay family members and as someone who has always thought that calling something "gay" makes you sound like a tool, though I'd only rank people who still say it alongside dumb-asses who say "YOLO" and "swag". Let's also not forget the fact that some gay people also use the word in this context as well.
