The new World War Z trailer

[thiosk]

Nothing about this trailer seems to capture any of the dread that World War Z was supposed to have imposed upon the world in the book. I understand changing the format, but the bulk of the books message was about how nations reacted to a cataclysm that destroyed their supply chains, ways of life and undermined the very way that wars were waged and communities developed.

YOU'RE ASKING ME TO LEAVE MY FAMILY!

Yes, to save... the WORLD!

With lines like that in the trailer, how can it not be hot stuff?

 

[Bobbovski]

If it didn't have the World war Z name attached to it I probably would think it's ok. Or at least, I wouldn't facepalm as hard. I might see it anyway though just because I'm a zombie fan...

 

[Sirtety]

I always thought a film based off of WWZ would work better as an independent documentary style film. One guy with an old camcorder recording the stories of survivors while the action is shown to us through flashbacks. Just take a few of the more memorable stories from the book such as the blind hermit in Japan, or the woman fighting through zombie territory to make it to her airdrop rendezvous.

 

[Reevesith]

I was hoping for a type of documentary movie of the world war z, like they do with past wars.
Does make me think that someone been playing left 4 dead alot before the meeting about how they want to make the zombies.

 

[Reaper195]

This will sound like a weird question but...has there ever been a zombie movie with a good actor in it (as in, a great actor who is considered an A list celebrity)? That alone makes me excited for this movie.*

Brad Pitt being in the movie was the only reason I saw the trailer and thought "Well, it's not going to be like the book, nor will it be as god...and it has fuckin' running zombies. But there is no way Brad Pitt, especially these days, would be in a movie and that movie would end up being terrible." So while it will be nothing like the book (Although for the love of god I hope they still have Yonkers), it seems there is some small hope that it will be good.

I see someone mentioned 28 Days Later, but one could argue Murphy was in the film before he became world famous. In fact, I think that was the movie that did it. It also had Christopher Eccelson (SP?), the Ninth Doctor from DW.

Looks alright, will be your standard zombie apocalypse movie I think. Though I really do like the effect where they just mass over each other like a wave and crash down. It's weird, but really cool at the same time.

That was one of the best things about the trailer, I thought. Not one zombie film has ever showed a true massive horde of thousands and thousands and thousands of undead massing down a alley way. I'd almost consider that somewhat realistic. I'm also sure the concept was mentioned in WWZ and explained in detail (although less running) in the Zombie Survival Guide.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

> Book is slow paced, pieced together from accounts of survivors after the war is allready over, zombies are slow gotta-shoot-em-in-the-head types, focus is more on the people in the crisis than the zombies themselves and the horro of a world-wide calamatiy, one chapter actively slaps down the whole military-mudering-zombies-en-masse thing
> Film is set druing crisis, very fast and loud, zombies are fast and vuneable to being shot anywhere if the clip of the soldiers holding them off with automatic rifles is any indication, focus on action scenes of soldiers holding them off almost without effort

Yeah, I'm out.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

I kinda like how these Zombies just seem to swarm over everything.

My interest is kinda, eehhhh though because it looks like a half-hour of society falling apart and the rest of it is all military.

I want Zombie movie JUST about the initial attack and all the chaos that goes with it.

 

[cahtush]

Zombies don't tire, they don't need food.

Could you explain how this works?
Because if they dont eat they will be harmless after a day or two.
The body needs energy to move, zombie or not.
They still have cells that need carbon and oxygen.

And speaking of that, why do you need to shoot them in the head?
The legs (they will not be able to move), heart (they still have cells that need to be fed) or lungs (again, oxygen) also work just fine.

 

[Olas]

There wouldn't be enough time for a movie to properly tell the documentary style story of World War Z. Perhaps it would have been better for them to pick one story from the book, such as the Indian General, and go with that.

World War Z I think would have worked better as a TV series, with each episode telling the story of a survivor. It would need hack of a budget though.

I confess I think the movie does look good, with the zombies acting more like a wave. It might not be World War Z but it could still shape up to be a good movie.

In 100% agreement, except on the movie looking good part. It looks like 2012 with zombies, ಠ_ಠ fast zombies.

They should have taken one of the more actiony stories from the book, expanded it somewhat for a movie, and then continued it with a TV series. The book has enough stories for at least several seasons.

Also, anyone else think those heaps of zombies look insanely fake? I haven't seen CGI that bad since Tron Legacy, and at least that had the excuse of being set inside a computer.

Praying that this is one of those trailers that completely misrepresents the actual movie to appeal to audiences more, like Jarhead.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Hasn't the loud "BWONG" noise been done a bit too much by now? Can't trailers stop using it? It's initial effect made me go: "this is gonna be crazy." Now it just makes me cringe...

 

[Easton Dark]

Oh my god, fast zombies...

THAT'S WHAT MAKES ZOMBIE MOVIES GOOD, HUH

Why did they even use the name World War Z? Anyone that that name has any meaning to knows this looks nothing like the book.

 

[Kyoh]

Zombies don't tire, they don't need food.

Could you explain how this works?
Because if they dont eat they will be harmless after a day or two.
The body needs energy to move, zombie or not.
They still have cells that need carbon and oxygen.

And speaking of that, why do you need to shoot them in the head?
The legs (they will not be able to move), heart (they still have cells that need to be fed) or lungs (again, oxygen) also work just fine.

I'll take this one.

Firstly, there are different iterations on zombies and how they work. Obviously, zombies are scientifically broken to begin with, but some folk do a good job at making them plausible.

The suggestions you're endorsing are viable tactics if the zombies were living breathing creatures, as in 28 days later. In those scenarios, they're usually humans infected with some virus. They still need to breath, still need to eat, and can bleed to death.

This is not the case with World War Z zombies (the book version).

In World War Z (and most zombie stories), zombies are dead humans that, for some unexplained reason, are still moving and hunting down other living creatures. There are as many different explanations to this as there are stories.

The main effect is this: they are dead and do not rely on food to function (differs from sources), they do not need to breath, they do not need blood in their veins. They are like animated objects; like killer lamps that can only be brought down by destroying the bulb.

But how does a human corpse move without blood carrying oxygen to the muscles? Won't they rot away into non existence? If the brain has to be destroyed, for whatever reason, won't that too rot away and kill the zombies? How can a zombie perceive it's surroundings when the brain is not functioning to interpret the (most likely defunct) sensory organs?

There's a lot of holes in making the dead zombie seem realistic, and World War Z takes my favorite stance on an explanation: we don't f*cking know. Scientists in the story bring up all these points and more, yet they are completely baffled that these creatures seem to defy the laws of nature. The book doesn't really dwell on the "how" so much, but focuses on the "what now?", and I think that makes it even more believable.

It's a phenomenon, a miracle, a nightmare.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Hoard features the zombies are using, I'm not going to lie, are PRETTY DAMN AWESOME. The zombies themselves feel PRETTY DAMN AWESOME.

But THEY FUCKED IT UP, THEY FUCKED IT UP BAD. That isn't World War Z, one of the greatest zombie books written, it's an action movie with the same title and very little in common. Probably will not watch, WHY DISAPPOINT?

 

[rollinhighclass]

IMO I think this movie looks not to bad, I have read the book and was kinda under whelmed by the plot. I get that people don?t want to see another book being used for the name alone, however this is not new in Hollywood; anyone who thinks that the producers of the movie wanted to make a shot for shot adaptation of the book are kinda stupid. It?s all about getting the most people to buy a movie ticket.
That being said, I?m not 100% against fast zombies but they had better give some good explanation of what the outbreak is; either a virus or mutation or plague or whatever. For me what makes a good zombie book/movie is the dread of being hopelessly outnumbered by a hoard of zombies that you can for a time out run and maybe hide from, but in the end you can never really get away from. The trailer seem to just have wave after wave of zombies which if done well I think could be entertaining but to hard to tell from like 2 minutes of footage.

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

WAIT!! for f*** sake Hollywood. why did you have to make a movie about it just as i pick it up and start to read it. let me finish first.
i haven't seen te trailer. i won't do it until i finish the book either. but i know that
1. the book's gonna be etter then the movie
2. that watching the trailer will color my opinion on the book.

never thought i'd say this but STOP WATCHING TV AND START TO READ!!!!!

Yeah, but 2 will only make you realize how much better the book is to this total crap trailer. I can tell you one thing that's not really a spoiler in any way. The trailer for the movie is absolutely nothing like the book.

You'll also see some pretty funny things that Max Brooks does to poke fun at Hollywood's portrayal of zombies, and then you'll groan when you see that this movie seems to do exactly that.

 

[Keenarnor]

The book is great, this looks okay. I think World War Z would be better as an HBO series, it would be easier to separate the different stories into their own episodes. I don't think it could all have been covered in a movie very well if they tried it that way.

 

[chimeracreator]

That being said, I?m not 100% against fast zombies but they had better give some good explanation of what the outbreak is; either a virus or mutation or plague or whatever. For me what makes a good zombie book/movie is the dread of being hopelessly outnumbered by a hoard of zombies that you can for a time out run and maybe hide from, but in the end you can never really get away from.

I have to disagree, that's one of the things World War Z did best, there was no explanation as to what caused the zombies. There was no scientific reason zombies should function. Everything we know about the world said that zombies should not exist, but they were still there and no one could explain why.

They required no food or energy source, but could still move. If you cut their head off that head would still try to bite and infect anyone it could for years to come. If you destroyed their brain however they died. Why did it happen? No one knew and after a while in the war no one cared, because it didn't matter why they were there simply that they wanted you dead.

 

[nexus]

I haven't read World War Z yet.. I've been meaning to... but I was under the impression it was more "Walking Dead".. not.. well whatever the hell that is. If they wanted to make a movie like this, why not just start your own IP? Probably easier said than done right?

After watching Brad Pitt's perfume commercial, I can't view anymore of his work without a hint of conspiracy salt. That shit was straight up creepy, Scientology-tier creepy.. or more. Now he's starring in a role that he normally doesn't do, which is clearly an allegory about "Hordes of the useless eaters being gunned down by the righteous survivors."