The Success & Failure of World War Z
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Whenever people talk about zombie apocalypse survival scenarios, you’ll get some people who have a concrete plan of action, some people who say they’d probably just give up, and some people who ask: what kind of zombies are we talking about here?
0:00 - 2:20 - Zombies
2:21 - 13:51 - World War Z Recap
13:52 - 15:28 - The Book
15:29 - 18:15 - A Troubled Production
18:26 - 19:19 - The Original Script
19:20 - 21:27 - The Movie We Got
21:28 - 22:50 - World War Z 2?
22:51 - 26:12 - Patient Zero & The Cure
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Rumor has it that, in order to capture the essence of a lawless wasteland full of ravaged cannibals, the directors and producers just filmed a normal day in Philly and greenscreened the actors into the footage.
I 100% believe it.
Here, have a 69th like 👍
As someone born & raised in PA I can confirm this 🖤💛
A lot of it was CGI zombie digitally added post production. That's how they were able to create the insane zombie snowball and the zombie tower of Babel. These could never be done with human actors or practical effects as it defies the laws of physics.
@@jonfreeman9682he was joking
The book is absolutely great, because it doesn't settle into one genre. Each interview has a different vibe, some VASTLY so. Some war, some horror, some character drama, some mystery. There's even an anime-action episode with a blind zen bushido guy!
Wtf ok I’ll read it
check, but uhm what is the naam of the book ?
Exactly, it would fit more in a series, an anthology of stories
@mr.flupsurf2860 world war Z is the book.
@@AMARTmtzhonestly get the audiobook is so much more immersive
In my opinion WWZ would be great as an anthology series with interviews with the characters at the beginning and end of each story. Similar to HBO' Band of Brothers
Kind of like how the book was written... I agree wholeheartedly
We NEED a limited run series based on the books!
I’ve been saying this since I first read the book years ago! It just doesn’t work as a movie and that was made plainly obvious!
Yeah I read the book. It’s exactly like your idea. I lasted 2.5 ‘chapters’
@@JC_Calibook, there only one
This was a sign of zombies peaking at mainstream. A Brad Pitt zombie movie… the closest thing prior was Will Smith in I am Legend
HAHAHA You’ve caught on to my trend of recent videos
The stuffed animal countdown to the infection taking over is still one of my favorite scenes in a zombie film
Nothing can beat 28 weeks later run scene in my opinion, but yes, that is a great scene.
God you have terrible taste🤣🤣🤣. This movie was garbage in every way possible and that scene you mentioned is one of the dumbest.
That right there is why I think it did so well. It establishes rules right away in a very organic manner and builds all of the action and a lot of the drama around playing those rules out in every scene, almost like a game.
Is this the only zombie movie you’ve seen?
@@Tyler_Wit constantly broke its own rules with infection time. This movie is good for dumb fun, and really only decent if you turn it off when the plane crashes lol
The first book, Max Brooks Zombie Survival Guide, has mentions that the virus has basically always been apart of mankind throughout history. Essentially becoming lost and buried with time
😱
Thus lost civilizations
Easiest book I ever read!
Max Brooks....son of Mel Brooks
Yep, we got a little intro to the virus in the graphic novel that showcases its showing up in different cultures and times. The Egyptian one is the best though i don't remember if it was in the graphic novel or If read it somewhere else.
Please, if you haven't, listen to the audiobook presentation of the novel. It's very well made and it has great voice actors like Mark Hamill in it. Also it's a very logical take on zombies, I think.
To emphasize how right you are, my introduction to WWZ was just skimming a synopsis or two of the book and I scoffed it off. When the movie came out, they were selling the book at work and I eventually took one to the break room. I just jumped to a random part of the book, which turned out to be the part involving people trapped in their cars during "The Great Panic"...it quickly made a believer out of me. It hits so different in how detailed and sensible things actually are once read out in full.
The movie is bad on its own, but it's just blasphemy in context of the source material.
Yes way better then the movie!!
It really is good, and it blows this movie away. I hated the movie.
I read the physical book and it's amazing. There's also a comic book set in the same universe also written by Max Brooks which goes over how ancient the zombie infection actually is, and has scenes from different points of history beginning with the stone age. Highly suggest checking it out. This movie is one of the worst adaptations and only served to ruin any chance of a more faithful adaptation releasing to theaters any time soon. Brad Pitt is a scoundrel for what he did.
@@phillipgonzlez8635 movie sucks
My favorite part of the whole “zombie apocalypse” scenario is the beginning of the outbreak and how society collapses and seeing how almost all zombie or infected movies and shows focus on the post apocalypse aspect I liked how WWZ focused on the beginning. I also love the game and I appreciate how it’s still being updated and worked on to this day with new content.
Agree the ‘fall’ of this and Fear the Walking Dead, both captured the ending really well.
Same! I love the beginning of the outbreak in zombie movies but it's never something that any movie directs much attention to.
@@yael8754 I know, right. For me the beginning is the most interesting aspect of Z story telling. This is where WWZ movie should have been about Jerry interviewing survivors and ‘flash backs’ to tell the story.
Agreed, I'm still mad that Fear jumped to everyone in camps - a settlement in all but name - so early in its run
@@craiggillett5985Fear jumped too soon tho. We basically go from normal with unexpected events to basically the Walking Dead 2.0 in the span of a few episodes.
I was one of the extras during the chaos scene that was supposed to show Philly. it was actualy filmed in St George Square in Glasgow Scotland and me and my friends just decided to submit our names for the scene. it was actually very organized in terms of how people were running in groups. I was part of Group B3 or B4 (it was a really long time ago) and each group had a specific time when they would start running. everything was timed strictly.
So funny! Groups B3 and B4 were my favorite parts of the movie. Nice job!
It's just "George Square", friendo.
I still love the scene where he took caution and was ready to jump off if he starts turning. It just adds realism to the fact that he is a family man above all else.
I love how the zombie behavior is inspired by animals. They build bridges like ants and lunge like tigers. The way the movie and video game portrays the zombies are outright horrifying and it’s easy to understand why so many militaries failed to contain them, as opposed to the book where it said the US Army failed an offensive against the zombies, whom are similar to the Walking Dead versions. Rick Grimes and Joel Miller couldn’t put up with this shit
Yeah the us army losing to (book)wwz zombies at Yonkers was dumb I get there was millions but you’re telling me all those heavy vehicles like mraps, tanks, humvee etc couldnt be used as a barrier or hell even civilian vehicles would’ve been a better than an open bridge and sand bags
@@Wetbread88 Enough zombies can move anything. The problem is that nothing moving so slowly should feel threatening. They could've literally burned the zombie hoards as slowly as they walked.
@@TheTillmanSneakerReview Wasnt it what they tried to do but it failed? From my memories the main problem why military lost was because they fought them as regular people but shell shock, body shots, fire etc. didnt stop them and then the discipline of soldiers fell off.
@@LaFleurCZ
Pretty sure that the army was also overconfident, underestimated the zombies and didn’t even have enough ammo for their weapons because they were trying to look good for the local media to boost public morale and support for the war
@@starset4life175 Yeah. But from I remember the main reason was still "outdated" tactics against zombies which didnt work. There is a big section where army has to learn new ways of fighting, new weapons designed against zombies were made etc.
you really have to listen to the audiobook to get the full experience. totally different product but far superior imo
I never even thought about the audio book. I read the actual book a few times and loved it. I can listen to it at work.
First time I consumed the book was through audiobook! So immersive and with the different voice actors you can really feel the difference in the different accounts of the outbreak. Totally agree with you, I definitely recommend the audiobook!
World War Z is one of the best audiobooks I've listened to, and the amount of thought that went into the logistics of a zombie war is incredible. I would've never considered what it would be like to clear zombies out of places like the paris catacombs, the ocean floor, etc.
The fact Peter Capaldi is the W.H.O. Doctor is such a funny coinkidink to the fact he becomes the Doctor Who later on in his career.
Not coinkidink 😂❤ this is so good tho haha yay 12!
if you look closely at one point where capaldis shadow is shown casting on the wall he looks exactly like beavis from beavis and butthead. lol i Remember busting out laughing in the theater when i saw it.
World War Z is one of my favourite zombie movies.
I think a good way to continue with WWZ is to make a series consisting of 9 episodes telling 3 stories from 3 different people's pov.
1 - a regular 9-5 person surviving by moving from place to place
2 - an off the grid person coming in contact with zombies and has no idea what happened to the outside world
3 - and then finally end it with patient zero and the days leading up to the outbreak with episode 9 showing the outbreak happen and the chaos that followed.
The affair plot line sounds like the first 2 seasons of the Walking Dead with Shane, Lori and Rick
Yeah I feel like that has to be part of why they didn’t do it. Didn’t wanna draw anymore comparisons to TWD
@@thethriftytypewriter Yeah and also it's a stupid idea
This movie is such monumental for the genre. The big production value, actor, and scope of film is unheard of for a zombie movie.
WWZ is still one of my absolute favorites and go to movies ever. I would put it on in the background while doing laundry or cleaning the house. I've probably seen it at least 150 times and each time is like the first. I love it!
When ever I’m in the mood for a great ‘mindless’ piece of apocalyptic action I rewatch this movie. It always delivers- interestingly I have noted that I pick up a lot more detail and other sub plots going on in the background, crowd scenes, supermarket, the fall of the walled city. The attention to detail and context is rather well done. This was an excellent summary and POV, one of the best I’ve watched. Thank you.
Dawn of the dead 04 still holds weight in my heart when I think of zombies we don't want. There are so many unanswered questions, and that's the real-life point of view
The Johnny Cash opening in that movie is fantastic.
@garbagebanditdayz819 Yes its definitely a staple my coworker played it once and I swear I had ptsd😂😂😂 .....loll like heard the noises and everything
I remember the online teaser video they put together to advertise the movie and being horrified by THAT. '04 Dawn of the Dead walked so WWZ could run.
Day of the Dead, is the one with the LEARNING ZOMBIES...Romero's best stuff.
also they said in the movie that a small percentage of the population takes around 10 minutes to turn, that’s how a zombie got on the plane
I feel like in the movie, and possibly the game since it is set in the same universe, it is implied that the virus originated in South Korea, and patient zero in the movie was a soldier in camp Humphrey. Maybe they did want to have China to be where the solanum virus originated, but changed it due to China being butthurt about seeing their country being portrayed as villains. Which is funny 'cause in the book, China underwent a civil war, and became a democracy with a declined population.
I also would like to point out the irony that years after WWZ, a South Korean movie called Train To Busan would come out, and the zombies on there would be portrayed similarly to the zombies in WWZ.
oh shit a coincidence!? i think not 😵
My mom & I were fresh into our TWD obsession & we went to see this just for fun & we had a blast watching it in theaters!!
Can't help but feel like WWZ would make a perfect mockumentary mini series.
Have you considered doing a video on the Maze Runner trilogy as part of your zombie movie theme? I never see them be talked about outside of "the dystopian film era was fun" type of context, but I think the worldbuilding and ethical questions deserve another look
Was feeling a bit down today and seeing this cheered me up heh. just watched World War Z a few days over the holidays so really excited to hear your thoughts on the movie. much love thrifty, you make excellent videos keep it up
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I 110% recommend either the book or the audiobook. The audiobook in particular is incredible, with different actors playing the different characters throughout the book. Absolutely phenomenal.
I highly recommend reading the book and looking into that cause it's fantastic Zombie fiction and has some absolutely great moments. Also the abridged audiobook is great and has Mark Hamil and some other actors as voice actors for certain characters. The movie is a fun action movie but the book has much deeper and more interesting lore overall about the global Zomebie war.
Honestly shocked he didn't... kinda makes his perspective... unqiue
Absoultely one fo my favorite movies. Love having those conversations with friends about would you give up or try to survive depending on the zombies.
I love the part where they lure the zombies to one spot and them bomb. Years of war experience and weapons building means they are easily defeated.
The book "WWZ" was awesome. I had always envisioned it as a great miniseries.
The neutered movie version was, as you mentioned, generic. All it takes for a middle-aged white man and his ineffective family to survive is that the lead is untouchable surviving not only a zombie apocalypse but the initial outbreak where everyone gets out of his vehicle's way, running into an overrun pharmacy to get medicine, surviving several international outbreaks, and my fave: surviving a freaking plane crash full of the undead, etc.
I always wondered what something true to the book that showed how folks from all walks of life endured. The opening outbreak in China, the initial wealthy infected business man that was in a luxury hotel in Paris, the Indian military man that witnessed a mountain side being blown up along with thousands of refugees and infected, the small town residents holed up in a church hearing the hoardes descending on their group, the woman military officer that was fighting her way atop an elevated highway, the "safe house" full of wealthy celebrities being overrun...that would be an incredible series.
Agreed!
Where is NETFLIX to throw money AT THIS?!
Nice to hear a positive take on this movie for once. Most people just shit on lol The Philadelphia part of the movie is always my favorite part to watch for some reason. Just feels simple and done right. The last act is a bit meh but still does a decent job of wrapping everything up.
i really do hope there is a sequel, i think it could do really well as there hasnt really been any high profile zombie movies released recently, the only stuff we have atm is the walking dead spin offs which are good an all but its just the same walkers and villains we've been used to for the last 14 years and the fast zombies are such a big breath of fresh air. would love to see gerry/any person really go to places and document stories trying to find out where this thing came from so it doesnt happen again
Dude, you gotta listen to the audiobook. I'm listening to it again right now, and it's quite incredible. You won't regret it. Get the full version, not the abridged versions that go up on youtube. You owe it to yourself, and it's very much worth it.
This really was the show that got me into zombie films and series. I was around 12 or 13 when it came out, and while TWD was out, no one in my family was interested in watching it, but we were very much into action films regarding diseases and disasters. So we watched World War Z, and liked it. And it got my mum and I very much into the modern zombie, so much so that when I was 14 we began watching TWD (originally starting with season 2).
Now I'm nearly 24, and still very much in love with apocalypse stories. And its all thanks to this movie.
I'm a big fan of the book, and when I heard they were making this I was excited. However, I eventually heard that it wouldn't be an adaptation faithful to the spirit of the book, I was annoyed but still keen to see it. If I had not known that going in I would have been pissed. I think using the name and Pitt made sure it'd pull in a decent audience and make a bit of cash.
Over the years, and a few more re-watches, I've come to appreciate it for what it is, and woudln't mind a sequel, either in the world they've created or one that pulls more heavily from the book.
I really want to see the battle of Yonkes on the big screen.
They couldn't do the original book in one 2 hour movie. Maybe like a Netflix series
Idk if anyone's said it but I like that the start of the movie was filmed in Glasgow city in Scotland :) Was cheaper to film here weirdly enough. I remember going on set and seeing all the stuff they were doing, adding street lights and stuff. Was really cool
It's not because it's "cheaper", it's because Glasgows grid-based layout resembles those of American cities.
@@dungeonsanddobbers2683Well I never said anything about a "because", I just said it was cheaper. It's obvious that our street layout works because Britain's grid-like street design inspired a lot of American architecture :)
I’m love both the book and the movie. The book gave us a in depth look at the real ramifications of a zombie apocalypse. And the movie gave us a full on rabies/ horde style of the infection. They’re different entities entirely, but IMO, they’re both pretty good.
It was great when this filmed here in Glasgow. I have a funny story involving my friend Neelum who was an extra. I worked as a runner on the shoot and everyone involved signed an NDA. My pal Neelum didn’t obey this all the time however so one time when we were out of set at the coffee place in Buchanan Galleries she was talking about certain scenes in public and luckily I had some silver tape in my backpack as I was required to have some for sticking down cables etc so I taped over Neelum’s mouth with said tape mission impossible style so she wouldn’t reveal anything to listening ears!
Man, World War Z is one of my favorite movies ever, the movie was perfectly executed, and it shows a very frightening way the start of an event like this can happen.
You have terrible taste or you’re a paid troll. That movie sucked
I've read the book so many times, I love the ending to the first chapter.
I've always said this is an awesome zombie movie but a terrible World War Z movie. It should have been a ten part miniseries to be more faithful to the book.
I feel like The Zombie Survival Guide could be mixed in as well, giving tips in each episode to further flesh out the stories from World War Z-like things people learned were useful
I’ve always wanted to play this game but I don’t want to do it solo, the movie always excited me a lot to watch, but I do think that a movie based on the actual book would be awesome
Ive played it since release, you will not have any problem queing with people. Im at lvl 999, and every lvl was gained while queing with randoms.
I think the book would be better adapted as an HBO series or something similar; with each episode covering a different survivor's account.
Loved your way of explaining ❤
My favorite scene has got to be the cop going into the store and just stealing supplies.
It truly makes you realize how chaotic the initial outbreak is.
I absolutely love this movie. The book is also fantastic, and I highly, highly recommend listening to the audiobook version. It is far and away the best and highest-quality audiobook I have ever listened to.
I'm glad someone is talking about this movie because I thought it was really well done. Knowing more about the production of this movie and how it was written really puts into perspective how it could have been a disaster, usually movies that do that ad-hoc style writing fail and the directions that were suggested would have been abysmal. I liked a lot that it covered a few different avenues that was mentioned in this video. It's definitely one of my favorites, slow moving zombies are interesting but not nearly as terrifying as fast ones, 28 Days Later really got me hooked on the fast moving zombies idea as well as the idea of the zombies still being alive, instead of a walking dead type of scenario. I've always enjoyed the thought play of trying to make it as realistic as possible, maybe it's rabies or a genetically altered virus or perhaps bacteria, the element of using an otherwise death sentence illness that's actually curable as camouflage was a really interesting idea, I don't think someone had introduced before (correct me if I'm wrong.)
I saw this in the theater with my dad and we had a blast. I never saw it again since then and kept thinking it was kind of disappointing for a zombie movie, until I saw it with my girlfriend a few weeks ago. She loved it and it made me realize that this movie still rocks. Gerry as a protagonist is really really good and the way the movie takes you on this journey with very interesting set pieces hasn't been matched since. Also shoutout to the folks who put the soundtrack together, this was my first exposition to Muse and I've been hooked ever since lmao
I want to love the movie, but as a long time fan of the book and how it was structured. I can’t helped but feel robbed
I read the book when I was in highschool 15 years ago.
If I remember correctly it's a bunch of apocalypse stories in the zombie universe right?
Right also it’s your classic walker zombies. I love the book
@@issaicx I remember enjoying it. I'm pretty sure the author also did the guidebook in the zombie apocalypse. That was also great fun!
@@jessepower2783 yes Max Brooks Zombie survival guide, which canonically exists in the World WarZ book.
I think World War Z is extremely underrated. Yes, its adherence to the book is minimal, at best, but as a film on its own merits, I consider one of the better zombie films.
Wish they just called this movie something else, because it's one of the best zombie movies of the past decade and people just can't get past the fact that it isn't the plot of the book.
The book also spent a good bit of time discussing the economics of the war period. The US retreats to East of the Rockies, and then the army has to reorganize in a way that's cost efficient facing a new type of war. So more rifles and shovels and less tanks and jets. There's entire chapters on the economic reorganization. I think there's Army blimps at the end
i loved it when I watched it the first few times. Always a great watch without having to think about it too much
Love love love your videos!
Have you ever watched any of the Walking Dead spin offs? Would you ever do episode analyses with the spin offs?
You earned my subscription with that Eagles comment. That's definitely us!!!🤣🤣🤣
As someone who lives near Philly, I was one of the extras in the mega breakout Philly scene.
It was so damn fun and my first and last time being an extra
The book is awesome for a similar reason the movie is, the multiple perspectives of the zombie outbreak and its progress. Some groups fail hard, some survivors do miraculous things, and each story being part of the whole "zombie war" makes the world seem very vivid. The book is better at the range of individual stories and those people handled their part of the world during the outbreak.
Props for knowing that Matthew Fox was in, also love the new way of humor/edits for the vids
Cool video!
To me World War Z has always been a small treasure full of gems. The iconic soundtrack by Muse, the bonechilling zombie sound effects and the amazing CGI are what makes it a unique and exciting experience. Build around a lore that was (probably unintentionally) left vague so that the plotholes and some sloppy writings have little to no effect on the art of the movie. An icon of the zombie genre.
3:36 real. Grocery shopping on a Sunday afternoon is insane
I absolutely loved the film and the game. After hearing sbout what the book was i definitely am going ti check that out too. The game thiugh is truly what started my love for this. It didn't try to do any massive story telling outside of the respective episodes and it was just "hey that's a pot of zombies. Here's a gun. Go get em tiger." And honestly that was beautiful to me. I still haven't even played the new update and it kinda hurts.
Brother!!! i play War war Z on xbox i recently came back to the game weeks ago, the new maps are wonderful and i appreciate you talking about the movie lots of reviewers dont have positive thoughts of the movie because is not like the book ,but try to play with other people it makes the waves less complicated
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I wonder what if they did a reboot? Would they do on television or as a feature film? Would they be more accurate to the book or just do its own thing again.
With streaming, they’d most likely go the tv show route
I wanna se a WWZ series by HBO. Just imagine that.
I first watched the movie years before the game. Then, when i realized there was a game, i got it in 2021, and i can't stop playing it. Now im a large fan of it. Still playing to this day
My favourite part of WWZ is how it was played in south park. Cartmans dreams of the World War Race War was hilarious and never wouldve happened without this movie
turning world war z into a prequel to the novel is actually pretty 🔥🔥
I haven’t played it in a while but The game is actually lowkey wild, especially when you get overran. This is definitely my second or third favorite Zombie universe because of how aggressive they are and how hectic it is. I also wanted to say I loved the level up and battle pass note you added especially the Doctor Who at W.H.O joke😂😂. I’m also going to use this time to finally use the member emoji things
I should probably update the member emojis 😂
@@thethriftytypewriter I guess i’m happy to have helped with that side of the channel 😂😂🙌🙌
world war z--gamertag: XanderVanripper
Did they ever update it? When I played it it was just hold down the trigger and you’ll be fine
@@mojothehelpermonkey1176 seems a bit different now but maybe I’m just bad at the game 😂
I'll have to check the book. Really enjoyed the movie, nail-biting adrenaline fuelled action thriller despite the ending.
Loved it!!
Thank you so much for not equating a zombie outbreak to freaking Covid
You don’t know how many comments I have read where people are like I can’t believe we just lived through this
It’s ridiculous
Great video
Love the consistent references to “Jack” lmao
the best thing about the movie was the 5 second cameo of JACK SHEPERD
Hey thrifty, good video as always I play the walking dead game but I play on Xbox though so it depends on what you’re on if we can play together.
Hey, it comes out on my birthday. Nice 🤟.
Happy birthday!!🎊🎁🎂
@@thethriftytypewriter Thanks man 😊👍.
I LOVED the book and I also thoroughly enjoyed the movie and the game. And I think you're right that it's OK to understand that not everything has to be a direct adaptation and that sometimes you just want a slice of fun.
The book is so good! But I wanted to tell everyone who hasn't read it to do the audio version. Even if you've read it, but haven't heard the audio version, definitely pick it up. It's an example of when the audio book is much better. Ask Thrifty said, it's a completely different story in every way possible, but what makes the audio version so good is that the book is written as a series of interviews, and the voice acting in the audio version is outrageously good. These people tell their stories and it just comes to life in your head. So damn good!
Alot of people don't realize that the driver of the garbage truck was seizing during the scene where he was plowing through traffic. I bet he was getting taken over or even already taken over and was sick in the seatbelt with his foot still on the accelerator.
I hope we get a series based on the book
By far one of the best zombie movies
WWZ is one of the best movies about the zombie theme. Still hoping for part 2.
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It's a goddamn cliché to reiterate the ol trope about comedy; DELIVERY:
---is everything
---can turn a plain ol bunch of words forming a sentence into virtually ANY DESCRIPTION & END RESULT you want
---sometimes is what MAKES people funny, especially those who ain't funny or sarcastic or ANYTHING via text... but in PERSONNNNNN... well... "ya had to be there/it's HOW u said it/ya gotta hear it, doesn't work on text," etc., etc.....
And u my friend, NAILED one of the funniest deliveries of an "it's funny cuz it's true!/"if ya know, ya know" type joke..
I rewound it not once, not twice, but THRICE... had me "LOLing" each time 😅😅😅
For a film doing post apocalyptic zombies I feel 28 days later actually captured that tone better. Probably a lower budget helped but the scene in London being empty which couldn’t be redone today sold it better.
I know a lot of people hated this movie because it was so different than the books they loved, but I really liked it. This is coming from a big lifelong zombie fan. Although, I typically don't like happy endings in zombie movies as it's (IMO) supposed to be the end of the world, but the "cure" in WWZ was unique and interesting and so I didn't mind the ending.
I was an extra in the ship scenes. When they filmed it there was a a second ship with like 200 extras. That ship was part of the dropped Russia story line. On one of the days filming there was no food for the extras and everyone onboard got horrendously sea sick.
I feel like the book's story from what ive heard couldve worked as a mini seiries tho i havent read it
4 months late but I haven’t seen anyone answer the “how did a zombie get on the plane” question towards the end of the video. When the plane is flying out of Jerusalem if you look closely you can see a zombie climbing in through the cargo hold! Suuuuper easy to miss
If you can find the first person who got the virus, you can run tests or research where they’ve been, what they’ve come into contact with, to figure out how they possibly could’ve got it. Now with the bodies being burned and basically everyone getting the virus at the same time made that a hard thing to actually figure out
I love WWZ, the book and the movie. But I treat them each as totally separate animals, because they are. I enjoyed how they took the framework from the book and made it into a fairly unique feature film. I think that the book would be incredibly hard to make into a move as it's written. It would fair much better as a series featuring each individual story, or a set of stories with similar themes.
Damn, the blue shirt guy at 1:46 really slid like a champ there
World War Z is one of my favourite movies, not only was it a great adaptation of a great book but the first scenes set in Philadelphia were actually shot in my home city of Glasgow, Scotland.
I love this movie for showing the zombie Apocalypse basically from day 1. So many stories just cut to when everyone is dead, and there’s only a few survivors walking around. (Probably because that’s way cheaper to film). I love seeing the movements and responses or governments and entire city populations. That’s what links the book and movie for me, they both have these really procedural parts. Which I associate with good science fiction.
It was also nice to see so many of the protagonists looking for a cure to help humanity. Instead of a grizzled survivor stumbling upon it, and being convinced to care about people.
I've said this numerous times without knowing about the book or anything, I watched it and felt like it was just missing so much, is it a drama? Is it a heros journey story? Is it horror?? What is it? Because so much falls short of it becoming any of those things for me, while so much of it is still so good! I really just want more of the movie, more in it, idk. Maybe I need to read the book because it's otherwise a great zombie movie. This perfectly articulated how I've felt about it since I first watched it!
Finished the book today and also finished the movie. Both are great in their own right, but I would love an adaptation of the book into a series.
World War Z was a bad adaption of the book but a good zombies movie by itself.
Jack Shepherd is soooo upset he’s not the leader. You can tell. He doesn’t know what to do as some random “workman”. 😂
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You really should read the book. It's really good and it's pretty fitting to modern day in a sick ironic hindsight sort of way
My roommate and I both read World War Z and ended up walking out the theater. It wasn’t even bad but not different which is what made the book special.
I’ve read a ton of horror books, but nothing has ever made me feel uncomfortable like this book did. I seriously had to figure out how I would fortify my house and keep my family alive. The movie, unfortunately, is just another zombie action movie in my opinion . It’s a good movie, but not great.