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Post by Matthew on Nov 10, 2012 21:24:13 GMT
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Post by nebogipfel on Nov 14, 2012 8:46:32 GMT
I hope it doesn't resemble the book at all. I found it pretty dull. When it comes to the trailer, I'm not too sure about the rivers of flowing Zombies. Looks like gratuitous use of CGI ....just because they can, it doesn't mean they should  |
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Post by Matthew on Nov 14, 2012 16:47:52 GMT
I hope it doesn't resemble the book at all. I found it pretty dull. Did you ? I have seen others also claim that and yet I found it to be one of the best Zombie themed books I have ever read. I loved the format (which reminded of an earlier novel called 'Warday' which was set in a US that had been damaged, but not destroyed, in a limited nuclear exchange with the then USSR) and have read and re-read it several times. I do wonder, and I have nothing to back this up other than a hunch, if World War Z is perhaps a Zombie novel for people who would not really define themselves as fans of the Zombie genre in general ? I admit that I have struggled to understand how they might turn it into a stand-alone film and always thought it better suited to a TV adapation over several hours. But I agree with the CGI thing. I get a sense that they have gone for the 'wow' factor rather than the story which is a real shame. |
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Post by Matthew on May 12, 2013 8:16:47 GMT
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Post by edwin on May 12, 2013 8:48:24 GMT
The CGI does seem to have been over used. Not read the book but might do as I have changed my mind a little about Zombie PA. However they are getting boring in Walking Dead and I think the suspension of the laws of physics allowing them perpetual motion is silly. 28 Days was more realistic with the infected dying of starvation.
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Post by Matthew on May 13, 2013 8:22:57 GMT
The CGI does seem to have been over used. Not read the book but might do as I have changed my mind a little about Zombie PA. However they are getting boring in Walking Dead and I think the suspension of the laws of physics allowing them perpetual motion is silly. 28 Days was more realistic with the infected dying of starvation. World War Z is very much worth a read and for me actually gets the whole point about Zombies being an allegory for a whole range of other issues apart from this sudden transformation of the dead into unthinking people eating machines. Its not really a novel in a conventional sense but rather reminiscent of the 'Warday' in terms of the style which is around a series of interviews with people involved in all stages of the war itself.. Although in the main set in the US there is enough wider global input to really elevate it above most Zombie fiction and justify the 'world' bit. For me the real shame here is that they did not take the production values from 'The Walking Dead' and actually do a multi episode TV series actually based on the book as opposed to what seems to me to be just a branding exercise for a Hollywood gore fest. The book really deserves better than that. |
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Post by edwin on May 13, 2013 16:13:18 GMT
Just bought the book for a holiday read on Mykonos this week. Will have no iPad etc. with us. Wish I could read The King Must Die by Mary Renault for the first time again, perfect Greek Bronze Age novel. Read it for the umpteenth time on Crete a few years ago.
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Post by Matthew on May 14, 2013 19:06:36 GMT
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Post by lor on May 23, 2013 22:16:00 GMT
I quite liked the trailer. That 'river' terrified me - the sheer mass of the undead doesn't come across in things like the Walking Dead. (It crossed my mind the trailer might have had all the good bits in it)
I remain torn over over whether I prefer my zombies superfast or stumbling.
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Post by edwin on May 24, 2013 17:35:52 GMT
Now read the book. Not as good as Warday and even if I accept the idea of Zombies as perpetual motion machines a lot of his fictional facts do not add up. Volume of the oceans and full of Zombies, no.
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