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I have the exact opposite feelings. I think it looks like a piece of shit (in regards to the book). As a straight zombie movie, it looks fine and I'm not some crazy fanboy or something but during all the colossal problems this movie has experienced, they've gone through five different writers. During those changes from writer to writer, they dropped the '70s-style thriller feeling of the book for 28 Days Later mixed with zombies that move (and look) like the vampires from I Am Legend.
P.S. The zombie waterfall looked horrendously bad, but maybe that's just me.
I enjoyed the book, but it didn't strike me as something you could make a film from because there was no particular story. I can understand why they've gone through so many writers.
A film faithful to the book would have been a terrible flop imho. (Not saying this won't be as well!).
A film faithful to the book would have been a terrible flop imho. (Not saying this won't be as well!).
When it was floating around in 2007, did you ever read Straczynski's original draft? In my opinion, it could've been done with a $60 million budget and captured the feeling of the book, even though it wasn't the book.
If you haven't, it's a pretty solid read. I read that and The Social Network in back-to-back days and haven't had a good reading day like that in years.
I hadn't found it originally when it came out. I saw it in late '08. Somebody told me that people were really against it at the time, but now it's kind of seen as a classic.
I read the early draft of the scripts (I think it was the Strayzinski draft above) and found it really hard going, with pages and pages of the lead character interviewing people. Basically exposition overload.
They've certainly made alot of changes, looking at the trailer (and it's deffo from the 'men in suits' doing the changes )
Either way, if you didn't know anything about the movie or book, you could be forgiven for not grasping it's a zombie movie if you stumbled across that trailer. I saw no zombies. just a really fast blur of humans.
Come back Lucio Fulci style zombie close-ups, horror nerds miss you
BTW - I'll never be bored of zombie movies. I love them to their diseased bones. There the most maligned sub-genre of the most maligned genre. I'll never understand the argument that that they are overdone. If I saw any other sub-genre of horror (or any other genre in general) being overhauled and impregnated with originality I might have a bug bear. But there not and they won't. I never understand when people say 'I'm bored of zombies'. It's like being bored of breakfast cereal.
With regards to this movie, well...I'm shocked a movie with this content has cost so much (I read $200 mill?!?!). Insane. Global apocalypse has been shot for a pittance in the past, and less is more usually has a bigger impact.
I'll watch this movie, though. I like the lady out of the Killing if nothing else.
I was very impressed with the trailer. Very visual. But, in the end, it looks like any Romero movie done with a huge budget: Zombies come out of nowhere and it's a big fight to defeat them.
The book was a series of interviews with people from all over the world discussing the zombie crisis.
Soldiers, politicians etc.
It was interesting because it was "realistic" in its own way.
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There were only a couple of characters who reoccurred...one a guy who came up with the plan to beat them, but was now essentially in hiding...distraught about what that plan entailed for civilians...even though it was the only way.
A lot of the interviews and individual stories were interesting...the chief selling points were the realism and the international flavour of it.
Both of these aspects seem to have been entirely dispensed with. We have running zombies in place of shambling wrecks and a typical Hollywood save the day hero approach.
I think it looks OK...but it looks like it has nothing to do with the book at all.
I think it looks OK...but it looks like it has nothing to do with the book at all.
A shame, I didn't read the book, but the way you describe it reminds me of the way District 9 was shot, which I loved.
The trailer looked good, IMO. I'll get in line. It seems as though the zombies are a bit super-human... climbing up walls at high speed. And I'll bet they don't address the science behind that.
Doubt I will ever be riveted more on a zombie film than Danny Boyle's efforts.
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