World War Z

[bigfnjoe96]

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Brad Pitt & Zombies....

[Knight165]

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Perhaps I'm thinking more along TV and gaming lines; Dead Island, Walking Dead, ZombieU, RDR Undead expansion, etc... those all have much slower, shambling undead.

Either way I don't see the problem of having the faster infected. I realize it's a departure from the book, but so is the aforementioned Walking Dead from the comic version as the series has progressed. Nothing wrong with a different take if it turns out to be great.

I like 'em both....
28 Days Later might be my favorite zombie film to date.

M.K.
Knight165

[DukeC]

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I like 'em both....
28 Days Later might be my favorite zombie film to date.

M.K.
Knight165

28 weeks had the best opening of any zombie film I've ever seen.

I didn't say the fast zombies were bad. Just that they are more prevalent than the slow moving "have to shoot them in the head to kill them or they'll keep coming" zombies.

[CaptainZombie]

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Perhaps I'm thinking more along TV and gaming lines; Dead Island, Walking Dead, ZombieU, RDR Undead expansion, etc... those all have much slower, shambling undead.

Either way I don't see the problem of having the faster infected. I realize it's a departure from the book, but so is the aforementioned Walking Dead from the comic version as the series has progressed. Nothing wrong with a different take if it turns out to be great.

Being a huge Zombie fan even before the fad of zombies has taken over, I'll still watch this movie. I am a bit disappointed to see sprinting champion zombies. The way they pile up in some of these scenes is nuts. We shall see how this ends up turning out, I still enjoyed 28 Days.

[MachoMyers]

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I like 'em both....
28 Days Later might be my favorite zombie film to date.

M.K.
Knight165

28 Days is so good I refuse to watch it again. Too scary!

[Brandwin]

28 Days Later is awesome! I also enjoyed 28 Weeks Later as well.

[CaptainZombie]

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28 Days Later is awesome! I also enjoyed 28 Weeks Later as well.

There was supposed to be a sequel 28 Months Later which nothing has materialized yet.

[Brandwin]

There was supposed to be a sequel 28 Months Later which nothing has materialized yet.

I wish it would have happened.

[Knight165]

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There is also a French film I saw that was pretty good.
I think it was The Horde.

M.K.
Knight165

[CaptainZombie]

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I wish it would have happened.

I think that both 28 Days and Weeks did really well at the BO, so Danny Boyle could be on tap still with a sequel at some point.

[DickDalewood]

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Being a huge Zombie fan even before the fad of zombies has taken over, I'll still watch this movie. I am a bit disappointed to see sprinting champion zombies. The way they pile up in some of these scenes is nuts. We shall see how this ends up turning out, I still enjoyed 28 Days.

See, I thought the piling up was awesome, and terrifying. Basically mindless hunters, attacking regardless of situation. That's some scary **** IMO.

[CaptainZombie]

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See, I thought the piling up was awesome, and terrifying. Basically mindless hunters, attacking regardless of situation. That's some scary **** IMO.

I fully agree, when I saw that, to me it looks terrifying as hell. Then it comes down to reality and when you have any creature, zombie, animal, etc. coming at you like that, how long can someone survive before becoming dinner?

[coogrfan]

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We complain repeatedly about Hollywood not switching things up. A movie comes out that bucks the normal trend with a slightly different take on zombies, and now everyone complains that it's not more of the same. Lol.

They aren't "switching it up". Pitt and co. have taken an utterly awesome novel about average people dealing with the most horrific circumstances imaginable and turned it into "Brad Pitt saves the world".

[coogrfan]

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Shaun of the Dead writer/star Simon Pegg's thoughts on fast vs slow zombies:

I know it is absurd to debate the rules of a reality that does not exist, but this genuinely irks me. You cannot kill a vampire with an MDF stake; werewolves can't fly; zombies do not run. It's a misconception, a bastardisation that diminishes a classic movie monster. The best phantasmagoria uses reality to render the inconceivable conceivable. The speedy zombie seems implausible to me, even within the fantastic realm it inhabits. A biological agent, I'll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It's hard to run with a cold, let alone the most debilitating malady of them all.

More significantly, the fast zombie is bereft of poetic subtlety. As monsters from the id, zombies win out over vampires and werewolves when it comes to the title of Most Potent Metaphorical Monster. Where their pointy-toothed cousins are all about sex and bestial savagery, the zombie trumps all by personifying our deepest fear: death. Zombies are our destiny writ large. Slow and steady in their approach, weak, clumsy, often absurd, the zombie relentlessly closes in, unstoppable, intractable.

However (and herein lies the sublime artfulness of the slow zombie), their ineptitude actually makes them avoidable, at least for a while. If you're careful, if you keep your wits about you, you can stave them off, even outstrip them - much as we strive to outstrip death. Drink less, cut out red meat, exercise, practice safe sex; these are our shotguns, our cricket bats, our farmhouses, our shopping malls. However, none of these things fully insulates us from the creeping dread that something so witless, so elemental may yet catch us unawares - the drunk driver, the cancer sleeping in the double helix, the legless ghoul dragging itself through the darkness towards our ankles.

Another thing: speed simplifies the zombie, clarifying the threat and reducing any response to an emotional reflex. It's the difference between someone shouting "Boo!" and hearing the sound of the floorboards creaking in an upstairs room: a quick thrill at the expense of a more profound sense of dread. The absence of rage or aggression in slow zombies makes them oddly sympathetic, a detail that enabled Romero to project depth on to their blankness, to create tragic anti-heroes; his were figures to be pitied, empathised with, even rooted for. The moment they appear angry or petulant, the second they emit furious velociraptor screeches (as opposed to the correct mournful moans of longing), they cease to possess any ambiguity. They are simply mean.

Short version of the above courtesy of World War Z author Max Brooks:

http://youtu.be/L1o-9EWGbjQ

[Brandwin]

Shaun of the Dead writer/star Simon Pegg's thoughts on fast vs slow zombies:





Short version of the above courtesy of World War Z author Max Brooks:

http://youtu.be/L1o-9EWGbjQ

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