http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/11/09/what-do-you-think-of-the-world-war-z-trailer Comments On: What Do You Think of the <em>World War Z</em> Trailer? by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:30:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by No Way Dude!]]> Tue, 28 May 2013 16:37:55 -0700 The Stranger
The real zombie here is this movie: a lobotomized, stinking skeleton of the source novel.
Posted by RVPMB]]> Sun, 11 Nov 2012 03:43:40 -0800 The Stranger Fuck you Brad, fuck you forever.
Posted by Stabs]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:25:11 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Zane]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 11:58:21 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Simone]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:53:53 -0800 The Stranger
I liked the quick clip of the zombies piling up on top of one another. Nice idea but the zombies are moving way too fast for my taste. I can live with some runners/hoppers but some of those scenes with the super fast zombies wasn't great.

Maybe there's a chance that the full movie will be much more similar to the story telling mode of the book.

I have only read the graphic novel version. So I can't talk about the book.
Posted by Simone]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:36:41 -0800 The Stranger
I miss the AHS Chitty Chat Club.
Posted by NOP_Spinster]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:32:03 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Wicked Virgin]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:48:33 -0800 The Stranger Posted by bleepinbleep]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:26:29 -0800 The Stranger Posted by the man said the best is yet to come.]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:44:06 -0800 The Stranger World War Z.
Posted by yucca flower]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:54:10 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:52:28 -0800 The Stranger
After watching the trailer for this last night on Reddit, my wife demanded that we watch something else as eye bleach, because she couldn't go to sleep with that disappointing trailer as the last thing she saw.

CGI: Rubbery animation with slapdash compositing. Needs lots more work.
Story: Looks like another example of Hollywood's general lack of respect for the source material.
Zombie piles to thwart high walls: good idea, and surprising that I haven't seen anything done like it outside of Starship Troopers.

Unless there are some major updates done to this before the summer, this is one I'm going to wait to catch on Netflix.
Posted by Knat]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:08:03 -0800 The Stranger @21 Since when have daytime zombies not been scary? Zombies are not vampires. There is no escape day or night. That's the whole point. The first scene in the original Night is in a cemetery in the daytime.
@23 Werd.
Overall, this looks disappointing without a doubt. What a missed opportunity for the genre. I'll watch it anyway. Zombies are the only scary monster I can think of. What better metaphor for humanity and its self-destructive flaws?
Posted by sla]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:28:46 -0800 The Stranger Posted by lizlemon]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:23:40 -0800 The Stranger 28 Days Later and a fan of Brad Pitt.

Just stupid.
Posted by Reverse Polarity]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:28:50 -0800 The Stranger Posted by beatjunkie]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:22:19 -0800 The Stranger When you change the characteristics of the monster, you change the characteristics of the movie.
With slow monsters you have lots of time for tension and character development.
With fast monsters you lose that so you have to replace it with something.
Alien did it well by using a single fast monster and a confined, dark location.
This one seems to be in broad daylight with vast expanses of ocean and city and where the family appears to be safe on an aircraft carrier.

It's not that it CANNOT work as a horror movie but that they threw away everything about that particular monster that made it suitable for a specific type of horror.
Posted by fairly.unbalanced]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:20:47 -0800 The Stranger
As a side note, since many of you might be genre fans, did any of you see American Horror Story this week? That gay conversion scene is one of the most horrifying things I have ever seen on film or tv. Just brutal.
Posted by sisyphusgal]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:06:00 -0800 The Stranger
The point of zombies is that they ARE us. We are just a bunch of staggering consumers being following the heard from place the place.

And I am sick of bullshit CGI, it can be a useful tool but most of the time it just makes everything look like a bad cartoon. Is it that hard to make zombies, no just dress some people up and have them stagger around.
Posted by Cascadian Bacon]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:37:05 -0800 The Stranger
It sounds like you just want the old B/W Night of the living dead going over and over. Can't you buy that DVD with the rest of the "ooooh I like classic stuff, me" crowd and just ... just accept that the rest of the world might enjoy it.

Many things look stupid. People being nostalgic for the tropes of a genre they most probably are to young to remember, looks stupid.
Posted by JensR]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:31:51 -0800 The Stranger
If you're making a fast zombie movie, you're basically making Aliens. And if the action happens during the day, you're doing it wrong.

This looks stupid.
Posted by Chip]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:26:05 -0800 The Stranger Posted by jadam]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:03:36 -0800 The Stranger Posted by MLM]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:58:27 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sisyphusgal]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:57:37 -0800 The Stranger