World War Z
mrc1
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Who has read it?
I just have and I enjoyed it - quite chilling but due to how it is written (multiple retrospective accounts from around the world) it keeps everything moving along and packed full of drama. Not quite sure how the film is going to follow the narrative but hopefully it will be good.
Any other good reads in the Doomsday Prepping genre?
I just have and I enjoyed it - quite chilling but due to how it is written (multiple retrospective accounts from around the world) it keeps everything moving along and packed full of drama. Not quite sure how the film is going to follow the narrative but hopefully it will be good.
Any other good reads in the Doomsday Prepping genre?
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I read it, enjoyed it a lot.
Trailers for the film look very different. They appear to move quicker for a start and it will be difficult to make the later 'battle' scenes look exciting.Mud - Genesis Vapour CCX
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I think the film looks like it could be good fun, but I don't really understand why they bothered buying the rights to the book. The film just looks like another modern Zombie film, not an adaptation of the book. The book doesn't really lend itself particularly well to a film adaptation either (maybe more suited to a mini-series).0
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suzyb wrote:I'm looking forward to the film simply because parts of it were filmed in Scotland and I want to see if I can recognise anywhere
Did they employ any extras or just film Glasgow for a few minutes? :-)
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struggled with the book. dont get the hype over zombiesBMC TM01 - FCN 0
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Graeme_S wrote:I think the film looks like it could be good fun, but I don't really understand why they bothered buying the rights to the book. The film just looks like another modern Zombie film, not an adaptation of the book. The book doesn't really lend itself particularly well to a film adaptation either (maybe more suited to a mini-series).
Agreed - I'm thinking they must have invented the Brad Pitt character as some sort of UN bod who travels around the world to give them a means to link the various accounts? Otherwise I don't get how they will do it.
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book was absolutely awesome. enjoyed every page.
film will be crap. watchable, but after reading the book and seeing some of the mad stuff he came up with, the film just wont compare.
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This is not far from the truth between midnight and 5am in Sauchiehall Street on any given weekend when I lived there!davis wrote:suzyb wrote:I'm looking forward to the film simply because parts of it were filmed in Scotland and I want to see if I can recognise anywhere
Did they employ any extras or just film Glasgow for a few minutes? :-)
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Try The Passage, its apocalyptic stuff with vampires, just with most of the modern vampire lovetwist sparkles cr*p removed.0
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Loved World War Z. His other book The Zombie Survival Gude was boring as hell though. Agree with the others above - WWZ seems a pointless book to adapt. Unfilmable, so I doubt the film will be anything like the book. As a zombie fan I'm still looking forward to it though.
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But it was OK on the weekends when you didn't live there?kelsen wrote:
This is not far from the truth between midnight and 5am in Sauchiehall Street on any given weekend when I lived there!davis wrote:suzyb wrote:I'm looking forward to the film simply because parts of it were filmed in Scotland and I want to see if I can recognise anywhere
Did they employ any extras or just film Glasgow for a few minutes? :-)
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Yeah just another weekend in glasgow. Well actually I think a zombie apocalypse would be a little less dangerous than a normal weekend in Glasgow.kelsen wrote:
This is not far from the truth between midnight and 5am in Sauchiehall Street on any given weekend when I lived there!davis wrote:suzyb wrote:I'm looking forward to the film simply because parts of it were filmed in Scotland and I want to see if I can recognise anywhere
Did they employ any extras or just film Glasgow for a few minutes? :-)
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It was thee big news story here for the couple of days they were here. Brad Pitt in Scotland...OMG!!! :roll:0 -
Another good shout in the zombie genre is I Am Legend (The book not the film - sigh). A superb look at how the human psyche copes with isolation.
I'm going go give WWZ a go after hearing some really good things about it in the past, and again now.Reporter: "What's your prediction for the fight?"
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I absolutely loved reading WWZ. I'm not expecting the film of the same name to be very similar to it. I'll judge it on its own merit. Though what made the events of WWZ the book so fascinating was the description and science fiction of the zombies themselves. The fast moving zombies of the movie really change the dynamic so much...
Its a shame though, I felt like the book was so full of interesting stories that it would really suit the big screen.0 -
I loved the book and am really looking forward to the movie.
However it has been plagued with problems from the onset,changing directors,script changes and so on.The main problem i find is that the book consisted of many different stories,some a couple of pages long some ten to twenty pages,and to convey this onto film is nigh on impossible.
But having sad that i hope it works,and from seeing clips it looks the dogs.Cannondale CAAD 8 105
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Book was a very good read. I'm not decided on the film yet but may go see out of curiosity."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0
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Natchi wrote:Try The Passage, its apocalyptic stuff with vampires, just with most of the modern vampire lovetwist sparkles cr*p removed.
The Passage gets my vote too, awesome read, a big book but its worth every page word and letter, its not the stereotypical vampire book, its far better than that.0 -
GT Destroyer wrote:Natchi wrote:Try The Passage, its apocalyptic stuff with vampires, just with most of the modern vampire lovetwist sparkles cr*p removed.
The Passage gets my vote too, awesome read, a big book but its worth every page word and letter, its not the stereotypical vampire book, its far better than that.
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OMG! teh zombeh catz!!
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On the same theme - it looks pretty much impossible to carry out a proper "Doomsday Prep" for this scenario.http://www.ledomestiquetours.co.uk
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You might think that, but someone at the CDC in the States has given it some thought (even if not entirely serious)mrc1 wrote:On the same theme - it looks pretty much impossible to carry out a proper "Doomsday Prep" for this scenario.
http://www.cdc.gov/phpr/zombies.htm
And in Canada
http://www.emergencyinfobc.gov.bc.ca/zo ... ready.html0
