WORLD WAR Z (the movie)

[Dave (imported)]

I haven't read the book although I gave it as a gift to a relative. So don't spoil the Book for me.

The movie is spectacular.

LOUD...

Did I say LOUD! as in real loud, your body thumps loud... and SCARY AS ALL GET OUT

In the opening minutes of the movie they establish that it takes 12 seconds and ZOMBIE happens.

Ignore the giant plot holes because there are some real doozies. This is the movies and the near impossible is never impossible.

Ignore the changes from the book because while you're mentally diddling comparisons between the two stories you're missing out on important things on the screen.

These Zombies launch themselves through car windshields to get at the living. They are relentless. They tumble busses with their weight and that scene where the climb the walls of Fortress Jerusalem is just the scariest sequence. The Philadelphia sequence is overwhelming in its swiftness and relentlessness.

There's four huge acts to the movie

1) Philadelphia (left me gasping for air)

1.5) an interlude of quiet

2) South Korea (rain, rain, rain)

2.5) an interlude that contains something of great importance

3) Jerusalem (Segen is a heartbreaker)

3.5) You heard of Snakes On A Plane? think Zombies. It's sort of a quiet interlude.

4) Cardiff, Wales (You're going to do WHAT!)

4.5 denouement

Acts 1,2, & 3 are loud and noisy.

Act #4 is quiet and tense and I can tell you holds an audience in absolute silence.

As for Box Office, reports are that Monsters University opened first with $82 million and WW-Z was second with $66 million...

Traffic was crazy. This was at an "outdoor" mall with a huge Supermarket at one end, a dozen restaurants, and twenty stores. Foot Traffic was crazy ridiculous with people and cars everywhere...

And I gave my Niece's son his graduation and birthday gifts.

[Slammr (imported)]

They aren't holes; they are chasms, but the movie is entertaining. I'm currently trying to read the book, but I'm having a hard time getting into it. I put it down and started reading something else. I'm not sure I'll go back to it. So far, I'm bored with it. Perhaps it gets better.

I really had to suspend disbelief on the 12 second thing. I also had to many other times, but that was the hardest one for me.

The movie kept me on the edge of my seat, and it had plenty of action. I found the ending unsatisfactory.

[Dave (imported)]

Well, no disease we know acts in 12 seconds. Nothing in the world reanimates a corpse, either. Zombies are always illogical.

So I said to myself OK just don't think about that.

I heard groans at the plane crash because that was the most egregious plot twist.

It is a quite an exciting romp through several zombie attacks. Philadelphia is car-crash-errific, Jerusalem is claustrophobic and confining, South Korea is rainy and spooky, and Cardiff is death defying. It does entertain and the excitement doesn't let up for the 2 hours.

The audience I was with was gasping and talking to the screen (don't do that, don't do that-type remarks) in the final sequence in Cardiff.

When the movie gets about a month old and everyone has a good idea of what is going on in it, then I will tell you what I think about the ending. I think I know what the original movie ending (thanks to the internet and some gossips) and that bears on what was in the final cut of the movie...

This is the first weekend and I don't want to be too spoiler-iffic.

PS, the denouement kinda was "meh" ...

[scatra2791 (imported)]

I just want to see it cause some of it was filmed where I live

Your description of it is making it more enticing however

[Dave (imported)]

WW-Z is a roller coaster ride.

When you see it, let us know what buildings in Cardiff they are calling a WHO (World Health Organization) laboratory. That is gorgeous countrside and bucolic lanes and village. I don't like flat land and love those hills and forests.

Movies are notorious for "repurposing" buildings that suit the image of what the producer and director think a laboratory or a headquarters looks like.

Much of the Pittsburgh scenes in "The Dark Knight Rises" are not what they call them in the movie.

For instance, the building with the large columns that TDKR calls "City Hall" belong to Mellon Institute of Science where all sorts of research and teaching is done. It's part of Carnegie Mellon University in Oakland and nowhere near the center city.

So hearing from anyone near where a movie was filmed in fun...

[scatra2791 (imported)]

Part of it was filmed in Scotland, so I think the Cardiff scenes will be Scotland, not Wales

I desperately wanted to be an extra but it was soo packed that they had all the extras they needed by the time I arrived lol.

[Dave (imported)]

Part of it was filmed in Scotland, so I think the Cardiff scenes will be Scotland, not Wales

I desperately wanted to be an extra but it was soo packed that they had all the extras they needed by the time I arrived lol.

I once met a nice looking twenty-something young lady (because I was a few years older) who played on Broadway and when I asked what, she said "one of the whores in "THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS" and we had a great laugh.

There's a old political/satire/comedy movie titled BOB ROBERTS that had lots of extras and I when I saw the movie there were several there including one little old lady during a chase scene cried out "they almost showed me" which made her a darling of the audience.

A nephew of mine was an extra in one of the historical George Washington dramas because of his long hair and the fact he could ride a horse.

I"ve met some of the original "zombies" from Romero's Night of the Living Dead...

One of the "Hanson Brothers" from SLAPSHOT runs a ice skating rink nearby and my Niece's kid who plays goalie on his hockey team.

Sorry to confuse Scotland and Wales. That was dumb.

[scatra2791 (imported)]

There's a old political/satire/comedy movie titled BOB ROBERTS that had lots of extras and I when I saw the movie there were several there including one little old lady during a chase scene cried out "they almost showed me" which made her a darling of the audience.

lol! That would of being me, and I probably would of done the whole "hello mum" (Scottish so it MUM ).

Sorry to confuse Scotland and Wales. That was dumb.

Don't worry about it, they are actually pretty similiar in terms of landscape and accents that people can't understand Thinking back to when I was near the set, there were a lot of yellow taxi cabs, so I think that means it was the American segment of the film. Lack of funds forced them here possibly lol

[scatra2791 (imported)]

Apoligies for my dreadful spelling there folks!