MY TOP TEN ZOMBIE MOVIES; 1 - Return Of The Living Dead 2 - Day Of The Dead 3 - Dawn Of The Dead (1978) 4 - 28 Days Later 5 - Braindead aka Dead Alive 6 - Re-animator 7 - [REC] 8 - Night Of The Living Dead (Original/Remake) 9 - Dawn Of The Dead (2004) 10 - One Cut Of The Dead --- Share your lists in a comment below, and let me know your thoughts on WWZ! If you'd like to support the channel, please like/share/comment on this video - and maybe check out www.patreon.com/inframeout IFO x
My top ten zombie movies (in no particular order): 1. 28 Days Later 2. Braindead / Dead Alive 3. Dawn of the Dead (1978) 4. Night of the Living Dead (1968) 5. Shaun of the Dead 6. Return of the Living Dead 7. Train to Busan 8. Zombie Flesh Eaters / Zombi 2 9. Anna and the Apocalypse 10. [REC] Also: Planet Terror, Dead Heat, Re-Animator, Night of the Comet
@@inframeout Additional trivia - I know Anna's director John quite well. He 1st ADed the only feature I ever starred in. But then I assume if you're even tangentially involved in the Scottish film industry then you had some sort of connection ;)
Honestly this would have been better off as an anthology series like the book. Detailing the lives of people surviving and then rebuilding. Starting out with an older actor playing the role of the person telling their story to a historian or to the UN character from the book, before the rest of the hour long episode is a flashback to their particular story. Think like how Band of Brothers was done.
That's exactly what the original screenplay is like. Basically starts out in the final days of WWZ, then we see Gerry interviewing survivors from around the world (like the book) to build a timeline of the origin, transmission, infection, escalation and devastation of the virus
But books adapted into reasonably-accurate series wasn't (seen as) optimally profitable. A recognizable name in the genre being stapled to a blockbuster film? Now _that's_ a safe bet!
For all it's faults, I really dig the visual aesthetic of the Zombies themselves in World War Z, the literal flesh wave that moves and behaves similarly to ants is visually stunning and could have genuinely interesting implications about how zombies "think", like the idea of a hive mind or collective consciousness. I know you are a movie guy but if you ever in the mood for zombies and witty writing and storytelling I recommend you try the Left 4 Dead games, or read the comics, they are neat.
Totally agree. As I say in the video - I love the portrayal of the zombies as a fluid, swarming plague. Also - "Left 4 Dead 2" is one of my favourite multiplayer games ever
WWZ game itself is pretty good, took it's inspiration from l4d and added movie version of zombie waves and several short story missions packs with their own story lines and sets of playable characters depending on location, and yes, that includes snowy Moscow. I highly recommend.
World War Z is my perfect and isolated personal example of separating the adaptation from the source material. I adore the book, the film is nothing like it, but the film is decent in its own way. As you say it has some really stand out moments and personally that's sometimes enough for me in a movie. After all, football is probably 70 minutes drudgery and 20 minutes of quality set pieces. That said, what I would give for an 1-hour episodic series with each episode dedicated to one of the chapters from the books. Gods it could be so damn good! A lot of what I loved about the book wasn't just the unique reactions globally but also the rebuilding. The horrific breakdown of society followed by hope and optimistic restructuring.
I'm late to the party, but I have to mention PONTYPOOL. Just for it's pure creativity in execution and in the explanation for the outbreak, it belongs at least in my top 3.
As a Welshman, the final act in Cardiff was fucking surreal. I mean, they have Brad Pitt walking down the kind of street that I'd go visit my aunties at!
They put zombies and vampires in kids films all the time. I guess as a sort of Addams family, family-friendly sense of danger. I've always found that a bit odd but that bloodless tone certainly isn't a match for material like WWZ! But I still like the film separately from the book.
I still love "Shawn of the dead" its just fun for what it is and has some of the best editing in zombie movies history; World War Z should have been Rated R, pg13 clearly was done because they wanted to get more money.
I still want Soderberg to do a zombie movie, i mean "Contagion" is basically it and i see how there is no need for him to do it, but id still go to the movies to see it. p.s. 6:39 Lmao i almost choked laughing
I appreciate the anger towards our Supereme Court (as it is long overdue for serving any true 'justice' and not just giving cloths to oligarchs), but aren't you guys also fussing over the House of Lords across the pond?
Trust me, I absolutely loath the UK parliament, house of lords and all their pedantic rhetoric, money grubbing summery (I've taken many many many digs at the conservative party)
Fantastic video. I've long held a malaise for this film, due to it essentially turning the zombie genre into high-budget action films and displacing all the low-rent creators who owned that space previously. Your video articulated that much better! Your edit in this was crazy good. The sequence which packs in Glasgow jokes, Limmy cuts and Supreme Court digs was absolutely awesome. It was just at the limit of what I am capable of taking in. It was a machine gun of edits and gags and it was perfect!
Thank you so much for the extremely kind words. I take a lot of time and pride in making sure the edits are engaging - so I'm really glad you appreciated it and were kind enough to make this post. You've made my morning 🙂
I'm glad you mentioned the early draft of the script, people don't talk about that enough. So many elements of the film make more sense in JMS' screenplay. Like Gerry's family: in the film they're just one-dimensional motivation for Brad Pitt's adventure, but in the script, they're actually part of Gerry's character arc. Even the RV fits into the plot better.
That script also has so much of the novel (a relocated version of "The Battle Of Yonkers", it discusses The Great Panic, the Chinese patient zero, the people who lived in the woods up north and resorted to cannibalism, the organ harvesting trade, human trafficking, Israel, Paul Radeker etc) and added a bunch of its own element. I have absolutely no clue why they didn't just flesh out the dialogue (as some of it is very wooden) and go with their original pitch
You’re onto something there with the Paramount/Director skit. Perhaps an academy award for best short. 😝 As much as it’s a comedy - Shaun of the Dead would be somewhere on my list.
.......I really liked world war z.....I do also love the book it's based on but I don't see them as the same thing. The film has enough action to be entertaining & the bit when the scientist falls immediately and shoots himself in the head is hilarious
I know some people (right wingers) complain about politics in videos like yours, but honestly I appreciate it. I like to know that I support people that hold my same moral values. Even if that support is something so simple as a youtube subscription.
Great video! I never saw this movie but just knowing it's from the director of Quantum of Solace makes me dizzy and reminds of the terrible headache the camerawork in that movie gave me! Love all your jokes too, especially the pointy ones!
A fantastic video (and a fantastic top 10 zombie movies list). A few observations: - Your review has made purchase the book. It had been on my radar for a while, and only did your video remind me of it, but it made me buy it. Thank you :) - Your Top 10 List is fantastic. Take out One Cut of the Dead and (REC) and substitute them with Mondo Zombi and Shaun of the Dead and you've got mine (Night would sit at the top though). (And as a guilty pleasure throw in Night of the Comet as my n.11) - I 100% shared the same zombie fatigue you described at the beginning of the video. It's hard to believe that a genre that once shined for its obscurity has become so mainstream and tapped out. I know that you probably get a lot of requests, but after watching this video I'd love your take on Army of the Dead. Both World War Z (due to its source) and Army of the Dead's (due to Snyder's record with the Dawn remake) failures, were big nails in my zombie-love coffin.
It's a shame. I love the genre which is basically "government bureaucrats play politics to solve a problem while the world burns" genre contagion, shin godzilla (for all its faults), chernobyl (for all its moments of questionable historical accuracy), etc. Ok hear me out. Take World War Z and Don't Look Up, banish them to the shadow realm, and take a vignette / parallel-style stories approach to remaking the 1961 episode of the Twilight Zone, "The Midnight Sun" You get your climate change allegory AND your multiple perspectives going on at once.
I think I'm with you very much on this one. The film often looks amazing. The rolling hordes of zombies is kinda remarkable. If only they'd been able to capture more of the book's intimate dread - perhaps if they'd focused on a team or family struggling to escape this one set piece, building up the character dynamics to reveal their weaknesses and strengths under pressure? We could have had something incredible. So the scale works both for it and against it. I even like the bit on the plane where they effectively have to crash themselves to survive. That is a brilliant concept. Overall I kinda like it. But it isn't the book. And ultimately its ties to that shoehorn the narrative into something both disappointing as an adaptation and unable to break free and really be something unique. Swing and a miss I suppose, but I'll take that over no swing at all any day.
If it just had a different title, I think it would have been far better received. The people who are going to carry this film as a legacy title are the zombie fans, and zombie fans have probably already read WWZ and loved it, so it's baffling that their approach is to just immediately get the hardcore fans offside. Just call it something else and it would be cherished. The video game slaps too.
I watched this when I was 11 and I remember being super annoyed by it. I had never seen a zombie movie before due to the fact that I was too young to watch The Walking Dead and didn't understand satire in order to watch Sean Of The Dead. I remember liking Mark Forester's visual style, I liked how it was vaguely dark tonally. Then the ending came. I hated that there pretty much was zero resolution. The zombies aren't cured in some triumphant moment, there isn't some self sacrifice like in I Am Legend, nor was there some grand philosophical moment like the book I Am Legend. I also hated that the first two acts are skuzy, chaotic, violent, dark, and somewhat fun, and then it slows all the way down to just say "Brad Pitt got sick". If you were to make a faithful adaptation of the book, what director would you want to helm the movie? And how would it be made?
I'd really like to see Steven Soderbergh ("Traffic", "Contagion") or Alejandro Innaritu ("Babel", "Amores Peros", "The Revenant") take a crack at it - given their ability to weave multiple complex narratives into an engaging, approachable story
I'll comment properly later tonight after work. The book is really quite wonderful but the film is almost nowt to do with it. I don't even know why they bothered to get the book rights.
I don't really know why - but for some reason I have always hated in films/tv-shows/books/video-games about zombie outbreaks/apocalypses where they in universe actually refer to them as being "zombies" by the characters. Like i said, i just dunno why., but it may have to do with the word itself sounding very unscientific to me and unserious, something that a 10 year might come up with. If it's a black comedy like "Shaun of The Dead" or somethin I'm a-okay with it being used there, but that's because the word in it of itself is goofy sounding. That's why i literally was incapable of really connecting with this film's source material, let alone the film adaptation itself. However there were some cool scenes in the film, and Pitt's solid enough in it i guess. The one thing that i loved about it, (which is a change from the source material), is the fact that they are fast-0moving zombies. I have always found the slow,-moving "The Walking Dead" - esque zombies fuckin lame and not scary what so ever. As unrealistic as the concept of zombies already are, it is even more incomprehensible that slow zombies would have ever come close to spreading beyond a single community let alone the entire world, (that is if the outbreak is passed through being bitten, as opposed to the aforementioned TWD walkers, where if you die you automatically turn into one regardless of whether you were bitten, which is another concept that i think is fuckin stupid). They simply don't pose a threat and are instead would be seen as merely natural obstacles more than anything else. This is why I find fast moving zombies or "semi-zombies" like what you see in "28 Days Later" or the "Quarantine"/"[REC]" infected infinitely more terrifying.
Never read the book but I have read the zombie survival guide which I think was a companion piece. The movie had a couple moments i liked but this was when I started disliking Brad Pitt.
While I'm all for cutting Matthew Fox... Reshoots rarely work. The film had nothing to do with the book, and the book... deep breath... kinda problematic? The idea of a retrospective look at how bad at doing things government and society is was good, but the solutions and insights were thin. Come together, don't tell me how to fight WWI against zombies or something. With dogs, did like that part. The film doesn't capture anything from the book, not that there was as much there as people seem to remember. Best zombie movie is still the new mall one. Or maybe Shaun.
Had to comment again to applaud you for bringing up the Palestinian aspects. I remember watching this the first time and found the whole "We've been building walls in Israel for hundreds of years" -shit absolutely fuckin disgusting! Seriously, that wall is literally built to carve off a massive chunk of the West Bank, and when combined with the settlements - make a Palestinian state 100% impossible to achieve by this point. But of course Israel and the west must keep up this ruse of a "peace-process" that a two state solution is their goal, because they don't ever want to consider all the Palestinians in Gaza or the West Bank as being by citizens within Israel due to it therefore becoming a binational state. Which for Israel, who literally refers to Palestinians as a demographic threat to Israel being a "Jewish state." Due o the fact that I've travelled to Palestine a number of times the past decade and having done a shit ton of activism both over there and back here in the US, that whole sequence turned my stomach. Fuckin phenomenal vid man, bravo!
Thank you for using such concrete and clear examples like Alito, Kavanagh, and Thomas - probably more, I'm only part way through - it's very helpful to have a real metric for how shitty someone or something is.
i feel like all my favorite zombie media is just like snapshots of a microcosm of the world, and i appreciate that this one tries to go bigger and harder but it just kind of wants to do all the snapshots at once and sort of falls flat in doing so. i'm working on a script that localizes a zombie situation in one apartment building, but like, i'm trying to throw in a fuckton of body horror shit to make it stand out and hopefully that'll get me where i'm trying to go oops
MY TOP TEN ZOMBIE MOVIES;
1 - Return Of The Living Dead
2 - Day Of The Dead
3 - Dawn Of The Dead (1978)
4 - 28 Days Later
5 - Braindead aka Dead Alive
6 - Re-animator
7 - [REC]
8 - Night Of The Living Dead (Original/Remake)
9 - Dawn Of The Dead (2004)
10 - One Cut Of The Dead
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I'll be all over this list like an infectious rash that leads to zombification later.
[REC] would be on top in my list.
My top ten zombie movies (in no particular order):
1. 28 Days Later
2. Braindead / Dead Alive
3. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
4. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
5. Shaun of the Dead
6. Return of the Living Dead
7. Train to Busan
8. Zombie Flesh Eaters / Zombi 2
9. Anna and the Apocalypse
10. [REC]
Also: Planet Terror, Dead Heat, Re-Animator, Night of the Comet
Trivia - my friends composed all the music and songs for Anna & The Apocalypse
@@inframeout Additional trivia - I know Anna's director John quite well. He 1st ADed the only feature I ever starred in. But then I assume if you're even tangentially involved in the Scottish film industry then you had some sort of connection ;)
Honestly this would have been better off as an anthology series like the book. Detailing the lives of people surviving and then rebuilding. Starting out with an older actor playing the role of the person telling their story to a historian or to the UN character from the book, before the rest of the hour long episode is a flashback to their particular story. Think like how Band of Brothers was done.
That's exactly what the original screenplay is like. Basically starts out in the final days of WWZ, then we see Gerry interviewing survivors from around the world (like the book) to build a timeline of the origin, transmission, infection, escalation and devastation of the virus
Great point, maybe they can still do it, TV is much bigger now and this source material is basically a sandbox of infinite great ideas.
Black Summer is the closest thing I think to a WWZ vibe I have seen
But books adapted into reasonably-accurate series wasn't (seen as) optimally profitable. A recognizable name in the genre being stapled to a blockbuster film? Now _that's_ a safe bet!
World War Z feels a lot more like a good film that got ruined than a bad film that got lucky.
The thing is the book would basically translate perfectly into a TV show
For all it's faults, I really dig the visual aesthetic of the Zombies themselves in World War Z, the literal flesh wave that moves and behaves similarly to ants is visually stunning and could have genuinely interesting implications about how zombies "think", like the idea of a hive mind or collective consciousness. I know you are a movie guy but if you ever in the mood for zombies and witty writing and storytelling I recommend you try the Left 4 Dead games, or read the comics, they are neat.
Totally agree. As I say in the video - I love the portrayal of the zombies as a fluid, swarming plague.
Also - "Left 4 Dead 2" is one of my favourite multiplayer games ever
WWZ game itself is pretty good, took it's inspiration from l4d and added movie version of zombie waves and several short story missions packs with their own story lines and sets of playable characters depending on location, and yes, that includes snowy Moscow. I highly recommend.
Well, I guess I'm gonna have to check the game out!
World War Z is my perfect and isolated personal example of separating the adaptation from the source material. I adore the book, the film is nothing like it, but the film is decent in its own way. As you say it has some really stand out moments and personally that's sometimes enough for me in a movie. After all, football is probably 70 minutes drudgery and 20 minutes of quality set pieces.
That said, what I would give for an 1-hour episodic series with each episode dedicated to one of the chapters from the books. Gods it could be so damn good! A lot of what I loved about the book wasn't just the unique reactions globally but also the rebuilding. The horrific breakdown of society followed by hope and optimistic restructuring.
of the same opinion as the person here if i'll be honest!
Best thing about this film was Peter Capaldi getting the IMDB credit W.H.O. Doctor.
Kudos on the Limmy clip. 😊
I'm late to the party, but I have to mention PONTYPOOL.
Just for it's pure creativity in execution and in the explanation for the outbreak, it belongs at least in my top 3.
As a Welshman, the final act in Cardiff was fucking surreal. I mean, they have Brad Pitt walking down the kind of street that I'd go visit my aunties at!
World War Z- "What if we make a PG-13 movie about zombies. A creature that inherently is a corpse that eats human flesh".
They put zombies and vampires in kids films all the time. I guess as a sort of Addams family, family-friendly sense of danger. I've always found that a bit odd but that bloodless tone certainly isn't a match for material like WWZ!
But I still like the film separately from the book.
Don't forget, that PG-13 rating still affords us the ability to still say Fuck one time in it, lol
People who watch this in ten years are going to be so confused about all of the Supreme Court judge references haha
Well - they'll have a mighty grim time googling what they contributed to the world
Most likely they’ll still be in their positions 10 years from now, so there’ll probably be more reasons to hate on them a decade(s) later.
Racist video narrator wow
I still love "Shawn of the dead" its just fun for what it is and has some of the best editing in zombie movies history; World War Z should have been Rated R, pg13 clearly was done because they wanted to get more money.
Shaun Of The Dead is still my second favourite Edgar Wright film. I love it
Hot Fuzz, hands downs
I still want Soderberg to do a zombie movie, i mean "Contagion" is basically it and i see how there is no need for him to do it, but id still go to the movies to see it.
p.s. 6:39 Lmao i almost choked laughing
I think he could do something really fascinating with the format
I appreciate the anger towards our Supereme Court (as it is long overdue for serving any true 'justice' and not just giving cloths to oligarchs), but aren't you guys also fussing over the House of Lords across the pond?
Trust me, I absolutely loath the UK parliament, house of lords and all their pedantic rhetoric, money grubbing summery (I've taken many many many digs at the conservative party)
amazing video, as always. Your editing is awesome
Thank you so much. It takes an enormous amount of time, but I find editing oddly relaxing
Fantastic video. I've long held a malaise for this film, due to it essentially turning the zombie genre into high-budget action films and displacing all the low-rent creators who owned that space previously. Your video articulated that much better!
Your edit in this was crazy good. The sequence which packs in Glasgow jokes, Limmy cuts and Supreme Court digs was absolutely awesome. It was just at the limit of what I am capable of taking in. It was a machine gun of edits and gags and it was perfect!
Thank you so much for the extremely kind words. I take a lot of time and pride in making sure the edits are engaging - so I'm really glad you appreciated it and were kind enough to make this post. You've made my morning 🙂
@@inframeout You deserve it :D
I'm glad you mentioned the early draft of the script, people don't talk about that enough. So many elements of the film make more sense in JMS' screenplay. Like Gerry's family: in the film they're just one-dimensional motivation for Brad Pitt's adventure, but in the script, they're actually part of Gerry's character arc. Even the RV fits into the plot better.
That script also has so much of the novel (a relocated version of "The Battle Of Yonkers", it discusses The Great Panic, the Chinese patient zero, the people who lived in the woods up north and resorted to cannibalism, the organ harvesting trade, human trafficking, Israel, Paul Radeker etc) and added a bunch of its own element. I have absolutely no clue why they didn't just flesh out the dialogue (as some of it is very wooden) and go with their original pitch
I love you for this video. it's honestly just perfect! thanks ✌️😎
"Wrong way...down a one way streeught."
"That's muh boy."
STAR!
Thanks for humor and the support. It's dark days here in the States.
God speed in your endeavours to survive the hellscape in which we live
You’re onto something there with the Paramount/Director skit. Perhaps an academy award for best short. 😝
As much as it’s a comedy - Shaun of the Dead would be somewhere on my list.
Shaun Of The Dead is also legitimately brutal as a zombie film
I was working near to George Square when they were filming this mess. It was pretty surreal. Also, excellent use of "outwith".
The Walking Dead comic series is such a masterpiece.
The first couple of seasons yes, but later it just got dragged into mediocrity
@@alexcoyg3281 I'm talking about the comic books.
@@scms2528 yes my bad, my instagram brain is skipping whole words at this point, i appologize, i need to go back to meditating
I really do need to knuckle down and binge the entire run
World War Z makes me angriest because the book is genuinely interesting and original, and it would have worked best as a low-budget fake documentary.
The unrated cut makes it a smidge more watchable.
It does add the blood back in and make the erratic editing a bit less all over the place
Oh my days I never thought I’d see a Phone Jacker reference in a movie critique
...and that's why I do what I do. To force my favourite daft things on unsuspecting folks
.......I really liked world war z.....I do also love the book it's based on but I don't see them as the same thing. The film has enough action to be entertaining & the bit when the scientist falls immediately and shoots himself in the head is hilarious
Agreed on all counts!
Excellent video as always and thank you for eloquently describing exactly how I felt about the movie.
You're the absolute GOAT mate
I know some people (right wingers) complain about politics in videos like yours, but honestly I appreciate it. I like to know that I support people that hold my same moral values. Even if that support is something so simple as a youtube subscription.
Thank you for yet another highly amusing, careful and considered analysis.
Great video! I never saw this movie but just knowing it's from the director of Quantum of Solace makes me dizzy and reminds of the terrible headache the camerawork in that movie gave me!
Love all your jokes too, especially the pointy ones!
I am sure some of the scenes filmed in Philly where filmed in my home city of Liverpool. ? No joke. Great breakdown by the way.
Top underappreciated TH-cam channel
A fantastic video (and a fantastic top 10 zombie movies list). A few observations:
- Your review has made purchase the book. It had been on my radar for a while, and only did your video remind me of it, but it made me buy it. Thank you :)
- Your Top 10 List is fantastic. Take out One Cut of the Dead and (REC) and substitute them with Mondo Zombi and Shaun of the Dead and you've got mine (Night would sit at the top though). (And as a guilty pleasure throw in Night of the Comet as my n.11)
- I 100% shared the same zombie fatigue you described at the beginning of the video. It's hard to believe that a genre that once shined for its obscurity has become so mainstream and tapped out. I know that you probably get a lot of requests, but after watching this video I'd love your take on Army of the Dead. Both World War Z (due to its source) and Army of the Dead's (due to Snyder's record with the Dawn remake) failures, were big nails in my zombie-love coffin.
I actually already have a comprehensive video about Army Of The Dead :) If you scroll through my videos - I posted it last year
@@inframeout you beautiful bastard! Great!
Ahhh, George Sq.....I saw a guy steal one of the benches at 4 in the morning one time. They weigh a tonne as well.
Now that's just impressive
It's a shame. I love the genre which is basically "government bureaucrats play politics to solve a problem while the world burns" genre
contagion, shin godzilla (for all its faults), chernobyl (for all its moments of questionable historical accuracy), etc.
Ok hear me out. Take World War Z and Don't Look Up, banish them to the shadow realm, and take a vignette / parallel-style stories approach to remaking the 1961 episode of the Twilight Zone, "The Midnight Sun"
You get your climate change allegory AND your multiple perspectives going on at once.
Damn that sounds great
I think I'm with you very much on this one. The film often looks amazing. The rolling hordes of zombies is kinda remarkable. If only they'd been able to capture more of the book's intimate dread - perhaps if they'd focused on a team or family struggling to escape this one set piece, building up the character dynamics to reveal their weaknesses and strengths under pressure? We could have had something incredible. So the scale works both for it and against it.
I even like the bit on the plane where they effectively have to crash themselves to survive. That is a brilliant concept. Overall I kinda like it. But it isn't the book. And ultimately its ties to that shoehorn the narrative into something both disappointing as an adaptation and unable to break free and really be something unique. Swing and a miss I suppose, but I'll take that over no swing at all any day.
If it just had a different title, I think it would have been far better received. The people who are going to carry this film as a legacy title are the zombie fans, and zombie fans have probably already read WWZ and loved it, so it's baffling that their approach is to just immediately get the hardcore fans offside. Just call it something else and it would be cherished.
The video game slaps too.
I think it's a shame that we didn't get a sequel.
“Wrong way down a one way street”
STAR!
The Sadness is a really good recent zombie film. Properly brutal as well
World war z is the only movie I've walked out of.
I watched this when I was 11 and I remember being super annoyed by it. I had never seen a zombie movie before due to the fact that I was too young to watch The Walking Dead and didn't understand satire in order to watch Sean Of The Dead. I remember liking Mark Forester's visual style, I liked how it was vaguely dark tonally. Then the ending came. I hated that there pretty much was zero resolution. The zombies aren't cured in some triumphant moment, there isn't some self sacrifice like in I Am Legend, nor was there some grand philosophical moment like the book I Am Legend. I also hated that the first two acts are skuzy, chaotic, violent, dark, and somewhat fun, and then it slows all the way down to just say "Brad Pitt got sick". If you were to make a faithful adaptation of the book, what director would you want to helm the movie? And how would it be made?
I'd really like to see Steven Soderbergh ("Traffic", "Contagion") or Alejandro Innaritu ("Babel", "Amores Peros", "The Revenant") take a crack at it - given their ability to weave multiple complex narratives into an engaging, approachable story
LOL. the SCUTUS sends it's regards.
I'll comment properly later tonight after work. The book is really quite wonderful but the film is almost nowt to do with it. I don't even know why they bothered to get the book rights.
I can’t decide whether I want to watch the movie or not.
LOL. ty. beautiful as always.
Not the biggest fan of zombie movies but I did like this one also I liked Train to Busan.
I don't really know why - but for some reason I have always hated in films/tv-shows/books/video-games about zombie outbreaks/apocalypses where they in universe actually refer to them as being "zombies" by the characters. Like i said, i just dunno why., but it may have to do with the word itself sounding very unscientific to me and unserious, something that a 10 year might come up with. If it's a black comedy like "Shaun of The Dead" or somethin I'm a-okay with it being used there, but that's because the word in it of itself is goofy sounding. That's why i literally was incapable of really connecting with this film's source material, let alone the film adaptation itself. However there were some cool scenes in the film, and Pitt's solid enough in it i guess. The one thing that i loved about it, (which is a change from the source material), is the fact that they are fast-0moving zombies. I have always found the slow,-moving "The Walking Dead" - esque zombies fuckin lame and not scary what so ever. As unrealistic as the concept of zombies already are, it is even more incomprehensible that slow zombies would have ever come close to spreading beyond a single community let alone the entire world, (that is if the outbreak is passed through being bitten, as opposed to the aforementioned TWD walkers, where if you die you automatically turn into one regardless of whether you were bitten, which is another concept that i think is fuckin stupid). They simply don't pose a threat and are instead would be seen as merely natural obstacles more than anything else. This is why I find fast moving zombies or "semi-zombies" like what you see in "28 Days Later" or the "Quarantine"/"[REC]" infected infinitely more terrifying.
Never read the book but I have read the zombie survival guide which I think was a companion piece. The movie had a couple moments i liked but this was when I started disliking Brad Pitt.
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While I'm all for cutting Matthew Fox... Reshoots rarely work. The film had nothing to do with the book, and the book... deep breath... kinda problematic? The idea of a retrospective look at how bad at doing things government and society is was good, but the solutions and insights were thin. Come together, don't tell me how to fight WWI against zombies or something. With dogs, did like that part. The film doesn't capture anything from the book, not that there was as much there as people seem to remember.
Best zombie movie is still the new mall one. Or maybe Shaun.
Had to comment again to applaud you for bringing up the Palestinian aspects. I remember watching this the first time and found the whole "We've been building walls in Israel for hundreds of years" -shit absolutely fuckin disgusting! Seriously, that wall is literally built to carve off a massive chunk of the West Bank, and when combined with the settlements - make a Palestinian state 100% impossible to achieve by this point. But of course Israel and the west must keep up this ruse of a "peace-process" that a two state solution is their goal, because they don't ever want to consider all the Palestinians in Gaza or the West Bank as being by citizens within Israel due to it therefore becoming a binational state. Which for Israel, who literally refers to Palestinians as a demographic threat to Israel being a "Jewish state." Due o the fact that I've travelled to Palestine a number of times the past decade and having done a shit ton of activism both over there and back here in the US, that whole sequence turned my stomach. Fuckin phenomenal vid man, bravo!
Thank you for supporting the cause and working towards a free and equitably compensated Palestine
Could do without the political jabs at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mark Corrigan reference = 1 like
Chance would be a fine thing!
Thank you for using such concrete and clear examples like Alito, Kavanagh, and Thomas - probably more, I'm only part way through - it's very helpful to have a real metric for how shitty someone or something is.
i loved the book...i was so dissapointed by this movie
I love how politically involved we are today 😂
Love the book but despise this generic as hell zombie movie
What's with the hate on those Judges?
Because they deserve it.
Democrat President zombies…
Liked the video but had to thumbs down for the Supreme Court bs
I'm sorry you can't take a joke at the expense of extremely wealthy, powerful people making absolutely ludicrous decisions
@@inframeout my apologies. Your joke must have went over my head
i feel like all my favorite zombie media is just like snapshots of a microcosm of the world, and i appreciate that this one tries to go bigger and harder but it just kind of wants to do all the snapshots at once and sort of falls flat in doing so. i'm working on a script that localizes a zombie situation in one apartment building, but like, i'm trying to throw in a fuckton of body horror shit to make it stand out and hopefully that'll get me where i'm trying to go oops