World War Z! (June 21, 2013)

[Rhinox]

All the good zombie novels the walkers are slow.

It's the reason why Jason Voorhees was such a successful monster.You couldn't stop the inevitable


It's one thing to be a running zombie like in zombieland it's another to be scaling walls like in this atrocity

[Niiro]

Yeah. That must be why the walking dead is such a miserable failure

Read what I wrote, thanks.

Also if you think TWD is scary idk what to tell you, it's a drama with zombies.

Ever read Joe McKinney's Dead City series (not the best zombie books but they're not terrible)? Slow zombies can break down anything if there are enough of them. Not all slow zombies are created equal, and not all zombies have slow shambling gaits. The thing about slow zombies are the numbers and the fact that they seemingly come out of nowhere. (In Dead City's case, they moan if they see food and that attracts more in a ripple effect.) Unless we're talking nuclear bombs, anything near a huge populace center is going to get taken down eventually.

I can get how it can be rationalized but the point is that it just doesn't work on film, especially something that's not a horror film. In order for there to be this massive number of zombies you need to get that many to begin with, slow zombies just don't work in that respect. The concept of a zombie outbreak even being possible is flawed to begin with but if the zombies themselves aren't aggressive or dangerous it just makes a large scale catastrophe into something boring and doesn't make for a particularly suspenseful film when it's not about a small group of survivors (like every other zombie film ever made).

[Rhinox]

I did read that drivel unfortunately.

You're trying to tell me that a movie about reanimated corpses taking over the planet isn't believable because they happen to walk slowly?


Okay

[Rhinox]

Read what I wrote, thanks.

Also if you think TWD is scary idk what to tell you, it's a drama with zombies.


I can get how it can be rationalized but the point is that it just doesn't work on film, especially something that's not a horror film. In order for there to be this massive number of zombies you need to get that many to begin with, slow zombies just don't work in that respect. The concept of a zombie outbreak even being possible is flawed to begin with but if the zombies themselves aren't aggressive or dangerous it just makes a large scale catastrophe into something boring and doesn't make for a particularly suspenseful film when it's not about a small group of survivors (like every other zombie film ever made).

Thanks for proving to me you've never read world war z nor zombie survival guide.

The whole point behind the outbreak is how governments tend to downplay how bad things are going and the public is never truly ready

[Niiro]

.....and what does that have to do with the fact that it's still not suspenseful and wouldn't work well in a film?

And you say "happen to walk slowly" as if it's not significant to how a zombie virus would spread among any populace capable of moving at a brisk pace.

[Rhinox]

You're right Romero zombies don't work well in film despite being the most depicted type of zombies in film history.

[Qalbert]

but niiro with the slow zombies you have plenty of time to announce that you are armed and ask them if they intend to do violence unto your person so you can determine whether or not you would be justified in shooting them

[Niiro]

You're right Qal, it's only fair.

It's important to know that they do indeed want your brains and not just a limb or two.

[Rhinox]

Yeah! Nothing says scary like zombies that scale walls and probably other super powers

[Rhinox]

Forget scary. Nothing makes zombies plausible like super powers!

[Kuishen]

Read what I wrote, thanks.

Also if you think TWD is scary idk what to tell you, it's a drama with zombies.


I can get how it can be rationalized but the point is that it just doesn't work on film, especially something that's not a horror film. In order for there to be this massive number of zombies you need to get that many to begin with, slow zombies just don't work in that respect. The concept of a zombie outbreak even being possible is flawed to begin with but if the zombies themselves aren't aggressive or dangerous it just makes a large scale catastrophe into something boring and doesn't make for a particularly suspenseful film when it's not about a small group of survivors (like every other zombie film ever made).

This just in: if zombies aren't olympic sprinters, they can't be aggressive or dangerous.

You're right. The whole equation of 1>2>4>8>16>32>64>128>256>etc. is complete nonsense and could never ever become large scale in a short amount of time.

EDIT: You're also assuming that people have previous knowledge of zombies, in almost every single zombie movie (not so much books anymore), the world has no knowledge of zombies or how they work, they live in a universe where there is no zombie media at all. So because nobody knows what the fuck is going on, shit gets out of hand incredibly fast.

It's a safe assumption that this movie will also have that trope, but even if it doesn't our side of the argument still has valid points, while yours doesn't.

[Rhyis.]

I personally think the tidal wave of zombies is a really cool idea. It's got nothing to do with World War Z, but the concept is still really funky.

[Rhinox]

well its a good thing no one asked your opinion.

[Kuishen]

I haven't read the book so I'm ambivalent to whatever they do in the movie, but saying zombies that don't run are never a threat and could never become a real problem is stupid.

[Rhinox]

Spoiler: show

i'm sorry. jk in a real grumpy mood right now

[Rhyis.]

SOURCE MATERIAL MUST BE SOURCE

[Rhinox]

I haven't read the book so I'm ambivalent to whatever they do in the movie, but saying zombies that don't run are never a threat and could never become a real problem is stupid.

let not your heart be troubled. the only thing from the trailer I can see that has similarity to the book is the title

[Rhinox]

SOURCE MATERIAL MUST BE SOURCE

not asking for source material. just walkers

[Rhyis.]

Honestly, it's a pretty trivial thing to care about. Nobodies going to say 28 Days Later is a bad zombie movie, and there ain't no walkers in that flick.

[Rhinox]

Should probably clarify.


Would be ok if it was just running. Zombieland was ok



These things are scaling walls