(06-25-2013, 04:34 PM)Bolty Wrote:(06-25-2013, 05:03 AM)Lissa Wrote: Eck! That is completely the opposite of the Book and Audiobook by Max Brooks (yes, Mel's son) then. The zombies there are slow and plodding. The push in Brook's story is to show the human condition, both the best and the worst when faced with potential extinction.
I saw the movie and can report that it does indeed have absolutely nothing to do with the book. If you go into it with the expectation that you won't be seeing the book, you won't be annoyed. I think someone in Hollywood just thought "gee, this book is popular, let's buy the rights to it so we have some guaranteed income via the name" and then proceeded to make whatever zombie movie they felt like making.
There were rumors abounding that the original version of the movie was so bad that they had to re-do the entire third act. I don't doubt this. The book, taken verbatim, would have made a horrible movie; if they had originally tried to stay true to it, that may have been why they refilmed the last section.
I most enjoyed the first act, because I enjoy seeing how society breaks down in the face of something world-ending (and what the book focuses more on). The rest of it was the fairly standard zombie fare (omg zombies, run! BRAINS!).
Well, the book taken verbatim would have had to been a mini-series, it covers too much ground for a movie, even at 3 1/2 to 4 hours.
What I wish Hollywood would stop doing is taking a book and turning it into a movie and having the movie only have the basic premise of the book. Some directors do a good job in following the book as much as possible with some changes that don't really detract from the overall story (like Jackson with the ghost army saving Minas Tirith in the movie whereas Tolkien wrote it that the ghost army opened up the ability of the Gondorian reinforcements to get back to Minas Tirith to aid in saving the city), and others do a horrible job (take Patriot Games or even Clear and Present Danger, both horrible movies that deviated quite a bit from the excellent books).
From what I had seen, I had pretty much resigned myself to not going to see World War Z because of the massive deviation from the book.
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