• gibmiser@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Word War Z.

    Have it actually be a mocumentary with interviews. Once people start talking switch to the scene. It is a collection of short stories. Would be fun.

    Or make it a mini series.

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      9 months ago

      Personally I thought the book was good, but I don’t think an adaptation to a movie format is the right move. Maybe a mini series would be best.

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        9 months ago

        Hmm, miniseries could work. I stopped reading the book because it felt like a screenplay. (And the movie is unrelated garbage.)

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      9 months ago

      Yeah I’ve never read the book but I’ve heard the movie was literally just a generic zombie movie that had nothing to do with the book.

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            Didn’t read the books and can’t remember much of the movie but one thing.

            The way the zombies moved as a fluid.

            That was the best depiction of horde behavior I have seen. The thought that they climb over obstacles by climbing over each other was brilliant and scary.

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            9 months ago

            I only read the book afterwards. Leaving the theater I thought, “Wow, what a shit zombie movie, what’s with the zombie tower. Anyways I want ice cream.”

            After reading the book I thought, “Wow, this makes the movie seem even worse than I thought, adapting this would’ve been way better. They didn’t even follow the same in-universe rules!”

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                9 months ago

                Nah, the book is great, definitely one the best zombie fictions out there. It even spawned a pretty great fan fiction that addressed one of the hanging plot threads.

                I didn’t buy everything from it but it’s best to just consider them as separate properties and judge them on their own merits.

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      9 months ago

      There definitely wasn’t nearly enough of people talking switch in the movie.