I like a mix of slow and fast, you don't know which is which, they are mixed in with each other...

I like lurkers, zombies that find out of the way places, a bush, tall grass, under a counter... and just sit / lay down and stay still and quiet until you come by..

also moaners.... moaners alert other zombies...


Ive run a few table top RPGs with a nice mix of kinds, none being L4D super Specials, the closest to that I had was the gas bag, zombies that looked more bloated then the rest, tight skin, a little heavy set... full of flammable gas, do not kill near fire, take out with melee weapons..

I also had a real mix of physical types, fat zombies got bonuses to melee grabs and the like, child zombies were almost always fast, and tricky to hit.

now what could they have done better with the WarZ movie?

Made it a mini series on AMC or some such..

Think about it, we can follow the book almost exactly... the narrator traveling the world to speak with all these people, through his eyes and travel we get to see the world after the zombie wars, flying over country side, nearly empty cities....

Each week he tracks down someone to interview, he finds them, and it fades to each story, different guest actors, and maybe each tale directed by a new director...

There are enough stories in the book to do at least 2 small seasons.

I couldn't watch that trailer without the niggling thought... "wasn't it filmed in Glasgow?"

Yes, it was. From that article:

Parts of Glasgow are being turned into war-torn ruins for the next two weeks as filming for a new Hollywood blockbuster gets under way.

Aaah.

The producers wanted to make it easier for themselves.

/Hope they got an Old Firm match day too, for hordes of mindless zombies aimlessly wandering around.
//Old Firm matches are a bit thin on the ground these days.
///Being a sheep shagger, I'm allowed to criticise.

I can only hope this will finally cause Zombie Overkill and people let the whole damn thing die.

Mentat: I'm willing to give this movie a chance. I know it doesn't follow the book and it's a little different from other works of zombie fiction but that doesn't mean-

Despite the third act footage that was already in the can, Prometheus writer Damon Lindelof was brought in to write a new ending - both literally and figuratively - for the venture.

God damnit.

Mother farker.

These zombies look like they came out of a poorly done video game from about 10 years ago.

WWZ wasn't well suited to being made into a movie. But it might have made a half decent TV series. You know, if someone else hadn't made their own post-zombie apocalypse TV series.

This looks like the sort of adaptation The Moon is a Harsh Mistress would receive.

Bathia_Mapes: knbber2: Yikes, looks like they destroyed the book.

Indeed. IIRC, in the book they were the classic slow zombies. And it looks as though, unlike the book, they're coordinating/cooperating with each other when scaling the building. They aren't supposed to be intelligent enough to do stuff like that.

Good lord, zombies running on meth and Red Bull!

I think these zombies have a hive mind. And for a lot of months since the first two scripts were leaked, I've been calling this train wreck Starship Zombies on account of what Hollywood did Robert Heinlein's book Starship Troopers, but may God and St.Peter smack me if two of those scenes don't look like they were taken from the Starship Troopers movie.

Why does this remind me of "War of the Worlds" meets "I am Legend"? Hollywood out of ideas?

Darth_Lukecash: My problem it's a farking Zombie movie. Stupidest concept for a monster ever.

Zombies are the oldest monsters there are, worldwide.

If I didn't know what WWZ was, I'm not sure I would even know that's a zombie movie.

brigid_fitch: From the trailer, it looks like they just went with a fast-paced, movie-length version of The Walking Dead. With badly CGI'd zombies and Inception's score.

As someone who has read the book 8 times (and picks it up for light vignette reading to get to sleep), it looks more like they smooshed 3 of the American survivor stories together into a single narrative (the marine, the little girl whose family fled to Canada, and the gov't consultant who wound up doing resource control) with a few brief scenes that were set in other areas of the world in the book peppered in for flavor.

I'm reserving judgement until I've seen the movie and how well it adapts those three stories into each other, but even if it is good, I can't help but agree with the general consensus that overall it would have been better as a miniseries.

/Then again, they could be setting this up for a movie franchise.
//Because Hollywood needs to eat all the dicks and DIAF.

I love WWZ. Read it multiple times, lent out my copy to multiple people and got them hooked, looking forward to the unabridged audiobook. I don't know what this is, but it isn't WWZ.

I'm not angry, just ...disappointed.

Imagine the tension: The US Army stages their stand in Yonkers. The horde is funneling towards them, slowly, slowly. The jets fly overhead and deploy the flechette bombs. The horde keeps coming, slowly. The tanks blast away, and Zacks crumple. Then they get back up, and come, slowly. The soldiers open fire, steady, controlled. Land Warrior feeds give everyone the on-the-ground view. They keep coming. The ammo runs low... wait, this isn't how it was planned. The horde stretches on for miles. The ammo is almost gone. What? Zack is behind the front lines?! Someone's down, where are they coming from? Oh God!

or I guess we can just have a buncha fast zombies. 'Cause those are cool or something, so fark it.

Darth_Lukecash: My problem it's a farking Zombie movie. Stupidest concept for a monster ever.

Never really got the whole zombie thing. And the only thing the trailer is missing is the happy ending.

It's pretty bad when the CGI comes across as over the top, excessive, and fake looking in a Youtube clip.