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[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 71 points 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.

[-] kinther@lemmy.world 19 points 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.

[-] gnate@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

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

[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 18 points 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.

[-] RickMoreanus@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

It wasn't even that it was a generic zombie movie, it was a particularly shit zombie movie.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 10 points 9 months ago

Nah, it was fine for people that didn't read the book.

[-] Iapar@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Jessvj93@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

The zombie ant hills are burned into my mind as well. So fucked up and terrifying.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 2 points 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!”

[-] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I thought it was a fantastic zombie movie! I just need to make sure to not read the book now. lol

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 points 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.

[-] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 9 months ago
[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 9 months ago

Please God yes

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago

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

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