World War Z: A Bad Movie To Me

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Everything going right until the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ends in peace is some top-tier writing.

As a world war Z veteran it makes me sad seeing people denounce our services

Come to think of it, I can’t think of a single zombie movie, show, or game where everybody boarded an airplane and then things went perfectly fine and they landed safely exactly where they wanted to go.

Fun fact: The audiobook for World War Z is read by a full cast of Hollywood actors and the soldier that survived Yonkers was read by Mark Hamill and he completely nails it. Yonkers really is one of the best chapters because, like you mentioned in the video, it’s conventional soldiers starting out ok against the zombies, but then you start to see how conventional problems start to cause the soldiers to fumble such as running out of ammo, the uselessness of air strikes, wasted and energy time digging fighting holes. Meanwhile movie like “hehe zombies that make pyramids go burrrr” which ironically enough, worked better in the world war z video game than it did the actual movie.

I think Max Brooks even said they bought the rights to his book before he even finished writing it. So yes, they bought it for the title alone.

My favorite part was when the entire planet knew they could climb and stack on top of eachother and yet Israel still decided to host an open-top concert surrounded by infected lmfao

I actually saw the movie first as a kid, and ended up getting the book from the library. I thought the movie was ok, but was absolutely addicted to each chapter of the book. I even bought a red flashlight because of the interview with the military. I could imagine, however, the studio not being thrilled after reading the part where the rich CEO-type got torn to shreds after the poorer survivors banded together

10:35 This part killed me 😂😂😂 The protagonist drinking pepsi while the world is ending is peak fict

World War Z is the perfect definition of a movie that exists. It was made, it was written, had actors that were given a paycheck and isn't really anything more than that.

Even Brad Pitt agrees with you. He REALLY liked the sociopolitical aspects of the books, which is why his production company bought the rights and hired an indie director. Unfortunately said director secretly wanted to do a big action movie and took the opportunity. By the end of shooting, he and Brad had completely stopped talking to each other

One interesting thing about this film: Peter Capaldi is credited as playing an unnamed "W.H.O Doctor" - a few months prior to him being chosen as The Doctor in Doctor Who.

My friend and I were extremely stoned when we saw the scene where the doctor slipped and accidentally shot himself. Our exact reactions were shock followed by uncontrollable laughter for 5 straight minutes. Completely forget what happens after that scene because I couldn’t see I had tears in my eyes

The zombies didn't avoid Gerry because he infected himself. They detected the poison known as Pepsi in his blood and deemed him an unhealthy host

The single funniest moment in cinematic history occurred with this film: The one (1) doctor they brought along to investigate South Korea's Patient Zero to try to find a cure needed to die so they couldn't get the answer so easily. To kill him off, he slipped and fell on the ramp of the C-130 and accidentally shot himself in the head with his own service pistol.

The Israel scene in this movie aged like fine milk

I think the biggest flashbang was Max Brooks writing 3 fucking Minecraft books. Like. 3 of them. Not even just 1 - a trilogy of Minecraft novels. Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z - two of the biggest brain zombie books from that era. Goes on to write sanctioned Minecraft fanfics. What the hell

I appreciate how the cover of ZombieU doesn't even need to use zombies to make it terrifying; they just use British people.

Man Cody is covering every movie that 12 year old me was obsessed with. I had a bizarre obsession with disaster movies around this time. I really was an odd kid.

12:32 That said, if you read the book, the strategies used against the zombies were probably made by a braindead zombie as well. It was like those mobile game ads where someone actively avoids upgrades.