06-25-2013, 04:34 PM
(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!).
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