World War Z anyone?

[Tyrannical]

Reviews are mixed, more of a pure action film than something with a good story behind it. Time would probably be better spent playing one of the several good zombie games out there.

[tattuchu]

On this week and I quite fancy it for a bit of fun. Mixed reviews though. Anyone seen it yet?

Cool. Be right over. Oh wait, going over my father's today. How bout this weekend?

[Bella Fortuna]

My son's going to see it this weekend with his friends. I'll get his review later.

[Clinton Huxley]

Never mind all this, the key question is, is it:-

World War Zed or
World War Zee?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Showing as "World War S" in England.

[Jason]

Looks like a steaming pile of turd. Save your money for Whitehouse Down [sarcasm][/sarcasm]

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

It's a zombie film, so I'm compelled to watch it regardless of quality.

[Rum]

Zombies that RUN!

[JimC]

I find this fascination with zombies in popular culture perplexing and bizarre.

[pErvinalia]

It's a zombie film, so I'm compelled to watch it regardless of quality.

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

I find this fascination with zombies in popular culture perplexing and bizarre.

I've been enthralled by the concept of re-animated corpses since childhood. and I'm at a loss to explain it, too.
Mind you, zombies were different back then. - They were revived through witchcraft of some sort to be used as cheap labour (as per voodoo tradition). These days, we have Eastern Europeans to do that stuff...so I guess film makers had to make up various other premises like infection or, easier still, don't bother explaining the phenomenon at all.

I think the first zombie film I ever saw was Plague of the Zombies and it scared the shit out of me at the time:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_the_Zombies

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

Zombies that RUN!

Yeah...I think they've pandered somewhat to the current demand for action at the expense of horror there.
I'm not saying that's a bad thing, per se...Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later is still a masterpiece, I'd say.

[Audley Strange]

I find this fascination with zombies in popular culture perplexing and bizarre.

I've been enthralled by the concept of re-animated corpses since childhood. and I'm at a loss to explain it, too.
Mind you, zombies were different back then. - They were revived through witchcraft of some sort to be used as cheap labour (as per voodoo tradition). These days, we have Eastern Europeans to do that stuff...so I guess film makers had to make up various other premises like infection or, easier still, don't bother explaining the phenomenon at all.

I think the first zombie film I ever saw was Plague of the Zombies and it scared the shit out of me at the time:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_the_Zombies

Well now. The Plague of the Zombies also scared the crap out of me as a young lad and led me to a long fascination with horror movies, aristocratic occultists and the living dead. I think the big thing about zombies and in fact vampires is that they represent us as our worst primal fears. Ourselves as Disease and Predators. There is also this marxist class thing going on about the Lumpen verses the conscious. (One of the reasons we have Dracula is that it's about an aristo who literally feeds on the blood of others.)

Zombies represent the fear of ourselves gone wrong, become slaves and thus the movies become allegory for whatever socio-political message anyone wishes to send.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Anybody seen "Warm Bodies"?

[Hermit]

I shall go back to reading my Swallows and Amazons books...

That's 'Amazons Who Swallow'...

As always, you're keeping a breast of everything.