World War Z
Directed by Marc Forster
Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find… From TMDB
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The film grossed $202.41 million in North America and $337.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $540 million. Variety called it a "bona-fide box office hit", although Deadline Hollywood later said it "barely broke even". In North America, the film earned $25.2 million on its opening day, including $3.6 million from Thursday night and midnight shows. It went on to earn $66.4 million its opening weekend, finishing second to Monsters University at the box office. This was, at the time, the second-largest opening weekend for a film that did not debut in first place (behind The Day After Tomorrow (2004) with $85.8 million), the largest opening weekend for a film starring Brad…
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60 of 235 · most liked firstThey're playing World War Z on one of the TVs at the gym and talk about a movie that was NOTHING like the book
neutral · AI labelView post →This is the one time I feel like a film adaptation genuinely ruined the reputation of the book. The Brad Pitt film World War Z used the title and literally nothing else, the book is about something far more interesting. It basically predicted the response to COVID like 14 years in advance!
negative · AI labelView post →Do you think the World War Z sequel will have as much Israel propaganda as the first film?
neutral · AI labelView post →A new 'World War Z' film is now a priority at Paramount 🧟♂️ (via THR)
neutral · AI labelView post →has anything in the history of film aged worse than 2013's World War Z? my god
negative · AI labelView post →A new film in the ‘WORLD WAR Z’ universe is seen as a priority for the new Paramount film execs. (Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...)
neutral · AI labelView post →Musk, in his usual racist way, is posting scenes from the zombie movie World War Z and claiming it’s migrants going in to Ceuta.
neutral · AI labelView post →A new ‘World War Z’ movie is officially in the works at Paramount 🧟♂️
neutral · AI labelView post →not watching the 28 YEARS LATER trailer because I’m a total zombie movie simp, yes absolutely. No ads needed I even liked WORLD WAR Z for goodness’ sake
positive · AI labelView post →I think we should all agree the World War Z movie never happened and have a premier miniseries that's actually based on the book
negative · AI labelView post →A new ‘WORLD WAR Z’ movie is officially in the works at Paramount.
neutral · AI labelView post →I needed a feel good movie, so I decided to watch World War Z. I also got the book from the library. The book is fabulous. Thanks, Trumpers. I'm actually terrified of zombies, but I'm more, terrified that you invited the destruction of all hope for this country.
positive · AI labelView post →I hate every film I see from Easy A to World War Z, no you'll never make a monkey out of me!
negative · AI labelView post →World War Z is the kind of movie I criticize for plenty of reasons, yet always enjoy watching thanks to its monumental set pieces. There is plenty of room for the sequel to be much better. Perhaps by drawing more inspiration from the book.
neutral · AI labelView post →World War Z #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMovies #Photography #StreetPhotography #ECK #Lumix
neutral · AI labelView post →He'll be fine. He can just make a right-wing pivot and go do the conservative podcast rounds for a while. I'm sure Ben Shapiro's little Make-A-Wish film production company would love to have him play Jesus in some weird conservative film where Jesus fights off immigrants at a wall like World War Z.
neutral · AI labelView post →1. Contagion because there's so much "what not to do's" to learn from. We are always told not to be Kate Winslet. 2. It's a disaster. 3. World War Z (more the book though) 4. The Last of Us (sorry not a film!) 5. 28 Days Later It's a list with books and TV shows. What can we say. We are rebels.
neutral · AI labelView post →Every so often I’m reminded of how the World War Z movie fundamentally misunderstood its source material more than maybe any other adaptation in existence, as exemplified in making the zombies runners. One of the core themes of the book is that slow can be soul crushingly horrifying. Historic miss.
negative · AI labelView post →Elon Musk posted footage of hordes of migrants - including them being machine gunned to death - saying "wow, the situation in Spain looks crazy" It is footage from the satirical 2013 film World War Z. Before posting a "just kidding" post ... x.com/elonmusk/sta...
neutral · AI labelView post →World War Z. At some point someone's phone went off and it was playing Dragula, which was more entertaining than the movie so nobody stopped it. I never went on another date.
negative · AI labelView post →The movie is okay, but come, World War Z should be a Ken Burns-style docu-drama series.
neutral · AI labelView post →World War Z is the best zombie apocalypse movie don’t fight me on this
positive · AI labelView post →Please don't let the mid World War Z movie turn you off from reading the book. They're very different
negative · AI labelView post →If you enjoyed the movie Reign of Fire and want it presented like the World War Z book, Dragon Day is a pretty decent combination of the two. I'm only halfway through but it's a good listen so far.
neutral · AI labelView post →World War Z has become my top horror comfort film 🧟♂️
positive · AI labelView post →Wunderschön wird das demonstriert in Max Brooks World War Z (deutsch "Operation Zombie", und es hat fast nichts mit dem Film zu tun) Brooks steht mit seiner Geschichte vor dem Problem, wie es passieren kann dass langsame Zombies überhaupt zu einer Gefahr werden können (laaangsaaame Zombies!) 10/
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching the PointlessHub video on World War Z. I only ever saw this film once in my life and I was just flashbanged by the Israel and Palestine subplot. 💀💀💀
neutral · AI labelView post →Podquisition 584: The Talking Flower Says It's Time The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Legacy of Kain: Ascendance Marvel MaXimum Collection Dragon Quest Builders 2 Life Is Strange: Reunion World War Z Raccoin Deep Rock Galactic Rogue Corp. Pokopia jimquisition.podbean.com/e/podquisiti...
neutral · AI labelView post →even fast transition sprinter zombies à la World War Z (the film) or Train to Busan are traveling at human running speed. plenty of time for the military on one coast to plan and prepare a response even if the other coast is overwhelmed
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie is almost nothing like the book. Usually that would annoy me (looking at you, World War Z), but in this case I love them both. Each is a classic.
neutral · AI labelView post →#MOVIEMADNESS Day 28 ~ A genre you don't usually watch I don't usually watch zombie movies, but hey, it had Brad Pitt!! World War Z youtu.be/Md6Dvxdr0AQ?...
positive · AI labelView post →You ever have a piece of popular media that's not particularly memorable and objectively unimportant, but you still fixate on it, poke at it, try to "solve" it? I have that with WORLD WAR Z, book and movie. Exhaustive but not provocative, seemingly nothing but the hits yet coldly disinteresting
neutral · AI labelView post →I guess 'that scene from World War Z, the book, not the movie, where the rich live stream themselves in luxurious safety and the public gets so pissed they tear the compound down and let the zombies in' was too long for the invite.
neutral · AI labelView post →Maybe I still feel salty that we didn't get a proper interpretation of World War Z, but I would love to see a movie that explored life after the end of the rage pandemic. That might include flashbacks in the form of interviews or memories, while keeping the movie grounded in post-pandemic horror.
neutral · AI labelView post →the f8 of the furious really more than any other f&f movie before it starts to explore other genres of car movie than car crime movie and car action movie like there’s a car zombie movie sequence that felt very World War Z
neutral · AI labelView post →The World War Z movie was very funny as it just took the book and was like “fuck THAT”
negative · AI labelView post →Welcome to a brand new SONIC AU I have mentioned before: Sonic the Hedgehog: Metal Virus World War Z! Logo was masterfully done by @xenoscarlet.bsky.social for an EZ price! The story is going to be very inspired by Sonic IDW & the movie combined! More information will be released soon! #logo #au
neutral · AI labelView post →one of the strangest book-to-movie adaptations I think I've seen is still World War Z because of how wildly different they are
neutral · AI labelView post →My all time favourite movie going experience was seeing World War Z. At the end of it, my roommate turned to me and said "This movie was awful. It was so dark and the 3d was terrible." Turns out she watched the entire movie wearing sunglasses instead of the 3d glasses.
positive · AI labelView post →Have you read 'World War Z' (the book, not the terrible movie)? Mel Brooks' son Max does a good job of framing all the non-horror elements, stitching together vignettes of supply chain disruption, ecological defense strategies, etc. Then he wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide'.
neutral · AI labelView post →📣 If you missed it 🌟 We released a new episode talking all the week's Movie news on all your podcast apps 🍿 We talk Scary Movie 6,Brad Pit's 'World War Z' getting a sequel & an Avengers Doomsday rumor says Chris Evans is returning to fight RDJ as Dr Doom 🔗Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3B8x...
neutral · AI labelView post →Herself is away with the girls for the weekend so I'm parenting solo. Pretty good so far! Now watching the peak Dad Movie - World War Z
positive · AI labelView post →Insert a movie into another movie: The Theory of Everything, Everywhere, All at Once Upon a Time in the West World War Z
neutral · AI labelView post →For #FirstPageFriday here's a WIP untitled horror movie where New Zealand is the last country not infected by a worldwide zombie plague. #scriptsky It's WORLD WAR Z meets CONTAGION, with a Polynesian twist.
neutral · AI labelView post →This week will be the beginning of the more "normal" update schedule for Doomsday Machines, for your sake and mine. I have written up some of my thoughts on World War Z, and the impressive way in which the film managed to completely invert the point of the book. open.substack.com/pub/doomsday...
neutral · AI labelView post →A movie that is lowkey hilarious is World War Z where Brad Pitt goes to Jerusalem and everyone is like yeah this zombie thing has really brought us all together
neutral · AI labelView post →World War Z. Best book to worst movie adaptation ever. I nearly cried.
negative · AI labelView post →I want a 5 part HBO produced adaption of World War Z, the book not the movie! If my demands aren’t met, I’ll activate the device.
neutral · AI labelView post →The book World War Z was spot on in describing human behavior in an emerging pandemic. (The movie was just an action flick. The book is art)
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's horror movie: WORLD WAR Z. WWZ,my favorite "fish riding a bicycle" movie: a movie that has no business being as entertaining as it is. Given WWZ's production history, it should've been a complete dud. It's no classic, but is a fun mainstream horror movie. HorrorSky 🎃 Filmsky 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →Combine 2 Film Titles 2 make a New Film. Stalag 17 Again Super 8 Men Out A Hard Day’s Night to Remember Point Blank Check It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World War Z Falling Down and Out in Beverly Hills Nanook of the North by Northwest The Black Cat In the Hat The Thing from Another World is Not Enough
neutral · AI labelView post →Yesterday’s movie snippet answer: World War Z, 2013 Did the movie deliver on what the poster promised?
neutral · AI labelView post →😭 my teen just went on a rant about how bad the World War Z movie is and I’ve never related to anything more than his outrage at how ass that movie is 😭😭😭
negative · AI labelView post →Hence the book (forget the film here) World War Z by Max Brooks, which is a post-mortem of humanity f**king up a threat response. For the war against slow zombies to be a thing, societies all over the world have to be really bad at basically everything they're supposed to functional at. 10/
neutral · AI labelView post →i always remember the World War Z movie and how Israel brought in Palestinians to save them from the zombie sand the Palestinians started singing in celebration and joy and thats what caused Israel to be overran by the zombies and that very much did not age well.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching World War Z for the umpteenth time. I just love this film.
positive · AI labelView post →World War Z inverts the classic zombie movie structure by going from bombastic action sequences to a hair-raising hold-your-breath nearly-silent finale.
neutral · AI labelView post →World War Z the book does a great job talking about race. The movie does an awful job of it.
neutral · AI labelView post →The book's a GEM. Haven't delved into the audiobook, but the novel really is something special. Honestly, I think they made a colossal misfire by making a film that dealt w/ one (1) central story. Had World War Z been done as an anthology series on HBO or some such, it could've achieved much more.
neutral · AI labelView post →Does the movie World War Z make sense if you haven’t seen A thru Y?
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