World War Z trailer is out . . . and it sucks

[Razgovory]

Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back was far more convincing than any Yoda scene of the prequel trilogy.   That pretty much sums it all up.

As dated as it is, I still think the T Rex paddock scenes from Jurassic Park is still the most convincing CGI effects ever, and the primary reason was the inclusion of rain in the shots.

Well a good portion of it was done with a giant puppet, and it's hard to tell which scenes used the mock up and which used CGI.

[Queequeg]

I have to say, weirdest thing about the book for me was that the Chicoms were able to hide what was going on for a substantial period of time.  There's hundreds of millions of cellphones with cameras in China.  Reanimated dead would be on YouTube within days.  Hours, maybe.

[celedhring]

I have to say, weirdest thing about the book for me was that the Chicoms were able to hide what was going on for a substantial period of time.  There's hundreds of millions of cellphones with cameras in China.  Reanimated dead would be on YouTube within days.  Hours, maybe.

It starts out in their rural areas, plus the Chinese have a huge control of the content transmitted through their web. But yeah, it's probably a bit too stretched out. The author didn't anticipate how pervasive social media would be just a few years after he published the book, information would probably flow much faster in reality than it does in the book.

[Queequeg]

We had pretty decent footage of the Rwandan Genocide, and that was in the early 90s in a far less interconnected place than near-future China.

[celedhring]

We had pretty decent footage of the Rwandan Genocide, and that was in the early 90s in a far less interconnected place than near-future China.

There was hardly an effort from their government to cover that massacre though, damn, I remember that the government media even openly called to murder Tutsis. Members of government were cleansed, too... the international community learnt pretty soon about it and there already were several international reporters on the ground due to recent the civil war.

[HVC]

But the Chinese weren't hiding the massacre, IIRC, just the reason.

[celedhring]

But the Chinese weren't hiding the massacre, IIRC, just the reason.

Dunno, I should pick up the book again, but I think they were shadier than that.

Anyway, I concede the general point that Brooks didn't really account for the pervasiveness of social media and smartphones (both were still a novelty when the book came out), and how more easily information would flow if this thing happened right now. I'm not sure how these communications would hold up if countries started to be overrun, though.

[Gups]

It's a shit book. So many internal inconsistencies there's no point in picking up just one or two.

And the writing is terrible too.

[Saladin]

It's a shit book. So many internal inconsistencies there's no point in picking up just one or two.

And the writing is terrible too.

Tell me more! 

[Gups]

To beat these zombies, dig a big pit. Put a battery powered siren or something noisy in there. Watch and laugh as the zombies fall into the big pit one after another.

[Ed Anger]

Max Brooks eats boogers.

[Eddie Teach]

Max Brooks eats boogers.

You say that like it's a bad thing. 

[Viking]

To beat these zombies, dig a big pit. Put a battery powered siren or something noisy in there. Watch and laugh as the zombies fall into the big pit one after another.

I was thinking a variant of this



Where the funnel leads to a deep trench with steep sides and filled on the bottom with gasoline and firewood.


that and equpping a zombie killig squad with moped driven chariots, in MC crash suits with crowd control gear protecting their skin from biting and equipped with morning stars and maces killing zombies before jumping back on the chariot to escape.

[Razgovory]

Why not just use magic?

[Viking]

Why not just use magic?

Because magic doesn't exist, just like god.