Re: Zombies
The good news: Dead Island looks awesome. Here's a gameplay trailer:
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The bad news: The World War Z movie is looking like it's going to be awful.
The plot synopsis:
Based on the best-selling novel by Max Brooks, " 'World War Z' follows United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) as he tries to stop a global Zombie pandemic. With armies crumbling and governments rendered useless, Gerry must head out into a hellish and gruesome new world to find allies in his cause. In each country he visits, he learns new information about the origin and habits of the Zombies (or Zs as they're now called) and begins to build a plan to destroy them. Throughout his odyssey, Gerry longs to be reunited with his wife and children. But there's something he has to do first... Save the human race
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The general skullfuckery of the plot into the Hollywood blockbuster mold that that sounds like wouldn't piss me off as much if it didn't sound exactly like the very worst parts of the Walking Dead, IE: The romance subplot about the main characters useless cunt of a wife and irritating fuckwit spawn, who probably will get perhaps 5 minutes of screen time tops. Assuming they appear at all, of course. Also, the change from a collected war diary to a 'one man saves the world' story is not done smoothly or with any degree of grace. Granted, it's only a plot synopsis, but if this is really the script they're going with, I'm not even going to bother seeing it until I can pirate a copy with decent quality.
The ass-backwards plot, plus the fact that it's a PG-13 film, has not been kind to my enthusiasm for this film.