It is stated at one point by some CIA guy that North Korea was able to avoid the zombie outbreak by systematically removing the teeth of all of its residence in less than 24 hours. The reasoning being that if nobody had teeth then the virus couldn’t spread because nobody could bite anyone. He states that it was “the greatest feat of social engineering ever achieved”. Like I get this is a fictitious plot but they can’t even avoid making up the most utterly deranged bullshit lmao.
World War Z has to be the worst zombie movie ever made. Like so many of it’s concepts are so removed from what would happen. Like it starts with the UN dropping everything and taking on enormous risks to rescue one relief worker in fucking Newark. It then implies that the US and the UN would coordinate immediately and set up an aircraft carrier base. How tf do you do that without kicking off like 3k troops to make room? Your gonna tell me they launched that shit after this started? Also somehow everything still has fuel days after the collapse, which is so unrealistic and also a big issue I have with TWD or other zombie flicks.
The movie completely ignores the global response aside from the West. China and India do not exist in the movie and certainly dont have scientists competent enough to make a vaccine.
My favorite cringe of the movie is the Jerusalem scene. First off, no fucking way Israelis let in a single Palestinian to the safe zone. But also the Israelis are supposed to be smart about the virus/zombies. They definitely knew by that time that noise attracted zombies. The Palestinians and Israelis get into this stupid, unbelievable rendition of Shalom Alechiem that everyone gets super into. Why the fuck are they acting like its a goddamn world cup game? All of their friends and family just died and theyre like “lets make peace and sing a song”. Like fuck that, everyone would be depressed, shocked and anxious af. Of course, even though everyone in Jerusalem has lived with zombies for a week, it has to be super genius UN hero Brad Pitt who realizes the sound is attracting zombies. THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS WEREN’T EVEN PATROLLING THE WALLS OR USING CAMERAS TO SURVEIL, does the author know anything about how IDF defenses are manned at the apartheid wall? Literally cameras everywhere.
I don’t mean to rant so much, but goddamn that movie sucks.
I was too caught up on the North Korea thing, but those are also great points. The Jerusalem scene is particularly far fetched lol, like I’m pretty sure Israel would be happy to take advantage of the situation and let more Palestinians die. But the plot is so weird it definitely has :fedposting: written all over lol so that wouldn’t make it in
Haven’t seen the movie, same thing happens in the book. It doesnt even make sense given all the health problems caused by pulling every single tooth of every single member of a population.
The book is also pro Zionist and pro apartheid South Africa among other bs.
irl, DPRK would stop zombies similar to how it stopped covid.
The book is also pro Zionist and pro apartheid South Africa among other bs.
Yeah, doesn’t Israel open their border wall to let Palestinians in and it ends up letting the zombies in?
It’s been a while since I read it, but I don’t think that happens. They do let Palestinian refugees in but I don’t remember anything about it backfiring, other than the civil war I think Israel rides out the war pretty well.
In the movie they do, though. A woman in a hijab starts singing and all the people waiting to be let in start singing as well. Turns out zombies are attracted to noise and that leads to them climbing the wall. Can’t get any more overt with the anti-arab sentiment there.
The book is more lib than explicitly racist. In the book, Israel evacuates Jerusalem and lets in Palestine refugees. In fact, their biggest issue is from settlers and ultra-orthodox that are angry about abandoning the West Bank and the old city. The South Africa thing is more messed up, with the South African government adopting an apartheid SA plan that was originally made to evacuate the white population and provide continuity of government in case of a revolution. It’s more of “isn’t it nice that people can get along with their oppressors?”
Pretty much. They closed boarders and had strict quarantines of any one remotely exposed, but unlike China only had one real lockdown.
The book is ultra lib bait, but its still a much better piece of fiction than the movie which is Brad Pitt larping as a man of science
The book has its moments of being interesting, but then pulls shit like that. It also has an incredibly weeb section where a Japanese shut-in kid takes his neighbour’s WW2 katana and joins forces with a blind gardener with some Shaolin polearm thing to become a badass pair of zombie slayers. It also has… Russia, I believe, going back to doing full purges and actual Roman-style decimations in their ranks because reasons.
But the book does also have the US Army taking a massive L during the Battle of Yonkers (where the Army is called out for focusing on using all their super cool high tech firepower and tanks… that prove ineffective against zombies), and also the Mets Fan story is one of my favourite little horror shorts.
The Japanese kid being laughably out of shape was kind of amusing. And his constant masturbation.
The “Go North!” story is genuinely terrifying, depicting US consumer culture literally cannibalising itself.
I did feel that all the Americans dying due to being ill equipped and prioritization treats over survival really stayed true to the anti consumer themes of Romero.
Also Ruben Studdard and Larry the Cable Guy hiding in a celebrity-only bunker and hoarding supplies until angry civilians kick the front door open. One of them tries to throw a live grenade but holds it too long.
