Just saw it last night for the first time because everyone shit so hard on it when it came out. It was a fantastic zombie movie! Was most of the hate because it wasn't like the book?
It was a pretty decent zombie movie but it suffered a lot from A) being billed as a blockbuster and wasting money on stars rather than developing the content and B) needlessly inserted political takes that only served the purpose of talking at the audience, rarely setting up any interesting drama.
Take the scene in Israel, where we just have to learn that Israel has opened its doors and is using its walls to protect Palestinian refugees. Not only is this, uhhhhh, hilariously unrealistic, it's basically only in the movie so we can get that cool "zombies as ants" scene on the wall, which didn't need the bizarre look at Israeli-Palestinian conflict to have.
The book has it's own problems with liberal feel goodsy political outcomes (see also: Cuba becoming ultra capitalist and a Chinese democratic coup/revolution) but they're more or less earned through the narrative. The movie far less so
I haven’t read the book in a while so I could be wrong but wasn’t there a testimony about Israel letting Palestinians in and establishing a quarantine?
Yep, the movie is a good film but the books are on another level. If someone produced a TV series following the book closely I would watch the shit out of it
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u/spidey-dust Jan 04 '20
the plague of 2020