6:51 - The guy at the pharmacy earlier on said, "They outgrow the asthma, supposedly." Meaning yougsters; nothing to do with zombies. The guy just happened to also have a kid with asthma and knew how to help, and sympathized.
@@jestermarcus Before seeing one, I imagined they'd be covered in slip-resistant coatings, or be ridged for purchase, then I was told they tried that and it made loading stuff WAY harder, so you just deal with the risk.
When Sam said, "I wonder if there are points that they go for", I thought she meant like 1 point to bite an arm, 5 points for biting the neck, 50 points for chewing a head off.
I remember watching this getting filmed. They dressed up George Square in Glasgow to look like somewhere in the US and it was like that for weeks. The opening scenes were amazing to see live!
@@BarryHart-xo1oyif you know Glasgow well enough you'll see it in a lot of recent movies. It was in Hobbs & Shaw, the most recent Indiana Jones film, The Batman. A lot of city centre buildings resemble some US cities.
The wife phoning him and getting people killed actually pissed me off, even if she didn't know what he was doing she still knew enough to know not to phone him.
Like everyone else that intro was worth watching over and over again. Also pointing out Peter Capaldi as 'W.H.O. Doctor' and 2 months after the film release he was revealed as the new Doctor Who!
27:30 - You'd be surprised how zombie stuff can give you serious nightmares... back at the height of the pandemic, I happened to be revisiting The Walking Dead series on Netflix, and then I came down with Covid, bad (nearly died). I was sooo out it from the fever, I could barely do anything but sleep, but that sleep wasn't even relaxing at all, because I mind kept on thrusting me back into the same nightmare over and over again... it was a zombie situation that was horrifying and intense, and I couldn't force my mind to dream about anything else (maybe because I was so weak in every way). It was freaky, lol. Not only that, but I kept dreaming about the number 13... weird thing was that on the 13th day of January that year was when my fever finally broke, and I started to get better fast. Strange stuff, lol.
This is what was said in the pharmacy (it wasn't about zombies¹): *Kid looting Pharmacy:* _"What do you need?"_ *Gerry:* _"Albuterol."_ *Kid:* _"They outgrow the asthma supposedly. And this sh*t, too. It's magic for my kid."_ *Gerry:* _"Thank you."_ ··●◯●·· ¹ ─ It was waaaaaay too early for anyone to have a clue as to what stops them…especially a kid that came to loot the pharmacy like Gerry.
The power to the movie theater I was in cut off at the very moment Brad Pitt injected himself with whatever mystery disease. There was a really severe thunderstorm outside. Most people left but I stuck around it took about 45 minutes but the power came back on and. It took another 30 minutes or so for the movie to start again and when it did it took us back to the somewhere around the beginning of the Israel scene. Weird movie going experience.
I just looked holy crap I still have the ticket. It's all faded because it got wet I imagine . I can read 4:00 p.m. 07/03/2013. I keep these things because I'm a weirdo.
@@movieman175I used to save my movie tickets when I was young. I had them stuffed into the pockets of an old photo album. I threw them away as I got older but now I wish I had kept them
Always a great time hanging out with you both. Laughing through the intro flip, jump scares, wife calling Gerry back, “women!”, the looks back and forth and Sam curling up to T through most of the film. ✌️🥰💕
@@sparksdrinker5650 He gave her the phone so she could contact him. It's wild how many people blame her for calling instead of the much more obvious option: Put the phone on vibrate/silent.
As someone with asthma, that feeling of your chest tightening up, that wheezing, the panic, hard to breathe will have anyone panicking. She did great for a kid in that circumstance. It’s no joke! Great reaction you guys! ❤❤
For anyone that hasn't tried it...the audio book/book is so much better. The audio book has an all star cast. It takes place 10 years after the zombie apocalypse as humanity is putting itself back together. It focuses on the main character who is traveling around the world interviewing people who were present during the most harrowing events of the apocalypse. It should be done as w miniseries showing each persons story. Most peoples favorite scene is The Battle for Yonkers. It's the first full scale military assault against a large zombie horde. It didn't go so well. That part is told from the point of view of Sgt Wainio played by Mark Hammill. If interested you can hear the Yonkers battle on the youtubes...just do a search.
I love the book and the movie - I saw the movie as only one of the stories in the book and had hoped we could have more. Yonkers is great! My favorite story was Darnell Hackworth and Maisey the daschund. I can’t recommend the audiobook version highly enough!
I don´t get the love for the book. The worldbuilding is alright but the idea that humanity would lose from slow-moving zombies is idiotic. It's full of classic zombie tropes and it doesn't innovate. There isn't really any deeper social commentary in the book either. It's a guy writing about how society would bumblefuck its way through a zombie apocalypse and then live in Canada. Not that the movie is great, but the book is a 6/10 at best.
@@clarkmichaels822also they didn’t know what the heck it was and the soldiers weren’t trained for moving headshots and were encumbered with the mopp gear and the tanks weren’t equipped with anti personnel rounds and the infection from illegal organ donations, and friendly from infected bullets.
Also chainmail won't save you depending on the spread method. If it's blood and/or saliva the mail can pinch and damage your skin when it's bitten and droplets can infect the wounds.
"Magazines on my legs and arms, extra layers of clothes..." 😅 Perhaps check the Zombie Survival Guide, by World War Z author Max Brooks (son of Mel). But 'prison armor' is a step in the right direction 🤣🤣🤣
I think that first staircase zombie jump scare will go down in history as one of the best jump scares in a horror movie. Literally every reactor ive seen watch jumps at that scene and when i saw this in theaters everybody jumped lol
I watched this, found out it was based on a book, read the book. I ended up utterly confused as to: a) who sold the film rights to that book, and b) who read that book and thought this movie was in any way an adaptation lmao. Not saying it's a bad movie, I like it. But this is now my go-to example of screenwriters using titles of existing books to get people to come watch the fanfiction they wrote to put stuff on their CVs lol
It's because the book is an anthology. It's a loose collection of stories tied together by a journalist going from person to person. It wouldn't be a fun watch in a movie. Maybe they could've made it a TV show and it would have worked better but it wouldn't work in a film.
I read the book first and was really excited for the movie, then utterly confused when I saw the trailers. I didn't watch the movie until several years later! It's now one of my favorite zombie movies, but I have to completely divorce it from the book in my mind, and I agree with you. They just bought it for the title. I wish they would do something truer to the book, but as a limited run series. I think it would be much better served that way.
also consider that it was supposed to be a trilogy but they ended up abandoning the project because it wasn't a great success compared to how much it costed and then the pandemic started killing the project for good. Brad Pitt stated that he did receive a draft of the script for the sequel and it was very good.
Pretty sure it was apparent that it was his responsibility to call her and not the other way around. Yes, she's worried. But being patient is literally all she has to or can do.
If I may, I strongly suggest a couple of movies for you: - If you liked “Hot Fuzz”, there’s its successor “The World’s End”; - There’s a John Carpenter film called “In the mouth of madness”. Like “Event Horizon”, it’s a horror Ninties movie with Sam Neill; unlike “Event Horizon”, it’s a lot less gruesome and more messed up.
I really enjoyed this movie, it's too bad it had such a troubled production or maybe we'd have had a sequel by now. I really liked how the pacing changes from a full-blown action movie to almost more of a thriller once they get to the WHO facility. It kinda sorta reminds me of Full Metal Jacket in that regard. Also, the guy that helped them in the pharmacy, I don't think he worked there. I believe he'd just killed someone and was looking for drugs / medicine. I think the line you were confused on was "They out-grow the asthma, supposedly." referring to the daughter potentially losing her asthma naturally as she gets older.
In the pharmacy he says "they grow out of the Asthma" which in some cases people with Asthma as kids do learn to live with it better as adults vs kids.
As a Nova Scotian, I was worried when the film said that Jerry's family was being sent to Nova Scotia and TBR responded "Nova Scotia?!?" as if he was going to add "That place is a shithole!" Luckily he didn't say anything like this (maybe that's in the patreon version 🤣). WWZ was released in 2013, which was a great year for Nova Scotia representation in movies. Not only was it mentioned/shown in this movie, but N.S. was also mentioned in Man of Steel (also 2013).
Americans love Nova Scotia though LOL.. we think it’s beautiful! Just most would probably say it’s quite small and not too loud on the international stage putting it lightly hahaha! But it’s not a 💩 hole!! 😂
@@julesb1970 I do remember watching The Day After Tomorrow in the theater, and when a character said that most (all?) of the United States would be permanently frozen but Mexico and most of Canada would be unaffected, there were cheers in the theater - not because of the U.S. being wiped out, but that our country would be spared.
@@TheRealGunWhisperer There have been a few celebrities that have been here who have openly talked about how beautiful and wonderful they found Nova Scotia - it's very rare to hear about an actor who came here to film something and complained about how terrible N.S. was.
Nice! One of my favorite zombie movies ever made! However this movie had a lot of production problems as neither acyor and producer Brad Pitt nor director Marc Forster liked working with each other, as Pitt was butting heads woth him constantly over the budget as well as cutting some action scenes that were scripted, storyboarded but never filmed, which pissed off Pitt so badly, he threatened to walk away from the project if Forster kept making changes to the final cut of the film A sequel was considered but February 2019, it was cancelled due to budget concerns and it was also due to the bad blood between Pitt and Forster.
The intro 😂. There was plans to make a sequel but they canceled it. Recommend watching the first popular zombie Night of the living Dead by George Romero 1968 film.
The first time I saw this film when the guy slipped on the ramp I laughed non-stop for about 5 minutes. Pure slapstick. Good thing I wasnt in the cinema.
Idk about a sequel. They could do a reboot and make it more like the book but that wouldn’t be easy to do, I don’t think. The book is vastly different and jumps around the world giving different peoples experiences trying to survive living amongst zombies.
You even mentioned The Andromeda Strain in your wrap-up comments, but I'm not sure I heard this dot being connected. I was able to predict the "cure" only halfway through the movie because it's basically the SAME twist as in The Andromeda Strain.
Great reaction guys like always, I love this movie. I read the book and I don't care that it's different. Quite the opposite! I love that it's different. It's so epic and high octane. I watched it many times and it never bored me. The book was written by Max Brooks and is a collection of short stories with different characters from all over the world. It's cool but very different from the movie. There also is a companion piece called "The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead" which is also a fun read and puts many real world survival strategies into the context of, well, the Zombie Apocalypse. And a fun-fact Brad Pitt actually started a swear jar on set for the kids. Anyone that cussed had put to money in the jar and after filming wrapped up the kids got the money. Pitt also helped the kids with their homework when they weren't filming. Keep up the good work.
one of my favorite zombie movie too.. the book however was on a whole new levels of story telling.. i hope you read it as well.. awesome reaction guys 😊💯
Few things - the guy said “ they ( children) out grow Asthma supposedly.” Having Asthma would not be enough of a detriment for the zombies to ignore you. - the video game is set in the same world as the movie but that’s the only thing they have in common ie no same characters in both -- 28 Days/Weeks ARE NOT ZOMBIE MOVIES. The infected in that movie have a lab grown variation of rabies. They are not walking corpses. You can tell they’re still alive because you see them starving to death. You do not need headshots to put them down.
Here’s a fun tidbit from the credits… At the World Health Organization headquarters, one of the doctors was played by Peter Capaldi. The character’s name was never mentioned, so someone took the opportunity to put him in the credits as W.H.O. Doctor, which was a fun Easter egg because it had been decided but not yet announced that Peter Capaldi would be the next Doctor Who.* *And yes, I’m aware the show is called Doctor Who, but the character is just The Doctor. It just made more sense to tie the story about the credits together to say Doctor Who. Get off my back, nerds. 😉😄
There was a WWZ scheduled to be made, then Covid hit so it was shelved, but I understand that it is now being considered for a reboot! HOPE SO!!! Loved you guys opening!!!!
Great reaction guys, glad you enjoyed the movie. I've read the book, but I still love this movie, and I've watched it several times. The book is more like an after - action report, with a selection of individual's experiences, compiled after the solution was found. It would've been possible to make a movie or a mini-series with that format, but I guess the people with the money didn't like that idea. Having Gerry travel to different locations wasn't a bad idea though, and it does give a nod to the format of the book imo.
A nice relaxing film to enjoy on a plane :) I really like that the first and second act each had a big action sequence, while the third act was way more meticulous and suspenseful.
@@MrBoyYankee I don't have a dog in this fight since I neither made, wrote nor produced either films, but a big part of the original's atmosphere was lost by transposing it to warm-coloured New Mexico. This change - and a few others - weaken the film just enough that the original stands as the slightly better version of the idea. I have not read the novel the films were based on.
This movies production was a horrible mess. The source book written by Max Brooks (Mel Brooks son) was composed of a kind of a UN report on understanding a zombie outbreak start after the fact. Joseph Michael Straczynski, JMS (who made Babylon 5, Jeremiah, and was a big Marvel writer) made an adaptation where the investigator was traveling to locations where major events occurred in modern times, and then had to decode the story via investigation and interviews which would have featured flashbacks. At some point after this the studio decided it had to be more real time, and they couldn’t use this plot of a virus from China as the source as it would upset their Chinese distribution. So they rewrote a bunch. They then filmed what pretty much was the first chunk of the movie, his extraction, the military base, and the Israel bit and those where a lot longer. So they wrapped the principal filming but in the post production they found they pretty much didn’t have a story. When they converted from it being an investigation of select incidents and interviews to real time events they pretty much lost the entire narrative. So then they hired Damon Lindelof to write some sort of story and they came up with the second half in the lab. They then called back most of the cast and went back into active shooting for a second time. Then finally big scenes in Budapest and Moscow’s red square end up on the cutting room floor as they felt the movie needed to be more “family friendly”. This is why this seems like 2 very incomplete stories jammed together in the middle. And the CG suffered in the end because of the large amount of overruns on the budget.
At the beginning of the movie, it's interesting you pointed out "weird stuff going on" - When you look at the context of the movie, it makes sense, but not knowing what this is and going into it, a lot of that just seems like normal stuff you'd see on the news. The point of the intro is to show how we don't really care about obvious signs right in front of us. The whole movie is kind of a commentary on that. We're so focused on how things are now that we can't imagine them changing so drastically. We'd lose so many people because of an unwillingness to adapt. It's a pretty crazy message for a movie that came out a decade ago. Looking back on it now with hindsight, it really is such a great movie.
I think it's also awesome how much of the background stuff he notices throughout the movie. That's a huge part of the suspense. We know something is going on because we can SEE the background, but like most things our subconscious is filtering it out in favor of the main focus. Most people have to rewatch this movie over and over to catch all of the obvious background clues throughout.
One of my favorite books. Would've worked better as a fake documentary style film like a mockumentary & then as each person gives their account they could show a dramatization or flashback of it. Probably would've worked better as a TV show.
There is an audiobook adaptation of the book where they got a lot of famous people to provide the voices, and the narrator is the author, Max Brooks. It is considered the best adaptation by far.
Fun fact: when Peter Capaldi was cast to star in Doctor Who, his most recent acting credit was in this movie as "WHO Doctor".
“Look at me. Look at me, Schmitt. I’m the captain now.”
My first thought after seeing the weird intro 😂
6:51 - The guy at the pharmacy earlier on said, "They outgrow the asthma, supposedly." Meaning yougsters; nothing to do with zombies. The guy just happened to also have a kid with asthma and knew how to help, and sympathized.
That guy was also one of the zombies in the stairwell the day after.
@@aintsam9952aawwwwww, well daum
"They're attracted to noise..." I know which of my family & friends I could NOT hide out with.
Haha I know what you mean, you don't know if they're raging or just closing a door the way they always do.
Most women.
Cypher in Matrix sneezing.
The switch up on the intro 😂
The Dr accidently killing himself is the funniest part of the movie by far. Also, love the flipped intro.
And anyone who has been on a cargo plane ramp will tell you, not super surprising either. People lose teeth on them all the time.
@@jestermarcus Before seeing one, I imagined they'd be covered in slip-resistant coatings, or be ridged for purchase, then I was told they tried that and it made loading stuff WAY harder, so you just deal with the risk.
I agree I had one of those "laughing so hard and so much you struggle to breathe" moments.
Best part was Capaldi as a WHO doctor before he was Doctor Who.
@@miller-joel Under-rated pun. Love it.
When Sam said, "I wonder if there are points that they go for", I thought she meant like 1 point to bite an arm, 5 points for biting the neck, 50 points for chewing a head off.
LOL. This comment deserves WAY more thumbs up
Gives new meaning to "zombie game".
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Hahahahaha me too
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0:11 That "No" is perfect
That flip of the script was CUTE AS HELL XD
Hahaha great start to the reaction!
Sam "NO" 😂
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I love watching movies with you guys
Daniel in the intro looked like he got caught eating a snack he got told not to take.
He definitely has a 12-year-old boy still in him.
@@YoureMrLebowski "The doctors say if they remove it, he'll die." -Chandler Bing
I remember watching this getting filmed. They dressed up George Square in Glasgow to look like somewhere in the US and it was like that for weeks. The opening scenes were amazing to see live!
Zombies had a glasgow accent then? Noice
Glawsgow! ..wow, what a location.. ..you Scots are stealin' our jerbs?
@@StayFractalesqueAND our Zombies! 😮
That’s funny-Glasgow substituting for a place in the USA.
@@BarryHart-xo1oyif you know Glasgow well enough you'll see it in a lot of recent movies. It was in Hobbs & Shaw, the most recent Indiana Jones film, The Batman. A lot of city centre buildings resemble some US cities.
Sam reasserting control and then getting the giggles is hilarious. You're going to have to work on your poker face, Sam lol
Schmitt thought he was in trouble with that intro
The wife phoning him and getting people killed actually pissed me off, even if she didn't know what he was doing she still knew enough to know not to phone him.
And he knew enough to power off sound. How would she know?
He should've put his phone on silent.
Like everyone else that intro was worth watching over and over again. Also pointing out Peter Capaldi as 'W.H.O. Doctor' and 2 months after the film release he was revealed as the new Doctor Who!
I replayed the intro more times than I care to admit lol
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The intro is the best part and the apartment scene...
27:30 - You'd be surprised how zombie stuff can give you serious nightmares... back at the height of the pandemic, I happened to be revisiting The Walking Dead series on Netflix, and then I came down with Covid, bad (nearly died). I was sooo out it from the fever, I could barely do anything but sleep, but that sleep wasn't even relaxing at all, because I mind kept on thrusting me back into the same nightmare over and over again... it was a zombie situation that was horrifying and intense, and I couldn't force my mind to dream about anything else (maybe because I was so weak in every way). It was freaky, lol. Not only that, but I kept dreaming about the number 13... weird thing was that on the 13th day of January that year was when my fever finally broke, and I started to get better fast. Strange stuff, lol.
20:36 "did he have like alopecia or something?" -TBR 😆
Hope more reactors react so you can do your thing on this one
exactly...who the hell just thinks up Alopecia instead of, like, Cancer or something. I laughed at that one.
Cuz zombies hate being bald.
It's a legitimate disability...according to G.I. Jada. 😉🤣
I laughed so hard when he said that with such a deadpan delivery LMAO
This is what was said in the pharmacy (it wasn't about zombies¹):
*Kid looting Pharmacy:* _"What do you need?"_
*Gerry:* _"Albuterol."_
*Kid:* _"They outgrow the asthma supposedly. And this sh*t, too. It's magic for my kid."_
*Gerry:* _"Thank you."_
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¹ ─ It was waaaaaay too early for anyone to have a clue as to what stops them…especially a kid that came to loot the pharmacy like Gerry.
Kid's kid? Are you kidding me?
Kid's kid
“Drug addict looting pharmacy” would also have been accepted.
"MY intro!" LMAO!!!!
The power to the movie theater I was in cut off at the very moment Brad Pitt injected himself with whatever mystery disease. There was a really severe thunderstorm outside. Most people left but I stuck around it took about 45 minutes but the power came back on and. It took another 30 minutes or so for the movie to start again and when it did it took us back to the somewhere around the beginning of the Israel scene. Weird movie going experience.
I just looked holy crap I still have the ticket. It's all faded because it got wet I imagine . I can read 4:00 p.m. 07/03/2013. I keep these things because I'm a weirdo.
@@movieman175I used to save my movie tickets when I was young. I had them stuffed into the pockets of an old photo album. I threw them away as I got older but now I wish I had kept them
😊Sam: "no" deadpan face ... LOVE THE BLOOPERS
Oh, i missed Andromeda Strain reaction from you. One of my favs. Adding to my watch list now ;)
0:11 "No...My Intro." 🤣🤣🤣 All Hail Samantha the Queen! 👑🥃😻
28:45 TBR: "Nova Scotia?" Me: "Hello"✋
Always a great time hanging out with you both. Laughing through the intro flip, jump scares, wife calling Gerry back, “women!”, the looks back and forth and Sam curling up to T through most of the film.
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“She's gonna call him!!” TBR received death glare.😂😂
She almost destroyed humanity with her selfish phone call
@@sparksdrinker5650 He gave her the phone so she could contact him. It's wild how many people blame her for calling instead of the much more obvious option: Put the phone on vibrate/silent.
I havent even watched the reaction but the intro made me feel fantastic
26:10 they were going to Cardiff in Wales. As a Welshie It's nice to see Wales mentioned 💕
And hey, they have the 11th Doctor there too, right as he was being cast!
The opening scene was filmed here in Scotland. Its St.Georges Square in Glasgow, its also where they filmed Indys apartment in Dial of Destiny🏴
Cool reaction as always Schmitt & Samantha, you both take care and have a good night
As someone with asthma, that feeling of your chest tightening up, that wheezing, the panic, hard to breathe will have anyone panicking. She did great for a kid in that circumstance. It’s no joke! Great reaction you guys! ❤❤
For anyone that hasn't tried it...the audio book/book is so much better. The audio book has an all star cast. It takes place 10 years after the zombie apocalypse as humanity is putting itself back together. It focuses on the main character who is traveling around the world interviewing people who were present during the most harrowing events of the apocalypse. It should be done as w miniseries showing each persons story. Most peoples favorite scene is The Battle for Yonkers. It's the first full scale military assault against a large zombie horde. It didn't go so well. That part is told from the point of view of Sgt Wainio played by Mark Hammill. If interested you can hear the Yonkers battle on the youtubes...just do a search.
I love the book and the movie - I saw the movie as only one of the stories in the book and had hoped we could have more. Yonkers is great! My favorite story was Darnell Hackworth and Maisey the daschund. I can’t recommend the audiobook version highly enough!
I don´t get the love for the book. The worldbuilding is alright but the idea that humanity would lose from slow-moving zombies is idiotic. It's full of classic zombie tropes and it doesn't innovate. There isn't really any deeper social commentary in the book either. It's a guy writing about how society would bumblefuck its way through a zombie apocalypse and then live in Canada.
Not that the movie is great, but the book is a 6/10 at best.
I love reading and I tried reading it and I couldn't get through it I kept waiting for good shit to happen and it never came
@@clarkmichaels822the world didn’t fair to well against a fairly mild respiratory virus a few years ago…
@@clarkmichaels822also they didn’t know what the heck it was and the soldiers weren’t trained for moving headshots and were encumbered with the mopp gear and the tanks weren’t equipped with anti personnel rounds and the infection from illegal organ donations, and friendly from infected bullets.
8:43 fun fact: chainmail shark suit ~$7500
Moral of this story: In case of a zombie apocalypse, just leave the kids behind. They are noisy baggage and will only slow you down.
Also chainmail won't save you depending on the spread method. If it's blood and/or saliva the mail can pinch and damage your skin when it's bitten and droplets can infect the wounds.
Or a full set of bike leathers from £400 including gloves, boots and helmet.
New intro is better 😆
Also, the opening chaos is shot in Glasgow about 5 minutes from where I used to live (the actual building is CGd out).
"Magazines on my legs and arms, extra layers of clothes..."
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Perhaps check the Zombie Survival Guide, by World War Z author Max Brooks (son of Mel). But 'prison armor' is a step in the right direction 🤣🤣🤣
I think that first staircase zombie jump scare will go down in history as one of the best jump scares in a horror movie. Literally every reactor ive seen watch jumps at that scene and when i saw this in theaters everybody jumped lol
love this one, Thanks and stay safe and God Bless
I watched this, found out it was based on a book, read the book.
I ended up utterly confused as to: a) who sold the film rights to that book, and b) who read that book and thought this movie was in any way an adaptation lmao.
Not saying it's a bad movie, I like it. But this is now my go-to example of screenwriters using titles of existing books to get people to come watch the fanfiction they wrote to put stuff on their CVs lol
I think they got it only for the title. It is a cool title and a good movie.
It's good that they managed not to screw up the title. Great book. :)
It's because the book is an anthology. It's a loose collection of stories tied together by a journalist going from person to person. It wouldn't be a fun watch in a movie. Maybe they could've made it a TV show and it would have worked better but it wouldn't work in a film.
I read the book first and was really excited for the movie, then utterly confused when I saw the trailers. I didn't watch the movie until several years later! It's now one of my favorite zombie movies, but I have to completely divorce it from the book in my mind, and I agree with you. They just bought it for the title. I wish they would do something truer to the book, but as a limited run series. I think it would be much better served that way.
also consider that it was supposed to be a trilogy but they ended up abandoning the project because it wasn't a great success compared to how much it costed and then the pandemic started killing the project for good. Brad Pitt stated that he did receive a draft of the script for the sequel and it was very good.
That phone was Brad's responsibility, he controls power and volume.
Pretty sure it was apparent that it was his responsibility to call her and not the other way around. Yes, she's worried. But being patient is literally all she has to or can do.
Thank you. He should have made sure all volumes were off. She had no clue about the sound setting them off.
Never clicked so fast😂 I love this movie
Something about this reaction just felt different, in a good way. The intro just clicked for me! ;)
We all know now that Samantha wears the pants in the house with that No! in the intro, lol.
This is one of my favorite Zombie movies. I only first watched it like 3 years ago because I thought it was going to be bad. Boy was I wrong.
If I may, I strongly suggest a couple of movies for you:
- If you liked “Hot Fuzz”, there’s its successor “The World’s End”;
- There’s a John Carpenter film called “In the mouth of madness”. Like “Event Horizon”, it’s a horror Ninties movie with Sam Neill; unlike “Event Horizon”, it’s a lot less gruesome and more messed up.
I really enjoyed this movie, it's too bad it had such a troubled production or maybe we'd have had a sequel by now. I really liked how the pacing changes from a full-blown action movie to almost more of a thriller once they get to the WHO facility. It kinda sorta reminds me of Full Metal Jacket in that regard.
Also, the guy that helped them in the pharmacy, I don't think he worked there. I believe he'd just killed someone and was looking for drugs / medicine. I think the line you were confused on was "They out-grow the asthma, supposedly." referring to the daughter potentially losing her asthma naturally as she gets older.
Max Brooks' book is much different. It's the aftermath of the war and Brad Pitt"s character is traveling around the world getting the whole story.
Good movie. I just wish there was a follow up film because it seems incomplete somehow.
still my fav movie and wish they had done a sequel for this movie and Mr. & Mrs. smith smh lol
In the pharmacy he says "they grow out of the Asthma" which in some cases people with Asthma as kids do learn to live with it better as adults vs kids.
Like me.
My brother had both pills and an inhalator (this was the mid-70's) until about the age of 17-18. It did, for him, "just go away" and never came back.
@@vincelang3779 I had to get shots for years. Eventually I was able to have pets. And not worry about my lungs closing up from the world.
As a Nova Scotian, I was worried when the film said that Jerry's family was being sent to Nova Scotia and TBR responded "Nova Scotia?!?" as if he was going to add "That place is a shithole!" Luckily he didn't say anything like this (maybe that's in the patreon version 🤣).
WWZ was released in 2013, which was a great year for Nova Scotia representation in movies. Not only was it mentioned/shown in this movie, but N.S. was also mentioned in Man of Steel (also 2013).
Agreed, when I watched this movie I was like Woohoo us Nova Scotians
are safe! 😅
Americans love Nova Scotia though LOL.. we think it’s beautiful! Just most would probably say it’s quite small and not too loud on the international stage putting it lightly hahaha! But it’s not a 💩 hole!! 😂
@@julesb1970 I do remember watching The Day After Tomorrow in the theater, and when a character said that most (all?) of the United States would be permanently frozen but Mexico and most of Canada would be unaffected, there were cheers in the theater - not because of the U.S. being wiped out, but that our country would be spared.
@@TheRealGunWhisperer There have been a few celebrities that have been here who have openly talked about how beautiful and wonderful they found Nova Scotia - it's very rare to hear about an actor who came here to film something and complained about how terrible N.S. was.
I'm 5 seconds in and Samantha already has me laughing. She got the church giggles.
😂
tf is the church giggles?
@@TheSeventhOutlaw When you start giggling uncontrollably in a serious setting (like church, or at a funeral)
Weird, never heard it called that but thx.
All right Samantha!!
Your turn!!
When Gerry at the end says "Our war has just begun." I just can't help but hear the Terminator theme kick in in my head
Nice!
One of my favorite zombie movies ever made!
However this movie had a lot of production problems as neither acyor and producer Brad Pitt nor director Marc Forster liked working with each other, as Pitt was butting heads woth him constantly over the budget as well as cutting some action scenes that were scripted, storyboarded but never filmed, which pissed off Pitt so badly, he threatened to walk away from the project if Forster kept making changes to the final cut of the film
A sequel was considered but February 2019, it was cancelled due to budget concerns and it was also due to the bad blood between Pitt and Forster.
The intro 😂. There was plans to make a sequel but they canceled it. Recommend watching the first popular zombie Night of the living Dead by George Romero 1968 film.
The first time I saw this film when the guy slipped on the ramp I laughed non-stop for about 5 minutes. Pure slapstick. Good thing I wasnt in the cinema.
Again Thanks Guys For Another Great Time!!!
All your reactions are the best!!
I've recently rewatched this one since expecting a sequel to come up soon. It's a good zombie movie.
Idk about a sequel. They could do a reboot and make it more like the book but that wouldn’t be easy to do, I don’t think. The book is vastly different and jumps around the world giving different peoples experiences trying to survive living amongst zombies.
I think a mini series on Paramount Plus would be better in my opinion.
You even mentioned The Andromeda Strain in your wrap-up comments, but I'm not sure I heard this dot being connected. I was able to predict the "cure" only halfway through the movie because it's basically the SAME twist as in The Andromeda Strain.
13:05 Hey that's James Badge Dale "Bob Leckie" from The Pacific. :)
Great reaction guys like always, I love this movie. I read the book and I don't care that it's different. Quite the opposite! I love that it's different. It's so epic and high octane. I watched it many times and it never bored me. The book was written by Max Brooks and is a collection of short stories with different characters from all over the world. It's cool but very different from the movie. There also is a companion piece called "The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead" which is also a fun read and puts many real world survival strategies into the context of, well, the Zombie Apocalypse. And a fun-fact Brad Pitt actually started a swear jar on set for the kids. Anyone that cussed had put to money in the jar and after filming wrapped up the kids got the money. Pitt also helped the kids with their homework when they weren't filming. Keep up the good work.
one of my favorite zombie movie too.. the book however was on a whole new levels of story telling.. i hope you read it as well.. awesome reaction guys 😊💯
Few things
- the guy said “ they ( children) out grow Asthma supposedly.” Having Asthma would not be enough of a detriment for the zombies to ignore you.
- the video game is set in the same world as the movie but that’s the only thing they have in common ie no same characters in both
-- 28 Days/Weeks ARE NOT ZOMBIE MOVIES. The infected in that movie have a lab grown variation of rabies. They are not walking corpses. You can tell they’re still alive because you see them starving to death. You do not need headshots to put them down.
Went to the movies on a day off and chose this one. Never saw the trailer, so I didn't know what it was about.. pleasantly surprised
I cannot believe it’s been 11 years!
This is my favorite zombie movies
DAMN!!! i just got blinded by her ring lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of my all time favorite movies
This was my mother's favorite zombie movie, and she doesn't like zombie movies. :P She'd watch it every time it came on cable TV
5:29 "Jesus! Oh my god!" -TheSchmitts 😇
23:17 "Yuri" was a pilot here too. 😁(Stranger Things)
Here’s a fun tidbit from the credits…
At the World Health Organization headquarters, one of the doctors was played by Peter Capaldi. The character’s name was never mentioned, so someone took the opportunity to put him in the credits as W.H.O. Doctor, which was a fun Easter egg because it had been decided but not yet announced that Peter Capaldi would be the next Doctor Who.*
*And yes, I’m aware the show is called Doctor Who, but the character is just The Doctor. It just made more sense to tie the story about the credits together to say Doctor Who. Get off my back, nerds. 😉😄
Your bad intro's are your best intro's. 🤣
Did anyone else start singing Joshua Fought The Battle Of Jericho at 18:58? 😂
Train to Busan is a must watch!!!!
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@@TBRSchmitt Duh... Lol. Forgot to check if it was already on the channel. Thanks. I'll go watch it (again?)
The truck at the start is an impossibility, look at the traffic.
I'm pretty sure they didn't show the grenade on the plane scene on the plane version of the movie.
They was going to Cardiff south wales 🏴 28 miles from me I saw this film in the cinema and I couldn’t stop laughing when they said this 😂👍🏻
There was a WWZ scheduled to be made, then Covid hit so it was shelved, but I understand that it is now being considered for a reboot! HOPE SO!!! Loved you guys opening!!!!
Great reaction guys, glad you enjoyed the movie. I've read the book, but I still love this movie, and I've watched it several times. The book is more like an after - action report, with a selection of individual's experiences, compiled after the solution was found. It would've been possible to make a movie or a mini-series with that format, but I guess the people with the money didn't like that idea. Having Gerry travel to different locations wasn't a bad idea though, and it does give a nod to the format of the book imo.
A nice relaxing film to enjoy on a plane :)
I really like that the first and second act each had a big action sequence, while the third act was way more meticulous and suspenseful.
that intro lol 😂🤣
Check out LET ME IN (2010), a very good dramatic horror, sad and with great performances, you'll enjoy it.
Let the right one in is best.
@@MrBoyYankee Yes, original >>> remake.
@Wash869 Nothing is wrong with the remake. The original film is the best? imo.
@@MrBoyYankee I don't have a dog in this fight since I neither made, wrote nor produced either films, but a big part of the original's atmosphere was lost by transposing it to warm-coloured New Mexico. This change - and a few others - weaken the film just enough that the original stands as the slightly better version of the idea. I have not read the novel the films were based on.
This movies production was a horrible mess. The source book written by Max Brooks (Mel Brooks son) was composed of a kind of a UN report on understanding a zombie outbreak start after the fact. Joseph Michael Straczynski, JMS (who made Babylon 5, Jeremiah, and was a big Marvel writer) made an adaptation where the investigator was traveling to locations where major events occurred in modern times, and then had to decode the story via investigation and interviews which would have featured flashbacks.
At some point after this the studio decided it had to be more real time, and they couldn’t use this plot of a virus from China as the source as it would upset their Chinese distribution. So they rewrote a bunch.
They then filmed what pretty much was the first chunk of the movie, his extraction, the military base, and the Israel bit and those where a lot longer. So they wrapped the principal filming but in the post production they found they pretty much didn’t have a story. When they converted from it being an investigation of select incidents and interviews to real time events they pretty much lost the entire narrative.
So then they hired Damon Lindelof to write some sort of story and they came up with the second half in the lab. They then called back most of the cast and went back into active shooting for a second time.
Then finally big scenes in Budapest and Moscow’s red square end up on the cutting room floor as they felt the movie needed to be more “family friendly”.
This is why this seems like 2 very incomplete stories jammed together in the middle. And the CG suffered in the end because of the large amount of overruns on the budget.
At the beginning of the movie, it's interesting you pointed out "weird stuff going on" - When you look at the context of the movie, it makes sense, but not knowing what this is and going into it, a lot of that just seems like normal stuff you'd see on the news. The point of the intro is to show how we don't really care about obvious signs right in front of us. The whole movie is kind of a commentary on that. We're so focused on how things are now that we can't imagine them changing so drastically. We'd lose so many people because of an unwillingness to adapt. It's a pretty crazy message for a movie that came out a decade ago. Looking back on it now with hindsight, it really is such a great movie.
I think it's also awesome how much of the background stuff he notices throughout the movie. That's a huge part of the suspense. We know something is going on because we can SEE the background, but like most things our subconscious is filtering it out in favor of the main focus. Most people have to rewatch this movie over and over to catch all of the obvious background clues throughout.
Everyone always says “The book is better” but in this case the book is infinitely better
Not just better, completely different. Only thing they share is the title and well, zombies.
Same for, "The Martian".
One of my favorite books. Would've worked better as a fake documentary style film like a mockumentary & then as each person gives their account they could show a dramatization or flashback of it. Probably would've worked better as a TV show.
You guys are annoying
@@ayvzu Not an argument.
You guys are adorable - “My Intro!”
I feel like this movie can line up well with Train to Busan. It started in Korea and ended up all over the world.
Fun fact the city scenes were filmed in Glasgow and made to look like a US city
They do that in lot's of movies now.
There is an audiobook adaptation of the book where they got a lot of famous people to provide the voices, and the narrator is the author, Max Brooks. It is considered the best adaptation by far.
Alopecia line was underrated hahahaha
The fact that an airplane cut is a real thing is interesting to me because I don't travel far to use a plane, so I didn't know such a thing existed. 🤔
Really loved this movie, pleasant surprise from Brad Pitt and the production for this movie was crazy
I turned on the closed captioning on my copy & pulled up the pharmacy scene. The guy said
"They outgrown the asthma supposedly"
This is my favorite Brad Pitt movie.
Yall are adorable. I love this movie. Its not top 20, but easily top 100
Don’t you just love when his boss at the UN tells him he needs him back and as soon as he says, he can’t do that. He says good luck and hangs up.?😡
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