Henry and Kristl engaged in World War Z (2013)

Rating: Null/10 (22 March 2014)

"Z means zombies, I suppose?," Kristl remarked.
"Sure," Henry nodded.
"So?"
"It is about Zombies," Henry said in a matter of fact voice.
"I can see as much.."
"Zombies for the masses," Henry added, "For people who do not like the icky bits. Like the walking dead."
"Like me.. I am a regular squeamish person. Warfare okay.. but people gnawing other people... No."
"So what do you think?"
"Think? Is that required in a movie like this?"
"Geez, Kristl..."
Okay....I think that Brad Pitt is a good actor."
"I agree."
"I would have been honored to have Pitt for my spouse..."
"but..."
"If I was inclined that way..."
"But you are not.. so we skip to the sensible part, which means:it was a cool movie, but hampered."
"Take it away," Kristl said.
"Oh.. well I liked Brad Pitt. He carries the movie without a doubt, but the movie has buckled under the inept story. I mean each and every scene is cool to look at and in itself a good scene, but it is as if they had like way too much story on their hands, so instead of boiling it down to manageable proportions they overreached themselves."
"Seems so."
"Still the zombies are cool.. when they swarm you and scream and change," Henry said.
"Yeah."
"This is the problem. Each setting is but briefly used, no character development or story arc has time to develop before they fly off to the next scene. So we start in the US, go to a fleet, then fly to Korea, then to Israel, then we are in a Russian airplane flying to Wales and finally we are in Wales. Each setting is a whole scene with characters and a background and we skip the scene before we get 'settled in'," Henry said.
".. which would not have been too bad if they had Brad accompanied by a group of people. Like they do after Israel with Segen. But they should have tried and stick to a limited group of characters, maybe one for each scene he picks up so we can get involved with them, care for them and are shocked when they are killed or whatever," Henry continued.
"Now Brad has to do that all on his own," Kristl said.
"Yeah, if they had done that I think that all the other problems would have been less of a problem."
"Lol, like Segen picking up a two handed weapon while she misses a hand," Kristl laughed.
"Or building a wall against zombies because you have information on their existence, but forgetting they react to sound and then have a group of people sing just behind the wall, so the zombies get attracted and assault it."
"Did you ever get that idea of the tenth man in Israel?"
"Yeah, I understand the concept, but they never quite explained how he convinced them and, what is more, why did they not warn their allies? I mean they made a wall. It is not something you just put up in a week. Israel building a wall would not go unnoticed even if it took them a week," Henry said.
"I think that was implied," Kristl laughed.
"The movie has many nice settings and a good cast, but the story seems to have collapsed under it's own weight and for sure the script writers are to blame for the shortcomings.. I read that originally the movie was different with a final battle in Russia. Which stands to reason as the plane that takes them from Israel is Russian."
"So an okay movie, but with many shortcomings. But saved by Brad Pitt."
"We could call it maybe World War B?"
"Sounds good to me."
"Even if you are not inclined that way."
"Oh God, I will get that thrown in my face from now on. I know it will."
"Kristl likes Brad," Henry grinned.
Kristl tried to boot Henry, but he saw it coming.
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