World War Z

  On 11/10/2012 at 11:12 PM, Squee said:

Since some of you mentioned the overly fake looking CGi freaks from I Am Legend I thought I would post this...

 

http://youtu.be/cY_MYfueEOs

 

Could have been interesting.

Why the fuck didn't the studio go for this?! Is CGI cost effective enough now to be that much cheaper than a traditional makeup/prosthetic approach?

Here's an interesting excerpt from Wikipedia regarding 'I Am Legend's effects...

"A week into filming, Francis felt the infected (referred to as "Dark Seekers" or "hemocytes" in the script), who were being portrayed by actors wearing prosthetics, were not convincing. His decision to use computer-generated imagery (CGI) resulted in an increased budget and extended post-production, although the end results were not always well received.^[36][37] The concept behind the infected was that their adrenal glands were open all of the time and Lawrence explained, "They needed to have an abandon in their performance that you just can’t get out of people in the middle of the night when they’re barefoot. And their metabolisms are really spiked, so they’re constantly hyperventilating, which you can’t really get actors to do for a long time or they pass out."^[19] The actors remained on set to provide motion capture.^[24][38] "The film's producers and sound people wanted the creatures in the movie to sound somewhat human, but not the standard," so Mike Patton, lead singer of Faith No More, was engaged to provide the screams and howls of the infected."

Hilarious that Mike Patton was involved in this!

I want to see a zombie movie where the zombies literally swarm together & grow into each other, forming mountainous walls of rotting flesh that sweep across the post-apocalyptic landscape, flanked by elephantine nightmare beasts with rows of grasping limbs & mouths like bad acne & hundreds of milky hate-filled eyes rearranging themselves into concentric circles

and there'd be one survivor city in the middle of the desert somewhere & they'd just see these things coming on the horizon

Yay zombies.

I'll take anything zombie-related. Easy to please.

(except Walking Dead, everyone's so annoying and moody)

So I'm guess he has a very rare and specialized skill set that makes him feel obligated to leave his family and help out...?

Zombies (and vampires) are overused themes. We need moar movies with robots and aliens, like District 9.

  On 11/12/2012 at 2:59 AM, ambermonk said:

Zombies (and vampires) are overused themes. We need moar movies with robots and aliens, like District 9.

Yeah. Something ike District 9, but with zombies.

Frankenhooker - 6/10

This movie is like a mashup of things that can't be mashed up, and for that alone it deserves some merit.

Will totally go and see that shit. Mindless escapism sounds great.

Looks like shit.

That I Am Legend video is great though. Practical effects over CGI any day of the week. I Am Legend was gash also.

lol?

I am Zombie

Starring Jodie Foster, Casper van Dien and Lance Henrikson.

Pre-production starts Feb 31st 2013, with filming commencing never.

LOL?