#world war z 2013

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watching world war z is wild because i literally could not care less about any of the human stuff goimg on but the zombies are SPECTACULAR. a solid example of running zombies. so i spend half the movie either skipping through it or on my phone. there should be like a bechdel test for zombie movies but instead of pretending its about lesbians i want to pretend its about the zombies and not... whatever this is. IF YOU ASK ME the book having a journalist as the main character working to figure out what all happened works sooooo much better than the movie interpretations bootboy, but then again, what ISNT better than a bootboy?

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SUMMARY: Former United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop a zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatens to destroy humanity itself.

Mod Sus: I can barely remember anything from this aside from like three scenes at best.

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World War Z (2013)

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1. Mr. and Mrs. Smith 2005 - LA premiere

2. July 29, 2013. - Premiere of "World War Z." Tokyo, Japan

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'World War Z' (2013) film

-watched 4/29/2024- 2 [3/4] stars- on Paramount+

67% Rotten Tomatoes

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World War Z (2013)

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World War Z (2013)

The last time I saw World War Z, it was in 2013 and on the big screen. I enjoyed it but since then, this film hasn't made much of an impact. The sequel announced after its box office success never materialized. Combined with it not really being a faithful adaptation of the book and the overall lack of scares, it makes you wonder if the hype was just it being new and hot.

Gerry (Brad Pitt), a former UN employee specializing in navigating through dangerous zones, hears strange reports on the news. A new form of rabies spreads the disease rapidly as those affected attack their loved ones. To make things worse, the infected seem nearly unstoppable: only going down when shot in the head. In no time, every major city is overrun and he is recruited to help find a cure.

Some notable aspects of World War Z are that it actually uses the word zombie, and the people within the story act as though they’ve seen horror movies before. When Gerry defends his family from a pack of ghouls, he gets some of their blood on his face and immediately, steps on a rooftop ledge in case he feels himself transforming. Also noteworthy is the picture's scale. Most zombie films lean towards the low-budget production. Not this one. We travel to multiple cities across the world as Gerry searches for patient zero and/or a cure. In some locations, the undead number in the thousands. When there are that many, they behave almost like insects, crawling on top of each other to scale walls and forming a wave that devours everything in its path.

Another component worth mentioning is Brad Pitt. He’s always great and doesn’t disappoint here either. There’s a serious attempt made to make World War Z realistic. While Gerry is away on his mission, his wife, Karin (Mireille Enos) and children (Sterling Jerins and Abigail Hargrove) are being cared for by Gerry’s old boss, played by Fana Mokeona. The ship is full of people. Too full. More than once, we see people shipped away because they don’t have the resources to take care of them and we never find out what happens to them. You assume the worst because the whole world is falling apart. If Gerry dies on his mission or even fails to report frequently enough for people to think he’s still alive, his family is at risk. The stakes are high on a personal, familial and global level.

All that said, there’s a reason no one is talking about this movie now and why it isn’t looked upon fondly within horror circles. World War Z is not particularly scary. It’s got suspense, but no scares. The realistic look also means there aren’t any memorable zombie designs anywhere. Then, there's the conclusion, which is underwhelming. It makes sense but makes you go “really? that’s it?” then we get a quick wrap-up and the credits begin rolling. This picture is missing something. It’s got the action but needed something else. If only it offered insights into governments (it looks like it’s going to, but it’s more of a way to explain how the various cities we visit are still standing and/or why they’re about to fall) or individuals during a pandemic. Or if it was funny (the opposite of being scary), or do something so it could be known for something other than “the big-budget zombie movie with Brad Pitt in it”. I haven’t read the book by Max Brooks but from what I know about it, it contains all of those things to a degree. Where’d they go?

World War Z is a good movie but I don’t know who I would recommend it to. Horror hounds will be disappointed by the general lack of gore and scares. Non-horror fans are unlikely to take a chance on it. What I’d recommend instead is that the film be used as a gateway. Lure those non-horror fans in with the action, the big budget and the star power. Once your friend or significant other tells you they’d be up for more, then you can show them one of the better, more memorable zombie movies you have in your collection. (August 18, 2023)

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World War Z (2013) Review

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Wait what, how did Attack on Titain's narrative get accused of being interlocked with fascism?

I'm sorry I'm new to this since when did AoT ever visualize direct support of such a thing? I'm so so confused, it's a story COMBATTInG that exact thing??

I think a couple things, two of which I find sympathetic but still incorrect, and the rest of which--the main reasons--I find exasperating.

Main reason: people can't read well and don't understand framing. This is a very real phenomenon among younger generations (Z and below). If a story is about something, it's automatically seen as endorsing it. Just look at social media and the anti movement, or at problems plaguing YA literature and harassment towards authors.

In this kind of environment, where portrayal=endorsement, the concept of a tragic protagonist is especially anathema to people--if a protagonist does something, surely it's endorsed! Except, Shakespeare would like a word. Historically, this isn't the case in literature, and it's not the case in AoT either.

Now, to be fair, something coming out in a monthly fashion may mean that parts seem ambiguous at the time since we don't have teh full picture. However, I don't think AoT was ever ambiguous and never made me feel like it would endorse Eren, so while I can understand occasional confusion, I can't understand ever thinking it was even close to endorsing it especially after Mikasa's "that's already... unforgivable" line in 101.

The parts I am sympathetic to are these:

Isayama, in like 2013, posted an image of a Japanese military figure in WWII or something. I forget the details. This man is taught as a hero to Japanese students. To the rest of the world, he's uh, a war criminal. Isayama I believe deleted this? and at any rate never did it again. Still, I'm not going to defend this. I empathize with people who still live under the effects of brutal Japanese imperialist occupation, for which Japan still hasn't taken responsibility. Yet as someone who grew up in America in a cult where I had to unlearn basically everything, I'm also sympathetic to a man who was in his young-mid 20s who grew up with a perspective that was very different and appeared to learn from it. It's like a lot of Americans grow up hearing great things about Winston Churchill and George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, only to then realize in your 20s the Bad Things they did, like slavery and assault and more. Also, these things were not as widely available (via the internet) to people growing up at Isayama's age (he's just a little older than I am) as they are now. So I see this as a man learning. Yes, there's privilege there, but that's not something he can help, and it's a project to do the work unpacking it--which to all accounts he appears to actually be doing. It's nonsensical to assume that someone who ever speaks positively of a historical figure is actually endorsing their worldview. If the story did endorse it, that'd be different--but it doesn't.

The armbands. I have talked about it before and won't get into it, but I won't ever defend that use of the armband (it's incredibly insensitive) while also thinking that its use is not remotely an endorsement (framing-wise, it isn't) and also thinking that someone raised in Japan, again, doesn't learn nearly as much about the Holocaust as someone in the west does.

Even with those things, being angry about them or offended is one thing, and thinking the story endorses fascism as a result of it is another. I can defend why I called BNHA a fascist-esque story in the end tying it into the themes and messaging. I've yet to see someone do this with SnK because it's blatantly anti fascist--though, it is a story told within the foibles and limits of coming from one man's background.

Also, to quote @aspoonofsugar, I think the most blatant evidence it's anti-fascist is looking at who hated the ending. Answer: fascists. Young, alienated men angry that their hero, who was written to represent them, turned out not to be the hero of the story and as a tragic, hurting child throwing a tantrum. Raise your hand if you recognize any of our real-world fascists in that.

Edit: An Anon gave the details for the picture of the Japanese imperialist: From Tv Tropes; Dot Pixis's character stirred an outrage among the Korean fanbase, especially when Isayama admitted that he was based off of Akiyama Yoshifuru, a historical general of the Imperial Japanese Army who has a complicated and controversial history in Korea. This resulted in a heated debate over the general's war record, angry messages and even death threats towards Isayama, as well as an overall decline of interest in the series in Korea due to what they saw as Isayama glorifying the man.

Thanks to Anon for the details; I'd forgotten. My opinion on it remains the same.

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#onthisday, 2018, Sara Ginaite Rubinson z”l passed away. She was a world renowned author and academic, a legendary resistance fighter in Lithuania against the Nazis during WWII. After the war she eventually joined her daughters in Canada and wrote several books in Lithuanian. Her most famous work translated into english was “Resistance and Survival: The Jewish Community in Kaunas 1941–1944.”

Sara was born to Yosef Ginas and Rebecca Virovitch, in Kaunas, Lithuania on March 17th, 1924. Raised in a successful Jewish family, Sara was on the verge of graduating from high school when, in 1941, her life was interrupted by the Nazi invasion of Lithuania. Three of her uncles were subsequently killed in the Kaunas Pogrom that year, and she, along with the rest of her family, were placed in the Kovno Ghetto. That was when she decided to fight back and join the Anti-Fascist Fighting Organization, a resistance of fighters against the Nazis. 

After marrying Misha Rubinson, they escaped together in the winter of 1943-44, she created a Jewish Partisan unit called, “Death to the Occupiers.” She would often bravely venture back to the ghettos to rescue people, helping them escape to safety. Both she and her husband participated in the liberation of the Kaunas and the Vilnius ghettos, although the Nazis had already wiped out most of the region’s Jewish population. Only her own sister and brother-in-law survived of the rest of her family. 

After the war she became a professor of political economics at Vilnius University. After her husband died in 1977, she emigrated to Canada where her two daughters Anya and Tanya were already living. Sara became an adjunct professor at York University and was frequently invited to lecture throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, and Israel. She gave an inspirational lecture in 2013 in Toronto, titled “History and Personal Memory: the Beginning of the Holocaust in Lithuania.”

On April 2nd, 2018, Sara died in her home at the age of 94, the 17th of the Jewish month of Nissan. May her light and legacy shine brightly for Jews and all oppressed people of the world for generations to come.

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