World War Z
You could blame the well-documented troubles of the production. You could point the finger at Marc Forster, say he hasn’t learned any lessons in engaging the audience. Truthfully, the movie was doomed from the start, taking on a source material wholly unsuited and probably terrible itself, resulting in a screenplay screenplays that substitute narrative structure for “and then zombies happen” ad infinitum.
Sometimes I’m tempted to go easy on not-great films; do they work for their target audience? WWZ is a failure on every level. Is it scary? Is it exciting? Is it interesting? Is it novel?
You already know the answer.
How’s Mirelle Enos at least?
” You could point the finger at Marc Forster, say he hasn’t learned any lessons in engaging the audience.”-I’d say he seems to have forgotten everything he knew about that after “Stranger than Fiction.”
Mal: Genre staple character, biggest contribution is a moment that elicits a chorus of “stupid bitch”
Oscar: It’s embarrassing that I once considered him a good director. Here he’s playing Roland Emmerich. Watching this and thinking back to Night of the Living Dead, Romero must be quite ironically turning in his grave.
Action doesn’t seem to be his strongest suit, but um, Romero died?
That’s classified. (I couldn’t resist the line!!)
Given that I’ve now earned the Donnie Darko nickname, you could have made an alternatre universe joke, but you didn’t, so…
Hey, I’m immune to criticism. I have a blog!