World War Z
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Does that matter? (Well, to you it does, as you've stated; I just view it as a zombie movie which happen to have the same title).
I'm bored of zombies though.
darjr
I crit!
For me the very best part of the book were the characters, not the zombies. I wanted to see them on the big screen. Mark me disappointed about that. I want to see the movie on it's own merits, however.
Yeah, it kind of does. Whether or not it is technically legal, what they're doing is basically false advertising, or bait-and-switch. There's a level of change that's necessary when you transit from one medium to another - tossing out the entire format, plot, and style is well beyond that. I wanted to see a movie of the original book, and this isn't it, and this pretty much means what I want will not be made in the next decade or two, if ever.
If you have a zombie movie, that's great. But don't go telling the viewers it is something that it isn't. Not only is it kind of jerkish to the fans of the book, it gives those who haven't read the book a false impression of the original work.
And for those wise-guys who might try to analogize to D&D editions, that fails in one major point: The people who make D&D are up-front that a new edition isn't the same as the old.
Hmm? I thought you said that you could - and did - tell it wasn't the book from the previews? To me that's the opposite of false advertising!
Bullgrit
Adventurer
What if someone made a movie titled ENWorld. Here's the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB95KLmpLR4
I hear it's a good movie. It's about an online social network, just like ENWorld is an online social network. But is it ENWorld? Why is it titled ENWorld?
Imagine if Hollywood did this with Lord of the Rings, The Watchmen, Starship Troopers? (Oh, wait, they *did* do it with Starship Troopers.)
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If the trailer had shown this movie was at least a nod in the direction of the book, I'd go see it opening night. But the trailer shows the story is completely unrelated to the book, so I'll have to hear some really good reviews to get me to go see it. Reviews good enough to convince me it's worth the time and money, and good enough to overcome the sour taste using the title but tossing the story leaves in my mouth.
Bullgrit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB95KLmpLR4
I hear it's a good movie. It's about an online social network, just like ENWorld is an online social network. But is it ENWorld? Why is it titled ENWorld?
Imagine if Hollywood did this with Lord of the Rings, The Watchmen, Starship Troopers? (Oh, wait, they *did* do it with Starship Troopers.)
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If the trailer had shown this movie was at least a nod in the direction of the book, I'd go see it opening night. But the trailer shows the story is completely unrelated to the book, so I'll have to hear some really good reviews to get me to go see it. Reviews good enough to convince me it's worth the time and money, and good enough to overcome the sour taste using the title but tossing the story leaves in my mouth.
Bullgrit
Note that "previews" to me means more than just the trailers. In previews, I include much more of the press coverage. As a fan of the book, I looked a bit deeper into what the film would be like. I was excited when I was told that JMS was writing the screenplay, for example. My expectations dropped significantly as time and reportage went on.
The trailers don't make it clear that the two don't really share plot or characters or style. But trailers alone don't normally tell you much more than visual style and a bit about quality of effects, so that is unsurprising.
Part of my issue is this: while I like apocalyptic fiction, and I really like World War Z, I'm not a zombie-movie aficionado. If they re-titled the movie, I'd have nothing against it, but I'd have nothing for it, either. I'd watch it when it came around on Netflix, or something, maybe eventually.
I'd be upset that they were infringing on my IP. Unless I'd given them permission, in which case I wouldn't. I assume the author of WWZ is happy, and they haven't stolen the title from him. But IP infringement is something else entirely.
Bullgrit
Adventurer
Even if they paid you for the title/IP, you wouldn't feel the resulting movie was misrepresenting? Would the members of ENWorld feel the movie was misrepresenting the site? Would people visiting the site because they liked the movie feel things were misrepresented?
That's the thing that annoys me about this movie (so far unseen beyond the trailer). Why use the book title if the movie has nothing to do with the book other than "zombies"?
Bullgrit
That's the thing that annoys me about this movie (so far unseen beyond the trailer). Why use the book title if the movie has nothing to do with the book other than "zombies"?
Bullgrit
