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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joker" data-source="post: 6156423" data-attributes="member: 826">I don't get the criticism of people who say it's unjust that the movie is very unlike the book in many respects, that the movie somehow tricks you.  If by now you haven't figured out that businesses which develop movies use less than virtuous means to sell their product you're gonna continue to get upset and that's your problem.  You should judge the film on it's own merits and not preemptively slam it on moral grounds.  If it sucks, so be it.  But don't tell me it sucks because of the marketing decisions of a couple of people out of the hundreds who worked on it.That out of the way.  I was pleasantly surprised by this movie.  I haven't read the book.  I only heard that it had the format of survivors telling the story after the fact.  I knew from the trailers it wasn't going to be anything like that.  I loved the scope of the film.  It was huge.  I loved that we finally get a zombie flick where not everyone is trying to screw each other.  Global cooperation, people working together towards the same goal.  It was refreshing.  The first sequence leading up to the helicopter escape was frantic and tense.  As were the other scenes where the zombies started taking control.  And the Israeli soldier, Segen, was all kinds of awesome.  The actor's performance was flawless.I'm not going to criticize the actions* of the people in the movie.  Some things seemed a bit bone-headed like the pilots throwing the gun out of the cockpit or the father in the beginning not going with Brad Pitt's character, but I'm not in that deadly situation so I can't honestly say I wouldn't do dumb things.I do have one gripe, however, as I do with nearly all movies only available in 3D.  It's in 3D.  It adds nothing to the experience and I'm convinced it actually detracts from it.  Hopefully it will come out in 2D later on but I think I might have to wait for the Blu-ray for that one, which kinda blows because I want to see it in the theaters again.I thoroughly enjoyed it and recommend it everyone wanting a tightly made detective zombie action adventure.* I suppose I do have to criticize the Israeli government for allowing those people to make so much noise.  They should have known by then that noise angers the undead but perhaps didn't realize they would be able to scale the giant walls.I'm assuming that whole city was one big checkpoint and that the government would be able to sacrifice it if it was overrun.  I have nothing to base this on except that all the streets were covered with metal cages.  The people living there were either refugees or people who refused to leave their homes.</blockquote>

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