I feel the same way about Lost In Translation, though my dislike stems from the fact that it hits a bit close to home.

Basically folks who like it see it as a sweetly tragic love story. I see it as the story of a bunch of people without the balls to change their situations.

Broken Flowers is the story of one director's passionate love for extended, dialogue-free travel scenes.

I can certainly see why one wouldn't like it.

Yeah, it's servicable and it was great that the *plague victims actually gave performances rather than just shuffle about and moan. But, my problem with the movie lies in the fact it took so much liberty with the material that it has almost nothing to do with the book. They could have slapped any title on this film and people would not have known it was based on that HUGELY popular novel.

*(I don't care if they're called "zombies" NOTHING ACTAULLY ROSE FROM THE DEAD just like in "28 Days Later". Yes, people got sick and turned into murderous savages but we never saw people IN MORGUES, people with guts hanging out, or victims with half eaten flesh. I think those things are kind of important when your making a film about a ZOMBIE war)

MUST RESIST THE NERDLY URGE TO CORRECT YOU ABOUT YOUR MISREMEMBERING OF GILLIAM PLOT LINES.

Hey…is that the cops? I'm an innocent victim in here! I was attacked by a coked up ##### and a – a ####in' crazy dentist!

World War Z.

Never read the book, so I can't compare, but the movie was entertaining. Right up until the end that is. Did not like the ending at all.

Saw Seven Psychopaths. Not what I was expecting at all. It was odd in an "Adaptation" sort of way. But not bad. Just odd.

Personally, I thought "Rabies" or "Rabid" would have been better.


Don't worry, I'm just simplifying it. Hehe.

The book begins ten years after the end of a zombie war a journalist is given the task to write a story for his news paper about those who survived the war. It reads more like collection of short stories where each person recounts where they were when the war began, how they stayed alive, and where they were when the war ended. Think of the recent "documentaries" based on mermaids and you'd got some idea as to how a World War Z film should be made.

I loved that movie. Completely blew my expectations.

And with that, we close this chapter.