I think the problem is the adaptation. WWZ is a novel without a hero, basically. It tells a variety of stories, many of which are only linked together by the zombie plague itself. The only through character is the historian collecting the stories.
There is no single triumphant moment. It basically fails to meet the standard story format, doesn't have any heroes or even a single protagonist, and the US ends up looking pretty bad. So it's hard to adapt without changing everything that made the book so interesting to begin with.
Huh. I hadn't read it, and now I want to.
Does sound sort of problematic for a movie, although I guess it's sort of what Altman does sometimes? Or did in Short Cuts and Pret a Porter anyway.
Yeah, you really can't do it as a traditional movie.
Now, as a pseudo-documentary in the Ken Burns tradition? Like 10 of us would watch it, and we'd think it was awesome.
I still don't know why WWZ was sold as a movie. It needed to be a long-running mini-series on HBO or something. That's the only way to do it justice.
I love Hot Fuzz, as well as Simon Pegg in the Star Trek movie. Which may actually be the only Star Trek thing I've ever loved (never could get past the cheesy in TOS, want to watch more TNG based solely on friend recommendations but the pilot was really quite awful, despite hints of potential future awesomeness, and the only other movie I've seen is the one with the whales. I'll probably see Ant-Man.
Seriously. Pretty much each of those interviews could hold down its own episode.
Gris, I started with Deep Space Nine, without seeing any TOS or TNG and loved it to bits. It's meaty and complicated with awesome political arcs and shades of gray up the wazoo. I still haven't watched more than a handful of the original series or TNG (but strangely enough, caught up on Voyager) and it remains one of my all-time favourite TV series.
Star Trek the movie: LOVE
Hot Fuzz: AWESOME, but not quite at the level of Shaun of the Dead IMO
Ant-Man: have no opinion
Black Widow: have ALL THE FEELS! I honestly don't care that much about ScarJo's action!fu or lack thereof (I've watched SMG play an action heroine for 7 years after all), but boy, did that character ever hit all my buttons. I don't know too much about BW's comics backstory, but I hope they'll find a way to give her a substantial part in the Winter Soldier storyline.
I guess that's context for you--SMG could probably take SJ down. At least in terms of flexing and shit. I mean, she was pretty crap still at the end of it all, and there was never a stunt double remotely her size but at least she didn't have to deal with firearms so there wasn't any "recoil? what's equal and opposite reaction?" going on, as well as squinting without actual sighting. SJ's wrists were held better in the ring, tho.
SMG could probably take SJ down.
I was skimming, but this caused me to do a double take.
The best thing about Ant Man was when Belushi got to mock him in the SNL skit.
ITA.
Maybe I should say it's the only thing I've ever seen about Ant Man.
