they are a new type of zombies that haven't been done before dumbasses

Yes, because you know what zombies are like. Natch! I second the comment, you were going to rag on this movie regardless of how fun it looks.

The funniest thing about this trailer is the "total population loss" progress bar that ticks down between scenes. Where can I download this population loss app?! I love pointless/morbid software! It's a good distraction when I decide to recreate in the hollywood fashion!

I don't think there has ever been a zombie movie where we got to see someone get bitten or have their flesh torn off in the trailer.  Why should this trailer be held to that standard?  I mean other than the fact that you were going to say something bad about this movie no matter what before you even saw the trailer?

Seeing as I hate what Brooks' book has done to the zombie genre, and I find the book itself to be mediocre and totally missing the point when it comes to zombie fiction, I think this is awesome. Hilarious, even. People will see this and think, "Wow, if the movie's this awful, then the book must be crap!" and they'll avoid it like the plague.

And then, if we're lucky, there will be no more survival-porn zombie-newbs calling them "Zed" and constantly bringing up Yonkers while talking about their "plan to survive the zombie apocalypse."

Yes! Yes! Go go go Brad Pitt! 

what a shit load of fuck....if anything this perfectly encapsulates what bath salt zombies could only strive to be...

Tell me this conversation didn't happen at some point....

Exec "So...what the fuck is this gay ass book about?"

"Um...something like this UN guy asking countries how they fought off zombies or some shit"

"Dude, the UN is gay as shit! Other countries? Like yellow, black and brown people?" 

"Yeah...I heard there's a chapter all about France" 

"Are you shitting me? the French are in this too ?? Tell me there are at least some awesome big ass gun fights"

"No, people hide in castles, fight with harpoon guns and carbines marching civil war column style" "What???? There's no rocket launchers and Call of Duty shit happening?"

"No...they try that but it doesn't work"

"Man, this is some pussy-ass bullshit!  Didn't you hear they got Dirk Fucking Diggler for Bayformers IV? This is what we're up against!!!!"

"Yeah and the zombies don't run or have super powers or spit blood or anything!"

"No fucking way...you need zombies that run, how will we keep the dumbass audiences' attention, with some gay ass script???"

"Hell fucking no!  They even have some part where Iran and Pakistan have a nuclear war and you can see it from space."

"what??  People don't know where those goddamned places are! We don't need a fucking geography lesson!  From space?  What? Now astronauts are in this? Who's playing the astronauts? This is gonna cost a shitload to make!"

"Alright...well, fuck that entire book! Let's just throw some CGI shit together class it up with Brad Pitt as like that UN guy only he's not a UN guy, he's the ONLY ONE WHO CAN SAVE THE WORLD, NEO STYLE! and then we can throw some bullshit family crap in there so women can relate to what such a great father figure Pitt is"

"Family shit??? What, is that in the book too????  btw, nice job taking out that UN bullshit.""Nah, we gotta have family melodrama cuz that worked so well with Jack Bower and he was tough as shit"

"Fast Zombies, right?""Fast whatevers...actually I'm sick of goddamned zombies...let's make them like weird vampires or some shit...dumbass kids love vampires!"

"So what? It's World War V, now?""Who gives a shit!?"

"Slam fucking dunk!   bonuses all around"

Someone has to say it.

WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS!

This is not a "spit in your face" kind of insult.  This is a "shit in your cereal" kind of insult.  I'm going to go watch ZOMBIELAND and the original DAWN OF THE DEAD to re-center.

All that's missing is Will Smith saying "I CAN STILL FIX THIS!"

Love the sharkticon pile at the end.

"Me BradPitt say execute DEM!"

call me nuts if you want to but im willing to at least give it a chance. its a unique representation at the very least. didnt the novel mention something about it being a retrovirus? retroviruses become stronger as they age which could explain their speed. also people who read the book will remember the chapter where the australian guy was in the space station. he could see the zombie swarms from space, they were so large. everyone is so quick to be cynical just cuz its different. and maybe it will suck. but who the hell knows?

Once again showing why George RR Martin went to HBO for Game of Thrones as he knew the old Hollywood maxim of "keep the title of a book but change everything else."

All those delays, reshoots and bickering among cast and director and this is the result.

Why am I not surprised?

Also, I was concerned there would not be enough "BRAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHMMM"'s in the trailer. I was thusly relieved. And just for good measure, don't forget kiddies: "BRAAAAAAAHHHHHHMMMM". Because apparently that means something.

"World War Zemmings" is going out on a very high note, Rob. Congratz

Anyway, I can totally see the Hollywood Execs meeting where they decided to do this.

Exec 1: Zombies are everywhere, but we have to make our special, How do we do it?

Exec 2: Well, we can make them fast zombies

Exec 1: That's been done.

Exec 2: No, I mean really, REALLY, fast. Faster than ever before. So fast they look like they are made of liquid, like a big Tsunami. Tsunamis are the new "it" disaster anyway.

Exec 1: That's is awesome! I mean, there's nothing to do with the book, but let's be honest, we only bought the rights to the book because we wanted to use its super-cool title. Who reads books anyway?

Exec 2: Not me. My hooker's boobs are running out of coke. Is there any left more in that big suitcase we bought from Christian Slater back in 1994? That was some good stuff...

I mean... There were some very interesting visuals, I really get the sense of a HORDE which is something many zombie movies lack. That said, I think when someone on the production said "make it looks like a wave of zombies crashing over the bus", they got a little too damn literal. It looked a little goofy, but maybe it'll work better in the feature. If it was called ANYTHING other than World War Z, Id likely be in the crowds to report if the effects do work out, but I see nothing resembling the book. Aside from the name. And that there are zombies. Is this true? Does anyone know? Will there be ANY relation to the book whatsoever?

Oh, and can we call them "meth-zeds" too?

A coupla things...

1. I'll admit, all other issues aside, having the number of zombies be so huge that they mindlesly pile on top of each other like frenzied insects is unique, and I'm interested in seeing how that turns out.2. I guess we know now what the Israelis were all off busy fighting during Transformers 2.

Other, less-enthused coupla things...

3. Those zombies look rather...healthy, and well dressed. Especially for creatures that've been flinging themselves around like maniacs for god knows how long.

4. We seem to be seeing some "Starship Troopers" tactics in fighting the zombies...and I ain't talking the "hit them with a low-yield nuke and then stomp on the bodies with powered armor" version.

Okay, time for a serious question. Would anyone unfamiliar with the book who saw this trailer even know it's a (supposed) zombie movie? It just looks like a bunch of people panicking. Are they just trying to trick people into seeing a Brad Pitt action movie?

BAAASSSSSS....reverbstaccatostaccatostaccato...BAAAAASSSSSS...staccatoreverbstaccatostaccato...

This are not the zombies we are looking for.

I hope the above trailer does not discourage anyone from reading the book, which was awesome.

I haven't read the book, so the only thing running through my mind at the end was, "Why aren't they pouring napalm over that wall?"

Max Brooks took the paycheck, he's complicit in this production. Why are people acting as if it was Brad Pitt's production company that screwed it up?

Ants from Crystal Skull, huh?  I thought for sure it was beetles from The Mummy.

Way to be sensationally uninventive and septic, Hollywood. *sarcastic slow clap*

I'll pass.

I see 'Infected', not 'Zombies'.  I am seeing '28 days later' and 'I am legend', not 'Night of the Living Dead' or 'The Walking Dead'.  I'm not saying it will suck (despite the high chance it will), but it is NOT a zombie movie, according to that trailer.

I think I would rather watch a movie about killer lemmings.

Holy shit, I'm almost impressed. It's rare that a movie adaptation looks exactly as terrible as we all thought it would. They must have read all of our predictions for what they could get wrong and then done exactly that. I'm confident less than 5% of the people working on this movie have read World War Z. I cannot believe they were able to take a big budget, a fantastic book, a great actor, and come up with the most generic 'Hollywood' thing since Channing Tatum.  

I've never read the book, but I'm sick of zombie action films. To all those that read the book and then saw this trailer, I guess this is kinda like how I felt when I saw the trailer to John Dies at the End.

BBBWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH... BBBBWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH.... BBBBWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH... When will this trend end?

That trailer literally made me angry with rage.