[EKUAlum05]

Oh, NEVER read the book first!!! YOUR interpretation whilst reading is always better than someone else's interpretation making the movie!!

You know that.

World War Z is a little different though. The way the book is written it would basically be impossible to make it into a single 2-3 hour movie. The actual book is written as an account of someone with the UN in retrospect of the zombie apocalypse..basically reading like a formal report with excerpts from interviews he did throughout the process that paints the picture of everything that went on.

What makes it so well done is how thorough the explanations are to give insight into the hole zombie apocalypse and the spread and subsequent "science" behind it all ( I know it is tough talking about the science of a purely fictional event) and the perspective of the human condition.

The movie is roughly based on the overall picture..skipping all the small details and the human interest side of things for the action side.

There are movies that copy the book.
There are movies that are based off the book that try to hold true
This was neither..this was a movie based off the idea of the book.... HAHA entertaining certainly...but absolutely nothing about it quenches the thirst you get from reading it and wishing it could be acted out.

To properly do the book it would have to be something like a Band of Brothers or The Pacific that HBO did... a single 8 or 9 episode mini-series. Each episode covering the different stages of the apocalypse or following character's accounts 2 or 3 at a time.