Yeah, we're both in a similar position. I can't really say anything about the book - I haven't read it. So, have no clue to what degree the film followed it or what elements they took out of the book. Really, couldn't say if it is an adaptation or just a loosely based (ie. took the title and zip else, so not really an adaptation at all - which a lot of tv shows and movies have done.)
I can tell you this there's a montage at the beginning of various events leading up to it, then it zeroes in on specific story of Gerry. Now whether this was a story in the book or a combination of stories or merging of characters? I couldn't say.
I really just saw it as a really interesting and compelling zombie movie. (With the caveat, that I am not a fan of zombie movies or the zombie genre and find them difficult to watch and not that entertaining.) It's rare that I like a zombie movie. There's only a few that I enjoyed. But I watched it knowing literally nothing about the book other than the fact that it was about a zombie plague, difficult to film, and basically just various interviews of different people in different situations dealing with the plague across the world.
From the description and what I saw in the book stores flipping through it - the book appeared to be the book version of a news documentary - or told in that narrative style. (And since I'm not a fan of the fake documentary narrative style, I was rather relieved they chose not to try that approach. I know I'm in the minority on this - but I find tv shows that do it, films that do it, and books that do it - highly annoying. I get very frustrated with the style. But I'm also not a fan of non-fictional documentaries unless they are done by Ken Burns who seems to understand that watching a bunch of talking heads gets really boring after a while.)
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Date: 2013-11-05 01:58 pm (UTC)I can tell you this there's a montage at the beginning of various events leading up to it, then it zeroes in on specific story of Gerry. Now whether this was a story in the book or a combination of stories or merging of characters? I couldn't say.
I really just saw it as a really interesting and compelling zombie movie. (With the caveat, that I am not a fan of zombie movies or the zombie genre and find them difficult to watch and not that entertaining.) It's rare that I like a zombie movie. There's only a few that I enjoyed. But I watched it knowing literally nothing about the book other than the fact that it was about a zombie plague, difficult to film, and basically just various interviews of different people in different situations dealing with the plague across the world.
From the description and what I saw in the book stores flipping through it - the book appeared to be the book version of a news documentary - or told in that narrative style. (And since I'm not a fan of the fake documentary narrative style, I was rather relieved they chose not to try that approach. I know I'm in the minority on this - but I find tv shows that do it, films that do it, and books that do it - highly annoying. I get very frustrated with the style. But I'm also not a fan of non-fictional documentaries unless they are done by Ken Burns who seems to understand that watching a bunch of talking heads gets really boring after a while.)