It is stated at one point by some CIA guy that North Korea was able to avoid the zombie outbreak by systematically removing the teeth of all of its residence in less than 24 hours. The reasoning being that if nobody had teeth then the virus couldn’t spread because nobody could bite anyone. He states that it was “the greatest feat of social engineering ever achieved”. Like I get this is a fictitious plot but they can’t even avoid making up the most utterly deranged bullshit lmao.
World War Z has to be the worst zombie movie ever made. Like so many of it's concepts are so removed from what would happen. Like it starts with the UN dropping everything and taking on enormous risks to rescue one relief worker in fucking Newark. It then implies that the US and the UN would coordinate immediately and set up an aircraft carrier base. How tf do you do that without kicking off like 3k troops to make room? Your gonna tell me they launched that shit after this started? Also somehow everything still has fuel days after the collapse, which is so unrealistic and also a big issue I have with TWD or other zombie flicks.
The movie completely ignores the global response aside from the West. China and India do not exist in the movie and certainly dont have scientists competent enough to make a vaccine.
My favorite cringe of the movie is the Jerusalem scene. First off, no fucking way Israelis let in a single Palestinian to the safe zone. But also the Israelis are supposed to be smart about the virus/zombies. They definitely knew by that time that noise attracted zombies. The Palestinians and Israelis get into this stupid, unbelievable rendition of Shalom Alechiem that everyone gets super into. Why the fuck are they acting like its a goddamn world cup game? All of their friends and family just died and theyre like "lets make peace and sing a song". Like fuck that, everyone would be depressed, shocked and anxious af. Of course, even though everyone in Jerusalem has lived with zombies for a week, it has to be super genius UN hero Brad Pitt who realizes the sound is attracting zombies. THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS WEREN'T EVEN PATROLLING THE WALLS OR USING CAMERAS TO SURVEIL, does the author know anything about how IDF defenses are manned at the apartheid wall? Literally cameras everywhere.
I don't mean to rant so much, but goddamn that movie sucks.
I was too caught up on the North Korea thing, but those are also great points. The Jerusalem scene is particularly far fetched lol, like I’m pretty sure Israel would be happy to take advantage of the situation and let more Palestinians die. But the plot is so weird it definitely has :fedposting: written all over lol so that wouldn’t make it in
Let's be real, it's probably better than the alternative