• @RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml
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      710 months ago

      World War Z is absolutely a modern classic. You can just tell when people are going to be talking about a book a hundred or so years later.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        410 months ago

        I agree on the basis that classics are defined by reception and not if they are any good or not, like how Birth of a Nation was for a while considered basically the best movie ever.

      • @boogetyboo@aussie.zone
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        2910 months ago

        It’s a perfectly fine zombie movie, but it only takes small elements from the excellent book. The book needs to be a TV series, made in a documentary style. I just pretend the movie is unrelated; it’s enjoyable as just a standard action movie with zombies in it.

    • Samus Crankpork
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      110 months ago

      It would have been so easy to do a straight up adaptation of the battle of Yonkers, narrated by Mark Hamill, his two following parts, and a few of the smaller stories here and there to flesh things out, too…

      At least it got the perfect audiobook adaptation.