The movie aged far better than it had any right to.

I have been watching Last of Us, and the bleakness shines through as good as it is.

my favorite Zombie media is still the book World War Z by Max Brooks.

but that being said, I revisited the movie for WWZ, and now that enough time has passed for me to get off my self righteous high horse, I have to say, it is a solid, dare I say excellent zombie movie.

it took me a long time. but now that I am able to get over my initial, and fairly long lasting gripe that it should have been an HBO series with every chapter being an episode, the movie, while obviously different from the source material is exactly what I want right now out of a zombie.movie.

I don't know if it is just this moment in time with the wars and toxic political environment.

But I get a hit of happiness at the end of watching the movie that I really needed.

I hated one book and felt only one book should never have been written because it felt so bleak that hope itself was absent. that book was Cormac McCarthy's: "The Road"

And with damage porn and violence and destruction and high stakes Marvel film end of all life on Earth...

the movie WWZ hit me as a high quality and enjoyable viewing experience that upon resolve, in not an abusively long run time, that made me enjoy watching a film again.

it may become as much, while different, a revisited comfort movie, as the original book which I reread (or listen to the audio book) every 3 years or so.