If you’re a PlayStation 4 owner like yours truly you’ll probably know that the remastered version of PS3 classic The Last of Us was released yesterday. To celebrate that fact here’s something I wrote about how The Last Of Us beat Hollywood at its own zombie game. Let me know what you think.
That’s a long title so let me explain. I recently watched World War Z, the massively budgeted zombie blockbuster, and all the way through I couldn’t shake an uncomfortable feeling. No it wasn’t that Glasgow was standing in for Philadelphia, it wasn’t the fact that Malcolm Tucker showed up near the end, it was a feeling that I’d seen this done better recently.
Brad runs home to play his PS4
Then it hit me: this is a poor version of The Last of Us, the amazing post apocalyptic Playstation 3 game. At this point I realised that video games have reached the cultural peak that allows them to compete with cinema. So how do the two measure up?
Both pieces of entertainment start with an enormous outbreak of diseased flesh eaters. WWZ’s zombies are standard issue apart from their sheer speed while TLOU goes for a devastating fungal infection (also…
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I’ve never played The Last of Us, but I thought WWZ was…okay. Nothing special. I just hate that I hear such great things about the book, which is supposed to be really intelligent and aware of world politics, yet the movie clearly goes for pure entertainment. It could’ve been something much different (and much better), I think.
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You should give thee book a try, it bears no resemblance to the movie which is good. I thought the film was OK but by focussing on Brad Pitt it had no chance.
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But I mean look at Brad Pitt’s scarf in that movie. Through the entire movie, zombies and all, it stayed perfectly put. Just look at that thing, it’s beautiful! lol
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I don’t trust men with scarves. What are they hiding?!!!
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Exactly what?!!! Even after everything that happens to him like that plane crash he still has the scarf on. Seriously they should make a movie about that scarf.
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Or a movie about his wife phoning his mobile while he’s on a supersecret mission amongst loads of zombies that are attracted to sound. Put your phone on fucking silent Brad you moron!
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Right… hunnie are you there… hunnie are you there! Wtf woman! Leave him alone he is trying to save the world. But in every scene I mean crazy shit is happening Brad looks neatly groomed, clean, hot with perfectly blown out hair. 🙂
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It is funny how a film is currently being made out of “The Last of Us”. I really hope that it is better than this a poor version of the amazing post apocalyptic Playstation 3 game
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Haha definitely. Personally I don’t think The Last of Us needs a film, it’s complete as a game
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