Warm Bodies
Feb. 26th, 2013 08:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
in_the_blueHey, it's $5 Tuesday at Regal Cinemas, so that means movie time! I wanted to see Warm Bodies ever since lostinapaprcup told me about it a few months ago. I can't say the film rocked my world, but I can tell you that it's one of the all-around sweetest and kindly funny films I've seen in a long time.
There can never be too many riffs on the Romeo and Juliet trope, can there? It's not even subtle: the leads are R and Julie, and R's best friend is M. Yes, R & M are from the wrong side of the tracks (in this case, the wrong side of a beating heart), but the course of true love never runs smooth anyway. So they're zombies, big deal. They're zombies who not only shuffle aimlessly and eat humans (mmm, brains) but sit at an airport bar and converse in grunts and wheezes. R's mind is a busy place -- charmingly busy -- and he yearns for two things zombies can't have: sleep and dreams. Not too much to ask for, right?
I don't want to give away the whole plot. Suffice it to say there are good guys, bad guys, and worse guys. There are guts and glory, chase scenes and romance and drama. There's also John Malkovich, which is kind of weird, and plenty of dystopian posturing. But the whole thing is done with a remarkably light touch. It's sweet but not cloying, sentimental but never overdone. At heart it's not a film about passion but about compassion, which made me very happy.
Before I went into the theater I was grumpy and cranky as hell, but the film washed all of that away for me. This was one of the most original takes on a zombie apocalypse I've encountered, so I give Warm Bodies two thumbs up. It made my day better, and that's nothing to sneeze at. Now I must read the book.
lostinapaprcup told me about it a few months ago. I can't say the film rocked my world, but I can tell you that it's one of the all-around sweetest and kindly funny films I've seen in a long time.There can never be too many riffs on the Romeo and Juliet trope, can there? It's not even subtle: the leads are R and Julie, and R's best friend is M. Yes, R & M are from the wrong side of the tracks (in this case, the wrong side of a beating heart), but the course of true love never runs smooth anyway. So they're zombies, big deal. They're zombies who not only shuffle aimlessly and eat humans (mmm, brains) but sit at an airport bar and converse in grunts and wheezes. R's mind is a busy place -- charmingly busy -- and he yearns for two things zombies can't have: sleep and dreams. Not too much to ask for, right?
I don't want to give away the whole plot. Suffice it to say there are good guys, bad guys, and worse guys. There are guts and glory, chase scenes and romance and drama. There's also John Malkovich, which is kind of weird, and plenty of dystopian posturing. But the whole thing is done with a remarkably light touch. It's sweet but not cloying, sentimental but never overdone. At heart it's not a film about passion but about compassion, which made me very happy.
Before I went into the theater I was grumpy and cranky as hell, but the film washed all of that away for me. This was one of the most original takes on a zombie apocalypse I've encountered, so I give Warm Bodies two thumbs up. It made my day better, and that's nothing to sneeze at. Now I must read the book.
