The first time I saw the trailer for this movie I got excited because I love zombies! I heard somewhere that zombies are the new vampires. Uh, I hope not, because I'll have a hard time accepting the existence of a sparkling zombie. So it freaked me out a little when I saw a close-up of the lead blonde actress:
"Is that Kristen Stewart?"
I racked my brain thinking if I read anywhere that Stewart is starring in a zombie movie but then I thought, "That can't be Kristen Stewart; she looks so... alive!"
Last week I was finally able to see it.
Warm Bodies is horror-comedy-romance. My sister calls it a chick flick. WTH.
Warm Bodies explored an old idea in the zombie genre and gave it a different approach. It because of this that I see it as a horror movie than a chick flick. The zombie state is essential to the movie and not merely a backdrop for some sappy love story. It's heartwarming in more ways than one. If anybody wants to nitpick there's also a bit of commentary on the kind of zombies we are today.
While the love story itself will never reach The Notebook proportions, it's still cute and entertaining. It's not annoyingly sappy. I like the humor and the story moves along at a nice pace. If you're not overly strict with your zombies then this can be quite entertaining. This movie shouldn't be so easily dismissed because it's not grim, dark, or gory like typical zombie fare. It's light, but has guts. Hehehe.
There's an inconsistency with the zombies as another moviegoer pointed out, "O, nakakatakbo naman pala e." Indeed, these zombies can't decide if they're fast zombies or Romero zombies.
Spoilers
I've been reading some threads on IMDb and some people are arguing over Warm Bodies not being a zombie movie, turning zombies into pussies,
The idea of a zombie that can be turned back is not new. This was explored before in Day of the Dead and Survival of the Dead.
I don't believe that Warm Bodies deviates from the zombie lore as how Twilight did. In Twilight, the vampires shunned daylight because they sparkled. That deviates from the more common idea of death by sunlight. I'm not irked because of the deviation, I'm irked by how silly the deviation is.
In Warm Bodies, the zombies deviate from the common idea that zombies are very dead, mindless, flesh eating people by having monologues, language, and the capability to reverse their condition. Here, we're seeing things from a zombie's perspective. Most movies on the subject focus on the human perspective but doesn't automatically mean there can't be something to be seen from the zombie side of things. I liked it.
"Is that Kristen Stewart?"
I racked my brain thinking if I read anywhere that Stewart is starring in a zombie movie but then I thought, "That can't be Kristen Stewart; she looks so... alive!"
Last week I was finally able to see it.
Warm Bodies is horror-comedy-romance. My sister calls it a chick flick. WTH.
Warm Bodies explored an old idea in the zombie genre and gave it a different approach. It because of this that I see it as a horror movie than a chick flick. The zombie state is essential to the movie and not merely a backdrop for some sappy love story. It's heartwarming in more ways than one. If anybody wants to nitpick there's also a bit of commentary on the kind of zombies we are today.
While the love story itself will never reach The Notebook proportions, it's still cute and entertaining. It's not annoyingly sappy. I like the humor and the story moves along at a nice pace. If you're not overly strict with your zombies then this can be quite entertaining. This movie shouldn't be so easily dismissed because it's not grim, dark, or gory like typical zombie fare. It's light, but has guts. Hehehe.
There's an inconsistency with the zombies as another moviegoer pointed out, "O, nakakatakbo naman pala e." Indeed, these zombies can't decide if they're fast zombies or Romero zombies.
Spoilers
I've been reading some threads on IMDb and some people are arguing over Warm Bodies not being a zombie movie, turning zombies into pussies,
The idea of a zombie that can be turned back is not new. This was explored before in Day of the Dead and Survival of the Dead.
I don't believe that Warm Bodies deviates from the zombie lore as how Twilight did. In Twilight, the vampires shunned daylight because they sparkled. That deviates from the more common idea of death by sunlight. I'm not irked because of the deviation, I'm irked by how silly the deviation is.
In Warm Bodies, the zombies deviate from the common idea that zombies are very dead, mindless, flesh eating people by having monologues, language, and the capability to reverse their condition. Here, we're seeing things from a zombie's perspective. Most movies on the subject focus on the human perspective but doesn't automatically mean there can't be something to be seen from the zombie side of things. I liked it.
