Yesterday I saw the well-awaited movie: Warm Bodies.
It. Was. Awesome.
I recommend it.
Well, I'm not sure how teenaged guys would react to it, but, as a teenaged girl...
It was such a cute movie with an extremely cute guy and it was funny and cute with some zombie mayhem thrown in for good measure. I loved this movie because it was just adorable in every sense of the word and the guy was just so freaking CUTE!!
Alright. I let that all out.
Now let me summarize it for you: (I'll keep out the spoilers!)
Warm Bodies followed the view and narration of a zombie guy named R. We don't learn of his age but we are led to believe he is most likely in his early twenties. He explains his zombie lifestyle, his home at the airport, and the origins of one of the antagonists, the Bonies, which are skeleton like creatures who were zombies that just gave up and peeled their skin off. We meet his best friend, a zombie maybe in his thirties or forties who acts like both a best friend figure, a father, and a supporter.
Early on, they go on a raid for food. They shuffle along in a mob when we turn our attention to the survivors of the apocalypse. If my memory serves right, it is eight years after the start of the apocalypse. We follow of group of scavengers as they go out of their safe place and into the destroyed city. They are in some building looking for medicine when our beloved group of zombies attacked.
Some zombies were killed by the well-armed survivors, but R went down after getting hit in the face with what I think was the butt of a gun, so he missed being hit. As he was getting up he saw a girl, Julie, and fell in love with a funny cliché "world around me slows down and I can only see you" sequence. His line of sight is blocked off though by a guy named Perry, who we think had history with Julie because before they left on the raid, he tried to hold Julie's hand, but she pulled away.
Perry tries to attack, but R beats him to it by going all "scary zombie crazy" and pulling him down off the table he was standing on and onto floor, where he proceeds to bite his arm, smash him on the ground, and then eat him up.
YUM!
During this process his narration comes in telling us that he isn't proud of hurting people and would prefer if we looked away (which I didn't) but the camera pretty much does that for us and focuses on the mayhem around them. He tells us that if the brain isn't removed that the person would become a zombie. Also, the brain is the best part because when you eat it, you experience the memories, the thoughts, and the feelings of the person. Through this, we learn of Perry and Julie's history, and R learns Julie's name.
All the survivors, but Julie and her friend who we see hiding under a table, are dead. When R approaches Julie, she throw a knife all ninja-style at him and hits him in the chest, which does nothing to hurt him, so he pulls it out and continues to get closer to her. She freaks out but he eventually conveys the message to her to be quiet, and he smears so of his blood and junk on her face to hide her scent. The other zombies just think that she was turned into a zombie as well and don't attack. R brings her to his house-like place in an airplane.
The plane is full of random junk that he's collected. It seems that every time he went somewhere he's collected something from it. From the place he just was, he brought this snow globe that was on a table. Julie is still horribly scared of him. Runs away a lot and almost gets killed, and saved by R. I'll skip to when she finally trusts him.
Well... she trusts him. She talks to him, she listens to some of the records with him, she hangs out with him. They even find a car and drive it around the airport. R tells her that it will take a couple of days until the other zombies forget about her so she can leave. (but really, we all know that he just wants to be with her.)
My memory is a little foggy around this part but eventually she runs off and R has to save her from an attacking group of zombies which includes his friend. His friend wants to eat her, which he expresses very plainly, but he stands up for her and is like "No." and we're all like "Awe."
Then, the Bonies attack, which are stronger and faster than zombies, so R and Julie have to run.
(I'll take this moment to express how cute it is when he runs. His arms are just dangling at his sides and he shuffle-runs and it's just endearing.)
They get away to where the car that they were driving around is, but it's surrounded by zombies. The following moment is one of the cutest. He holds Julie's hand and walks towards the zombies... and they part for him. They get to the car right before a rushing mob of Bonies. They drive to a neighborhood that was last evacuated, so Julie thinks it will have food.
After finding a camera and having fun taking pictures, Julie goes to sleep, but not after inviting R to sleep on the floor beside her because the house freaked her out. R gladly accepts, even though zombies can't sleep, or dream, which we have learnt earlier. They talk a little and R reveals to her that he ate Perry (the ex-boyfriend) and gives her his watch. She gets all sad and says she kind of figured that out, but didn't want to believe it, she then stops talking and goes to sleep.
Although R knows he can't sleep, he tries, and ends up being human enough to dream. His dream has Julie, her friend, and Perry. They interact with him and vice versa. When he wakes up, Julie is gone.
I'll stop now. Maybe there are some spoilers in there, but I tried to keep them out. Let's just say that Julie is gone and safe, but misses R. R is sad but things are happening with him, and the other zombies. The Bonies continue to be horrible jerks, and the humans pretty much follow suit.
This movie was weird in the sense that I unsure of who to be rooting for, like when the zombies attacked the survivors. I wanted R to not die, but the humans had save themselves and those at the safe place, but... it was conflicting.
I loved this movie, but I read the first page of the novel two seconds ago and they are already conflicting. One of the first things he says in the movie is "I can't remember my job, but my hoodie would suggest I was unemployed" and one of the first things in the book is him explaining how he was wearing a suit and must have been some sort of temp.
Oh, movie-book conflicts. You will always exist. I want to read the novel but I'm afraid that too many things will be different... I mean, I loved his hoodie, it was adorable, just like him, but if I read the book I'll have to reimagine him with a suit and then things will be all mixed up.
*Sigh*
First world problems.
My sister also look up the actor and he's freaking British and does NOT have cute hair and he's this fancy model guy and is Jennifer Lawrence's Ex! (no offense to those who like British guys, but I do not find it attractive)
I fell in love with the awesome-haired, hoodie wearing guy and he's this famous fancy British guy and it makes me sad.
Even more first world problems.
On another note, I had a dream about the zombie apocalypse. This isn't new to me, but at least in this dream there were actual zombies. Last dream was just me bugging out about it at my house.
The dream was weird and changed a lot, but it even had the Bonies in it. Actually, in the dream, the Bonies looked like Jake The Dog, from Adventure Time, if he stretched out his legs and was all dead and gross.
Yeah...
I think the best part of the dream was when I stabbed this guy in the heart with a pen. It was a guy I know from school, he's actually my locker neighbor, but it's not like I hate him, we barely talk. So that was weird.
But awesome.
So awesome.
I had two pens and I stabbed him with the right one and I missed, so I was twisted at this awkward angle and had to slam him right in the heart with my left one and I pulled them out and he fell down... and it was just AWESOME.
Yeah, well, we all already knew I was a weird freak, so I don't need to go over that again.
So, i give Warm Bodies two big thumbs up. It was so cute and awesome. It had comedy, romance, (a cute guy), and some exciting fight and chase scenes. I think it's worth at least checking out. My three months of waiting was not in vain. The only bad thing about it was that i was horribly jealous of Julie the whole time and when she would run away, i would be thinking "Leave her R, I'll never run away from you! Save me instead! I would cuddle you so hard core!"
Yeah, so there was that, but at times I could actually watch the movie without feeling jealous, so that was good... but more or less i sat there like this:
Alright, i'm sure this was a long enough post for now.
Recap: Warm Bodies was awesome and adorable
R is extremely cute, but not in real life.
Julie is stupid.
I am awesome.
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