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Warm bodies.

Its a zombie film thats a bit of a rotter. Initially the basic premise was quite promising, A tale told from a semi sentient zombies perspective. Alas, no. This isnt how the film turns out. This is how it goes.....

A zombie snatches a girl and takes her back to his airplane and keeps her there. She tries to escape, he rescues her, they develope a relationship. I turned it off before it turned into a necrophiliac rutting nightmare. It was that bad.

Avoid this film at all costs. Its truly awful. Its like a sickening pseudo-adults impression of a teenagers idea of what it would be like to be a zombie. With added lack of humour, lack of acting talent or ideas followed through.

Never watch this film.


Please.

Agreed. The trailer was semi-funny. Only the trailer

It was one of those movies where all the good parts were in the trailer. It was a trap.

I imagine it's just following the trend of women and monster romantic movies.

In other words completely vulgar to anyone who thinks monsters should be monstrous.

Havent seen a realy good zombie film recently (bar rec. 1 and 2) but have you seen the battery? Its a slow moving survivors story set in zombie apocalypse U.S.A. Its low budget, well acted (on the whole) funny and a lot better than the turd that warm bodies is.

I saw the trailer and thought it looked OK. Then I saw it described as "The Zombie Twilight" and was like; no. This review makes me feel better about that.

I watched it and I liked it. It wasn't an amazing theatrical masterpiece sure, but it was suitable entertaining.

Its no dawn of the dead but it's not bad.

If your girlfriend/wife wants to watch it with you go for it.

Zombie movies of today are like westerns back in the fifties. Too many of them and not particularly interesting. The whole zombie fad, just like the subject just will not die. Very annoying actually.

Ouze. spot on, thats how i felt with the twilight referance.

AduroT. no

Ma55ter_fett. Dont let your better half guide into watching turgid tripe, it really is that bad and you bloody well know it.

JWwex, im waiting for "The good, the bad and the zombie"

I heard the book wasn't to bad, and not really like Twilight beyond superficial similarities.

As someone who is tired, and I mean really tired of zombies in general, I kind of liked it. It was nice not get something that wasn't so unrelentingly negative. Even the more lighthearted zombie fare seems to relatively dominated by people being dicks, it was nice to get something that felt positive.

That said it was pretty sloppily executed. The pacing felt a bit off at points, and then tone felt uneven. I also think I would have liked it more with the genders reversed, the protective zombie boyfriend thing was pretty damn awkward for me.

I guess I just can't find it in me to not like a movie where

Vmw1971 wrote:

AduroT. no

I must admit, that is a very compelling argument from someone who didn't even watch more than a third of the movie. It has totally made me realize how invalid my opinion was and caused me to revise it.

/sarcasm

I might watch it, if only because I find people as forceful as the OP in trying to enforce their opinion on others really fething irritating.

Stating your opinion is one thing. Replying insultingly to people who disagree with you is just immature.

So congratulations! You might have gotten the movie studio some money from me.

Chongara wrote:
As someone who is tired, and I mean really tired of zombies in general, I kind of liked it. It was nice not get something that wasn't so unrelentingly negative. Even the more lighthearted zombie fare seems to relatively dominated by people being dicks, it was nice to get something that felt positive.

That said it was pretty sloppily executed. The pacing felt a bit off at points, and then tone felt uneven. I also think I would have liked it more with the genders reversed, the protective zombie boyfriend thing was pretty damn awkward for me.

I guess I just can't find it in me to not like a movie where

Spoiler:

The undead quite literally will themselves back to life the power of their inner humanity. That sort of thing just kind of sits right with me somehow.

The idea of sentient zombies just doesn't really sit right with me. I haven't seen the whole film, but the parts I did see didn't do anything to pique my interest.

 Ahtman wrote:

Chongara wrote:
As someone who is tired, and I mean really tired of zombies in general, I kind of liked it. It was nice not get something that wasn't so unrelentingly negative. Even the more lighthearted zombie fare seems to relatively dominated by people being dicks, it was nice to get something that felt positive.

That said it was pretty sloppily executed. The pacing felt a bit off at points, and then tone felt uneven. I also think I would have liked it more with the genders reversed, the protective zombie boyfriend thing was pretty damn awkward for me.

I guess I just can't find it in me to not like a movie where

Spoiler:

The undead quite literally will themselves back to life the power of their inner humanity. That sort of thing just kind of sits right with me somehow.

Spoiler:

In the book, at the end, the father turns into one of the skeleton zombie things, essentially out of sheer spite. People choosing to remember human kindness and warmth return to life, those who cling to anger, sorrow, and bigotry become monsters.

I'm getting the impression that it's more a commentary on human nature than just a monster flick

I liked it. I thought it was cute and creative.

Watched the whole thing with some friends the other night. The start did put me off initially, but it gets slightly better.

As long as you don't expect something like dawn of the dead. Essentially more like humanity, and existence. A thoughtful Rom-Zom-Com.

Sad you didn't like it, but people like different things.

Like R and M I guess.

 djphranq wrote:
I liked it. I thought it was cute and creative.

Yes. It was a light hearted B movie. Plus it had John Malkovich.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 Ahtman wrote:

Chongara wrote:
As someone who is tired, and I mean really tired of zombies in general, I kind of liked it. It was nice not get something that wasn't so unrelentingly negative. Even the more lighthearted zombie fare seems to relatively dominated by people being dicks, it was nice to get something that felt positive.

That said it was pretty sloppily executed. The pacing felt a bit off at points, and then tone felt uneven. I also think I would have liked it more with the genders reversed, the protective zombie boyfriend thing was pretty damn awkward for me.

I guess I just can't find it in me to not like a movie where

Spoiler:

The undead quite literally will themselves back to life the power of their inner humanity. That sort of thing just kind of sits right with me somehow.

Spoiler:

In the book, at the end, the father turns into one of the skeleton zombie things, essentially out of sheer spite. People choosing to remember human kindness and warmth return to life, those who cling to anger, sorrow, and bigotry become monsters.

I'm getting the impression that it's more a commentary on human nature than just a monster flick

Yes. I don't know how someone could have watched it without picking up that the zombification was a metaphor for apathy.

I saw zombie Romeo & Juliet in the theater and was disappointed as well. Rob Corddry had some funny moments, and the skeleton zombies were kinda neat, but overall I was hoping for more of a Zombieland experience and instead was treated to a tween-love-fest.

Strangely I didn't mind the sentient zombie idea. Was a bit refreshing and made for a compelling moral quandary for the human survivors.

 DarkTraveler777 wrote:
I was hoping for more of a Zombieland experience and instead was treated to a tween-love-fest.

Did you not watch any of the trailers?

ArduroT. Quite right. You are as entitled to your opinion as anyone else. I actually watched nearly all of it before being unable to continue.

Loki. Cant see how or where i was being insulting but if you feel the need to watch a film purely because an online post has irritated you then thats up to you, just rent it or borrow it, dont buy it.

Rented titrium. I hadnt realised the film was a metaphor for apathy. Arent zombie films more about society falling apart and social degredation?

Anyhow, i didnt like the film, it had a good idea which was wasted, the scripting was pretty bad and in my mind people shouldnt and wouldnt interact romantically with zombies. They are dead, it would be necrophillia and its quite disgusting.

Vmw1971 wrote:

Rented titrium. I hadnt realised the film was a metaphor for apathy. Arent zombie films more about society falling apart and social degredation?

A movie can be about whatever it wants to be about. There's no obligation to be about a certain thing just because other films in a genre were.

The bonies, the zombies and the humans in this movie all represent different types of people in the real world. The romeo and juliet thing is mostly cosmetic, it's not primarily what the movie is getting into, it's just being used to walk you into what it wants to say.

Rented titrium. I hadnt realised the film was a metaphor for apathy. Arent zombie films more about society falling apart and social degredation?

Yes but it can be about other things. Warm Bodies can easily be taken as a commentary on an apathetic society falling to ruin and the status quo preventing any real change.

The movie was cute.

My SO really liked the book and told me some things that were different. It sounds like the book explored a much broader range of ideas. The movie pared it down to just a few good ones for streamlining, which was probably a good idea.

I really like what happens to the dad in the book, though. That's cool.

e: You know, traditionally zombie movies weren't about society falling apart exactly. They were about the primal fear of alienation, which is really closer to what this was about than most zombie movies.

Hmm, not sure again. Im pretty sure night of the living dead was a sort of aluding to rascism and anti black culture in the usa, the rest simply seem to be more thrills and less substance. I watched the battery the other day and found that quite deep and also funny.

Im in the u.k and a program was recently aired on tv called "in the flesh" sort of about rehabillitated zombies but actually a study in xenophobia. Watch it if you can, its well acted, thought provoking and very good

Vmw1971 wrote:
more thrills and less substance.

Even a popcorn flick is based in something deeper. Why are the zombies scary in the first place? What primal fear do they tap into?

All classic monsters appeal to something deep in us. Zombies hit all sorts of complicated things deep in our brains even if a particular movie is just throwing them at the screen.