Unquestionably The Best Zombie-Human Rom-Com of the Year

[redbrunja]

I saw Warm Bodies with qualapec yesterday and loved it. I can already tell you that it’s going to end up in one of my top five movies of 2013.

I would love other people to watch this movie so here is the trailer (watch halfway through and then click out of the window - the trailer editor tried to show the whole movie in three minutes, like they always do):

If you watched that and thought, ‘Huh, that could be good,’ know that yes, it is good.

Here are some non-spoilery things to get you to watch the movie:

-It's funny. R’s inner monologue is priceless.

-the music choices are brilliant. They choose some great songs and used them perfectly.

-the heroine, Julie, is a total fucking badass

-Julie has an interesting backstory with her ex-boyfriend (shocking, right? someone who is clearly the romantic interest is written to have a LIFE and a PAST of her own)

-Julie is also friends with ANOTHER badass zombie killing girl. There is no jealousy and no bitchiness in their relationship and the friend is allowed to be funny. (Girls being funny! It happens!)

Now, once you’ve seen this movie, here are some spoilery things that I want to talk about

OH MY GOD R’S SLOW-MO VISION OF JULIE KILLING ZOMBIES. BEST THING EVER OR BEST THING EVER?

I really liked the zombie lore that zombies eat brains because that means they get their victim’s memories. I fucking loved how gross that was and how it complicated and moved the romance forward.

Julie’s BFF was DELIGHTFUL. I’m sorry R’s turned out to be such a douche.

Okay, the whole power of love thing was kind of ridiculous, but whatever. I feel like if you’re going to bitch about that, you shouldn’t be watching a zombie rom-com in the first place.

So, qualapec and I are both LBD fans, so when R talked about turn-tables having a better sound, I turned to her and went, ‘Darcy!bot programing malfunctioning’ and did the robot arms. At the time, it was hysterical.

Also, as qualapec and were gushing after the movie, she mentioned that this was a better beauty and the beast retelling than Rumbelle. qualapec speaks the truth!

Also, just to be honest, I did not clue to the R and Julie = Romeo and Juliet UNTIL THE BALCONY scene. No points for acuity to Red.

R progressively gets hotter thought the film; there should be poll about when it stops being creepy to want to make out with him. Probably about twenty minutes after I wanted to make out with him.

Comments

[plural-entity.livejournal.com]

I am so conflicted about this movie. On the one hand, Julie was CLEARLY described as a black woman in the book and they could have hired the more experienced Ethiopian woman from Misfits to play the part, so I'm super pissed that Hollywood has yet again replaced a woman of colour with a white woman.

OH MAN. REALLY?

I don't even recall that. I mean, I devoured the book in about two days. I totally never caught the black woman thing. Huh. I'm really going to have to reread the book now and see if I can find that passage. Because I absolutely blew past that.

[phemyscira.livejournal.com]

Really. It's been discussed at length in tumblr but I heard about it from one of my favourite blogs. If you like, you can read about it here in this link:

http://jhenne-bean.tumblr.com/tagged/warm-bodies

To sum up, there were several examples of the heroine being described as a brown woman with curly hair, not to mention her dad is Ethiopian but they still decided to go with a white actress instead.

[plural-entity.livejournal.com]

OH. You meant Nora. You said Julie in your post and it totally threw me for a loop. Julie's the one falling in love with R, and Nora is the half-Ethiopian best friend. xD I was like, NO, Julie was always white? LOL.

[phemyscira.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, I see! Sorry about that, my mistake. I had never heard about the novel till the racebending blogs mentioned it so I assumed that the main heroine was being whitewashed. From the information I read it seemed like the heroine was Ethiopian.