Warm Bodies Delivers The Chills, But At Some Point Forgets To Warm You Back Up!

 

This modern twist on the classic forbidden love story or otherwise known as Romeo & Juliet takes you on a whirlwind of a post-apocalyptic world that is ridden with zombies and skeleton creatures called "Bonnies" all while a human resistance holds its ground within the confines of the city. The film is cute and cheeky but fails to support itself, but after all It really isn't trying to be something it isn't.

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The movie opens up with a "Sex In The City" like monologue narration from the main character: R (Nicholas Holt) , a twenty something zombie who doesn't even remember how he died or what his full name was. At many point the film lacks a solid background or back story of any kind. The characters lack dept and development but it really isn't that important when it is a zombie horror, romance, and comedy all at the same time. The romantic aspect of this story is sometimes lost on the audience because it is not what you expect going in. Dave Franco (a new A-Lister) dies within the first 15 minuets and R feasts on his brains for the first half an hour and we have that typical dissonant betrayal scene when R reveal to the hot young blond that he falls for: Julie that it was him who ate her boyfriend. Julie is a rather annoying character who often disregards anything everyone says and constantly goes against R's advice even though he is often right or telling the truth. Most the time you just feel sorry for the guy. What Warm Bodies could do was deliver quick blasts of humor that came across not as laugh-out-loud but witty and as far as I could tell the film was very cleverly written. Being a PG-13 film, the movie delivers the most clever one time use of "F--k" I have ever witnessed.

The chaos ensures when a very hungry for life R falls for Julie (Teresa Palmer) who happens to be the daughter of none other than the zombie resistance leader: played by a very plain and rather mellow but not out of character John Malkovich. The two together fall heavily in love by the end of the film and this acts as a disease that contaminates the other zombies and in the end the zombies and humans must team up with help from the magical power of love to fight of the hordes of "Bonnies".

Warm Bodies was cutesy and cliche-ic and a beautiful soundtrack was provided to illustrate the connecting between human and one struggling to be alive. At sometimes you might be left wanting more, but mostly you will laugh, feel for the characters, and be shocked when they pull out the really gruesome stuff because it gets quiet graphic and jumpy. B

 

Nicholas Holt is off to a very good start of a Hollywood career. After playing The Beast in 2011's "X-Men: First Class" Holt has landed some high-budget Blockbuster films such as "Warm Bodies" and the soon to come "Jack the Giant Killer" in which he plays the title character and I can not wait to see because it honestly looks like a wickedly fun ride. Holt unlike that of 2012's failure: Taylor Kitisch who stared in the biggest flops of the year and was the only thing they had in common ("Battleship", "Savages", and "John Carter"). Holt is a young hot actor who has a lot cut out for him and, to me, it looks like this going to be a very good year for Nicholas Holt and I can not wait for "X Men: First Class 2"

 

Yes! Seth Macfarlane Nails It, Argo Wins, Jennifer Lawrence Finally Gets Best Actress, and Life of Pi Takes Home Four Of It's Eleven Nominations!

Oh My F---ing God! The Oscars where fantastic this year! Seth MacFarlane was the Best Host since the Oscars started getting crappy! He brought the event back to an aspect of amazing entertainment!

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I enjoyed everything about him. From to singing about boobs to playing with sock puppets to walking off stage and not even giving an introduction for a one Meryll Streep. Seth MacFarlane is not all toilet humor and crassness. He comes across as a very genuine and honest self made man who happens to be a huge fan of film and has worked very hard to get where he is. Not only is the man witty but he can sing and has three of his own sitcoms on the air along with a remake of the Flintstones on the way! "He was brilliant and I loved every second of it..." you can quote me on that.

Let me be the first to say that I did not see all the Best Picture nomms. but I have to say without a shadow of a doubt that Argo was by far the best film I have seen all year. Argo left nothing untouched and was honestly the epitome of a perfect film! Everything was so well done and believable that I forgot for a full 2 hours that Ben Affleck was Ben Affleck and that John Chambers wasn't John Goodman! Ben Affleck used so many fascinating techniques such as using different film for the scenes in the CIA, Hollywood, and in Iran. The film was written and acted with such precision and Ben proves to be the ultimate Director/Actor and has outdone himself and as a matter of fact Clint Eastwood. I have wanted to work in the movies since I was lets say seven years old and Ben Affleck has with this movie has earned my respect and admiration as one of the greatest directors of our time and he has become such an inspiration to me and I wish him the best in his future film endeavours. I am also pissed off out of my mind that you did not even get nominated for Best Director Ben!

Speaking of fantastic directors: Ang Lee's (who's Crouching tiger Hidden Dragon I have seen numerous times with my family and loved since I was a boy) won a total of four Oscars including Best Director, Score, Cinematography, and Special Effects. Life of Pi was a fantastically beautiful film and was so inspiring to watch and the special effect designers made a funny comment saying roughly, " the movie questions ourselves what is real and what is not, which is ironic because the majority of what you see in the film is, well.. its fake."

I called 16/24 of these awards. I did not write anything down for the best documentary short because i had never even heard of the films and I did not put a choice for best short live action film for the same reason. I was so happy to find out that Pi won because of Lee's previous nominations and just by the fact that he is an amazing storyteller and evokes so much emotion in his audience and told such a great story through his lens like I only hope to one day accomplish. The film also captured scenes of beauty that rightly were earned by the men who designed all the effects and glorious images seen in the film and the man who aided them along the way: Mychael Danna, who won the award for Best Original Score. I have always said and believed that music is the corner stone for a movies success. I say that the only films that can win Best Picture are the ones that are also nominated in the Best Original Score category. While I wanted Anna Karenina to win for its completely innovative and original score life of Pi was beautiful and exotic and deserved every inch of that Oscar!

 

Woo! Jennifer Lawrence wins. I called my friend up and we both started yelling at each other when we learned that the woman who put an aspect of my life on the screen, the woman who made me choke up at the fear of never having love again, the woman who wowed me with how crazy she really could be, when Jennifer Lawrence tripped on up to her 1st Academy Award of possibly many to come my heart skipped a beat. I love this young lady so much. She is beautiful and she has not done a single role I can say I did not love her in. She is gracious and elegant with as much beauty as she can muster. Jennifer Lawrence is a goddess among us ladies and gentlemen.  Her film, Silver Lining Playbook, was my third choice for Best Picture and it was my second favorite movie of the year (a list of the top 10 can be found at the bottom of the article).

Other highlights include the dancing and singing of the lovely and talented Daniel Radcliffe, the repeated miss-pronunciation of Anna Karenina and Les Miz, the opening monologue of Seth MacFarlane, surprise William Shatner appearance, Duh! We all knew Daniel Day-Lewis' wins for his unforgettable performance as flawed American Abraham Lincoln, "Peace Out!": Quintin Tarantino wins Best Original Screenplay and Leo is once again not nominated, the performance of the one and only Ted (Seth MacFarlane), and the appearance of First Lady: Michelle Obama to announce Argo wins Best Picture!

Top 10 Best Movies of 2012.

1. Argo
2. Silver Lining Playbook
3. Ruby Sparks
4. Anna Karenina
5. Lincoln
6. 7 Psychopaths
7. The Hunger Games
8. Life of Pi
9. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
10. Rise of the Guardians

Top 10 Worst Movie of 2012.

1. Les Miz - Okay, But Not Worth It (I'd Rather See It Live!)
2. Wreck It Ralph - All Animation Was Crappy
3. Battleship - I Walked Out
4. Zero Dark Thirty - I Refuse to See
5. Rock of Ages
6. Hope Springs - Please Name This, "Old People Try To Have Sex"
7. The Expendables 2 - It Was Still Fun
8. The Lorax - Cute!
9. Dark Shadows
10. Wanderlust

Awards I Got Right This Year!

1. Best Picture - "Argo"
2. Leading Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln"
3. Leading Actress - Jennifer Lawrence in "Silver Linings Playbook"
4. Supporting Actor - Christoph Waltz in "Django Unchained"
5. Costume Design - "Anna Karenina"
6. Best Director - Ang Lee for "Life of Pi"
7. Documentary Feature - "Searching For Sugar Man"
8. Film Editing - "Argo"
9. Foreign Lang. Film - Austria for "Amour"
10. Original Score - Mychael Danna for "Life of Pi"
11. Original Song - Adele Atkins and Paul Epworth for "Skyfall" from "Ian Fleming's James Bond in 'Skyfall'"
12. Production Design - "Lincoln"
13. Animated Short Film - "Paperman"
14. Sound Editing - "Skyfall"
15. Visual effects - "Life of Pi"
16. Original Screenplay - "Django Unchained"