I must admit to a considerable amount of
prejudice against this movie since I first heard of it. Zombies have never been my thing. I do remember enjoying Night of the Living Dead when I was young, and I had loads of fun playing
Resident Evil on PlayStation; I stand
on the ambivalence line when it comes to The
Walking Dead though I did appreciate the first few episodes of Season 1…
but all in all, I’ve always thought that zombies were overrated. Probably because they’ve been saturating
everything over the past few years – like vampires and werewolves and wizards
and aliens and angels and ghosts… yeah the whole kit and caboodle. I’ve grown tired of them. I don’t know exactly what made me think of
giving this one a chance, but whatever the reason, I’m glad it got through to
me.
I found Warm
Bodies to be a pleasant surprise.
Alternately witty, grisly, and heart-warming, it was fun to follow right
from the start. R is a zombie who’s
trying his damndest to hold on to his humanity.
He even tries to maintain a zombie-friendship with M, who seems to still
be a little bit on the responsive side as well.
Then on one of their “hunts” for food (human brain, in particular), they
smell out a group of still living people scavenging for medical supplies. In this group are Julie and Perry, and R is
immediately struck by Julie when he sees her.
But then a violent encounter ensues and R ends up eating the brains of
Perry, who happens to be Julie’s boyfriend.
This allows him to acquire some of Perry’s memories. Seeing Julie in the dead Perry’s memories, R
becomes even more affected by her. He
then does the unthinkable – he protects Julie from the other zombies and takes
her back with him to his cushy little zombie pad. And the rest of this charming little story follows. I really enjoyed it.
But what I loved most was the music. This movie has the awesomest soundtrack ever –
or at least to my ears in particular. I’m
gonna try to find me a CD of this soundtrack every time I pass a record store
from now on. Songs from John Waite, Axl
Rose, Bob Dylan, and so many others – just awesome! I wish we still had our old turntable. I have such fond memories of our stack of
vinyls – my mom would play them on Sunday mornings at full volume and we’d just
all be screaming along to the songs. R
was right when he said they just sound more “alive.” I swear I’m gonna get me this soundtrack.
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