Warm Bodies (2013)
Starring: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich
Director: Jonathan Levine
Starring: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich
Director: Jonathan Levine
I have a wonderful friend that I have known since I was about 3 years old, who works for Icon Film in Sydney. A few months ago, he leant me a book by a guy called Isaac Marion called Warm Bodies. He told me they had made a film out of it and that he thought it was something that I would really enjoy. I finished the book in four days.
The book was fantastic. I literally had trouble putting it down. It was funny, engaging, romantic, a bit gruesome and over-all, attention grabbing.
The movie is no different.
R, (Nicholas Hoult) is a zombie with a conscience. His inner monologue is his constant companion and while he has the same diet as all the other zombies, R is somehow different. R wanders around the abandoned airport day in, day out. He often stops and looks at the other zombies that inhabit the airport and imagines what they were before the apocalypse hit. He remembers very little about his own life, but is pretty sure his name started with an R.
R has a best friend, M, who he spends some of his time with, having strange, grunting conversations that only a zombie can understand. On occasion, they go out in packs looking for food. On one particular scouting expedition, they come across a pack of humans looking for medical supplies, and the smorgasbord ensues. But there is one human that R just can't seem to digest............Julie (Teresa Palmer). Julie is different and R decides to save her.
Taking her back to the airport is risky, but he decides it's safer to keep her there than to let her stay where she was, and he needs to find out more about her. Why does this human make him feel different? During Julies short stay at the airport, she comes to realise that R isn't like all the other zombies. R collects vinyl LP's and is more interested in protecting her than making he into a meal, and while this fascinates her, she still needs to go home.
When the boneys find out about Julie, (the boneys are what zombies become when they lose all humanity), R and Julie make a run for it, back towards the city where Julie lives.
Soon, other zombies begin to change, they all begin to 'think' and 'talk', and they know that it's R and Julie that have made this possible, so they follow them to the city to help.
Nicholas Hoult is fantastic in this movie. They could not have picked a better actor to play the conflicted zombie, and this will do BIG things for his career. Sadly, I think it means that he will get a legion of screaming teenage girls whose lives have become empty since the departure of Rob Pattinson and the Twilight franchise. I really hope they do not try and fill their meaningless, self absorbed lives with rants about how 'hot' Nicholas Hoult is etc etc. It would really just spoil it for me.
Teresa Palmer was also fantastic as Julie and her and Nicholas have very convincing on-screen chemistry.
The supporting cast is funny and well worth watching. The gore is almost non-existent and most of it is left up to your own imagination. The boneys are probably the scariest thing about this movie, but I would even let my 8 year old daughter see it.
While it wasn't exactly like the book, different ending a couple of smaller unimportant storylines have been cut, I still really enjoyed it and will be seeing it again.
The book was fantastic. I literally had trouble putting it down. It was funny, engaging, romantic, a bit gruesome and over-all, attention grabbing.
The movie is no different.
R, (Nicholas Hoult) is a zombie with a conscience. His inner monologue is his constant companion and while he has the same diet as all the other zombies, R is somehow different. R wanders around the abandoned airport day in, day out. He often stops and looks at the other zombies that inhabit the airport and imagines what they were before the apocalypse hit. He remembers very little about his own life, but is pretty sure his name started with an R.
R has a best friend, M, who he spends some of his time with, having strange, grunting conversations that only a zombie can understand. On occasion, they go out in packs looking for food. On one particular scouting expedition, they come across a pack of humans looking for medical supplies, and the smorgasbord ensues. But there is one human that R just can't seem to digest............Julie (Teresa Palmer). Julie is different and R decides to save her.
Taking her back to the airport is risky, but he decides it's safer to keep her there than to let her stay where she was, and he needs to find out more about her. Why does this human make him feel different? During Julies short stay at the airport, she comes to realise that R isn't like all the other zombies. R collects vinyl LP's and is more interested in protecting her than making he into a meal, and while this fascinates her, she still needs to go home.
When the boneys find out about Julie, (the boneys are what zombies become when they lose all humanity), R and Julie make a run for it, back towards the city where Julie lives.
Soon, other zombies begin to change, they all begin to 'think' and 'talk', and they know that it's R and Julie that have made this possible, so they follow them to the city to help.
Nicholas Hoult is fantastic in this movie. They could not have picked a better actor to play the conflicted zombie, and this will do BIG things for his career. Sadly, I think it means that he will get a legion of screaming teenage girls whose lives have become empty since the departure of Rob Pattinson and the Twilight franchise. I really hope they do not try and fill their meaningless, self absorbed lives with rants about how 'hot' Nicholas Hoult is etc etc. It would really just spoil it for me.
Teresa Palmer was also fantastic as Julie and her and Nicholas have very convincing on-screen chemistry.
The supporting cast is funny and well worth watching. The gore is almost non-existent and most of it is left up to your own imagination. The boneys are probably the scariest thing about this movie, but I would even let my 8 year old daughter see it.
While it wasn't exactly like the book, different ending a couple of smaller unimportant storylines have been cut, I still really enjoyed it and will be seeing it again.
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