Warm Bodies, Justin Bieber: Never Say Never and Savage Grace

In the order viewed:

Warm Bodies (2013) Dir. Jonathan Levine

Viewed: Amazon Prime

I really, really, really wanted to see this in the theater when it first came out. I actually made plans with my mom, but I ended up moving unexpectedly and never had the chance to.  I am really glad I didn’t waste money on this. 

The idea is so great! I love zombies and love, how can this not be amazing? :yawn:  The story fell flat very quickly and escalated to borderline cheesy.  There has to be some splinter of reality in movies like this, and it failed miserably.

I mean…what girl quickly moves on from the death of her longtime boyfriend to the zombie who ate him? And, really… Holding hands saved the world and reversed the zombie disease?

The one thing I liked about this movie was the setting. It was clever and realistic, especially the zombies in the airport. They might be on to something with that, I mean the zombies wandering endlessly around the airport didn’t differ much from an airport full of living people. Perhaps without love, we are all zombies.

Overall this is one of the worst zombie movies I have seen. It also was not much of a rom-com either.

Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011) Dir. Jon M. Chu

Viewed: Netflix

I am not sure what I expected going into this; guess way too much concert footage and a poorly made documentary, but I was pleasantly surprised by the flow of the story and the balance with concert footage.

Overall, the film was fairly traditional in its approach to documentary with sit-downs speckled with a decent amount of run-and-gun footage.  It was really interesting to learn about the young Biebs. I never knew he was a talented drummer, which was really cool to learn.

The only weird part was that Biebs was always in front of the camera, but never really commented on his own life. There was no interview with him, which made it a bit voyeuristic. I guess stalker fans like that sort of thing, so it worked.

I felt like this was a great story to share, it is hopeful.  As much as the world has this polarized view of teen pop stars, it is really incredible how he was discovered on youtube. JB is a trailblazer of new media.

I was very impressed with the ending, it really tied up all the loose ends I had while watching and rewarded my anticipation for the “Baby: Song, Ludacris, and seeing Will Smith’s kid rap.

Savage Grace (2013) Dir. Tom Kalin

Viewed: Amazon Prime

I was stoked to see this film about incest and was expecting a goodie from the festival record it had with Sundance and Cannes.

I got so bored I couldn’t watch. Even the incest scenes were lackluster.

I can’t even give a good review because I started messing around on my phone instead of watching.

Head-to-Head

Incest vs the teen heartthrob vs. zombie love.

Interesting combo. Savage looked great the cinematography was very portrait like and the costumes were beautiful, but even if you put gold glitter on cat shit it is still cat shit.

I guess the battle really is between Bieber Fever and Zombie love. I feel like one epidemic seemed more realistic even if there was no cure.  

Medal Ceremony

Bronze- Savage Grace

Silver- Warm Bodies

Gold- Justin Bieber: Never Say Never