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Warm Bodies (2013)
R stands for Ridiculous
This movie is RIDICULOUS. That's the best thing one can say about it. And it's not a bad thing in itself, at all.
I started watching this out of boredom, actually. I had meatier fare to watch, but it was one of those moments when all you want is to sit back and enjoy a mediocre movie while shutting off your brain. When I found myself laughing like a hyena a couple of minutes into the film, I knew I had chosen right.
The story is fairly simple, dead guy falls in love for living girl in post-zombie world, hilarity ensues. There's a catch though, "regular zombies" are not the worst you can find in this world, and that works fine in context, because you wouldn't get a satisfying resolution otherwise. You have it all, hot youngsters in hip clothes pretending to be soldiers (?), fascist dads who went hyper-protective and sorta crazy, EUREKA moments of cheap philosophical truth, and rom-com montages. It's awesome.
The ~*moral of the story*~ isn't just hilariously over the top, it slaps you in the face with cheese. Anyway, the film knows it and that's why it lets you laugh out loud with it.
Is it a Good Movie®? No. Would I recommend it? Yes, no doubt. But you have to bear an open mind, and go with the flow.
Svetat e golyam i spasenie debne otvsyakade (2008)
It aims for the stars, only to burn up in the atmosphere
Okay, so let me begin by saying this. I've probably given far worse titles a 5/10, but I couldn't give a higher rating here.
The World is Big is a good movie, just not as good as it think it is. It's short of greatness by its own desire to get everything right: it wanted to achieve political, familiar, historical, emotional, and generational resonance. In the end you're left feeling manipulated by an average product that could've been so much better but falls short.
The flashback story is perhaps the best part of the movie, definitely the one that flows more naturally. It's gripping and bittersweet even when flawed or unnecessarily cliché in some parts.
The present day is the weakest hands down. Everything about it is so saccharine and superficial you just can't take it seriously. And don't take me wrong, I have no problems with happy endings, I just don't like feeling like I'm watching a folksy love song's MV.
And don't get me started on the shoehorned love story. It makes me cry. Of anger.