Go see Warm Bodies! See it now!
So, Shaun and I went out for our delayed V-Day plans tonight - I got some serious side eye for wanting to see Warm Bodies but my puppy dog eyes won out and he agreed to let me pick this movie. It was soooooooo much better than I had anticipated. I actually wasn't expecting much. I thought frivolous, silly, campy fun. And it was all of those things, but it wasn't really as funny as I was expecting. It wasn't really laugh out loud funny much at all (though it had its moments) but it was really quite sweet. Exceptionally so. Like the movie was hitting me in my feels and I was like, "WHAT IS THIS VOODOO??" The story was just so amazing and like ... I realize what it is. It's a zombie love story. Which should, like, inherently make it incapable of being genuinely sweet and heartwarming. But it totally was! I don't understand it, I don't know why the zombie bits didn't camp it to high hell but it just worked.
So that was really fun and so worth the ridiculous ticket prices. Apparently there are tons of awesome movies coming out soon (and a few horror things Shaun will have to be talked into) so I am completely and utterly stoked on the new arrivals. Oh! And like ... at one part during the movie "Midnight City" started playing. There is just something SO awesome about being in a theater and having a song you find to be amazing start playing in surround sound, super loud - I completely just melted into a puddle in my chair.
While I'm yammering on about movies, we went to go see Django Unchained while Oofle was here. So. Fucking. Good. One of his best, I think. I was really kinda "eh" on Jaime Foxx playing the lead, especially after I'd heard that Tarantino had written the part for Will Smith (and I still think it would've been better with him), but Jaime Foxx pulled it the fuck out. Uth and I did get quite the giggle out of listening to/watching the audience's reactions to some of the dialogue and action - whooooooooole lotta white people giggling nervously at things, not sure if they're allowed to find them funny or not. THAT right there is half the amusement of the experience. Except holy good God, the amount of peeing I had to do by the end of that shit.
Now, to end the night watching Pretty Little Liars, I think.
So that was really fun and so worth the ridiculous ticket prices. Apparently there are tons of awesome movies coming out soon (and a few horror things Shaun will have to be talked into) so I am completely and utterly stoked on the new arrivals. Oh! And like ... at one part during the movie "Midnight City" started playing. There is just something SO awesome about being in a theater and having a song you find to be amazing start playing in surround sound, super loud - I completely just melted into a puddle in my chair.
While I'm yammering on about movies, we went to go see Django Unchained while Oofle was here. So. Fucking. Good. One of his best, I think. I was really kinda "eh" on Jaime Foxx playing the lead, especially after I'd heard that Tarantino had written the part for Will Smith (and I still think it would've been better with him), but Jaime Foxx pulled it the fuck out. Uth and I did get quite the giggle out of listening to/watching the audience's reactions to some of the dialogue and action - whooooooooole lotta white people giggling nervously at things, not sure if they're allowed to find them funny or not. THAT right there is half the amusement of the experience. Except holy good God, the amount of peeing I had to do by the end of that shit.
Now, to end the night watching Pretty Little Liars, I think.