Zombies vs. Teenagers

Alright, although the blog is not officially ready (when I've returned to my condo I'll start formating and sprucing this sucker up but until then...), I decided I need to get started reviewing my ever growing list of movies I need to review... pile. I know there are many other review blogs out there, but I'd like to think mine is/will be unique in that I am an artist with unusual tastes who keeps an open mind when going to see films. (It's rare I go into a film expecting to hate it because I feel it taints my perspective a bit.)

So for my first two reviews (I'll be doing two reviews per post) I'm going to do a movie I enjoyed and I movie I... didn't enjoy just to make things hopefully interesting.

ZOMBIELAND (2009)

NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST (2008)

Now just a side note, I hate Horror films and I hate High School films. Now, Zombieland isn't enirely a Horror film, as Nick and Norah isn't entirely a high school film. SO IT'S ZOMBIES VS. TEENAGERS. WHO WILL WIN?

Lets talk about Zombieland first.

So one of the first things I liked about this film was the opening. I have a little bit of a background in Motion Media so I tend to get goosebumps when I'm watching something where I love what they're doing with the type and motion. The opening to Zombieland is simple, but it serves the purpose it's meant for well.
Now what I DIDN'T like about this film was the bratty female leads. I spent the whole film wishing they'd get bitten by zombies. But I won't give away what happens with that since the film is fairly new and some of you haven't seen it yet.
But still, overall, this film was very quirky and charming. The whole zombie theme is starting to get pretty annoying, but I like the fact that this film wasn't taking it seriously at all.

Now on to Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. Did I mention that I don't like High School films? How about how much I loathe teenagers? This film is a good example of why. Not to mention I really don't understand the whole "guy and girl break up, guy meets new girl, old girl gets jealous and starts hitting on guy, guy fights with new girl and gets back with old girl, guy realizes he's meant for new girl and dumps old girl again and gets back with new girl and everyone lives happily ever after the end" plotline that's oh so prominent in too many romance films. You even see this in films that -aren't- romance based. It's a cheap plotline that's way overdone that it's rare anyone gets creative with it. Moulin Rouge! is an example of a film with this same sort of plot that actually uses it in a creative, refreshing way. Nick and Norah is just plain old teenage drama that everyone's already sick of. Maybe if these teenagers actually had anything to legitimately be upset with each other about I'd understand. Did I mention that these same teenagers are all dumb as bricks too? And not in a funny way either. Most of the movie is just them trying to find some stupid drunk chick who wandered off.
This movie was actually a disappointment because I thought it would be more about the music and less about some of the other garbage that got tossed around. And the music it did have I barely remember, so I guess it wasn't all that great in the end either.

So it's probably pretty obvious, but this time around, the Zombies ate up the teenagers. Go figure. I guess they should have followed the rules of surviving Zombieland a little better.

THA FIRST SET.

Alright, I started work on two characters who will be the mascots of this blog o' mine. Their names are Stud Muffin and Mary Sue. They are crazy colorful ponies. They will be joined by more hypnotizing crazy colorful ponies in the future. Each one will represent either a genre or my opinion. I figured turning this into a dumb themed review thing would make it more entertaining.

Actually, I think I'll do -both-. The pony on the left of the movie poster can be genre pony, and the pony I post at the bottom will basically be the same pony, but instead of rating by numbers, it'll be how the pony felt physically after watching the film. Bad films make ponies very queasy, you know. And trippy films make ponies feel high. Really really good films make ponies feel fat and happy.

I guess I better get to work with making the first base for our first film. If anyone happens to read this before I make the first post, if you have a preference as to which of the following movies I should have the ponies digest first, let me know. If no response is made, I'll just go ahead and pick one at random.

The movies in question ARE *drum roll*:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Julie & Julia
Mr. Holland's Opus
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
Batman Returns
What about Bob?
Everything is Illuminated
Silverado
Toys
Dead Like Me: Life After Death
Groundhog Day
UHF
Catch Me if you Can
Road to Perdition
Avatar

There are a few movies that I've already done on another website that I might rereview on here just using the method I'll be using here. (Because the pony method will be much much cooler and more awesomer)

THOSE movies in question are:
District 9
3:10 to Yuma
Pulp Fiction
9
Castaway
Perfect Blue
Memento
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Whisper of the Heart
Total Recall
Persepolis
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Seven Pounds
Benny and Joon
Sinbad and the Legend of the 7 Seas
Memoirs of the Geisha
Grave of the Fireflies
Tokyo Godfathers
Millennium Actress
Legend of Drunken Master
The Animatrix
Transformers 2
The Spirit
Amelie

Agh, there were more than that, but I don't feel like searching any longer <___<;;;

If there's anything you want me to watch and review, say so. I'll remind people this after every review that I do.

I'm thinking I'm going to try and do this one review a day (or maybe more than one at first just to get through some of the list quicker), but I guess I'm going to mostly just do these when I can. College keeps one very busy so I might not always have time to keep up with this.

Welcome welcome welcome!

Just getting things set up here :) This is my first blog that I'll be updating on a regular basis. I absolutely love cinema, and I know there's probably a lot of movie review blogs out there, so I don't think mine is all that unique, but I just wanted something with my own personal flair.

I tend to be critical, but I'll try and keep things entertaining so no one feels like I'm being preachy or overly stupid. Feel free to comment about my opinions if you want me to clarify something or you don't feel like something was very fair of me to say.

I'm currently in college, though, so I might not always be able to get back to you on things.