Irrelevant But Awesome

Welcome, friends, to Irrelevant But Awesome's coverage of the 85th Academy Awards. As you all can tell by the tag, I am Dr. Chris and I will be your wonderful host (my condolences to those that were expecting me to have a bunch of funny voices like Seth MacFarlane, I also don't do Jazz). This is probably going to be quite a long post just simply with predictions so I'm planning on just talking about the major awards and speaking only, for the most part, to the movies I've actually seen. Best Picture: Amour - One of the films I haven't seen but mostly due to my own ignorance and only watching what interested me. Obviously this will probably win Best Foreign Film because it's the only foreign language movie in this category. From what I understand it's about an elderly couple coping with declining health, specifically that of the wife, who suffers a stroke. Doesn't sound like a bad movie but it doesn't sound too uplifting either...or like it...

Here we go again with the zombies. I know, I know. It's just what I do. Here be SPOILERS if you care about such things. Went and saw Warm Bodies  this afternoon. It was really quite good! I saw the trailer about a month and a half ago and thought it looked weird. I did some research and found it was based on a book. So I found the book and read it cover to cover. It was a really strange book. The pacing was a little slow at times. The narrative was simple for the most part but had some complicated subplots that never really got resolved. Here's the gist: The zombie apocalypse is long over and the humans are trying to regain their feet while holed up in an old sports complex/stadium. The zombies have hives everywhere that are all but run by what they call "bonies". The bonies are what zombies turn into after a long time of being a zombie and it is implied that the whole zombie plague was of alien origin. The bonies are hyper-intelligent and form a sort of twisted ...