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Hi, this is Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, here with a Slate spoiler special on Warm Bodies, the new Jonathan Levine zombie romance.

And joining me from Chicago is Keith Phipps, who's a freelance pop culture writer and a friend of Slate.

Hey, Keith.

Hi, Dana, how are you doing?

Just fine. I've been wanting to spoil a movie with you for some time, so I'm excited that we could both get to warm bodies and get into the studio to talk about it. Yeah, I'm happy to be here.

So before we get into the major plot spoilage, what did you think of warm bodies overall? Were you

lukewarm, pro-con? I almost feel like I can't really offer a really strong opinion until we get to

the plot spoilage thing,, I'm about to become a

person I hate where people who get hung up on the mechanics of things and, you know, the,

your plot loopholes and inconsistencies at the expense of missing the movie. I really don't like it

when people are like that. I mean, not everything has to have the airtight internal logic of a looper or something. But I had no idea how this movie worked. This movie,

like the zombies in this film made no sense to me, which was a huge stumbling block for me. But,

I mean, looking past that, I mean, it's, it's sweet and it's easy to watch. Even one day later, I'm finding it deeply unmemorable.

Yeah, it's mild, it's mildly everything, mildly amusing, mildly entertaining, mildly romantic, I guess, in parts, and mildvie conversation on the Gab Fest, including with Looper, which I do think has some logic holes in it, not at the expense of appreciating the movie as a whole, but when

you're talking about something as high concept as this Warm Bodies movie, then I think the concept

really has to hang together in order to just draw the audience in. And I agree that this zombie

concept doesn't completely hang together. But so let's get into why. So the basic premise here, the basic setup is that we

are in a post-apocalyptic zone of some kind. It's deliberately vague as to what's happened

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