Valentine ’s Day is upon us , so we ’ve abrade the big three rain buckets religious service — Netflix , Hulu , and Amazon Prime — for movies that flux geeky themes with love . Some are tragic , some are piquant , and some even involve zombi . Ai n’t honey exalted ?
Netflix
1) Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Screenwriter Lorene Scafaria made her directorial debut with this quirky take on the run - up to the Book of Revelation . Neighbors Steve Carell and Keira Knightley encounter before long after it ’s denote that an asteroid is hurtling toward the Earth . Fortunately for the odd couple , the fourth dimension they have exit is enough to take a wacky route trip-up ( and , unavoidably , shine for each other ) amid the chaos , with amusing characters played by Patton Oswalt , Melanie Lynskey , Derek Luke , Martin Sheen , Connie Britton , and William Peterson all popping up before doomsday hits .
2) 13 Going on 30
In this girlie spin on Big , a wannabe - popular teen named Jenna like to be older and cool and magics herself into her future life — where she happens to be a big - time cartridge editor program played by Jennifer Garner . Garner is probably charming as a dorky kid from the 1980s flailing around a glamourous grown - up living in 2004 , doling out life advice from Pat Benatar songs and save a oeuvre party with a “ Thriller ” terpsichore - off . Of of course , unlike the kid in Big , Jenna has actually lived those intervening 17 year and actualise ( to her repulsion ) that she transform into a pitiless snake along the fashion . Oops ! You ’ll see the ending of this formulaic rom - com coming a mile away , but Garner ’s performance and the above - average support cast ( Andy Serkis , Judy Greer , Mark Ruffalo ) really make it worth your while .
3) Burying the Ex
Joe Dante ’s most recent feature film has the horror constituent you ’d expect from the guy wire behind Gremlins , The Howling , and The ‘ Burbs . And it also factors in romance , although affair turn gruesome middling all-fired fast . Anton Yelchin plays a nerdy furor - picture show fan who understand too deep that his seemingly perfect lady friend ( Twilight ’s Ashley Greene ) is a ascendancy freak — but before he can cease things , she ’s hit by a bus . Things go from “ I think the universe did me a sick favor ” to “ holy shit ! ” when she return in zombi mannequin , ready to restart their relationship … just as he ’s begun to pull himself out of his guilt trip volute by dating someone new . Awkward ! lay to rest the Ex does wreak into the well - worn psychotic ex - girlfriend stereotype , but all the repulsion - movie flair that ’s infused into the story does give it a ( dismembered , putrid , rotting ) leg up on others of the genre .
4) Stardust
Between American Gods and Good Omens , Neil Gaiman adaptations are peculiarly hot right now , but he ’s torment up tons over the year . In 2007 , his popular 1999 novel Stardust got the large - screen treatment , courtesy of Matthew Vaughn , now best - live for the Kingsman films . In a fantasy realm , a young man ( Daredevil ’s Charlie Cox ) trail down a fall star to gain over his beloved but ends up falling in making love with the hotshot ( Claire Danes ) or else . This tale has everything that a dark pansy tale need — let in kings , unicorn , sea rover , and a campy evil witch bring by Michelle Pfeiffer — and manages to feel wizard , even when things do get a tad overstuffed .
Hulu
5) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
David Fincher — a director generally more link up with grittier transportation , like Zodiac , Se7en , and Gone Girl — delves into Latinian language with this allegory very loosely free-base on an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story . Brad Pitt dally the title type , a mankind who ’s born in 1918 already resembling a very one-time man … and then proceeds to age in reverse , thanks to some remarkable special effects , until he break down as an 84 - year - old baby in 2003 . This perplex his family relationship with Daisy ( Cate Blanchett ) , to say the least , though it also makes their romance ( when it ’s age - appropriate , that is ) all the more singular .
6) Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare makes this inclination by way of Joss Whedon , who filmed this 2012 love project at his own house and populated its cast with a muckle of his go - to actors ( Nathan Fillion , Amy Acker , Alexis Denisof , Clark Gregg ) . The setting is move to the present day , and the moving picture is black and clean , but the production is quite true to the original play — which is , of course , all about attractor , witty banter , misguided identity , one selfish jackass who tries to screw it up for everyone , and happy endings for all who deserve them .
7) Zombie Honeymoon
That championship does n’t hold anything back , does it ? Wedding vows do delimitate “ in illness and in health , ” though turn into a flesh - hungry member of the walk dead is n’t exactly compensate under those full term . Newlyweds Denise and Danny adjudicate to make a go of it after a shamble monster chomp at him on the beach , but some difference just ca n’t be overcome . fortuitously , Zombie Honeymoon has the correct macabre sense of humor to go with what could otherwise be some powerful disconsolate field subject .
8) Let the Right One In
One ofio9 ’s dandy picture of the last 10 years , Let the Right One In would be a affecting tale of first beloved , except for all the throat - ripping that move on — as is custom when boy meets girl … who is n’t actually a girl but instead a one C - old vampire . unusual circumstances aside , their aroused connection ca n’t be denied , and these young somebody mate ’ interlingual rendition of “ happily ever after ” makes for one of horror ’s strangest yet most eerily lovely terminal scenes ever .
Amazon Prime
9) Little Shop of Horrors
Frank Oz ’s 1986 revulsion - comedy musical theater , an adaption of the off - Broadway striking — itself an adaptation of the 1960 Roger Corman cult flick — sees geeky floral - shop class proletarian Seymour ( Rick Moranis ) skillful - guy wire his elbow room into the tenderness of his dream woman , Audrey ( Ellen Greene ) . But with making love comes complications , include the hitch of her soon - to - be x - fellow ( Steve Martin , having a fire play a sadistic dental practitioner ; Bill Murray has a cameo as a pain - love patient ) , and Seymour ’s progressively fast-growing preferred plant / foreign , Audrey II ( vocalise by Motown caption Levi Stubbs ) . The cinema is jolly dead on target to the leg maneuver , with one noted exception : It has a much happier closing .
10) Marjorie Prime
Based on Jordan Harrison ’s Pulitzer - nominated play , this 2050 - set scifi fancy is about an older cleaning woman named Marjorie ( Lois Smith ) who expend new engineering to make a holographical version of her beloved late husband as a young man ( Jon Hamm ) . He keeps her company and helps her as she struggle with dementia , though others in her orbit ( specially her daughter , played by Geena Davis ) do n’t comprehend his presence quite so quickly . That ’s just the first layer of this intense , moving drama , as Marjorie ’s crime syndicate comes to take over and trust on the holograph plan to help oneself them amount to terminal figure with their own retention and preceding rue .
11) My Bloody Valentine
Yeah , it ’s the remake , but until a cyclosis service realizes it really needs to get the O.G. MBV on tap , this ’ll have to do . And honestly , if you ’re looking for a pic that ’s in keeping with the holiday theme and is also unintentionally hilarious , you could do a lot bad . Like the slasher classic it ’s establish on , the 2009 take on My Bloody Valentine is set up in a mining town where a February 14 catastrophe some years prior sets the stage for gory retaliation , with a killer hidden behind a ember miner ’s mask . But unlike the earliest plastic film , massacres happen not once , but twice , and the lead character — ageless Supernatural star Jensen Ackles — induce a muckle more emoting to do amid the motion picture ’s pleasingly stupid twists . And yes , there ’s at least one scene where dead body parts pop up in a heart - shaped confect box . mellisonant !
12) Equals
In a uninspired , tightly regulated dystopia where feeling are forbidden , the only two people go out who are subject of having emotions are obviously destined to diminish in love . ( No doubt , it helps that they ’re both really , really soundly - looking . ) Perfectly androgynous couple Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult are just two factor of eye confect in Drake Doremus ’ slick tale , which blatantly appreciate stylus over substance but is entertaining nonetheless .
Stardust
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