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I understand not having a budget that would allow for more snow to be heaped up, for better CGI to show intense snowfall and raging wind. That's fine. Tell me there's 5 feet of snow and that's OK, I'll go along with it. I don't mind you're low budget. Just please tell me a good story. They have a huge fireplace, blankets, many clothes, unlimited wood all around them outside. Rugs and furniture to burn if they needed to, and a gas stove. But they want to ration their limitless supply of wood well before they decide that there may be something unusual in the snow itself. From there, every other choice is beyond illogical as well. AND it would be literally impossible to become hypothermic with all the clothing, blankets, rugs, mattresses, etc. They could have handled 40 below with a small fire and all those layers and-- blah, I'm done. It was shot well enough, the actors were not great but not terrible. They just had little to work with.

Not a masterpiece. But it has a few funny bits. The best was early on when the sheriff is at the location of a deceased man, and it's a sight gag that you might miss if you look away. There are a few other funny bits and the movie knows what it is and does not take itself seriously. Decent zombies, goofy, and for what it is, in its class, it's a solid 8. Well, what else can I say about it? The effects budget was certainly decent. The characters are stereotypes, but so what? The whole idea of the main male character visiting his sister at work was disturbingly hysterical to me and I'm really out of things to say. If you like bad movies, you'll like it a lot. Even though its on the cusp of just being good dumb fun.

BECAUSE SHE GETS US. This is a really good movie. You do not understand what it is like to be in our bodies. An extremely small, tiny number of fat people are able to lose weight and keep it off. Imagine being an alcoholic, but you must drink at least once drink a day in order to live, or you are addicted to meth or some other hard drug and again must have some of it every day to live. That's what we face. Anyway, Butter is just a very nice, heartfelt, yet fairly realistic movie in a lot of ways, that is a great reminder to normies that we fats may be gross but that we are still humans and we have feelings and dreams and should be treated with some small amount of respect and dignity. The difference between us and you is that our major defect is visible to everyone and can't be hidden. The actor who plays Butter is great. Mira Sorvino, I thought at first was not at her best, but as this seems like a teenage/young adult film, she is portraying awkwardness on purpose, because many kids see their parents as out of touch, and can only deal with their kids in an awkward way. The Prof character is very cool and is the adult who most understands Butter. I think this should be part of health class required viewing for 8th or 9th graders.