[100M] Knocked Up, Jane, Un secret, Invasion
64 - Knocked up (En Cloque, Mode d'emploi)
October 18th, theaters (dubbed)
I don't know if my sense of humor was on strike while I was watching this but it annoyed me so much, mostly because in this, the geek guy gets superhot girl because he is a nice guy after all, but you never see a movie where superhot guy gets average chick (or after she gets a makeover). Also, pregnancy is scary.
In the delivery scene, Allison's toenails are done, and she doesn't have pubic hair, and both me and my friend wondered ow she managed this with her huge belly.
I liked Jason Leder and Paul Rudd the most, clearly entirely for their parts and not at all for Marshall & Mike.
Funniest scene of the movie : the one in the hotel in Las Vegas with Paul Rudd obsessing over chairs. That one made me laugh hard.
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65 - Becoming Jane (Jane)
October 24th, theaters
That movie would have been far better if it was written by Jane Austen. Instead, it tries to turn her into Lizzie Bennett (and fails, although Anne Hattaway was ok) and shows her life AND work only under the light of that love story. It also looks A LOT like last year's Pride and Prejudice.
Most of the characters are ripped of Austen's, and I was sometimes wondering why they all used fake names. Maggie Smith as Not-Lady Catherine was really obvious, although it was globally Pride and Sensibility. Not-Darcy was really not interesting in this (if your Darcy avatar is not interesting, you're doing it wrong), and I couldn't understand how Jane didn't see how great Not-Colonel Brandon (Wisley) was.
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Then, here's a French movie I wanted to see because I liked the trailer. I know, shocking
66 - Un secret
October 24th, theaters
I don't have much to say about this one. It's... rather good. I mostly enjoyed it, and have no big criticism about it (except that I wish Julie Depardieu would disappear) but it was not great either. Most of the usual French movie cliché that annoy me weren't there, or not enough to annoy me.
The actors were pretty good (except Julie Depardieu, but I hate her anyway) and I liked seing how the pieces of the story slowly comes together. The reversed color and black and white for flashbacks was an interesting idea, but the black and white seems just ... colorless, instead of a color scheme on its own, which is a shame (but my eyes are still in love with the black and white in COntrol). The color parts, however, were good.
It made me want to read the book, because as much as the voiceover was quite useless in the movie, it could be interesting in a book.
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And today, I've seen a movie, you won't be able to guess what made me go !
67 - Invasion
October 29th, theaters (dubbed)
I don't need to write anything on this one, you know I spent the whole movie fangirling over Nicole Kidman (and, to a lesser extent, Daniel Craig, who is still very hot).
It could have been far better, the introduction was efficient, but then it was not scary or fast enough for a scary action movie. The dreadful reviews (and the horrible poster) made me thing it was worse than it was. Not that it was good.
But I really, really love Nicole Kidman.
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