:: Fox Lunacy ::

As soon as I saw the trailer, I was sold. Noooo... It was not "Poker Face" playing in the background. Although, that naturally raised my enjoyment of the clip. The way the speech seemed to flow naturally and the story truly looked funny. I thought: I would seriously, (and willingly), pay to watch this at the cinema. So we start with Olive, sitting down at her computer, starting a live web-cast. She is about to tell the story of her downward spiral from noticed to downright infamous, without omitting truly hated. When a rumour gets out that she's lost her v-plates, Olive becomes the talk of the high school. She does a poor job of dissuading people and the mill keeps turning. Chinese whispers is a gross understatement. However, after reluctantly helping a gay kid achieve some fame as a straight stud, Olive comes to achieve the rank of slut, skank - choose your colloquial synonym. All the social outcasts begin to go to her for help. As expected, it starts to go dow...

I'll admit that though I found the trailer hilarious, not to mention the snippets I caught on a film review show, I still had reservations about this film. It was meant to be a romantic comedy which, we all know, can often fail to meet expectations. Secondly, I've a limited impressions of Kutcher's acting ability; "That 70's Show", "Dude! Where's my car?" In typical Heigl style, we get 'crazy-awkward' fright from the start. Sure, after at least two films (that I've watched), I've long accepted that Heigl, having appeared so long on a tv show, has shown us all her emotional cards, thus, will inevitably always remind us of Isobel "Izzie" Stevens. However... What is it about this actress that brings out an air of Grey's Anatomy-esque humour to any movie she stars in? Speaking of humour - this movie didn't feel too forced to me, because the situations were unusual enough in themselves that they, at once, presented ...

This dvd was sitting on my 'To Watch' shelf for the last three years. I'd come down with a bad cold and yesterday, as an evening relaxation, I shoved it in the player. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised - after being bombarded with very mixed messages about this film. This film was just as good as I was originally told (Thanks, sis! ^^) and more. Had I known the producer was J. J. Abrams himself, I would've had much more faith. I've never disliked anything this guy puts out with the exception of the television series "Lost", which, to be honest, I don't know whether I like, since I've never actually seen more than fifteen minutes, in between channel surfing. After an official-looking message from the US government, we are treated with the beginning a home video. You follow these two initial characters to the culmination of a farewell party for the camera operator's (and turns out, the rightful owner of the camera), brother. ...

So I saw Eclipse, the other night, with the Jchan. It was awesome! I walked in with little expectations, as per our growing ritual, and only recalled small bits from the teaser I'd seen many months back. So worth it. The wolves are looking even more amazing. Bella and Edward have some normalcy about them. It was the "Finally - they're getting it right!" movie. In my opinion, this just proves how an inexperienced (horribly so), director like the first movie's, can completely kill a script with mild-potential by not directing the actors properly. How else can one explain the vast improvement in New Moon, and the easy, realistic flow of the actors/story-plot, in this movie? It no longer looked like some backwater indie movie and more like a film you'd be happy to see more than once in an overpriced cinema. I actually loved Bryce Dallas Howard (left) as the new Victoria. Her sweet, child-like voice fits her better than Rachelle Lefevre , as does her cute cherubim...