Une version du Poker Face de Lady Gaga lu par Christopher Walken. Un grand moment. Ce Mr est un génie. Je veux la même diction!
Observe & Report: Le mot chef d’oeuvre est un mot que j’utilise rarement mais alors là putain de merde ce film en est un. Imaginez la version comique de “Taxi Driver”. Je suis sérieux, ce film arrive à restituer le malaise du film de Scorsese, tout en offrant au spectateur des scènes de comédie incroyable. C’est l’histoire d’un agent de sécurité dans un centre commercial qui au départ n’est pas tout à fait sain d’esprit, mais il devient encore plus barge lorsqu’un pervers s’amuse à montrer sa bite aux femmes des alentours. Le postulat de départ est complètement con, mais la sauce prend au bout d’une dizaine de minutes.
Seth Rogen interprète l’agent de sécurité et je dois dire que c’est au jour d’aujourd’hui le meilleur rôle de sa carrière. Il arrive à faire flipper comme il arrive à faire rire, et cet acteur possède un réel talent pour faire passer les pires horreurs comme une lettre à la poste. Le reste du casting est également très bon, particulièrement Anna Faris et Ray Liotta mais c’est l’apparition de Danny McBride (le Kenny Powers de “Eastbound & Down”) qui reste absolument mythique. J’adore ce mec parce qu’il arrive à marquer un film en apparaissant l’espace de cinq minutes alors qu’il faut bien avouer qu’il n’a pas le physique d’une “movie star”!
Donc, vous l’avez compris, ce film est assez incroyable. Mais ce film devient un chef d’oeuvre en l’espace de cinq minutes. La scène finale est parfaite. Le pervers court à travers le centre commercial sur le “Where is my Mind” des Pixies, portant seulement un trench dévoilant toute son anatomie. Juste pour cette scène, le film atteint la stratosphère des oeuvres qui marquent l’histoire du cinéma. Vous ne me croyez pas? A vrai dire je m’en fous, c’est en tout cas l’avis que je m’en fais.
True Blood: Les séries HBO c’est comme les sushis… Trop jeune, c’est difficile d’apprécier toutes les saveurs, mais une fois une certaine maturité acquise, on commence à comprendre l’intelligence de ce met délicat.
Alan Ball, connu pour le magnifique “Six Feet Under”, revient avec une série qui sent bon la Louisiane et les romans d’Anne Rice. Non, le Ball des vampires n’est pas le même que le Ball de la morgue (je sais, mauvais jeu de mot), mais la série est tout aussi poignante que la précédente. C’est l’histoire d’un futur proche ou les vampires vivent au milieu des humains, et boivent du sang synthétique afin de subvenir à leurs besoins. La petite Sookie, vierge effarouchée de la ville de Bon Temps, tombe amoureuse du dangereux vampire Bill.
Première question, est-ce que c’est bien? Bah franchement c’est plutôt très bien foutu. On met du temps à rentrer dedans, mais une fois les personnages établis et la mythologie un peu installée, la série devient relativement addictive, même si la durée de 52min par épisode nécessite une certaine attention. Ce qui fait vraiment plaisir dans une série comme celle la c’est de voir le souci qui est porté à la photographie et aux décors. Tout est très beau dans le petit monde de Ball, et l’ambiance des bayous ne fait qu’accentuer le malaise lorsque les vampires débarquent.
Pour l’instant je ne suis pas un spécialiste de cette série, n’étant qu’au huitième épisode de la saison une, mais je sais déjà que je vais bouffer du “True Blood” pendant les semaines à venir, et je voulais faire partager mon enthousiasme. J’aime les séries idiotes, mais après deux mois passés à me faire l’intégrale de “New-York Unité Spéciale”, je dois dire que ça fait du bien de réutiliser son cerveau pour visionner une série.
I’M BACK! Tout comme le Terminator je reviens toujours. Presque trois mois d’absence, je sais, ce n’est pas très sérieux mais à ma défense…non, je n’ai pas de défense, simplement du laxisme pur et simple.
Mais pas d’inquiétude chers lecteurs (oui c’est à vous que je parle les trois potes qui me suivent), je suis de retour et je suis motivé…enfin, un peu quoi, on s’est compris…
Transformers - Revenge of the Fallen: It’s been a while since my last review on Lightness. In my defense, I’ve been in Monte-Carlo for the last 6 months where theatres only offer movies in french. Now I don’t know about you, but for me watching dubbed flicks should be considered a felony. Luckily, my long journey through the desert came to an end last night when I attended the opening of the Monte-Carlo Summer Theater for Transformers 2. Before I start reviewing the movie, I’d just like to say this open air theatre is something else. Located right under the beautiful Oceanographic Museum on a terrace hanging 50 meters over the Mediterranean, this venue is truly unique. As I sat in my comfortable armchair enjoying a cold beer, Tex Avery cartoons started rolling which immediately made me think of those drive-in movie theatres. Of course, me being me, I was worried about what the sound quality might be. But as soon as the movie got underway, my negative thoughts were washed away by the sweet sound of DTS. So there I was, in almost perfect conditions to watch the movie I’d been waiting for all year. The first time I saw Transformers, I thought it was too loud, too fast, too long and pretty much “too everything”. I’m not a huge fan of action flicks unless they’ve got a certain amount of “charm”. And I had to watch it a couple more times to start enjoying it. I’d read a lot of critics for this sequel before seeing it, and most of them could describe my initial impressions for the first movie. But I have to say, I was surprisingly pleased by Transformers 2. For one, it was great to see all the characters back together again and excuse me for saying but I am one of those who actually enjoy Shia Laboeuf’s performances. As for the robots, all the new additions were pretty kick ass especially on the Decepticon side. Now this being a Michael Bay flick, we’re a long way from being spared the gigantic plot holes, the presidential envoy character on a mission to shut down any rational effort to save the planet and of course the big cheesy moment where the main character is brought back to life with a kiss. Not to mention that according to Bay, half the college population in America is made out of blissfully hot skanks (what am I still doing in Europe?). But all of these elements aren’t really a problem since you’d be stupid not to be expecting them in the first place. On the plus side, I really wasn’t expecting any of the jokes to make me giggle, but I have to confess I got caught laughing (out loud!) more than a few times! But more importantly, I have to say Michael Bay has managed to make these robots and explosions as real as they can get. From that point of view, Transformers 2 is truly a work of art and the huge budget really shows on the screen. Unfortunately, 4 beers and an hour forty five of metal on metal action into it, the movie started losing a lot of steam. I remember looking at my watch about an hour and a half into it and thinking “Thank god there’s still an hour left cuz I can’t get enough of this!”. And wouldn’t you know it, right after that the whole gang gets sent to the Egyptian desert in some half-assed Benjamin Gates (which is already less than half an ass) type treasure hunt. And everything from that point just keeps dragging on, especially since parts of the last act seem very similar to parts of the first installment (i.e. Josh Duhamel and Tyrese Gibson in a sandy ruin shooting ineffective bullets toward robots). Now I don’t know what’s up with summer blockbusters this year, but I’ve seen Terminator: Salvation and this ending blows just as much! Although I’ve enjoyed both movies, it just seems the writers were in an awful hurry to finish the last page. The huge “mano a mano” duel (I guess “robo a robo” would be more appropriate) you’d be expecting ends up being a huge disappointment. Why would you leave an audience hanging in the wind like that? The last 10 minutes are just an excuse to wrap up the movie. Even Optimus Prime’s end monologue/message to outer space feels more like a “tweet” (As in 140 characters maximum!). So, all in all, my feelings are mixed about Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I had a lot of fun during most of the movie and I can honestly say that the special effects were unbelievably gorgeous. My expectations weren’t that high from the start and I guess it’s achieved what Popcorn movies are supposed to so I’d give the movie by itself a 7 out of 10. As for the overall experience (Open air theatre and all), I’d say it’s closer to a big fat 9.
Nicolaï BK
Trailer of a new flick called “Zombieland”, an comedy about zombies with the underrated Woody Harrelson. Looks pretty fucking cool I’d say!
Lower Learning: I picked up this film in the US about 6 months ago mostly because it starred Rob Corddry, and I thought it could be funny. Then I made the mistake to check the rating on IMDB and I put it back on the shelf with other movies I need to watch. Well, I saw the trailer before another flick yesterday, and it looked fucking hilarious so I decided to watch it today and fucking hell I wasn’t disappointed, far from it actually. This film is just plain wrong. Corddry plays the principal of a school. He’s a crooked man, who bribes the parents and uses students as his personnal slaves and plans on getting the school shut down and leaving with the money. Then you’ve got Jason Biggs, the vice-principal who wants to save the school, with the help of Eva Longoria (who’s actually very decent in this flick). Honestly, I didn’t expect much from this film, but I was really laughing my ass off while watching it, especially when they put the kids in really awkward or fucked up situations. The real deal here is Will Sasso, who created an insane character as the crazy gym teacher who forces his tiny student to fight against the biggest girl in the school. Everything is overplayed and that’s what makes the movie so funny. Never do they try to underplay, it’s all over the top and I think that’s why it works well. Now, the script isn’t the strong point of this film but no one cares because you at least get to spend a good time enjoying a comedy that doesn’t originate from Appatow’s mold. This isn’t a revolution, this isn’t the best comedy I’ve seen in years, but it sure gave me my share of laughs, and I always enjoy seeing actors from the cast of shows such as “The Office” and “How I Met Your Mother” in movies, it just immediately brings me back to things I like.
Kevin Pollak doing amazing impression on David Letterman’s show back in 2006. There’s William Shatner, Alan Arkin and of course the best impression of Christopher Walken ever.
Jim Carrey’s impersonation of David Caruso, star of “CSI Miami”. Absolutely dead-on, you got to love it!
While She Was Out: First off, I fucking hate Kim Basinger… I don’t know why, that’s just how it’s always been, and yeah I know her performance in “L.A. Confidential” was amazing and blablabla cut the crap you don’t work for the fucking academy awards ok! She was the worst thing in Curtis Hanson’s film. There, I fucking said it. What else did she do? Absolutely nothing except getting her titties sucked on by a good looking Mickey Rourke… I agree, it’s more than a lot of women can pretend to nowadays (I’m referencing a good looking Rourke in case you didn’t get that), but still she’s a shitty actress. So, let’s now get to the film… Well, I didn’t really like it that much as you can imagine. It’s basically the story of an abused suburban housewife (boooohoooo), who witnesses a murder on Christmas Eve, and she gets chased by the murderers in the forest for a good 45min (I’m not kidding it’s fucking long), and then she gets all badass on the motherfuckers because she’s got…wait for it…a toolbox. Ok, I have to give the director a thumbs up for making the murders pretty gruesome but that is fucking it. We struggle for an hour and thirty minutes with nothing but Basinger on the fucking screen…arghhhhhhhhhh. One good thing about the flick is Lukas Haas, who plays the main evil dude. He was previously seen in “Mars Attacks” and the insanely awesome “Brick”, and thank god he’s in this flick because it really wouldn’t be possible otherwise. Anyway, you’ve understood there’s nothing to see here, and except four cool murder scenes, but really that’s absolutely it. Oh yeah, forgot to tell you, she kills her abusive husband in the end…there, you have it no need to watch this piece of shit.
