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Movie Review: The Ugly Truth

Yay for free movie passes. The hubby and I got to see this advanced screening on Wednesday, courtesy of More FM.

Katherine Heigl plays an unlucky-in-love neurotic young professional who gets love tips from a manly man’s perspective in bagging her ‘perfect’ man.

It’s R16, so expect some crude adult humour and four letter words. Why the people in front of us wanted to bring their little kid along to this I’m not quite sure.

A cute, though predictable story line. I still enjoyed it – after all it’s a romantic chick flick.

By the way, I had a feeling that the guy who played Mike Chadway was from 300. Turns out I was right. He looks much better in The Ugly Truth sans the spray painted abs! (Update: Ok, so I thought those abs looked a bit too fake to be in 300, and Ms Constantine pointed out that the link I gave was to the spoof Meet the Spartans. Lol. King Leonidas has better abs in the real 300 movie.)

Scene from The Ugly Truth movie

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Movie Review: District 9

The hubby exclaimed one night that we have to go watch District 9.

I didn’t know much about the movie except for the trailers. Hubby explained in a nutshell that whilst awaiting the OK for Halo, Peter Jackson jumped at the opportunity to produce District 9 – a movie that has had rave reviews due to the talent of little known or unknown actors and a very good story line involving aliens stranded in South Africa. Sounded good.

And it was.

I’m not sure how much sway Peter Jackson had on the story, but there were scenes reminescent of his splatter movies like Brain Dead.

I found myself swapping sides a lot in the movie – I was for the humans, then the aliens, then the main character, then I wished he would stop being an ass, then the aliens again.

Scene from the movie District 9

The story is based on the issues of racial segregation and it was hard not to compare the situation with the Apartheid policy, being set in South Africa and all. It made me a bit ashamed that we as humans possess traits such as racism, prejudice and selfishness.

Good acting, story line, action and special effects, plus popcorn and ice cream make for a great movie experience :)

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Pregnant Fight Club

1. First rule of Pregnant Fight Club – you have to be pregnant.
2. Second rule of Pregnant Fight Club – no punching the belly.
3. Third rule of Pregnant Fight Club – no punching at all.

Actually, no hurting at all. Pregnant Fight Club doesn’t really work does it…?

Let’s just bake cupcakes – I could do with a snack.

Pregnant fat hand in my hand brace

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Movie Review: 17 Again

Ok, I admit it. The only reason why I wanted to see this was because of Zac Efron. I loved him in Hairspray, which is an awesome movie overall albeit seen on an airplane, and I have been sucked in with all the tweens into seeing this one.

It’s a bit of fun, with some good laughs and lessons that Oprah Winfrey would be proud of.

Unfortunately, it’s also another movie that links popularity with being happy. To be a teen in America is something I’ll never really know about.

Scene from 17 Again

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