Out of the box is where I live

on Friday I saw The King's Speech. BRILLIANT. It moved me, filled my eyes with tears, made me laugh at times, it was gorgeous (cinematography & music), the actors were perfect. Give Colin Firth his Oscar already.

Yesterday I saw Black Swan. I arrived 30 min early and there was no tickets left! The King's Speech was full too. Meanwhile, Rien à Déclarer was at 19:30, 20:00 and 21:00 and there was a lot of tickets left for each time. It made me feel like "yay people have good taste" (ok I admit I haven't seen this and shouldn't judge but...) but also "boo, why does it get so many theaters". Anyway, we bought tickets for the 22:15 Black Swan screening, which was full too in the end! I thought it was a great movie, it looked fabulous, the actors were amazing (omg Natalie Portman. But Vincent Cassel was A+ too, and Mila Kunis, and everyone). But it was really freaky and stressful so idk how much I liked it you know? And I'm no wuss but parts of it were really scary or made me cringe (not in a "this is bad" way! in a "eww" or "ouch" way lol). Can a movie move you and made you feel uncomfortable at the same time? Well yes apparently.

Now I need to watch sth in which Natalie Portman is happy and lives happily ever after because I felt so bad for her character. Will probably go see No Strings Attached haha.

And then today I saw The Kids are All Right, which was alright (haha) but pretty forgettable next to the 2 I just talked about or Inception for instance.

I plan to go see 127 Hours and True Grit in theaters in the next couple of weeks. And I have acquired The Social Network (I missed it in theaters) and The Fighter and Winter's Bone (will not be released in time here). I'm gonna watch at least one of these tonight.

And then I'll be ready for the Oscars (well the best picture category)! Which I won't be able to watch live this year but whatever!

I saw Inception today (and in English! score!) and LOVED it. There's nothing I didn't like about it. (maybe except like gabsy said, what kind of name is Mal for a woman??? haha). Everything is pretty (scenery, special effects that serve the story, music, editing, JGL in a suit...), it's a complex story but not too confusing, the cast is amazing... I want to see it again! Was sad when it ended because it was over.

a music meme I snagged from evilblacksheep and benelie

Name your top 10 most played bands on iTunes or Last.FM :

1. The Beatles
2. Bear McCreary
3. Robbie Williams
4. Glee Cast
5. Bénabar
6. Jason Mraz
7. Howard Shore
8. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Cast
9. Mika
10. Rufus Wainwright

( questions and my answers with pics and videos because it's fun )

I'm still in a Beatles mood and rewatched A Hard Day's Night last night (which is the only Beatles movie I've seen, and I'm currently trying to obtain the others) and I had a weird dream. I was working at the Chicago Cook County with Dave Malucci (I did catch a couple of old S5 ER episodes on TV last week) and I was on my break and went to buy donuts and I chatted a while with the guy selling them. It was a young George Harrison. LOL.

2009 PICSPAMS
Part 1: New Celeb Crushes
Part 2: Favorite Books/Movies/Music



Again, no particular order. These were not necessarily released in 2009, but I watched/read them for the 1st time in 2009 or listened to them a lot. Maybe I'll edit this list if I see sth awesome before the year is over.



coming next...
Part 3: Top TV Characters
Part 4: Best TV Moments

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My favorites are all listed!

#1 is... Battlestar Galactica *gasps* yeah try not to die of shock
#2 is Firefly/Serenity
both are among my favorite movies/shows EVER anyway

I guess #3 would be Star Wars, can't deny I grew up watching the Original Trilogy, but I don't really like episode I and II (and yet they feature Ewan McGregor!). And there are so many prequels and sequels and comics and cartoons and stuff, sometimes with different canon!

I'd never really watched Star Trek (except for a few DS9 episodes) before seeing the new movie... which I loved, but it's too fresh to be compared to anything.

I saw the Alien movies when I was quite young ("scary" movies never scared me) and liked them very much but it's been a long time since I saw one.

Not mentioned in the list: Galaxy Quest!!! mmm am I forgetting sth? I don't think so...

awwww how cute is Marion Cotillard?
the background music? "Samwise The Brave" from The Two Towers. I totally called it.

Veronica Mars is over...
:( Goodbye Neptune, I'm gonna miss you.
I'm sad because the show is over.
I'm frustrated because this was awful as a SERIES finale.
I'm bitter because the episodes were very good if you don't consider them as a finale and show the potential that still existed. But wasn't exploited in season 3.

Went to see PotC3 on the first day! Without spoiling anything I'd day it had too many characters, too many betrayals and unbetrayals and it got me very confused at first. Maybe I should have rewatched the second movie beforehands. I liked the second half way better and the final battle (come on, you all know this ends with a battle) is AWESOME. I was surprised by some things in the ending, not very classic. Not saying more because anyway not many people have seen it yet lol.

I'm in complete awe of this video that you must all watch, srly. It made me all kinds of happy and brought me to tears of the same time. I can't believe it took me two weeks to realize it was out there!

It's the official videoclip for the song Aimer à perdre la raison sung by les Enfoirés (remember the concert I went to in January?). The song is about love, obviously, as the title translates as "Love until losing your mind" or sth. In the clip you barely see the artists, only a few seconds at the end.

It's basically Nathalie Baye, a French actress, sitting in a movie theater and watching various clips of very various movies featuring love under all its forms. And when I say various, I mean VARIOUS. There's Marylin Monroe movies, and Disney movies, and Baz Luhrmann movies, and French movies, and even SW or E.T.! I think it's awesome even if you don't understand French at all, all you need to know is that it's about love. The melody is very beautiful.



btw the concert is on TV tomorrow! yay! I'm SO gonna watch it. And look if I can see myself somewhere haha.

ETA: ( movies list! )

Remember my job interview back a month ago? After I re-wrote them an email, they finally wrote me a letter telling me I didn't get it. I was sure of that but come ON! I just don't get how companies can be so unpolite and don't tell you you don't get a job until you ask them. That's just rude and disrespectful. Unfortunately they all do that. And they call themselves human resources.

Watched some more Grey's Anatomy and there was Terrence Steadman from PB, Micah from Heroes and Duncan from VM! lol My mom recognized Duncan as she watches VM everyday with me now.

( omg Chris Lowell and Kristen Bell are so cute )

Last night I watched Music&Lyrics on Danielle's recommandation... omg that was such a cute movie!!! and has Hugh Grant singing and shaking his butt dancing and being overall charming and very cute Drew Barrymore. The clip at the beginning made me laugh so much. The music is very addictive. I had a look on allocine.fr to see the French name of the movie and its release date... March 14th... and its name is now Le Come-Back. Ew. I mean, the purpose of a different name is to make it French-ier.

My internet is being wonky again... *sigh*
I'm writing this offline and my Office download cut at 51% :(( I want to see the JJ Abrams episode!

And gotta go, we have movie tickets expiring tonight so my mom and I are going to see sth... not sure what yet because there are no movies I'm dying to see right now... mmm...

Internet is working again! (for how long?) Huzzah! *posts before it cuts again*

I finally posted my LotR parody... I dunno why... a sudden impulse...
Anyway it's only on my graphics comm for now.

Why is PotC2 only released on August 2nd here! *pouts*

Link of the day (if you speak French): Ced's blog: so funny!

that's all I have to say for today

Got this from michellerz

1. Pick 30 of your favorite movies.
2. Find screenshots from those movies.
3. See who can guess what movies the screenshots are from.
4. NO CHEATING. All comments will be screened.

( to the pictures )