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Knocked Up (2007)
The F-word Average Just Skyrocketed
I am gonna have a baby and it is yours. One of the most frequent girl-to-guy sentences after which we see all kinds of interesting reactions in the movies.
In Fools Rush In, Matthew Perry's character almost chokes on glass of water. In Friends, Ross Geller stays motionless and speechless for about two minutes. And in Nine Months Hugh Grant's character freaks out like no one has ever freaked out before.
Knocked Up tells a story of a different reaction. A one-night stand of a TV reporter and a less-than-careless guy who says the F-word more often than he says "thank you" turns this movie into anything but predictable flick.
A male viewer who has kids will probably want to grab a shotgun and kill the insensitive male who can't seem to help himself cursing in every dialog that involves the issue of responsibility. And a guy who wants to settle down and have babies will feel the urge to pull Katherine Heigl's character from the screen and propose to her. And you as a viewer ask yourself: Why is she losing her time with him, when she can find a normal guy who would want her with the baby? And what kind of a woman would fight to save the relationship like that? The movie serves the answer in small batches, one after another. I just wish it would involve less "f*ck" and more, let's say, "damn".
14 Hours (2005)
This is the way bad made-for-TV movies are made
In the European TV industry, movies like this one are called "stickers". TV stations buy them and air them because when they wanted to buy broadcast rights to, let's say, Titanic, some not-really-blockbusters were a part of the deal.
14 Hours is a story of a hospital, its employees and patients who have to face the worst flood slash storm ever. Unfortunately almost from every scene or shot one can tell that is was a low-budget film.
Newborn babies are very obviously not real, there is no background action and probably the worst thing is the doctor-acting. The actors are not believable in their roles: their lines, when spoken, sound way too memorized, as if this was a read-out camera test.