Showing posts with label Jennifer Lopez. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jennifer Lopez. Show all posts

Thursday, December 17, 2015

The Back-up Plan

Released Year: 2010
Directed by Alan Poul

Casted by:
 Jennifer Lopez as Zoe
Alex O'Loughlin as Stan
Michaela Watkins as Mona
Danneel Harris as Olivia
Melissa McCarthy as Carol
Linda Lavin as Nana
Eric Christian Olsen as Clive
 Story
Zoe has given up on finding the man of her dreams and decided to become a single mother and undergoes artificial insemination. The same day she meets Stan when they both try to hail the same taxi. They run into each other twice more at a farmers market and a pet store. Stan convinces Zoe to go on a no-obligations date. Zoe is still uncertain whether she is pregnant or not and if she should tell Stan. The night she takes the test, Stan takes her for a romantic dinner in a garden. Things don't turn out as well as planned when he spills the wine and a fire occurs. At the end of the night Stan asks her to come to his farm during the weekend and Zoe finds out that she is pregnant.

She goes to the farm determined to tell him that she is pregnant. They have sex and afterwards Stan is confused and angry that she didn't tell him before and Zoe leaves the next morning believing that things are over between them. However, Stan decides he still wants to be with her and they reconcile. They go to the doctor and find out that Zoe is actually carrying twins. Overwhelmed, Stan goes to a children's playing area to figure out what it means to be a father, but is suspected to be a pervert; this is soon cleared up. He finds a friend there that he can talk to about the pregnancy throughout the movie, while Zoe gets little support from her Single Mothers and Proud group when the group members discover she is no longer single. Stan takes the next step to becoming a father and orders a stroller for the twins. After many misunderstandings and comedic revelations, Zoe and Stan are walking into the Market when they run into Stan's ex-girlfriend. Due to Stan's remark that the twins are not his, Zoe believes that he is not ready to become a father to them, and breaks off the relationship.

Later, the stroller that Stan ordered arrives and Zoe figures out that Stan was never planning to leave. At her grandmother's wedding, Zoe's water breaks and on the way to the hospital they make a pit stop at the Market. Zoe apologizes to Stan and they begin to work things out. He pulls out the penny that she turned over when they first met and Zoe promises to trust him more. In the end, Stan opens a store/restaurant next to Zoe's pet shop and after the Grand Opening speech Stan asks Zoe to marry him and she says yes. On their way home, she spontaneously throws up into a rubbish bin and realizes that she may be yet again pregnant.
 L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment
Its been a while since I last watch any movie of JLo. JLo is always a singer type of celebrity rather than an actress for me. But she was not bad in this kind of romance comedy movie :) Jlo & O'Loughlin makes a nice sweet couple in this movie and I love it very much :) Overall the movie is easy to watch and nice, having the baby first before the dates and marry is quite normal in nowadays too, right? 

Saturday, January 16, 2010

The Cell

Released Year: 2000
Directed by Tarsem Singh

Casted by:
Jennifer Lopez as Catherine Deane
Vincent D'Onofrio as Carl Rudolph Stargher
Vince Vaughn as Peter Novak
Story:
Catherine is an expert on the experimental treatment for coma patients. The lab eventually make up a virtual reality device that allows Catherine to enter into the minds of her patients and attempt to coax them into consciousness.

Carl is a crazy serial killer who killed all his victims by drowning them and breach the color off them while making them into dolls. Currently he caught a new victim and has set a remote to drown her in a tank, but Carl falls into a coma before the FBI agent Peter caught him. They send Carl to the lab to find out where he kept his victim.

Catherine enters Carl mind and found out that there are 2 parts of Carl inside. The innocent part is Carl childhood who were beaten and abuse by his father while the evil part is the one who do all the serial killing. Catherine was captured inside Carl's mind and Peter went in to rescue her. Inside there, they fought with evil Carl and managed to discover where he kept the last victim. Later on both of them exit Carl's mind. Peter went to save the last victim from tank while Catherine enters Carl mind again.

This time, Catherine do the reverse and lead Carl into her mind with full of hope. She guided Carl innocent part and killed off the evil part. This experiment was a success. Catherine then has used this reverse treatment to save all her coma patients.
L² Scored: 5.5/10

L² Comment:
The story is kinda new and different. But the whole story line is a bit dull and yet not very pulling out the emotion part.