Movies #22 & #23 - Watchment & Intouchables

I haven't written in the blog for a while, but in the last week I found two great reasons to write again. One is called Watchmen, the other one is called Intouchables. They couldn't be more different. Watchmen is from the US, it's a kind of a superhero movie, it's a drama mixed with sci-fi and it involves an incredible number of resources. Intouchables is a french movie, it's a comedy with sprinkles of drama and it must have been incredibly cheaper. About Watchmen, I must say I'm not a big fan of Super Heroes movies, but this one is obviously not of the typical kind. It completely grabs us by the strangeness of the story and keeps injecting interesting information and plot nods along the entire movie. The acting is great, and the dialogues are phenomenal. I always adore when fiction includes as much reality as possible, and this movie does that even though it appropriates it and changes it to serve the needs of the screenplay. The fighting sequences are irreprehensible and sometimes enriched with the most unexpected songs (see for example the opening scene with a matrix kind of fight sequence accompanied by Nat King Cole's Unforgetable. It is indeed... Definitely a must see, even if it requires a bit of concentration from the start to follow the story. At first, the story demanded so much of me that I felt I wasn't taking from the movie as much as I could. For that reason, and because the film was so good, the next morning the first thing I did was watch the movie again. I can't remember the last time I did that. Intouchables is obviously completely different but in that contrast lies its richness. It goes to show that all you need to make a wonderful and fun movie is put a couple of actors together, a good tbs of chemistry between the two non-gay male companions and funny dialogues. They make the movie and nothing else would be necessary. But on top of that they tell us a story about finding happiness in the most unexpected places. I've written much less about this movie than Watchmen, but that's just it: the best of Intouchables it's its simplicity. Enjoy!