Knocked Up, π and No Country For Old Men

I started this a while ago but forgot to post it, so here it is now, better late than never I guess.

Last night my movie loving friend slept over so here is my first blog post comprised entirely of movie reviews. Here it goes:

Knocked Up

Almost every person that I talked to who had seen this movie told me how insanely funny it was. With all of that I was expecting one of the funniest movies I had ever seen. Instead I got a funny movie. Not that I was bored or anything, it made me laugh and all, I just don’t think it quite lived up to its reputation. So while I enjoyed the movie and may watch it again, I was overall unimpressed.

π

I had seen this movie once before, it was on T.V. at around 2 A.M. I liked it at the time. It isn’t your average movie, or even your average psychological thriller. It is filmed on high contrast black and white film, so it is hard to make out any detail really. The score is very well done; it is by Clint Mansell as his first film score. When I watched it last night the film failed to live up to my memory, but that is probably because the lights were on, we were talking and texting friends while watching it. It is the kind of movie you have to watch alone in the dark without distractions. What I really liked about this movie is that it set the stage for both Clint Mansell and Darren Aronofsky, the director, for their next movie “Requiem for a Dream” which is one of the best movies I have ever seen, with possibly the best soundtrack. 

No Country For Old Men

I just have to say I thought the movie was terrible. There was little dialogue, a vague plot line and NO MUSIC! It killed me to sit through it, in the last ten minutes I was praying for it to be over so that I could stand up. Today I looked it up and confirmed my suspicion that it won the Best Picture Oscar in 2007 as well as receiving almost universal near-perfect reviews. Maybe I have to watch it again without distractions, but I have to say, it bored me out of my mind. 

So overall it was a pretty depressing night filmwise but we had fun anyway.

Thanks for reading,

-MAESTRO