I’ve been watching a bunch of movies the last couple weeks, something I don’t normally do.
First one was No Country For Old Men. Lots of killing and that guy. You know, that guy. He’s in everything. Even my dreams. The movie felt like it was 10 hours long. Maybe it was because everyone had a Southern accent and talk reaalll slooww. Maybe it’s because I don’t have a hard on for the Coen Brothers like I do for Wes Anderson.
So I finally saw The Darjeeling Limited. There’s a group of actors that will always have work as long as Wes Anderson is making movies. I don’t even know some of their names, it’s just “Oh, thats the same Indian guy from Life Aquatic.” The movie was good, the scenes on the train were excellent but it didn’t stun me like Life Aquatic did. I still think Life Aquatic is a great movie and I love the animation with the fishes.
In between these two movies I saw Knocked Up. It made me mad. Mad because it was not nearly as funny as everyone said it was. Does the girl have a single funny line or is it all riding on the guy and his stoner friends? Even the bitchy sister is funnier than the girl. Also mad because one conversation with her mom about “taking care of it” is not “addressing abortion as an option.” Funny that right after I see the movie, I see an article in Bitch magazine addressing the same thing I was bothered by. Why create this movie that has so many serious parts (too many for a comedy) and totally gloss over abortion? Yes, I know there would be no movie if she wire hangered the thing but she can at least have a moment where she thinks about her career, the fact that she doesn’t even have her own place, her pretty little figure, her dumbass baby daddy and say “fuck, I can’t have this baby.”
Sarcastic Spoiler Alert! It has a happy ending. Even the though whole movie is about how wrong these people are for each other, they stay together. For the baby. Aww, isn’t that the worst decision ever? Yes it is! Yes it is!
And in the To See pile: Why didn’t anyone tell me that Angelina Jolie is in Beowulf? I’m seeing that in 3-D!
Unrelated, my computer speakers seem to be getting quieter. I can’t even dance to Daft Punk in my room! Now that I think about it, my speakers are at least 5 years old but I don’t think they are the problem. My little brother just bought an insane amount of computer parts from an auction at his school. I might enlist him to help me put my computer in a new case(one that actually has a back!) and get a new sound card. I also hate that each program I use has it’s own volume control. And there is a master volume control for my computer and an external volume control for my speakers. WTF redundant.