Juno

Juno is a movie about 16-year old Juno who has been affected by an unplanned pregnancy. I was somehow shocked after seeing all 96 minutes of this movie, as it had really put me off. I am really unhappy with this new craze for this poorly made film. The plot is incredibly shallow, and completely uninsightful about the issue of teenage pregnancy. For the most part, the characters are two-dimensional and come off as disconnected from any recognizable reality.

 

When it was trying to be funny, I wasn’t laughing, and when it was trying to be serious, I wasn’t buying it. It’s adeptly directed and acted, but the gimmicky language and unbelievable characters don’t make the story interesting, involving, or realistic. Every single ounce of witticism sounded outstretched.

Music of Batman Begins

Music by: Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard
Additional Music by: Ramin Djawadi and Mel Wesson

Pirates of the Carib: At World’s End Soundtrack

Music By: Hans Zimmer

The Curse of the Black Pearl (by Klaus Badelt, in collaboration with Hans Zimmer) was fun, Dead Man’s Chest (by Hans Zimmer) was silly, and now with World’s End, Zimmer rounds off his Pirates‘ bounty of soundscapes with a mega flourish-not always gripping, but mostly flourishy, silly and yes, with the swashbuckling swagger so important in a Jack Sparrow film. If ye liked the old themes from the Pirates movies, be warned, there aren’t many reprises of those. Heck, even the Jack Sparrow theme from Dead Man’s Chest makes just fleeting appearances in its original form. Forget about the Klaus Badelt themes, you really need to be alert to pick them up in I Don’t Think Now Is The Best Time and Drink Up Me Hearties. But having said that, these reprises are quite pleasing. Surprisingly, the Tia Dalma theme from Dead Man’s Chest gets more time than Jack Sparrow.

Mr. Bean’s Holiday

Mr Bean’s Holiday (IMDb.com movie page)
My Rating: A- (Almost Perfect); ONLY because it pales in comparison to Johnny English.
By: Universal Studios / Working Title Pictures / StudioCanal / Tiger Aspect Pictures
Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Willem Dafoe, Emma de Caunes, Jean Rochefort, Max Baldry
Directed by: Steve Bendelack

300

300 (Yahoo! Movies / Wikipedia)
My Rating: Overall - A (Outstanding); and this deserves a mention, I never give it separately, Visual Effects - A+ (Oscar-worthy)
Directed by: Zack Snyder
Cast: Gerard Butler, Lena Heady, Rodrigo Santoros
Visual effects by: Hybride, Animal Logic, Hydraulx, Pixel Magic, Scanline

For a movie with a funny name and a gory story, the movie opened to a packed theatre. Or maybe it was just that students came to chill out and bought the first ticket they got after their exam got over. Whatever it was, my movie viewing experience started on a bad note. The movie started, they had technical problems, with the crappy Hindi music not budging to the movie soundtrack, and the Spartan visuals being overlayed with the fire exit plan with a big PVR logo bang on the Warner Bros logo. Those problems came back at the end too, when in the last few minutes, the hall turned into a disco with the lights coming on and off.