I’ll start out by declaring that Coldplay’s music has always irked me. It was in the way they took musical elements from other bands and turned them into bombastic pop ballads, as if they were making them too safe to please a general audience. I’ve enjoyed a few of their songs here and there but when I heard their first two singles off of Viva la Vida, I was blown away. The album was supposed to be a masterpiece. It was finally going to convert me into a place where tens of millions people reside as fans of the band, right?
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Radiohead Lite
Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book (Zwartboek)
This is another instance of me regretting not having seen a film during its theatrical run but I am the better person now having seen it. Adjectives will run aplenty in my small review…
There Will Be Blood
I viewed the latest Paul Thomas Anderson film, There Will Be Blood, and it contained amazing performances, an amazing musical score, and an amazing villain/hero. Then why did I rate it* a score of 8.5 out of 10? I didn’t have a problem with anything in particular, it was a really good film but many critics have been praising it as the second coming of Citizen Kane (which IS truly amazing) and have called it the film of the year.
So I ask myself: was it a result of hype and critical overkill?
