Taken - The story of an ex-CIA preventer who retires to spend more time with his daughter who gets kidnapped at Paris. Inundated with the typical intelligence bureau machoism, its almost edge-of-the-seat. This only thanks to the continuous action sequels. The movie could do with at least an iota of suspense or twists in the story. An average 2-hour filler.
Children of Heaven - There is something subtly real and sublimely convincing about a child's portrayal of a young protagonist. The audience immediately relate to their childhood. Children of Heaven has that exact feel to it. An extremely beautiful Iranian movie about a how a little kid loses his sister's pair of shoes and how they manage to keep the news from their poor parents who struggle to keep the ends met. The movie is a classic example of how a simple story can be told beautifully to make a lasting impression. You will fall in love with the kids' innocence and they yet again demonstrate the power of true emotion. A brilliant must-watch to say the least.
Valkyrie - The Second World War does not seem to be coming to an end. Hitler's Germany is growing. The world is wary. They know that if Europe is under his autocratic control, nothing can stop him from shredding the world into bits. There is growing unrest in the country and many aware of the atrocities by this one soul. A few brave men choose to do something about it. They hatch Operation Valkyrie which includes the plan to assassinate the Fuhrer and to gain immediate control of the Germany. They follow under the orders of General Stauffenberg ( Tom Cruise ). The plan later coming to be known as the July 20 plot unfolds in the movie and it truly is an edge-of-the-seat thriller. 1944 Berlin is well depicted and the characters have been played to near-perfection. A great watch especially for war-movie buffs.
Delhi-6 - Roshan ( Abhishek Bachchan ) is the son of a Hindu father and a Muslim mother and settled in New York. His grandmother takes ill and to please her last wish, he takes her back to Delhi. That part of Delhi where the Muslims make masks for the Ram-Leela Ras and where Hindu-Muslim goodwill puts most of India to shame. At the same time, there is news that a monkey-man is out loose and is wreaking havoc in the city in a continuous spate of robberies and supposed attacks. The movie is about how Roshan is bitten by the bug that is Delhi and how he comes about
changing or tries changing the lives, ideas and thoughts of the people there. A message-laden movie with frequent,refreshing humour and some really kickass music. A good movie for anyone looking for a change from the typical Bollywood content , not that Delhi-6 does not have its own quota of the magical Bollywood flavour.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Quick say about the movies this past week
There will be blood : The plot looked to take off spectacularly. Ended up with 'wtf'?!
Clerks : Was just like a comic book. Just a like a series of funny anecdotes.
Garden State : Zach Braff in a serious movie written by himself. Weird movie, was alright
Choke : Concept of movie was good. Funny too. You do go like 'wtf' at times.
Clerks : Was just like a comic book. Just a like a series of funny anecdotes.
Garden State : Zach Braff in a serious movie written by himself. Weird movie, was alright
Choke : Concept of movie was good. Funny too. You do go like 'wtf' at times.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
The Reader
Cutting right to the chase.
A movie about an ex-SS agent who was a guard at the Auschwitz camp, who also happens to have an affair with a 16 yr old (lucky motherfucker in the movie) guy.
The movie is a very sensitive one with a lot of emphasis, albeit not outright on the Holocaust camps.Its a very thought-provoking movie and the kind of romance they portray in the affair is simply brilliant.Romance is not a very faggoty word for a blog I hope. The movie was nice. Did have to wait for quite sometime before someone on dcpp had it. Glad I saw it. Lovely movie.
Kate Winslet is so freaking pretty. She does bare breast scenes again! Nice! I like! We all like! Very nice acting by her in the first half. The story too was fantastic.
A satisfying watch.
A movie about an ex-SS agent who was a guard at the Auschwitz camp, who also happens to have an affair with a 16 yr old (lucky motherfucker in the movie) guy.
The movie is a very sensitive one with a lot of emphasis, albeit not outright on the Holocaust camps.Its a very thought-provoking movie and the kind of romance they portray in the affair is simply brilliant.Romance is not a very faggoty word for a blog I hope. The movie was nice. Did have to wait for quite sometime before someone on dcpp had it. Glad I saw it. Lovely movie.
Kate Winslet is so freaking pretty. She does bare breast scenes again! Nice! I like! We all like! Very nice acting by her in the first half. The story too was fantastic.
A satisfying watch.
Doubt
Okkay!
Normal self hopefully.
Yes, I heard about this movie only after the Golden Globe awards and the Oscar nominations.Philip Seymour Huffman - if I have spelt it right acted like a weird little prick in 'Capote', the acting was great. I have also heard a lot of shit as to how Meryl Streep is good and so on and on. Amy Adams, I tell is beautiful!
So the movie was an obvious choice.
The movie is mostly about the principles and ideals of a convent-public school in I dont remember which place in America. There is this tight-ass principal played by Streep and a very out-of-place young teacher played by Amy Adams. They suspect the priest (Huffman) of having physical relations with a black boy - the first ever for that particular school.
The entire movie revolves around whether that little doubt that creeps into the principal's mind about the priest's nature of affection for the boy. He denies the charges, saying he especially looks after the guy due to obvious racial reasons.
OK, ya I realize I am still a noob at giving movie reviews.. so shall not say too much, except that watch the movie in full... it gets a little repetitive in the middle, but when you sit through the entire movie, you will be able to appreciate it.
Of course I would not suggest this movie to too many people mostly because its got a very slow start .. in fact the entire movie is slow with a lot of talk of love, guilt, doubt and so on. I liked it. Some will. The acting performances weren't really great.
I swear to God, in one scene in a classroom, Meryl Streep actually behaves like she is stoned. I am serious. Probably a few actors actually do smoke up before a shot.Entirely possible. In fact I think its obvious that a lot of actors smoke up for their scene.
The movie will hit you just after the last dialogue. Trust me.You will appreciate it better then.
Good Movie.Watch it.
Normal self hopefully.
Yes, I heard about this movie only after the Golden Globe awards and the Oscar nominations.Philip Seymour Huffman - if I have spelt it right acted like a weird little prick in 'Capote', the acting was great. I have also heard a lot of shit as to how Meryl Streep is good and so on and on. Amy Adams, I tell is beautiful!
So the movie was an obvious choice.
The movie is mostly about the principles and ideals of a convent-public school in I dont remember which place in America. There is this tight-ass principal played by Streep and a very out-of-place young teacher played by Amy Adams. They suspect the priest (Huffman) of having physical relations with a black boy - the first ever for that particular school.
The entire movie revolves around whether that little doubt that creeps into the principal's mind about the priest's nature of affection for the boy. He denies the charges, saying he especially looks after the guy due to obvious racial reasons.
OK, ya I realize I am still a noob at giving movie reviews.. so shall not say too much, except that watch the movie in full... it gets a little repetitive in the middle, but when you sit through the entire movie, you will be able to appreciate it.
Of course I would not suggest this movie to too many people mostly because its got a very slow start .. in fact the entire movie is slow with a lot of talk of love, guilt, doubt and so on. I liked it. Some will. The acting performances weren't really great.
I swear to God, in one scene in a classroom, Meryl Streep actually behaves like she is stoned. I am serious. Probably a few actors actually do smoke up before a shot.Entirely possible. In fact I think its obvious that a lot of actors smoke up for their scene.
The movie will hit you just after the last dialogue. Trust me.You will appreciate it better then.
Good Movie.Watch it.
Tropic Thunder
Wanted to watch this for really long.But Adi said it sucked... so hadne bothered. But then Kau told me it was good and given Adi's pathetic reviews of movies.. went ahead with it today and man what a movie. I dont know if I liked it because of after-effects or whatever.. I dont even know if after effects even exist but I am saying what I want to say - The movie was good. I still feel kind of weird. Still not able to completely gather my damn thoughts together.
Fuck the movie was too funny though. Fuck nice shit.
OK, I realise I am digressing on a blog that probably no one would read.. but helps to keep whoever is reading it, entertained. So there... thats entertainment.Get the fuck out of here.
I dont know if this is my normal self just typing whats coming to my mind only because I have a reason or I would have generally written a lot of shit like this. This really sucks to not know. It should last, but not forever. There should be limits everywhere man. Fuck too many things are coming to my head right now. Cant concentrate here. I am cheaply making use of a post dedicated to an awesome movie to describe how fucked things can get or appear to get under influence. Man what influence though. Might find it funny or normal the next time I read it. Let's see.
OK Tropic Thunder - must watch.
(PS - I realise I 'must watch'-rate a lot of movie..thats because nowadays I am watching a movie given all the reviews about it and shit and typically I would watch good movie)
Fuck the movie was too funny though. Fuck nice shit.
OK, I realise I am digressing on a blog that probably no one would read.. but helps to keep whoever is reading it, entertained. So there... thats entertainment.Get the fuck out of here.
I dont know if this is my normal self just typing whats coming to my mind only because I have a reason or I would have generally written a lot of shit like this. This really sucks to not know. It should last, but not forever. There should be limits everywhere man. Fuck too many things are coming to my head right now. Cant concentrate here. I am cheaply making use of a post dedicated to an awesome movie to describe how fucked things can get or appear to get under influence. Man what influence though. Might find it funny or normal the next time I read it. Let's see.
OK Tropic Thunder - must watch.
(PS - I realise I 'must watch'-rate a lot of movie..thats because nowadays I am watching a movie given all the reviews about it and shit and typically I would watch good movie)
The Rocker
Rainn Wilson-starrer movie about a guy who gets kicked out of a band and how he returns to kick butt 20 years later.Why the fuck would I would I not watch it?!!
I had to write this post a long fucking time ago but has not fucking happened... I am writing this with the other movie I just watcher - Tropic Thunder.More about that awesome movie later.
The Rocker also had some nice songs. I hope to get hold of them soon.The chick was good - Christina Applegate, albeit old.
Fuck it.
The movie is good.WATCH IT...
Rainn Wilson. Go for it brother. You are the fucking man. I done fucking care if this comes out as weird or stupid or ridiculous.Who the fuck cares what you think.Rainn Wilson is the man.Happy belated birthday brother!
Day Tripper. Day Tripper.Day Tripper.
I had to write this post a long fucking time ago but has not fucking happened... I am writing this with the other movie I just watcher - Tropic Thunder.More about that awesome movie later.
The Rocker also had some nice songs. I hope to get hold of them soon.The chick was good - Christina Applegate, albeit old.
Fuck it.
The movie is good.WATCH IT...
Rainn Wilson. Go for it brother. You are the fucking man. I done fucking care if this comes out as weird or stupid or ridiculous.Who the fuck cares what you think.Rainn Wilson is the man.Happy belated birthday brother!
Day Tripper. Day Tripper.Day Tripper.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Milk
After having heard a lot of good things being said about this movie, I decided to watch it. Stayed on my 'to-watch' for quite sometime till today.
Milk is a story about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California.
Its a very inspiring story, as would be expected.
Well, ya the gay scenes were pretty disgusting, but you can always choose to forward them.
On the whole a good movie, and worth the hype. Sean Penn did a wonderful job.
Milk is a story about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California.
Its a very inspiring story, as would be expected.
Well, ya the gay scenes were pretty disgusting, but you can always choose to forward them.
On the whole a good movie, and worth the hype. Sean Penn did a wonderful job.
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