Thursday, January 06, 2005

Ken Park

DONT SEE IT ... its in between soft porn and hardcore. I started seeing the movie today..got so bored....stopped the movie half way through and deleted it. Some people have a taste for such "reality" movies and they say that i dont have a sense of realism. I guess i dont. It is basically about the troubled lives of young american teenagers and their craving for privacy and for sex. It has pretty graphic scenes of what everyone must be doing, but dont want to talk about. It even shows a person masturbating and the actress giving a blow job. I dont know. Some people sais that its a touching movie on real life... I had barely liked American Beauty. There is no chance in hell i am going to like this ...... I give it a -100 / 100 .....be sure to see the minus sign :P

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Wednesday, January 05, 2005

The Terminal

I saw Terminal Yesterday. The movie is awesome. Awesome comedy, with typical scenes at international airports. Tom Hanks plays the citizen of a fictitious counrty, who is forced to stay at the airport as there has been a coup in his country and the US no longer accepts it as a separate country and has invalidated his VISA. Because of his simple nature, basically his inability to understand english, the airport chief wnats him off the airport and his hair and gives him many ideas and all. The best part of the movie is the indian , mr. Gupta who is a runaway from madras. He is a janitor at the airport and gives in a brilliant performance. He is always sceptic and like any other indian, always speaks "ten times" more exagerating than it actually is. his last scene is good. The movie is good altogether. The last half hour is a bit of a boring drag but it is good none the less, a typical Speilberg pic. Also, Catherine Zita Jones is one hot MILF(pardon the expression). Throughout the movies Tom hanks does a good semi russian accent and good jokes. Even though he is telling the truth people think he is saying something else and bileve him to be a frequent flier..why..because he says " I stay here(at the airport) " .. which is true in a sense...

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Troy

Old Movie .. Reposting a review i had written earlier

I saw Troy the day it was released. IT was a freaked awesome movie. The scenes were welll picturised and the fight scenes excellently choreographed. Following are some scenes i liked: The fight of Hector and Achillies, The rolling thunder ( burning hay balls ) , Attack without attacking i.e. use archers and the first fight of Achilles. The movie shows in a nutshell the events leading to the Trojan War and its aftermath. Personally i like ancient history especially European history. So i loved the movie. Having read a bit about the Trojan War from Homer's Illiad, i know the movie is a bit wrong at a few places. Especially the ending. However I am not complaining. the story is pretty typical .. guy loves girl, runs away, husband attacks and in the end alls well .. though not for the Trojans. The glaring mistake however, is that Agamemnon, the Mycenean king who attacks Troy, is not killed by the priestess of troy, or the Nice of the King, but by his own sons, after being locked in a tower, well thats how it goes, according to the Illiad. Picturusation is awesome. Music scores great. All in all i would give it a 80/100. Would love to see it again

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The Bourne Supremacy

This is an earlier review by me on a different site


I saw the movie tonite. Its a very good movie. Ofcourse if you try to relate it to the novel with the same name you will find nothing similar and will be dissapointed. However if you go to see it as a movie buff, like yours truly, i am sure you will enjoy it. The story begins in Goa India ..... where jason bourne and his girlfriend own a shack on one of the beaches. He is still trying to figure out the dreams he gets about his first job as a treadtone operative. However, a russian businessman tries to cover up his past mistake of stealing 20 mil $ of the CIA money. They kill certain CIA agents and leave the calling card of bourne. The agency thinks he did it and try to track and pin him. At the same time the bad guys, the russian intelligence, unsuccessfully try to kill him. He then goes around trying to clear his name, avenge his girlfriend and get to know more of his past life. The themes and music of this movie is awesome and catchy. Some of teh scenes in Germany are great, especially when he goes to Berlin. The car chase scene is awesome and the fight scene between bourne and the guy who killed the treadstone head in the last movie, in the end , has been brilliantly choreographed. All in all its a good movie and worth a watch. You may need to pay attention at some times ..else you will not be able to link the parts .. In case you have trouble .. drop me a message maybe i will explain it to you . Personally i care a damn if the book has been adhered to or not, but i loved the movie. Can't wait for the release of teh final instalment .. The Bourne Ultimatum.


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Swades

Swades a movie i was told , every indian in the US should relate to.. hmm ... I guess that would be a fair comment though not for me. I generally do not like seeing hindi movies. However, since the last venture of this Director impressed me a lot, i figured, what the heck.. lets give this one a shot too, even though it has gayrukh ... oops .. i mean Shahrukh Khan in it. Well i found the movie to be ..umm lets see...about 30 on a scale of 100. I was satisfied that Mr. Khan did not reprise his role as a melodramatic actor sobbing away in a complex love triangle. The movie has some nice songs, my fav being "yuhin chala chal......". Though it seemed only like a "movie" to me and nothing else ... since i have people here to whom it seemed a lot more than a movie. I read in the papers sometime ago that this was indeed a true story about some engineers from Kerala. Though touching it may be, i was not impressed by it. Certain moments though are touching in the movie, like when the villager is explaining to Mohan, why he cant pay the rent. Thats about the only touching aspect of the film. Besides it, it continues to be a lesson in Moral Science. Ashutosh Gowarikar has continued with almost half his Lagaan caste. The new actress in Gayatri Joshi is hot. The story is good, though the movie is ok ok... i would say a one time watch. IT tends to drag at some points too. Also it has a lot of mistakes in it as well. I will let the the true "movie buffs" figure that out, though some are blatantly evident. The editing sucks big time. If this movie wins awards, it should for just the music. If it does for anything else, it will just show the poor taste of the voting judges. As far as i am concerned, i AM an INDIAN in the US, and the only way I think I relate to Mohan Bhargava, is that I have the same number of A's , V's and H's in my full name too ....

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WIll post my reviews of movies as i see them

Hi,
I will post reviews of movies as i see them. Let me say, that in general i will be fairly harsh with Hindi movies simply because i do not like them. I will write the reviews of how i see the movies and not how people like it or the press or whatever other entity there is , to whom people turn to to ask "how is the movie" ....

Have a good one

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