Saturday, July 30, 2005

Jo Bole So Nihaal

I Puked ...... vomit vomit vomit ......

Stealth

I dont know what to say about this picture. It seems all hifi and all, but in the end its a pathetic movie, only showing how the brash the US is when it comes to following intl. borders. Its about how three pilots in the future are hired to fly special aircrafts. They are then responsible to teach an aircraft that has been built to fight unmanned. Its actually pathetic. I dont know why Jamie Foxx has acted in it. He is there for but the first half. There are no memorable scenes or dialogues. Totally bland movie. No good effects nothing. I dont know. I think you can gove it a miss. The actors and actresses have no good acting skills, not even Foxx. They think they can invide any country and attack it, carelessly. I did not like it ... and rightfully the theater was empty first day first show.

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Sunday, July 17, 2005

Wedding Crashers

This is an awesome movie. I was laughing rigth through the movie. There were hardly any scenes where someone in the audience is not laughing. It not only has excellent dialogues, but also awesome execution of them. Vince Vaughn is the best. He seems to talk the way he does naturally. He seems to act the way he acts naturally. Oven Wilson is also not far behind. The story is about two guys who crash weddings just to get the women. However, in one of the weddings, one falls for a woman and the other gets a woman to go after him, or so it seems. Then the story is a typical film, of how one tries to avoid her and one tries to get her from the fiance'. The movie is faulry predictable. Its just that its been brilliantly acted and screened. I was completely crazy about the dialogues. I enjoyed every moment of the movies. The actresses were nothing great, but they did well. Christopher Walken, once again has a small role but he does that to perfection. I would reccomend everyone to watch this movie. Its hilarious, worth the dollars you are spending. You will definitely come out laughing.

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Saturday, July 16, 2005

Fantastic Four

IT’S CLOBBERING TIME !!!!!.. The line all kids who saw the series know by heart. Though I am not a kid, but I did see it … so I know of it. Its one of the Marvel Comics series that really took off. Its about 4 astronauts, who get hit by space radiation and get special powers. Mr. Fantastic, the leader, gets special elastic powers, whereby he becomes elastic and can stretch to any lengths and dimensions. Invisible girl or Mrs. Fantastic, has special invisible powers, and force field abilities whereby which she can turn invisible and build force fields around whatever she pleases. Then there is the Human Torch who can control fire. Finally The Thing, who is made up of stone and as the human torch puts it, the mascot of the group. The movie is nothing great on the story. You have your menacing Dr. Doom who is out to get them and the city and in the end the heroes save the day. There are however some comic ( by this I mean funny ) moments on the movie. For instance the continuous mischief between the thing and the human torch and the dialogues between them are sometimes funny. Also the scene where the invisible girl is asked to become invisible and then shed her clothes is pretty funny. When she is down to her bare essentials, she becomes visible again. Jessica Alba looks her usual normal self. Yes I did not find her looking good at all. The characters playing Ben Grimm and Jonny Storm were awesome. They almost seemed like the real things in the cartoon. I would say this movie is a one time watch. Nothing great. I mean you should not expect anything but good graphics from such movies. Expecting anything else would be fool hardy. I liked it enough to recommend it.

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Batman Begins

I must say I went to this thinking that its just another batman movie. Well it turned out to be far better. In fact I would say this is by far the best batman movie to date. The characters in this movie have been aptly chosen. It’s a good thing the butler was changed. Michael Cain does an awesome job as Alfred. He has a good sense of humour, the perfect English accent and wry humour that’s there in the original character. Chritian Bale portrays the character of Bruce Wayne and batman like no one before. The movie looks more towards the beginning of the batman character and actually looks towards the dark side of his character rather than anything else. The story begins with how Bruce Wayne, a rich millionaire looses his parents and then decides to take on criminals in jail. Once he is far in the east ( cause he thinks that’s the only place where his name and money cannot follow him ) he is approached by the mysterious R’as Al Ghul, a leader of the mysterious clan of the Shadow Warriors. He trains Bruce to control his fears and fight like a true warrior. Bruce then comes back to crime infested Gotham and becomes the dark knight. With his trusted associate Alfred, and sprucing up a hidden cave below Wayne Manor, he becomes Batman. HE also has the aid of Mr. Fox, the head of the R&D division for Wayne Enterprise. Bruce now has to fend off the menacing Scarecrow ( who will soon become his nemesis ) as well as ensure that his families fortune is not taken away by his investors. In all the movie is great. The movie does show some gadgetry, but not anything insane and out of the world. The batmobile is more down to earth. His costume is also well made. I would not mind seeing this movie often, unlike the previous versions which seemed more “colorful”. I would recommend this movie to everyone.

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The War of The Worlds

Well let me start with the build up. The famous Orson Wells incident in the 30s or was it the 40s ? Directed by Steven Spielberg. Tom Cruise as the main Actor. Based on the famous novel by H.G. Wells. This movie had all the makings of a great movie. However, in the end, I think it was pretty ordinary. Not bad, but not very great either. The movie portrays the travails of a normal family in the midst of an alien invasion. There is no fancy gadgetry or military conferences or American presidents flying jets ( ala Independence Day ). It simply shows how a normal man would like to keep his family together. Where the top people get to go out in aircrafts and evacuate as fast as they can. Its left to the soldiers to monitor and take care of a mad mob of people trying to rush to safety. They fill ships beyond capacity and fight for cars and stuff like that. The movie begins by lightening strikes which transports the aliens into the ships hidden under the ground. The ships are huge and powerful and are capable of evaporating human beings into dust. Its up to Tom cruise to take his children to safety and keep them safe while doing so. Dakota Fanning has acted wonderfully, I would say even better than Tom Cruise himself. Well in a way the movie does promote itself as the travails of a normal family so there is no point in expecting much military talk. But even then since people are used to gadgetry for a long time, putting a few in may not have made it bad. Steven Spielberg does a good job in direction and the Fx in this movie are mind blowing and seem real. He has gone out of his way to get the reality of an alien invasion of the proportions he has depicted. In the end, as in the books, its not the humans but the planet that gets the invaders. The movie actually shows that we must look after the planet because it is looking after us. We have been around for only about ten thousand years, a speck in the history of the planet, which has been around for over billions of years. I liked what the movie stood for. Infact that weekend was nature approval weekend for me, I would out nature hiking and saw indeed how the plant and the forces to be are wonderful artists and I actually got to see them working. I guess that’s why I was one of the few to actually grasp, I am guessing, one of the true meaning of this movie and the book. I must point out that I have not read the book yet.

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