Which non-Indian film did you watch recently

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Originally Posted by groucho070

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Originally Posted by kid-glove

look a bit phony (De niro especially is cartoonish in Cape Fear) when you've watched the original..

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I agree with Mitchum's superior performance, but there is a bit of a camp element in the remake. Realism is not the thing here, and De Niro hammed it up to fit into what is essentially a revenge thriller. Remember it was supposed to be made by Spielberg who would have made it a bit more lightweight. Bobby-ku nomination veera koduttanggapaa if at all you care about Oscar :roll:

*the eyeroll was for Oscar, not your comment :D

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Yes Groucho, it might be a deliberate choice. I did enjoy the performance (just as I did of Pacino in Scent of a Woman), but I tried to assess in comparison to the original.

As I said in the previous page, Spielberg would be a perfect fit for a faithful remake. Scorsese developed lot more back story for the family, and relationships. And lot of catholic symbolism apparently. But the core of the film is simple and same as the original, that it only takes a single man (Out from the past) to stalk and destroy a family..

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Originally Posted by P_R

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Originally Posted by ajithfederer

Watch Dr. Strangelove. IMO, that is kubrick's best.

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AdhE !
idhai sonnA nammaLa paithiyakkAran 'nRainga.

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Yes. Slowly I'm realising that 2001 is not alone. ACWO is fast approaching and now Requiem for a dream has become my 3rd most favorite film after 2001 and The Usual Suspects.

Requiem for a dream is a musical. Vaaipillamai. End of topic.

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Originally Posted by groucho070

As you go older, you go backwards I suppose. I feel strongly about his Paths of Glory these days :think:

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:thumbsup:

How to train your dragon?

Watched the movie with 10 adults and 150 kids in the auditorium. Awesome experience. Missed watching it in 3D. Planning to watch it again on sunday.

Mephisto (German)

Tastefully Done! It's about the sudden 'Nazi'fication of the German Theater after the Victory of the Nazies in the German National Elections. It gives great insight about the artists of that Era who Conformed due to Fear, and Lust for Sucess in a Dark, Hateful, Cult-run Nation...

Vicky Cristina Barcelona - I hated Jules and Jim the first time and upon revisiting, found some beautiful moments that i'd missed. It had a detached beauty to it.
VCB comes with all the things i've begun to loathe in WA movies - the same film AGAIN (for e.g when Vicky starts telling Christy that she isn't impressed at all by Juan, you know whats going to happen), the same old "problems" and "searches" of the characters (dei, idhellam oru prachanai nu marupadiyum marupodiyum adhaye solra!), the obsession with "neurotic" etc... (luckily, there was no character whining about fear of death)
Yet, there were great moments like Cristy breaking up with Juan and Maria and Javier Bardem's acting.

:-(

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Originally Posted by B(K)

dei, idhellam oru prachanai nu marupadiyum marupodiyum adhaye solra!

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pazham thaaNdi periya vishayam....oru pazhathaala paramasivam kudumbamE reNdA pirinju oNNu pazhanikku pOyiruchu.

Cain-Abel saNdaiyE about Eve-nu oru Oedipal theory uNdu. #*@*& vERa edhukku saNdai pOttirukka pORAinga. :lol2:

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Originally Posted by B(K)

Yet, there were great moments like Cristy breaking up with Juan and Maria and Javier Bardem's acting.

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thangathAragai Maria Elena paththi neenga edhuvumE sollaliyE

The Score

Bought the DVD for its impressive, lipsmaking star cast (Marlon Brando, Di Nero, Edward Norton). But it ended up as a very ordinary crime thriller.

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Originally Posted by P_R

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Originally Posted by B(K)

dei, idhellam oru prachanai nu marupadiyum marupodiyum adhaye solra!

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pazham thaaNdi periya vishayam....oru pazhathaala paramasivam kudumbamE reNdA pirinju oNNu pazhanikku pOyiruchu.

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:lol: AnnE appadiyE maindain pannunga..

But I completely understand why one would say that, especially about WA films.. :)

Narrator is very sly in VCB. About Cristina when she is cycling with Juan and Maria Elena on a picnic..

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She saw herself more as a European, in tune with the thinkers and artists she felt expressed her romantic, free-thinking view of life.”

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Is he making fun of her pretensions ? But she is sincerely thinking about herself that way so they can't be called 'pretensions' ! So she is conscious about 'experience' she is going through and her choices (I am a big girl). So it is an experience she is immersed in but is still somehow aloof simply because she is conscious of it. Vicky was outside the whole time - conformism which her future self (the adulterous host) advises her against - is perhaps what comes naturally to her. Sure regret will surface every now and then when she gets back home (discussing home decorations with friends-in-law). But who is to say how things would have been if only... Can she actually confirm the 'rightness' of her choices from Cristina ? She can't but probably she will. Constantly. And like every decision it will prove wrong some times and right some times.

In the end it was not life, 'only' a summer in Barcelona. Just that.

Sooperappu :clap:

I am fully conscious of the fact that if most others had handled this theme it wouldn't have been as engaging and enourage me to delve into this closely enough.