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Originally Posted by Dilbert
I agree with Kidglove. Dalton is an under-rated actor. Watch "The King's Whore".Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
I think I am slowly been pulled towards Craig. Yesterday I saw Casino Royale : He has put a lot of physical stress in the movie (which is unusual is a Bond movie) and his looks .... :grin:
Avatar and 2011 .
Both the film is very superb...
Did you mean 2012 ?Quote:
Originally Posted by leons0133
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRzZHjYcPPM edjample hereQuote:
Originally Posted by groucho070
Groucho - I said it puts a smile on my face not !@#$% !! Chellama sonen !
Midnight run - De Niro and Charles Grodin.
Now this is a fine bounty hunter film. Very funny works on multiple levels. The camaraderie between Grodin and De Niro throughout their journey is fantastic. It's funny when every time de niro yells "Marvin watchout". Lots of interesting situations with good twists/turns throughout the movie. A fine american film.
Marvin: "You Can't even Deliver a bottle of MILK!!!"Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
:lol:
Yeah :lol:
Enna idhu Amon Goeth avatar ellam?. Fan club join pannitingala ? ;)
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Originally Posted by Stiglitz
Le Deuxieme Souffle
This is apparently Melville's most commercially successful movie. You all being somewhat similar to my ethnicity, could you help me with this movie? Once I finished watching the film I understood what it was about and certain techniques the director has used to portray the characters' bleak and dark side, but once I started listening to the commentary later I got really irritated with the fact that there are so many things (apart from the cultural things) that I have missed out in the movie, this I realized after 15mins of commentary and I switched it off.
Do you people watch such so called classics? If yes, do you understand at least most of the subtle intricacies and techniques these films have in each and every frame of them? Please HELP.
Kubrick, don't know about that movie. When we watch them, we allow them to assault our audio visual senses and if it's great, it's great. Commentaries however accurate the observations and recollections, can also mostly be after thoughts, things picked up from critics reviews, retrofitted glorious bullshits picked up from film student groupies, etc. Also, it could be that the filmaker took lots of pain to include those so called subtle intricacies, worked careful on those techniques to achieve the end result. My point being, watch first, if curious, watch again with commentary.
:lol: I had just seen Schindler's List aniiki for the millionth time. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
Megamind - :clap:
Excellent animated film...
Thank you grouch070. I too had a similar feeling that these guys are over-analyzing the movie and seeing stuff which weren't even meant to be there. But what you are saying is very true and yes, from now on that is how I am going to watch these kind of movies. If I understand it is well and good, if I don't even that is okay.Quote:
Originally Posted by groucho070
The Great Buck Howard
...played by the great John Malkovich. Collin Hanks play a Matthew Broderick character, his dad appears in two scene playing his father. Otherwise, one of those gentle films with lots of piano plonking and soft noise that will fail to wake up a post-milk sleeping babies and gives that dopey eyed puppy look to award committees. Watch it for Malkovich.
The Bourne Identity (2002)
Solid start to a blockbuster franchise. Matt Damon is super sharp as a "CIA Asset". Franka Potente is too good. Acts like a sweet heart and immensely likeable. In my experience I've observed European Actors to always good. Stunts are glorious. Sorry Bond fans, Bond films look super silly to Bourne with an exception to may be the last Bond film.
The last Bond film tried to be Bourne, that's why most of us hate it.
Good decision they made then :lol: :yessir:
Stan, the Bond films were never meant to be realistic. Even the grim License To Kill has some silly goofy moments. Back in 60s when Bondmania ruled, they were also making more realistic spy flicks like The Spy Who Came From Cold or the Harry Palmer films which incidentally was produced by one of the Bond producers. It's supposed to be outlandish, a bit over the top, good one-liners and not too far away from the original source (Fleming).
I like watch both type. Liked the first Bourne mini-series which was slower, not frantic like this one which is not bad by itself.
Thanks Groucho :)
Searching now The Spy Who Came From Cold or the Harry Palmer films.
Every time I watch this film, I end up watching the whole trilogy. This is one of the very few complete trilogies in Hollywood.Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
Good, we should start Michael Caine fan club.Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
Casino Royale >>> All Bourne films IMHO.
{Insert fav Kamal quote here.] I'd say CR = Bourne Identity. Bourne 2/3<<<<<<<<Quantum of Solace.Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
Grouch,
Actually CR made it into my decade best lists. No other Spy/Agent films come close last decade. Except maybe "Limits of Control" but many would call it an Avant-garde fart. Bourne Series, I like, and is a different kettle of fish to other pretenders. Mostly because Greengrass knows & understands the handheld camera aesthetic, and there's a stylistic consistency to take seriously.
Btw, On Thalaivar as Bond - :lol: would be a misfit.
Agree re. the DVD commentary. Two of the best commentaries I've listened had both involving Jack Nicholson (the man's voice sits well with anything & everything & he paces it at right, silent intervals):
a) The Passenger (helped understand how Antonioni works, and the technique used for the last continuous long shot)
b) One flew over the cuckoo's nest (with Milos Forman, but this might be more to do with the fact it was the first DVD I bought with extras & commentary!)
Coppola's The Godfather commentary is an old favorite and full of delicious anecdotes.
Among film scholars & historians, Stephen Prince commentary has never failed to be illuminating and insightful. Whether it's the Kurosawa films or Peckinpah's Straw Dogs, Prince's commentary is a #WIN (to use a Twitter jargon.)
Film scholar & Welles Historian/expert Rosenbaum's commentary for Mr.Arkadin. Again a MUST HAVE for all Welles lovers.
Although when I think about it, I seem to have more fondness for Doug Liman's first installment to subsequent Greengrass films !
On the commentaries, check out the ones with Kurt Russell/Carpenter, infectious fun.
Kid-glove,
Excellant, DP of Daniel Day-Lewis.
i enjoyed his role as oil man in the movie " there will be blood". He even overshadowed Dicaprio, who had more footage, in Gangs of newyork....
Kill bill 1 & 2 - Nth time just brilliant story telling !
Bond series v/s Bourne series shouldn't be compared they cater to 2 comepletely different generes.
And Pl don't rank them as "just action/thriller flicks"
as our CAT confirmed I second him that the last installment failed becuase we saw Bond who was more human (like bourne) less spy.
Having said that Bourne series could be easily imitated example : Taken , recent 1 unknown and still get away with it.
Absolutely. Do a Bond, and you will be called a copycat, but Bourne is everywhere, anywhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dilbert
By the by, the agent with amnesia plot was already in the last Bond novel. Bond arrives in M's office and almost kills his boss. Then they had to rework on him memory and bring him back to the so-called good side.
Just saw The Pianist again after a long time... Very well done! :cool:
Anyone seen "Faster"? Worth watching?
The Hangover II trailer in HD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9co0F15-AU
Same story looks like. Even if this one is going to be half as funny as the first one, we have a treat. Btw, saw the *supposed* original - Dude where's my car again on TV yesterday. Still remains a maranamokkai and no match to the hangover on all counts (Humor, screenplay, characters etc.) And that kutcher dude is such a pain :banghead:
Rango
மகனோடு நேற்று பார்த்தேன். அமர்க்களம். அட்டகாசம். சிறந்த பொழுதுபோக்கு. இன்னொரு முறை பார்க்கணும். அழகான, நகைச்சுவை கலந்த வசனங்கள. பங்கேற்ற அனைத்து தொழில் நுட்பக் கலைஞ்ர்களுக்கும் பாராட்டுக்கள் - நன்றிகள்.
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
I've been wanting to watch this movie for sometime even after reading so many bad things about it and watched a movie with neutral expectations for once. I, personally, loved this movie. I dont know why but I just could see how a man, as old as Woody, can see things and how paranoid he is. All I could see in the movie was paranoia and his diminishing hope of laying his hands on one of his actresses again. When a man, who is very low on confidence and is convincing himself that there is nothing more to life than what he has already seen, is making a movie the result will be this.
Tell me about it Nerd. Adhai vera peria kaaviyam madhiri inge pesittu irundhanga.
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Mildred Pierce - HBO Mini series Part 1 and 2.
Very Good. Kate winslet is at it again.
Ratatouille on bluray.
Attention to detail :notworthy: End credits.. vaaipillamai :clap: The soundtrack is very impressive, noticed it only this time.
The Man from Nowhere (Ajeossi) : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1527788/
Faster is an action Drama where Johnson has tried to "act". Faster as the name suggests does not have car chases, its about a transporter + bank job gone wrong + "double game" + "ball" in the head + one man army + revenge + Twist & Turns (and beleive me you will not see it comming ;))Quote:
Originally Posted by Stiglitz
Instead of Faster, I would recomend The Mechanic starring Jason Statham. And The Big Bang starring Banderas.
Recent movies like "Unknown" or "SuckerPunch" => watch them if you watch A-Z movies (like me) ... LoL
Yes, Rango was good, funny. Me too saw it yesterday. I watched it in numeric (only 2D version was released in my town) and I do not know whether the movie was released in 3D elsewhere. Would love to watch it in 3D.Quote:
Originally Posted by venkkiram
Hide and Seek - oru nalla padam :thumbsup:
Drive Angry 3D :banghead: why did they release a 3d version for this film ? :think: