Waltz With Bashir - second half in UTV World Movies
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Waltz With Bashir - second half in UTV World Movies
Beautiful but karuthu reedhiya prachanai dhaan
Sometime back i started watching Alice but couldn't go beyond 10-15 minutes or something (given that many things are going to be similar anyway, either Woody or something special is needed to sustain interest) And Mia Farrow "unna pidikkala dhanaala adichen" case for me :twisted:
nalla vELa. enakku edhum puriyala.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bala (Karthik)
Leon the Professional - Padu paavi pasanga they cutted all the scenes of mathilda training.
Natalie Portman - I am convinced. Pengal koondhal iyarkayilae manam irukkunnu solra madhiri they can naturally act. :P
Watched two movies yesterday
Enemy of the state, will smith starred - ok movie
Usual suspects(2nd time) - :2thumbsup:
Always wondered if I would enjoy it second time. The climax is everything. But then, the ride was swell as well, good script.Quote:
Originally Posted by Appu s
Yes, even i was not so interest to continue once after the first scene between hidden Keyser and keyton,but watched it, if there any clue we could identify who is soze. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by groucho070
ELI புத்தகம்
All time favorite film.Quote:
Originally Posted by Appu s
Bryan Singer and Christopher McQuarrie tangle each other to be Keyser Soze, and in the end, we give up !
:notworthy: The best villain portrayal of all time.. I cant get enough of how well they have shooted the family blast episode (been a while since I have watched this) to show his cruelty ..Quote:
Originally Posted by Appu s
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
is there any other scene other than that FAX and hospitalised Hungarian to prove that Verbal is Keyser soze?
Watched 47 minutes of Edge of Darkness. So far so good.
Digression - related news - Jafar Panahi Arrested in Iran for unconfirmed political reasons.
The press watchdog had kept the reasons discreet. Awaiting inaccurate, furnished reasons. Non-political reasons when it's abundantly clear that it's due to his involvement with Green movement. :banghead:
Ok kinda movie.. I have seen a similar movie long time back.Quote:
Originally Posted by ajaybaskar
But I was thoroughly entertained by another movie.. 'The Hurt Locker'. Thanks to LM for introducing this one.. It deserves an academy award for best film...
Re. Hurt Locker
Of all three main characters, it's clear as crystal, Will is obsessed, and persistent, despite the emotional and physical turmoil. The bloke hasn't got a soul back home who is mildly interested with his urge to be back to field, and the war anecdotes, except if we consider the amusement of his baby-child who doesn't understand a thing he says. And his ex-wife, still living with him, is seemingly "okay" with it. In an earlier scene, he takes offence at Sanborn's demeaning assertion of her as "dumb" to still live with him, and cuts back she's just loyal, but she doesn't look any interested in him either. So, William puts-on a pretense of the meaningless relationship. But after that, the whole Delta army thing, heavy metal, and subtitled "365 days for rotation", is extremely loud.
We get that EOD is not only his vocation and interest, and keeps his adrenaline going, but the only "love" he could afford to be in. The heavy metal music he often listens to, used as BGM as he opts to stay forever, having joined Delta company. That ending was really not necessary. At least doing it that explicitly (which until then, was quite subtle), is slightly cringe-inducing. In fact, in one of the roundtable discussion on script writing, almost every award nominated scriptwriter joked it needs a rewrite. I agree.
The Road
Adapted from the depressing, cathartic, yet poetic and beautiful, award-winning novel written by Cormac Mccarthy. One of the best speculative post-apocalyptic fiction I've ever read. The film was able to create the characters (some of the best acting performances of the year gets snubbed by awards, Duh ! ), the mood, and the alternating POVs. Yet it achieves most with a slightly prosaic touch. The images were starkly reproduced from words without some of the poetry, that the landscape evokes a whole differently from that of the book, naturally a chunk of author's description (pedagogics that the medium could afford) is missed out. A lot to see in the imagery, but one could never achieve the level of articulateness and poetry of the book. As is the complaint of the emotional core being scarcely brought out, but it's always going to be difficult to compare the perceived beauty from different mediums. Overall, a commendable effort. Much better than some of the inferior works being nominated for awards. Perhaps the weight of its source material, had pulled it down...
Alice in Wonderland 3D
one of the papers here marked it as Rubbish. Testing your patience for a change, with a 3D :oops:
Australia.
The African Queen influence notwithstanding, it was quite entertaining.
Hugh Jackman gets a Leonesque intro. Probably for a reason
Nicole Kidman பற்றி ஓரிரு வார்த்தைகள்... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by groucho070
She did okay. An Australian actress playing an English Aristrocrat in wild Australian frontier. Only an English can tell whether she nailed the accent. The African Queen comparison-la, nichayamaa Hepburn-a jeyikka mudiyathu. Not award winning performance. Entha award-nu ketkathengga. :P
The Recruit..
Good movie with reasonable twists and turns. But do we need an Al Pacino to don this role?
Good kostin. Maybe he needed to do this role for money..Quote:
Originally Posted by ajaybaskar
I read somewhere someone grumbling that after Scent of Woman, Pacino was making money doing Pacino impressions :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
As is Nicholson (started parodying his own expressions), even in some of his acclaimed films, and to some extent, De niro (altho he renders a heartfelt performance in "Everybody's fine", as much as a contrived, formulaic film it is)
Coppola said it best. Likes of Pacino, De niro and Nicholson do these films, without pushing themselves (the way Brando, did in his later career, but then that was 70's ! Or O'Toole, :notworthy: ). And Coppola had some scathing comments too, that they have girlfriend, wife, ex-wives and children to support and pay alimony to :lol2: And in case of Nicholson, indulgence with Lakers, and De niro, opening restaurants and developing TriBeCa.
He has a point. Contrast their early career, they continually chose to work with auteurs and in challenging projects. Whether it's 1900/Bertolucci for Deniro or Passenger/Antonioni for Nicholson, the passion was always there. Not anymore.. :(
...and then there was Eastwood :wink:
I suppose they still have it in them. Did you see Angels in America? Beginning it was Pacino doing Pacino, but later he really moves you. I saw the De Niro magic back in City By The Sea, still haven't seen the new one. Coppola has his points, but if I were either De Niro or Pacino, I'd ask, "nee mattum enna periya tillalanggadiya? Neeyum un saarayamum :evil: " :D
Deconstructing Harry - :fatigue:. Outdated is an understatement.
2012
From here on I am not gonna watch Emmerich's movies. He is no way different from our own perarasu. He makes movies with same storyline but (thankfully) with different set of actors.
A bit dated in its kitschy set decoration?! As for its place in his filmography, Au Revoir to The-Man-who-couldn't-function-in-life-but-can-function-in-art played by Woody himself. It would also signal the end of longtime collaborators, Di Palma's cinematography and Editor Susan Morse's penultimate film (the edits incl. the jumpcuts, blurring characters out, the transition within film's reality/fiction is one of their flashy experimental work, one of the best, among Zelig and Stardust Memories). And I'd say the team gave the best shot, even if let down by low budgets. I'm guessing the film didn't make money and the studio/production houses, eventually, forced Woody to involuntarily retire his trademark role and stick to playing supportive (like Scoop, Anything Else) and optimistic lead types (like Hollywood Ending, Small Time Crooks, Curse of Jade Scorpion). :(Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
As for thematic content, Adultery, Art/life demarcation are timeless. Tour-de-force narrative style that goes back and forth, and using Bergman/Fellini devices (artist envisaging fictional characters to explicate real-life situation, the short cameo of Death, different life-experiences played out, etc). The different snippets come off as a parody of sorts, a bit sit-comish. It's very interesting to see Woody going radical on age-old tools (:P) to amuse the audience.
Besides, the overt usage of expletives, and the outright self-depreciation through deconstruction of Harry's life, bears a vague resemblance to Woody's own life (not that I agree or approve of it), helps it age better. :D
It's a good companion piece to many different films in his filmography, but especially Stardust memories, although that is a lot more experimental and serious. :)
500 days of summer.
Awesome. Thanking LM again for recommending such a movie. Didn't expect it to be so good..
RatK-Mr.PaxtaBrookstuille
Have only seen the out-of-focus sequenceQuote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
adhukkaagave paakkaNum pOla irundhuchchu. Will soon
Cache
What's with the ending ??? So damn annoying.
I thoroughly enjoyed the film but that last shot is like a bland dessert after a nice meal. Why I say !
Thats the main highlight of the film.. Spoiler : U never know who did it.. its upto the viewer to make out :) Cache means hidden :PQuote:
Originally Posted by P_R
Sid, please remove the misleading Spoiler off your post :lol2:
It felt like he violated a contract with the audience. I know there can be "this what it is" type 'explanation' but it felt real nasty.
The main highlight was the gripping writing, the characterization of Georges, writing of the difficulty of 'explaining' , discomfort about 'sharing', the performances.Nuanced writing. The tapes, when it cuts to rewind and pause its freaky, the setting, the TV amid the book wall with news raining in perpetually.
The downsides were the loose ended do-it-yourself-ness, the celebrated suicide scene etc.
Stanley, Deconstructing Harry works a lot better if you have seen most of his earlier stuff, being an appreciator of earlier Woody films, I really liked it a lot. Especially the out-of-focus :lol: sequence. Loved Billy Crystal's Devil and his cracks, the "black hole" :lol: , and lots of stuff you might like if you take another look at it.
And I am 100% behind Thilaks comment above. Give it another try, Stan. I never fail to revisit this film as often as I can.
Idi Simotri (Come and See) - Russian
What a movie :notworthy:
The best (anti)war film i have seen. A very personal film and every frame is gripping
I enjoyed Deconstructing Harry