Thanks mappi,great heads up to Star Wars ...
can understand now Y it has such following....will try to watch this week
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Thanks mappi,great heads up to Star Wars ...
can understand now Y it has such following....will try to watch this week
Mexicomeat,
If you wish to 'virtually time travel', get to see how the initial movies - the original trilogy - were made and then walk into the digital world to sweep through the 3 prequel episodes to get the best experience of Star Wars Galaxy, the best option is to catch Star Wars in the order of the its release - 1977, 1980, 1983 & 1999, 2002, 2005. And then 2015.
Episode VII is a sequel, so it should be the last to be watched in the series. It has got two more installements to come (Episodes VIII & IX).
But Star Wars does tell a story about a Father, a Son & an Empire, and it obviously holds the mother of all twists, a twist that gave nightmares to many. Unfortunately if you had consulted even one website talking about the movie, you should now be exposed to this amazing twist. Assuming you are ready to catch the plot and see how its actually unfolding, then there is definitely an order to be watched which assures the suspense and simultaneously introduces several new characters and their bondings. This order should ensure the interest and could enhance the humour quotient in the series, while gaurding the mystery intact. The below arrangement is suggested by several Star Wars fans, that I recomend too :
Episode IV: A New Hope (original trilogy)
Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (original trilogy)
Episode I: The Phantom Menace (prequel trilogy)
Episode II: Attack of the Clones (prequel trilogy)
Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (prequel trilogy)
Episode VI: The Return of the Jedi (original trilogy)
Episode VII: The Force Awakens (sequel trilogy)
Foot note :
Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
Luke, an young boy, teams up with certain valliant people to save Leia, the Princess of a distant Galaxy, from Darth Vader, an imperial commander from the Galactic Empire.
Episode V: The Empire Strikes (1980)
The Empire has chased the rebels but their leaders, including Luke are still on the run whom Darth Vader wants to capture.
Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)
In a battle somewhere in the past, a young boy named Anakin rises, whom the wise beleive would be the one who would bring the balance to the Force, at the same time a dormant sect called the Sith resurrects.
Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)
Teen Anakin is in love, but not aware of the oncomming danger, an army of clones to destroy his faithful house of Jedi.
Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Young Anakin enters into the world of deception as he tries to embrace his family life, but the evil plans of the Senators & Chancellors extract something entirely different out of Anakin when he enters the Dark Side of the Force.
Episode VI: The Return of the Jedi(1983)
Death Star, built by the Empire, is a threat to the Galaxy which the rebels try to destroy, while Luke faces Darth Vader at the Dark Side of the Force.
Episode VII: The Force Awakens(2015)
Around some 30 years later, the First Order tries its hold over the Galactic Empire, and this time a new form of resistence rises.
While I don't look much into a Star Wars flick like say a David Lynch/PTA movie, I really find it hard to overlook the plot holes surrounding "The Force awakens". The movie taps the right buttons, traverses the path that made the original trilogy such a huge hit but it misses the mark in widening the Star Wars Universe, in creating that one little opportunity to have an identity of its own . That's what the Star Wars franchise requires. A movie which retains the essence of the original but with its own novelty.Not an almost look alike film of the original with zero originality. Safe to say my understanding of the force has gone for a toss after watching this.Quote:
Originally Posted by mappi
Sounds interesting. I will give it a watch.Quote:
Originally Posted by mappi
Boologam - kudos for the attempt !
Tamil Movies with boxing as for as i remember
• Kaavalkaaran
• Kadhal parisu
• Vetrimel Vetri. 1989
• Badri (kick boxing)
• Maan Karate
this movie is diff from all these.
Pros:
• Jayam RAVI whole movie is on him, an excellent job.
• Debutante director (like guru is the sishyan bit spoon feeding)
• Dialogues
Cons:
• bit Amateurish
Result of the movie- can't guess, but whole theater enjoyed the show.
Pasanga 2
Feel good movie, must be watched by parents of young children.
The hyper active children will have you laughing out loud.
Gets a little preachy towards the end, but still doesn't test the patience.
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Thangamagan - zzz
Felt like wathing 4 episodes of a serial. Total borefest. Songs were good but too short. Overall very dissapointing movie.
Inji Iduppazhagi, 144
Terrible.. Please avoid
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watched inji iduppazhagi and 144 yesterday (same pinch ajay)
both were horrible.
if you look at the end credits of 144, you can see that the music director has used spanish orchestra and spent $$$$ on the music.... spanish orchestra for a low budget movie that has siva has the hero? obviously the producer has got his priorities wrong. he should spent $$$$ on fixing the weak story line instead.
had nothing better to do - so watched a vikraman movie released last year.
movie was mokkai but definitely better than some of the mokkais i have watched this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipj0KI0J99Y
Creed
I think this is the best film in the Rocky series after the first part. Credit to Stallone for playing the second fiddle to Jordan in spite of being the central character of the iconic series.
The camera work for the Adonis vs Leo match in the middle of the film alone is worthy enuf to book your tickets. The whole fight has been shot literally with no cuts and when watched in theatre, it was one experience!!
On the downside, there is nothing unpredictable about the story. Its the same 'coming from behind' theme common with most Rocky films but the screenplay makes us sit through in spite of this being the lengthiest of all the Rocky films, with a runtime of around 130 minutes
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Malai Nerathu Mayakkam - pathetic
• Can't complaint on adult scenes/ dialogues as movie is "A Certified".
• There are much better movies in Tamil in same gender.
• Hero's mannerism & dialogue delivery resemble Kathir character of 7G Rainbow colony(I love that movie).
• Heroine character miss-matches at different places.
• Movie looks artificial at places.
• Climax seems forced & urgent.
Hope Selvaraganvan will be back to form in his next visit.
finally managed to watch "Thoongavanam", certainly a relief from the masala craps we get bombarded with !! No need to mention about Kamal's performance , such roles are a walk in the park for him, I felt Prakash Raj was wasted , having said that his acting mannerism is becoming monotonous , Trisha was good , who was the "other" girl ? :lol2:
I felt had the movie been trimmed down or been made a bit more racy, it would have been awesome !
The other girl in Thoongavanam is Madhu Shalini, she acted in Bala's Avan Ivan aswell.
Both the films she is not needed...Quote:
Originally Posted by interz
ok, but in Avan Ivan she did not look as glamorous as she did in TV :)Quote:
Originally Posted by interz
malai nerathu mayakkam - it is different. i didn't like ok kanmani but i liked this movie. obviously, this is not a movie for every one.
I wanted to watch "malai nerathu mayakkam" , for some reason fewer and fewer films are being shown in Cinemas ! :| Guess I have to wait for the DVD then ..
^Do you think someone will be ready to release a DVD for this one?
Rajini Murugan - predictable movie.
Reasons to watch the movie:
- If you like watch a movie where you know whats gonna happen from beginning till the end
- If you are fan of Sivakarthikeyan
- If you like to watch heroine sans glamour
- If you like one liner jokes
Reasons not to watch the movie:
- story has been in recycle bin 1000 of times
- dummy villain
- NRIs always being portrayed as shallow and stereotype
- D. Imaan BGM & Songs
- In movies like these hero is invulnerable, even God cant hurt him
- No interesting plot twists.
Kathakazhi - just kazhi.
A movie that could have been a great movie but ruined by slow first have and weak plot twist. The love portions made me yawn. Karunaas is back to his usual himself being nonfunny. Hip Hop Aadhi's music is very noisy and not helping the movie in any case. I strongly request directors to use MDs who are capable of doing good BGM, edm/trap/dubstep are being overly used by the young MDs IMO.
What made me watch the whole movie was the mystery of the unknown murder, but after it was revealed, I felt like is this the best you can do Pandiraj?
Not sure ..Quote:
Originally Posted by Cinemarasigan
Rajini Murugan
I started the film laughing to the one liners and surprisingly at Soori's reactions and counters too (Not a soori fan at all), but it was just too much to bear as the film started wavering here and there for absolutely no reason.
I watched VVS first time and dint like it too, but now after watching the scenes now and again I find it to be a funny film. But this movie was an utter waste of time because the writers have not invested any time in writing the screenplay.
If you think that you can keep some exciting scenes here and there and make up for lack of story at, sorry boss not happening.
The heroine too looks very normal, Divya looks normal too but she has something that we can accept as an actress in a film. This girl, no and she is literally too broad on the shoulders to be a pretty broad.
The director seems to have absolutely no confidence in Sivakarthikeyan at all. He is outwardly shown as a weak actor which in turn tell us how much hold the director has on his craft. They have confused serious scenes with comedy and not even in the good Dark Comedy way, which seems to be working brilliantly well in recent Tamil films.
Watched it in a very mediocre theater and the audience were enjoying this film so much. I came out shocked. But that is the power of a star, Sivakarthikeyan today is a star. So was Ramarajan at a point. Hope Sivakarthikeyan understands the importance of acting, instead of always relying on a formula.
:rotfl::rotfl:Quote:
Originally Posted by kubrick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island
perfect set up for a future bala movie? a sentinelese tribal coming to tamil nadu - fish out of water - kills villian - goes back to island. a film by bala.Quote:
A group of indigenous people, the Sentinelese, live on North Sentinel Island (Andaman). Their population is estimated to range from 50 to 400 individuals.The Sentinelese reject any contact with other people, and are among the last people to remain virtually untouched by modern civilization. The population faces the potential threats of infectious diseases to which they have no immunity, as well as violence from intruders. The Indian government has thus declared the entire Island, which is approximately the size of Manhattan, and its surrounding waters extending three miles from the island, to be an exclusion zone.
On 26 January 2006, two fishermen were killed by Sentinelese when their boat drifted near the island.
One of luckiest guy made famous by the legendary Isai Gnani !Quote:
Originally Posted by kubrick
There were few of these types in the 80's , but managed to survive because of IR + SPB
Survival of a HERO is not decided by Music Dir & playback singers...Quote:
Originally Posted by PARAMASHIVAN
What I meant was(IMHO) IR songs contributes enormously towards the likes of Ramarajan, Mohan ... etc :)Quote:
Originally Posted by balaajee
True. Movies ran just for the sake of music. No way for actors like Rama rajan and Mohan can survive today. They will end up being troll material like Power star. Especially Rama rajan. :lol2:Quote:
Originally Posted by PARAMASHIVAN
Kathakali very good until the last 5 mins..oru thadaiyara thaaka patha mathiri oru feeling..pandiraj went overboard with the twists..when the final twist was revealed, I was like what??!! it became illogical..he could have stopped at one point..
What's the box office looking like for kathakali?
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Originally Posted by Mahen
YES,
After Marina & Kedi Billa Killadi Ranga had 0% hope on Pandiraj but he proved me wrong...we can forgive last five minutes for rest 2 hrs...
If I rate Pongal movies
1. Kathakali - Gripping entertainer
2. Tharai Thapattai - big letdown (I like Bala of Sethu, Pithamagan & Nandha.)
3. Rajini Murugan - Nothing new nor interesting
4. Geethu - Sondha kaasil sooniyam (even though its his grandpa looted money)
Gethu - slow and predictable.
So far this year I managed to watch 3 average movies. Gethu is not a disaster but not overwhelming either. More than the story & screenplay Harris BGM annoyed me, what is he trying to do , give everyone heartattack?
Aranmanai 2- boring
Sunder c try to play safe but totally fail here.. Repeat aranmanai 1 same story n comedy. aranmanai 1 at least some good comedy by santhanam.
Aranmanai 2
Neither the comedy nor the horror element worked out for me. Sundar normally compensates his weak storylines with good humor. But the comedy falls flat right from the start.
I think its time to put an end card to horror films in tamil cinema.
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Originally Posted by k_vanan
The Pey story, esp. towards the end, is similar to NH10 core plot, but HN10 was more bitter.Quote:
Originally Posted by ajaybaskar
I was expecting Manobala character as an extention to his absent-minded role from Part 1. His encounter with the Pey on the bus was hillarious though. Soori strikes his English again by introducing new vocabulary/term - Komala 'imisuu'. Few places he was funny. C Sundar added more flour this time, and when Kushboo came in, all wickets out, that was the most hillarious part apart from the ghosts & shadows becoming a joke. Atleast we had wet Andrea in Aranmanai 1 climax, here we are forced to settle with Siddarth in his tight tops.
Still the change from Trisha to Hansika back to Trisha was cool. I found the nambodari 'gapsas' funny, but at the same interesting, C Sundar still got few of his touches intact, esp. narrative dialog editing.
Aranmanai 2 - Identical Twins
Trisha : Aranmanai 2/ Kalaavathi !!!http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/...4165547-tr.jpg-------------------------------Aranmanai 2 !!!Aranmanai 2, extraordinary opening. Day 1, Friday Rs 5.22 Cr from 355 screens in TN. !!!http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/...4165626-df.jpg
Aranmanai 2 - Needs some renovation
This movie has all Sundar C movie ingredients: comedy, glamour, Sundar C. movie artists, unusual witty characters, revenge, plot twist and a simple story. The movie didnt feel lenghty at all, from beginning till end its scare tacticts. I did enjoy watching this movie except for the graphics and songs. The graphics seems worse than amman movies from 90s. And this Hip Hop Aadhi duo is getting on my nerves. The selfcentred MDs are more focussing on personal success as a singer than give others opportunities to sing. The bgm was apt for a horror movie though.
Moondraam Ullaga Por - amateurish
its not easy to make patriotic movies...