But its just that i expected fry to get much more and that in certain films i look forward for a supporting artists role than the main ones themselves......any case the movie was very entertaining.....will look forward for fry's role in 'the hobbit'
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But its just that i expected fry to get much more and that in certain films i look forward for a supporting artists role than the main ones themselves......any case the movie was very entertaining.....will look forward for fry's role in 'the hobbit'
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Enjoyed it :)
WRT Anil Kapoor. Yes, he was wasted in the film. Conversely if some other actor done this role his image would have severely been tampered. Anil Kapoor pulled off his part well and I think the comedy was intentional, ref. to Biwi No. 1 (remake of Tamil movie Sathi Leelavathi), No Entry (loosely based on Tamil movie Charlie Chaplin) and Welcome. My fav. comic role of his was from Tashan. :rotfl3: comic timing :clap: I still have the same respect for him as I did before.
Best scene
Entering the Kremlin.
The Burj Khalifa. Tom Cruise :clap:
Simon Pegg as the French waiter.
Flaws
Some transitions were damn right silly.
I thought the India portion was shot in Mumbai, but there was a lot of Kannada script :???:
Watched MI4 and I liked it. It's my favorite among the 4 MIs. However, the Bourne series still ranks above any of the MIs IMO. I find that more entertaining and captivating than MI.
Need to catch Sherlock Holmes2, I liked version 1. I am addicted to Jeremy Brett's portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the British TV production and can never get that out of my mind (love the stunning title score and visuals). I thought Brett played the role of Holmes to near perfection closer to that of Sir Doyle's portrayal in the book.
They shot hardly 3-4 mins of screen time in Mumbai. The scenes inside the satellite TV network were taken inside Mantri Mall, Bangalore. And the final parking lot fight was shot in Vancouver.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sunil_M88
At last got a ticket for Tinker Tailor soldier spy for today....Was full for the entire weekend in both sathyam and pvr.....
TTSS....brilliant.....
One of the best i have seen in the past few months.....gary oldman, colin firth and tom hardy were all excellent........
Good for you, Arvind. Not showing here :sad:
and the tv station shots, in Chennai :pQuote:
Originally Posted by littlemaster1982
They are gonna shortly remove the movie from theaters groucho.I was a little lucky...got the last ticket for the show.........considering the audience reaction cant see a much bigger run than the the movie.....Surprised thought the movie's still to be released in malaysia......
Ingga Sherlock Holmes 2 pArthu, they didn't get half of the humour, and the bugger in front of me was dozing off with his head leaning towards the aisle (took aisle seat). Intha moonjinggala nambi TTSS poduvangganggurIngga?
Rakesh generalising? :shock:
(I loved SH2) 8-)
No, it's Bangalore too.Quote:
Originally Posted by NOV
^ groucho.....athu kooda parava illa.....inga enn pakthulla orkanthavan wikipedila kadhaiyya padichikkittu irunthaan......:lol:
it shows "SUN TV" very clearly :roll:Quote:
Originally Posted by littlemaster1982
It's the SUN Network office in Bangalore.Quote:
Originally Posted by NOV
The film climax scene was shot in Sun TV office, Chennai, India.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlemaster1982
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission...Ghost_Protocol
:lol: kAlam kettupOchu. They'll definitely release it in DVD, wait pannurEn.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arvind Srinivasan
The shooting of the upcoming Hollywood film and the fourth in the ‘Mission Impossible’ series was shot inside the campus of the sprawling Sun Network’s office which also houses the office of Sun TV in Chennai. Sources at the shooting spot said that the sequence shot o the day formed the climax of the film Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol starring Tom Cruise in the lead.
more here: http://chennaionline.com/movies/cine...ity-campus.col
IMDB doesn't list Chennai in filming locations. IMDB is a far credible source than Chennai online :p
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
I liked the movie but I understood only the main story beyond that there were so many questions which I don't know if they answered and I missed or they were all open to the audience. Even normally I have problems comprehending spy films which is the reason why I'm not a fan of Bond movies too, and this being a non-linear film with so many sub-plots it was way too confusing and intense. Definitely needs more viewings to grasp everything in the film. Appreciatable screenplay which has been cut in a way that more than dialogs the shots narrate the story forward.
The best thing about TTSS is that it warrants the viewers attention completely.....Even if you miss one scene it could cause you trouble understanding the movie....Moreover in some movies you could gauge as to whats going on by the reaction of the protagonist. But here smiley's ( protagonist) approach is cold and he gives the possibly the same reaction for any thing.....Even during the circus meetings he prefers to be the listeners type....He rarely gives an indication or any emotion there in the film and also to us viewers....
Manchi review. Nenu vethukovalisindhe cheppinaaru meeru.
TTSS -
Late to the party, but still :clap:
For Le Carre fans & fans of mini-series, it's a wholly satisfying experience! But even as a standalone piece, it should have worked for most.
Oldman as the decidedly passive but extremely calculative Smiley hasn't disappointed. The walking style, thin upper-lip & thoughtful roll of eyes does remind one of the great Alec G. But both actors differ in many ways. It's with his voice that Oldman dictates his unreadable chess player of a character. Tomas adds a couple of scene of the lone Smiley uneasily swimming up & down the river, the sagging skin of old-age, matched by the simmering calmness of the river (70's England). It's perhaps the visual exposition of Smiley being essentially Anti-Bond. There are no carefully packed abs & beautifully stacked bikinis, no Hawaii/Barbados to look at. What we get though is trapped masculinity, of hot-war nostalgia, lost virility & closeted sexuality. As the lady says to Oldman, those times had past, with the war.
Now it's all left to a matter of preferences & orientation. It's of manners, in utmost rudimentary way. Disappointed that the film didn't have that extended ritual of the men in the room. The extravagant dressing sense of tinker, the boorishness of soldier, the less apparent snitchy nature of the tailor, etc. When Firth slams the door shut with his foot in Westerby sequence, I'd have thought they'd have used the other room sequences to contrast the change in behavior.
Love it when Tomas has fun, it's not like it should be stripped of meaning. When the fly bothers Guillam, Smiley observes, rolls the window, flushing it out without a fuss.
Speaking of Guillam (Like other men in the film, is slightly more vulnerable on the outside, unlike Carre's version of this character, played here by excellent Cumberbatch. Who leaves out the assured qualities of his Sherlock - Season 2, Episode 1 is out already btw!), one is in to the in-joke, Tinker Tailor Soldier Poorman Beggarman Gaymen. :lol2:
The spectacle boy (Prideaux's scout watcher!) in the mini-series looks like mini-Tomas Alfredson! Lol! This one is understandably less pronounced than in the series, unlike that expansive medium it's these sort of characters & extended moments that a feature film should dispense with.
And it's especially rewarding when a filmmaker sets a pace & tone from the first shot. The cafe scene (we see this in objective pov later, but again, it's so seamlessly fit) here doesn't seem flashy. In the change of setting (not just Czech -> Hungary, but also the military base), for a film that's set in the coldest of atmospheres & emptiness of non-war, it's this fat waiter who isn't particularly skilled & near-embarrassment that typifies the Spy-world. Not having men in military uniforms is a potent choice.
Smiley wages a war, to be sure. Like with all wars in the film, it's a personal one. His nemesis Karla isn't shown or heard (a wise choice. As much as I liked Patrick Stewart's muted cameo in the series). But the meeting is viscerally described by Smiley. In Oldman's behavior, it so seems like he regrets the words said to the tortured man. That the lighter with his 'Ann' engraved on, isn't only going to be kept a memento, but a tool to carefully toy around Smiley's emotions (which the uninitiated fans might gather in the end). The lost sense of perception in emotive state is a master move, but that'd also be the downfall of Karla's mole.
I definitely have to watch it again. Preferably alone at home.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arvind Srinivasan
watching colin firth in TTSS made me watch Kings speech again.....wonderfully restrained performance in a role that could have been easily spoiled by some hamming.....
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Mildly frustrated as I felt the film royally snubbed the uninitiated at many places - esp the first half hour(roomie slept off). I felt like chasing two express trains - one what is shown on screen and one what I had to infer. Add to it an overdose of elliptical narratives, a totally reordered time stack, subtle expressions and filler shots (that makes sense if you totally follow the film), the film could have been a disaster just because of the writers, but terrific film making saves the day. Mighty impressed with the direction and cinematography. The latter, in particular, is well worth the time spent.
Killer Elite - decent action, but what the heck is that plot about :roll:
This post from IMDB sums it up,
:lol:Quote:
Uh, let's see. Your orders are to kill three (or was it four) ex-SAS soldiers. Tough M.F.s. The kind of guys who won't just roll over and die without a fight. Only you don't just have to kill them. You have to make their deaths look like accidents. Even though they're dying one after the other and all are from the same regiment. Nobody's ever gonna notice that, right? AND before you kill them, you have to extract an on camera confession from them. That's all. Crikey - even James Bond would reject that one. And let's not forget the clock is ticking on how soon to get it done. It would have been easier for Statham to put together a merc team and go and break De Niro out of the sheik's prison compound. He seemed capable of almost doing it single handedly. I think he would clearly have taken that option rather than accept the ridiculous terms the sheik put on the table.
Descendants - not one of Payne's best. But worth watching. Clooney is terrific, but ultimately one is wary of Payne's lead protagonist and the motions he goes through. So rather predictable how it'd proceed. And the supporting characters were all quintessentially Paynesque.
I hardly remember Sideways, the only other Payne I've watched, so I found Descendants to be great but too emotional for my taste. Definitely have to appreciate the way awkwardness is always around the corner. Clooney and the girl are extremely good. I dint understand certain inconsistencies in the film like the way Clooney runs to his & his wife's friend's place in a weird way when he clearly is a proper runner and even the elder daughter seems too sweet to have a past, which I understand to be a very brief one.Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
Winter's Bone
Jennifer Lawrence all the way. Every scene in this movie builds up and reaches an appaling end. Cinematography keeps up with the movie like a child trying to let out a secret before another.
It wasn't that emotional to me. Every emotion is at best a corollary derived to the clauses applied prior. Awkwardness, and wanting to add dimensions (even though certain supporting characters are dimensional in mechanical fashion, something that every filmmaker has to wrestle with ), is his forte.
The Elder one did well. Mourning inside the pool was terrific filmmaking, and very good acting. I don't know, but I'd really want to try that sometimes. Adolescence, obviously she's a lot less turbulent & revolting once she revealed the reason of her fall-out and indifference to the family. There's something for 'em as a UNIT (for the first time in their lives) to tackle with. Towards the end, they're all seated together. It's that 'moment' that we're taken into, what the future holds isn't really implied, isn't it?
Clooney's character made to run in a quirky manner? There's 'The American' Clooney, 'Syriana' Clooney, & there's 'Descendants' Clooney. Descendants one is a old 50-something rich widower, and I thought for a sedentary worker, his running style to be apt. Be it over the hair-pin bend slopes of the road, or the linear run across the sands of the beach. Of course, there's an element of humor in it. But it didn't seem out of place.
There's male. There's female. There's Hitchcock.There's Sirk. More importantly, & to the point, there's Almodovar. "The Skin I live in". That sounds a tad simplistic. But it's all justified & true. Banderas gives his A-game for Pedro like always, & astonishing Elena Anaya, embodying the interiors with her exteriors, versa to the vice of the film!
The 'Almodovar genre'. Don't pay attention to 'Sci-fi', not that he is going to embrace that aspect. Or maybe that's what Almodovar is set to do. The respect for physical & sexual in meta- terms, without particularly asphyxiating the power of singular identity, all done in psychological plane. The plain abstractness of mis-en-scene, but also loud expository expressionism in Vincente/Vera, done with suitable melancholy. It seems that the direction & writing is saddled with PA's concerns of the scientific sleight-of-hand being an active distraction. But one could never take the Hitchcock out of the man, that he sets out of to do two different halves with each having its own tonal qualities, the element of suspense & mystery of the unknown, and especially for this film, it's all very organic. You could borrow a pair of scissors from Antonio Banderas and incisively cut across the second act of the film, and you have it all surgically bifurcated.
Oh yeah! That was one hell of a scene. Conceiving something like that is pure auteurism. There were many such shots in the film, one ex. is the staircase shot which was almost as surrealistic as a Bunuel or a Dali and those hovering plants over fabulous clouds shots were stunning. And after a long time I saw a wipe-out cut in contemporary cinema, I think the last time a film extensively used a wipe-out was 'Happy Feet'?Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
Releasing in theaters next week, yeah?
I want to see "Coriolanus". But not finding time. Busy at work.
Zizek on Coriolanus:
http://www.newstatesman.com/film/201...s-freedom-play
David Haguland, more on the claim:
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/m..._so_much_.html
Masterful post by Bordwell on TTSS:
http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/20...the-perplexed/
The Artist. What's all the hype about yA? Little charm here and there and a terrific performance from the lead, but as a film doesn't hold much. The reaction to the climax probably summarizes the reaction to the film itself - pleasure to watch, but, ஙே?, what's the point? Crowd (read six people in the theatre) seemed to like the film much.
I don't know much about Silent fillms, so probably I am missing something crucial - tribute to specific scenes etc., Anyway, நல்லா தெளிவா வசனம் பேசினாலே வர வர புரியமாட்டேங்குது (throwing a stare at TTSS).
Yeah, good lead performances, great performance by the dog (a great year for canines). But otherwise, the kind of mediocrity that schmucks at Academy suck up to.
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by wizzy
#meta no? The hero asks the heroine once, "do you want refund?" on the day first talkie is released in the film.
Doc - yeah. MIP (yawn), Descendants (good), Artist has been watched so far from the nominees. Mallick innum pAkkalai (#facepalm). Anything else do you recommend?
just watched coriolanus....not very much convinced by ralph fiennes acting....while i could feel the pathos in his portrayal i felt it could have been a much more profound performance...felt the pre climax scene was the only scene where he comes into his own....
Real Steel / Jack and Jill / Paul / The Three MusketeersQuote:
Originally Posted by AravindMano
I'm kidding of course, but it'd not surprise me if those films made into QT's year-end list. Actually, Real Steel is rather okay.
I liked Senna, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, A Kid with a bike, Once upon a time in Anatolia, We need to talk about Kevin, Beginners, A Separation, The Skin I live in, Sleeping beauty, MI-4, Point blank, Warrior, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, Tin tin, Descendants, Moneyball
I hated Kill list, Hannah, Melancholia. Meh - Ides of March, Drive Carnage, War Horse.
Like-Meh in between (timepass): The Artist, 50-50
I don't really know where I stand on Tree of Life/ Turin Horse.
Slept right after first act of MiP.