Which non-Indian film did you watch recently

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Originally Posted by groucho070

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

Thoroughly enjoyable. Review's in my signature.

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Goods news, pro!

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What are the cliches?

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Country bum turning out to be nuanced (and in case we weren't watching the movie, the LA cops tells us 'the sob nailed 'em') and having skeletons in his closet

I was half white so you liked me, I was half black so you dumped me :lol: If you are going to have someone talk naive then make it look believable, make their naivete come across. Woody-Coens.

- the poor dear overhears being patronized. That is even after he had stated with the preamble in the morning, tell me if I am full of crap. SA Rajkumar BGM would have been so apt.

- Hey mister, are you dead ? theriyalaiyEppA....


The Good moments, for me were
- Bill Paxton's wife telling the LA cop that 'he doesn't know any better'
- Bill Paxton talking about his family to Lila
- the convenience store scene and the pulling-over. Billy Bob Thornton was very impressive there. Generally Billy Bob Thornton was good, but even that character couldn't sustain the interest.

Overall I found it ordinary.

And that harmonica better be a metaphor. Perfectly fine if it is a metaphor I didn't get. But for all the screentime it hogged I hope it was not just "a thing in itself" :-)

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Originally Posted by P_R

Country bum turning out to be nuanced (and in case we weren't watching the movie, the LA cops tells us 'the sob nailed 'em') and having skeletons in his closet

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Cliche? As I said, the cliche is have small town cop with sins to be 'redeemed' and domestic issues to be 'resolved' by the end. But this film, the repercussion of sin hits back and further 'doomed' it by the end. Hence why it worked.

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I was half white so you liked me, I was half black so you dumped me :lol: If you are going to have someone talk naive then make it look believable, make their naivete come across. Woody-Coens.

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:lol: But, that's badly written. I wouldn't put it as a cliche.

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the poor dear overhears being patronized. That is even after he had stated with the preamble in the morning, tell me if I am full of crap. SA Rajkumar BGM would have been so apt.

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It had to happen, so granted that's a cliche. But the patronization isn't a cliche, at least from the amount of films I watched, none so particularly bothers on that aspect.
Btw I believe Nerd and LM were sinning praises of this particular scene.
I think part of why it worked was Paxton and the filmmaker didn't pull off a Vikraman.

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Hey mister, are you dead ? theriyalaiyEppA....

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Ah, the ending you mean. Nah, he is not dead. :P

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And that harmonica better be a metaphor. Perfectly fine if it is a metaphor I didn't get. But for all the screentime it hogged I hope it was not just "a thing in itself" :-)

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Nah, it's a just a solemn tune for black man's burden. :P

Interestingly, the film was made by a black man.

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Generally Billy Bob Thornton was good, but even that character couldn't sustain the interest.

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Yeah, It was good because he is a thug. And low-life thugs are stupid and get caught all the time. :)

One false move padathai pathi nerd gaaru nalla sonnapdi. Neenga enna ippadi solliputeenga

P.S: Edho ennala mudinjadhu :mrgreen:

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Originally Posted by ajithfederer

One false move padathai pathi nerd gaaru nalla sonnapdi. Neenga enna ippadi solliputeenga

P.S: Edho ennala mudinjadhu :mrgreen:

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Idha innum vidaliya :lol2:

He's_Just_Not_That_into_You

Paravalla, nalla timepass. Kept me interested till the end.

Hub range theriama solliputaarungga, vidunga :lol:

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Originally Posted by P_R

Oru cliche vidaama box-ai tick paNNirukkainga, idhukkku KamalagAsar rekamandEsan vERa :huh:

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Originally Posted by ajithfederer

Hub range theriama solliruputaarungga, vidunga :lol:

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:lol:

Actually namma LM kooda nallA irukkunnAru :?