If you have seen the movies...May The force with you...if you haven't, you must have been Tattooing on Tatooine....
Epic, this trilogy is, in cinematic history. Conceived how the idea Lucas did, know not I . Traveling above light speed in hyperspace and an empire over galaxies....Robots advanced enuff in AI.... digesting difficult this is. 1977 made this movie was in .OMG!!!!!
disagree with me, you may.. acting substandard, think I... Steal the show the bots (droids) do.....made in1977, this movie was.. enjoyable the special effects are even now... hats off Lucas...
Understood you may have.... Yoda's wisdom words, love I do.....Down on self-confidence, if you are, boost u these will...
"Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try. "
"Always in motion is the future"
"Great Warriors.. Wars not make one great."
"Size matters not. Judge by .. size do you?"
"Luke: I don't, I don't believe it.
Yoda: That is why you fail."
"So certain are you. Always with you it cannot be done."
Enuff said I have.. Enjoy you now.. Off I am..Earned the rest I have :)
Overall 8.5/10
Friday, October 31, 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Star Wars I-III (prequel trilogy)
I am writing this review after sitting through the whole star wars series in the order it is to be (not in the order of release).. and I am sorry to disappoint Star Wars fans: the prequel trilogy may have its moments but it was nowhere near the original Star wars series...(renamed IV- VI) ... I would say that I(phantom Menace) and II(Attack of the Clones) were pathetic... III( Revenge of the Sith) is way better than the other two but still falls short of the mark.....apart from filling in the curiosity of star wars fans regarding Darth vader's Outfits and the Emperor's broken up face and maybe Luke and Leia's separation, this trilogy serves little purpose..
Considering that the original Star Wars stunned ppl with its special effects and concepts, this trilogy released in the age of LOTR(Lord of the Rings) is wanting on the effects too...
Whats more compared to the original trilogy , even the dialogues and not so great...Lucas would have done himself and his fans lot mroe justice with just one film instead of the three...
Natalie Portman as Padme is a relief when you have to sit through the horrible part I and II's , and in III, while the film improves, she looks a lot older.. :)
Overall 6/10
Considering that the original Star Wars stunned ppl with its special effects and concepts, this trilogy released in the age of LOTR(Lord of the Rings) is wanting on the effects too...
Whats more compared to the original trilogy , even the dialogues and not so great...Lucas would have done himself and his fans lot mroe justice with just one film instead of the three...
Natalie Portman as Padme is a relief when you have to sit through the horrible part I and II's , and in III, while the film improves, she looks a lot older.. :)
Overall 6/10
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Chocolat
If you are a diabetes patient you should not watch this movie... :P luscious chocolate being made by a pretty woman..This has all the elements of a good feel good movie.. Its out and out comedy with elements of romance and drama...Its one of the most enthralling movies I have probably ever seen...
The film was storytelling at its best..and ofcourse strong performances...the characters were all so believable!!!!!! but I think it delivers a strong message through the speech of the priest.... and it is one of the reasons I am in love with this film :"we can't go 'round measuring our goodness by what we don't do, by what we deny ourselves, what we resist and who we exclude... we've go to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create, and who we include."
How true!!! most of us do that....and for my part I too did that...everybody is good in his/her own eyes....its only when we expand our horizons that we become great...often we are told :"forgive the sinner"..who are we to decide if we are sinner????? How do we decide who is the sinner? the one who is in the minority!!!! and cant the minority be right???? this film teaches just that....continuing on the "A Wednesday theme, any attempt to overthrow a rule is termed a rebellion, they are seen are traitors and insane fanatics.. But often they are right....mostly they are brutally suppressed (as in the Orwell's 1984) or sometimes they win (as in Star Wars)...But yes the bottomline is even a minority can be right.. we are nobody to judge others..
I have drifted a lot from the movie.. go and enjoy it.. :)
Overall 7.5/10
The film was storytelling at its best..and ofcourse strong performances...the characters were all so believable!!!!!! but I think it delivers a strong message through the speech of the priest.... and it is one of the reasons I am in love with this film :"we can't go 'round measuring our goodness by what we don't do, by what we deny ourselves, what we resist and who we exclude... we've go to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create, and who we include."
How true!!! most of us do that....and for my part I too did that...everybody is good in his/her own eyes....its only when we expand our horizons that we become great...often we are told :"forgive the sinner"..who are we to decide if we are sinner????? How do we decide who is the sinner? the one who is in the minority!!!! and cant the minority be right???? this film teaches just that....continuing on the "A Wednesday theme, any attempt to overthrow a rule is termed a rebellion, they are seen are traitors and insane fanatics.. But often they are right....mostly they are brutally suppressed (as in the Orwell's 1984) or sometimes they win (as in Star Wars)...But yes the bottomline is even a minority can be right.. we are nobody to judge others..
I have drifted a lot from the movie.. go and enjoy it.. :)
Overall 7.5/10
Thursday, October 9, 2008
A Wednesday (Hindi)
Bollywood's finally coming of age... There are a number of films in the past few months which are worth mentioning about... The age of running around trees has given way to some serious film making...As always drastic changes are brought about by newbies-all the directors of are fresh...
Lets talk about the film at hand....a thought provoking one graced by arguably two of the best actors of Bollywood-Nasiruddin Shah and Anupam Kher.... its flawless...and it has the RDB (Rang De Basanti) effect. Be it the background music..editing...dialogues...camera angles....But I am moved by the topic of the film...
In recent times, the world has been rocked by terrorism..whats the purpose????? Is anybody clear about them???? Doesnt each religion preach kindness to fellow beings!!!!! We are but a tiny speck in the fathomless universe yet we fight among ourselves on petty reasons....The massive human population is but a sack of sweetpeas that can crushed by a small astronomical force...Nonetheless we waste our time fighting among ourselves and these fights are aggrevated by vested interests and brainwashed fanatics.....Are all those so called terrorists really proud of having killed so many innocent people in the last decade??? People so benevolent that they dont even raise their voice even after their life is shattered???? Religion is but a way of knowing oneself. Everyone can have his/her own way.. Seen one way there is just one God, in a different angle there are plenty...because there is a God in each one of us and by prayers its that God we want to arouse, that God we wish to, that God we confess to...
The adjusting common man swallows all pain with a pinch of salt. Its very difficult to incite him to war..but yes when he rises, mayhem will follow...And we can see everywhere around us that the temperature of the 'proles' is rising.....They get irritated quickly..the anger is often vent out by burning buses, trains or lynching petty criminals....But that day is not far away when the "cockroaches" who pollute the society will be guillotined..Watch out!!!!
Overall 8/10
Acting 8.5/10
Direction 8.5/10
Lets talk about the film at hand....a thought provoking one graced by arguably two of the best actors of Bollywood-Nasiruddin Shah and Anupam Kher.... its flawless...and it has the RDB (Rang De Basanti) effect. Be it the background music..editing...dialogues...camera angles....But I am moved by the topic of the film...
In recent times, the world has been rocked by terrorism..whats the purpose????? Is anybody clear about them???? Doesnt each religion preach kindness to fellow beings!!!!! We are but a tiny speck in the fathomless universe yet we fight among ourselves on petty reasons....The massive human population is but a sack of sweetpeas that can crushed by a small astronomical force...Nonetheless we waste our time fighting among ourselves and these fights are aggrevated by vested interests and brainwashed fanatics.....Are all those so called terrorists really proud of having killed so many innocent people in the last decade??? People so benevolent that they dont even raise their voice even after their life is shattered???? Religion is but a way of knowing oneself. Everyone can have his/her own way.. Seen one way there is just one God, in a different angle there are plenty...because there is a God in each one of us and by prayers its that God we want to arouse, that God we wish to, that God we confess to...
The adjusting common man swallows all pain with a pinch of salt. Its very difficult to incite him to war..but yes when he rises, mayhem will follow...And we can see everywhere around us that the temperature of the 'proles' is rising.....They get irritated quickly..the anger is often vent out by burning buses, trains or lynching petty criminals....But that day is not far away when the "cockroaches" who pollute the society will be guillotined..Watch out!!!!
Overall 8/10
Acting 8.5/10
Direction 8.5/10
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Russian)
This film triumphed over Kurosawa and Truffaut's creations to grab the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1981...and its not hard to see why.. Its a complex tale of three girls through their youth till middle age..
In youth, all pretty girls probably vie for, is a piece of everybody's undivided attention. They are carefree and the society revers them then...but then beauty is nothing but a fleeting shine of glamlight..... it slowly fades....and then..its just the pangs of being single or being in a rickety marriage loosely bonded in the haste of youth...
Liuda is hot and beautiful, Katerina is charming and Antonia is simple..... despite contrasting characters they form a bond of friendship... A famous sportstar dissolves himself in the champagne of Liuda's beauty.... Katerina gets into a relationship, bears a child but the guy refuses to marry her as she was a simple working woman...Laughed at by others, Antonia marries a simple guy....
Cut down 20 years later..Liuda is divorced.....Katerina rose up the ranks by sheer determination but her sense of emptiness is well portrayed when she hides her face in one of the pillows...the other lying idly by her...Antonia is the most happy of the three...
All three tried to find happiness in Moscow...but in a chauvinistic society thats a difficult find.... Katerina's case is the most appalling...she fought hard against the odds to be a successful single mother yet "Once you have achieved what you wanted, all you feel is just howling in despair" ... because "Fate like a rocket flies in a parabola usually in gloom, rarely along rainbows"....
Is being single so tiresome??????
Overall 8.5/10
In youth, all pretty girls probably vie for, is a piece of everybody's undivided attention. They are carefree and the society revers them then...but then beauty is nothing but a fleeting shine of glamlight..... it slowly fades....and then..its just the pangs of being single or being in a rickety marriage loosely bonded in the haste of youth...
Liuda is hot and beautiful, Katerina is charming and Antonia is simple..... despite contrasting characters they form a bond of friendship... A famous sportstar dissolves himself in the champagne of Liuda's beauty.... Katerina gets into a relationship, bears a child but the guy refuses to marry her as she was a simple working woman...Laughed at by others, Antonia marries a simple guy....
Cut down 20 years later..Liuda is divorced.....Katerina rose up the ranks by sheer determination but her sense of emptiness is well portrayed when she hides her face in one of the pillows...the other lying idly by her...Antonia is the most happy of the three...
All three tried to find happiness in Moscow...but in a chauvinistic society thats a difficult find.... Katerina's case is the most appalling...she fought hard against the odds to be a successful single mother yet "Once you have achieved what you wanted, all you feel is just howling in despair" ... because "Fate like a rocket flies in a parabola usually in gloom, rarely along rainbows"....
Is being single so tiresome??????
Overall 8.5/10
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