Posted in Movies, reviews, tagged 2008, aamir, drama, hindi, plot, reviews on June 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Most movies crave for hype. Aamir was released without any hype or real promotion, but it picked up purely on word-of-mouth publicity, which is probably the truest test of how good a movie is. But by the time I watched it, the movie had been so trumped up, it didn’t seem to be that good.
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Posted in Movies, reviews, tagged hulk, Movies, reviews, rrawrr on June 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Hero is unassuming/way-over-the-top (one of the two extremes). Hero is brilliant and yet quite caring in either case.
Hero has a major screw up and ends up affecting himself directly or indirectly.
Gamma radiation, Krypton, Mutation, Transmorgification, Radiation and such exotic-sounding terms are thrown around at will to justify anything and everything.
Hero says ‘This is my gift [...]
Posted in reviews, tagged drama, fanaa, reviews, romance on June 18, 2006 | No Comments »
Genre - Drama /Romance maybe
Fanaa was clearly one of the most awaited films of this year. Director Kunal Kohli was riding on the success of his copied and yet well-written movie Hum Tum, and he had managed a coup of sorts by roping in as his lead pair Aamir Khan and Kajol, possibly 2 [...]
Posted in reviews, tagged action, adventure, da vinci code, history, reviews on June 18, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Genre - Action? Adventure? History?
It’s tough not digressing to discussing the original book by Dan Brown while reviewing this movie, so all i would say is this- the book is no doubt a well-written commercial pot-boiler; it’s not a great literary piece by any stretch of imagination, the controversial topic being a major reason for [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Movies, reviews, tagged animation, comedy, reviews, monsters inc on June 18, 2006 | No Comments »
Genre - Animation/ Comedy
Monsters, Inc. is among the very best animation movies i have seen. The dialogues are hilarious, the characters are well-written, the timing of the ‘actors’ is spot on, the voices are amazing- this film is in fact much better than most normal movies to be released so far!
The idea of Monsters generating [...]
Posted in reviews, tagged reviews, romance, sabrina on June 18, 2006 | No Comments »
Genre - Romance
Audrey Hepburn is hands down the most beautiful person i have ever seen, no doubt about that! her charm, elegance and innocence all end up further enhancing her beauty- a rare case of improving upon perfection. That’s the first thing which strikes you when you watch Sabrina, an out and out mushy-romantic classic. [...]
Posted in reviews, tagged action, comedy, reviews, snatch on June 17, 2006 | No Comments »
Genre- Action
Snatch is truly a worthy successor to Lock Stock … Both Guy Ritchie movies, this one violates the oft-repeated thumb rule that blondes can’t act. After starring in Snatch and Fight Club, even a pathetic performance in Troy does nothing to undermine the acting credentials of Brad Pitt. The same British humour from LS2SB [...]
Posted in reviews, tagged action, adventure, comedy, guy ritchie, lock stock barrels, reviews on June 17, 2006 | No Comments »
Genre- Action & Adventure
Awesome? Naa, too meek a word. Fantastic? Not up to it too. Fantabulous! Yup, that’s the word to describe this Guy Ritchie movie. A watertight script by a novice director-scriptwriter, amazingly lifelike characters, twists and turns at every corner- this movie is one in which you blink and you miss something [...]
Posted in reviews, tagged aamir khan, andaz apna apna, comedy, reviews, salman khan on June 17, 2006 | No Comments »
Genre- Comedy
One of the best slapstick movies i have ever seen. The storyline is quirky, the characters are more or less caricatures, but i sure as hell ain’t complaining! A total laugh riot, the best thing in the movie is the total detachment from anything serious- nowhere does the movie make any observations or [...]
Posted in reviews, tagged charlie and the chocolate factory, fantasy, johnny depp, reviews on June 17, 2006 | No Comments »
Genre - Fantasy
This is probably the first ‘complete’ book i remember reading. Roald Dahl still is one of my favourite writers- other than “Charlie and ..”, i havebeen that big a fan of his other books like “James and the Giant Peach”, “Danny and something-i-don’t-remember-but-which-is-good-nevertheless“. It is indeed a pity he is better known for his [...]
