Which non-Indian film did you watch recently

[groucho070]

No, Thilak. Gosh, what a cast and crew (just checked imdb).

Both have done a few films together, haven't they? I've seen only Gunfight at the O.K. Corall (so and so). And Frankenheimer's The Train with Burt was awesome!!!

[kid-glove]

The Gift box also contains "The Train", "The battleship Potemkin", "Career Girls", and "The boys from Brazil". Thanks to my sister for sending it a full week before my actual b'day.

[kid-glove]

These are original dvds with good many extra features. I will try to post the extras in youtube.

[groucho070]

Thanks for making me jealous :P . But nevertheless, do post the xtras especially ones about The Train :D

[kid-glove]

You're an old timer pal. These are just 'Five easy pieces' for ya. :D

[leosimha]

Way back when it was released. Felt it was good then. Not sure how I would feel now.

I guess you would also feel it is good right now.

But for me, it is wow....what an amzing movie? Morgan Freeman...great.

But what made me wow was a no actor (I mean I don't know him) called Tim Robins....good performances from the lead actors....

amazing movie. can watch it for any number of times....

[groucho070]

But what made me wow was a no actor (I mean I don't know him) called Tim Robins....good performances from the lead actors....You like him here, you will like him in Mystic River. Me, I actually think he makes a fine comedic actor. Re: Hudsucker Proxy...and was hillarious in second Austin Power movie as the President, itching to press the red button, "Jiminy Jumpin' Jesus, I can't believe we're gonna pay that madman. I got nukes out the ying-yang. Just let me launch one, for God's sake." :lol:

[leosimha]

I haven't seen the 2nd Austin Power movie...will check out soon...I thought he is kinda a serious actor type....will watch the comedy part by him soon...

[P_R]

Just started reading a collection of Groucho Marx's letters. Hilarious.
Here's a sample

"You see, I write by the ear. I tried writing with the typewriter but I found it too unwieldy. I then tried dictating to my secretary but after some months of futility I realized that she too, was unwieldy"

:rotfl3:

The very first letter is a series of letters written to Warner Brothers on their objection to his naming a film "A Night in Casablanca". :lol:

Groucho, have you read this book ??

[Aalavanthan]

X Men Wolverine - Not upto the standards of X Men I & III .. Climax thaan paaka mudiyala, adhukulla air hostress vandhu headphones-a pudingitaa :(

[kid-glove]

Groucho Marx's letters
I read few of those when I stepped into Landmark. I didn't buy, naturally. But from the selective excerpt, it seems to have a gem strewn everywhere. I love his style. And I hope to not ape it.

[littlemaster1982]

2012 - Awesome CGI, awful film.

[Appu s]

From Hell - Jack the ripper identified in this movie
enjoyed it..excellent story... good acting by inspector,ripper and one of the main prostitute others did not fit the role...

[kid-glove]

"Boys from Brazil"
- Memorable performances by the lead cast if not the most authentic. Olivier is a chameleon. :notworthy:
- Not the first in fictional entanglement of post-holocaust Nazi/Jew-hunters, and not the best either
- Very much a 60s film (although it got made in late 70s with lush colors. the book was written in 70s too), invariably dated
- the most intriguing explanation of cloning in a feature film. I enjoyed it.
- Overall, a film I much enjoyed for its audacity and works as a thriller for the most part.

[MADDY]

2012 - Awesome CGI, awful film.

same here.......i think this is going to be the best ever CG film ever made.........expected more on tsunami scenes but still held its own.........storyline very weak, "templated" characters, predictable screenplay, very childish untertones and ordinary dialogues......but im not complaining because of the "out of the world" graphics......first time, i have seen CG, being so overwhelming, that it went to the proportions of being scary.......it was like going on a roller coaster ride with u sitting stable and objects on the screen revolving around you 8-) ......but thats just abt it - its not even a "smart" movie.......some of the IMDB comments call it a "overhyped" B grade movie :shock: :lol:

[Appu s]

Babel :)

[groucho070]

Groucho, have you read this book ??I own this, among others 8-)

[groucho070]

Groucho Marx's letters
I read few of those when I stepped into Landmark. I didn't buy, naturally. But from the selective excerpt, it seems to have a gem strewn everywhere. I love his style. And I hope to not ape it.I've tried that on many occasions and have come up with mega-mokkais. :oops: His style is his alone, though he admitted that he also picked up from Robert Benchley.

[groucho070]

Goin' South (1978) A Revisit.

Gosh, the film surely feels different watching with an audience (one, my wife). It's much funnier now, and Jack Nicholson (his debut as director) was a hoot to watch. With beard and all, he looked like Jack Black, except the original Jack was and is funnier. Superb fun, this movie.

[groucho070]

Cleopatra Jones (1973)

Ah blaxploitation....from my birth year too...

Okay let me see:

Groovy funky Supersexy leading lady: Check.
Groovy funky soundtrack: Check.
Groovy funky costume and Afros: Check.
Groovy funky but badly choreographed martial arts: Check.
Groovy funky lesbianism hints: Check.
Groovy funky car chase: Check.

Okay, the last one was not groovy or funky, but it was certainly a good car chase scene done at the time when they know how to shoot and edit a car chase sequence. Corvette vs Mustang and another muscle car. Awesome!!

Now, I've got to get Cleopatra and Casino of Gold.

Note: Beyonce played the parodied version of Cleo, called Foxxy Cleopatra in Austin Powers 3. She didn't nail it, and the fro was no match to the original!.

Wife: How can she fight with all those furs and high heels?
Grouch: Yeah, baby....

[Plum]

Just started reading a collection of Groucho Marx's letters. Hilarious.
Here's a sample

"You see, I write by the ear. I tried writing with the typewriter but I found it too unwieldy. I then tried dictating to my secretary but after some months of futility I realized that she too, was unwieldy"

:rotfl3:

The very first letter is a series of letters written to Warner Brothers on their objection to his naming a film "A Night in Casablanca". :lol:

Groucho, have you read this book ??

I have read this casablanca letter - it is in WWW too. Hilarious stuff. I havent read the book, though.

[Appu s]

all Bourne movies :bow: :bow:

i equally liked the last 2 , the stunt sequences in Ultimatum is phenomenal .. the waterloo station and the morocco scenes were thrilling one.. however we need a strong villan to the sequal(is there a 4th one?) now i like bourne supermacy& ultimatum than casino royale :D

[carrey]

score

de niro and norton. 8-)

[VENKIRAJA]

Adaptation.
The movie is very good, excellent and all. But, maybe something as pointed out in the film is missing out. Maybe, I expect the regular ulaha cinimA to tune me into ambiguity or arouse me sensually to particularly 'appreciate' the piece. Or, it is that I constanly look for something in it to exclaim at. Or it is plain stupid of myself that I'm prone to something else and I strictly prohibit myself from applauding to Adaptation. It may be because I couldn't adapt to the devastating storytelling of a strikingly original thinker. Perhaps, I could (or will) make it my favorite once a week or so passes by me and a lightining strikes on my eyes.
(Whatever it is, I don't think it certainly matches up to.... Yeah right! Why should it, at all?)

[littlemaster1982]

all Bourne movies :bow: :bow:

i equally liked the last 2 , the stunt sequences in Ultimatum is phenomenal .. the waterloo station and the morocco scenes were thrilling one.. however we need a strong villan to the sequal(is there a 4th one?) now i like bourne supermacy& ultimatum than casino royale :D

QoS stunt co-ordinator is the one who did Bourne films too.

[Vivasaayi]

[tscii:953eb1aeba]Diary of a nymphomaniac
Diario de una ninfómana

I started watching this movie with "something" in my mind...but when the movie reached hyalfway mark - I was completely into the movie and the charecters and forgot the whole intention behind watching this movie.

pakkuvapattutennu nenaikiren :mrgreen:[/tscii:953eb1aeba]

[ajithfederer]

Awakenings

De Niro, Robin williams and the nurse Eleanor :thumbsup:

[Appu s]

all Bourne movies :bow: :bow:

i equally liked the last 2 , the stunt sequences in Ultimatum is phenomenal .. the waterloo station and the morocco scenes were thrilling one.. however we need a strong villan to the sequal(is there a 4th one?) now i like bourne supermacy& ultimatum than casino royale :D

QoS stunt co-ordinator is the one who did Bourne films too.

oh ok, i enjoyed QOS too... :D

Inglorious basterds :clap: Landa's ending was ridiculous.. could have been better...

[ajithfederer]

:High five:

all Bourne movies :bow: :bow:

now i like bourne supermacy& ultimatum than casino royale :D

[rangan_08]

Awakenings

De Niro, Robin williams and the nurse Eleanor :thumbsup:

Years back I've seen it on TV. Fantastic performance by de Niro. I think it's directed by female director, Penny Marshall ??

[rangan_08]

Recently saw " Snatch " in Sony Pix. Instantly i became Guy Ritchies fan. Superb !! Brad Pitt was great in delivering that gypsy accent.

Yet to watch Lock, Stock.....

[VENKIRAJA]

Recently saw " Snatch " in Sony Pix. Instantly i became Guy Ritchies fan. Superb !! Brad Pitt was great in delivering that gypsy accent.

Yet to watch Lock, Stock.....

"Do yu like dags?" (Some 2x or 2.5x tempo) :rotfl:
"Dags?" (Pause) "Oh Dowhgs. :rotfl2: Yei.. I liekh dowhgs. Bhutt I like caravans more!" :lol:

[ajithfederer]

Watch RocknRolla. I liked it more than snatch and LSTSB.

Recently saw " Snatch " in Sony Pix. Instantly i became Guy Ritchies fan. Superb !! Brad Pitt was great in delivering that gypsy accent.

Yet to watch Lock, Stock.....

[great]

Watch RocknRolla. I liked it more than snatch and LSTSB.

Recently saw " Snatch " in Sony Pix. Instantly i became Guy Ritchies fan. Superb !! Brad Pitt was great in delivering that gypsy accent.

Yet to watch Lock, Stock.....

RocknRolla was good. To me its slightly below LSTSB and Snatch.

[ajithfederer]

:).

For guy ritchie's fan(s), Sherlock Holmes is coming in on Christmas Day.

[ajithfederer]

:notthatway:

For me it makes complete sense because he has to cover up his war crimes. Since the Allies have attained better strength it was wise of him to do so.



all Bourne movies :bow: :bow:

i equally liked the last 2 , the stunt sequences in Ultimatum is phenomenal .. the waterloo station and the morocco scenes were thrilling one.. however we need a strong villan to the sequal(is there a 4th one?) now i like bourne supermacy& ultimatum than casino royale :D

QoS stunt co-ordinator is the one who did Bourne films too.

oh ok, i enjoyed QOS too... :D

Inglorious basterds :clap: Landa's ending was ridiculous.. could have been better...

[ajithfederer]

Miracle at St. Anna - Good war scenes. Alexandra Maria Laura's (Character Axis Sally) Tirade about blacks and thier oppression by whites before the attack is shocking and at the same time lolworthy for an observer. New WW2 History knowledge for lesser mortals like me. The little boy was awesome and so is" Samuel 'Sam' Train".

[ArulprakasH]

Orphan.. nice horror movie..

[AravindMano]

Two movies from two masters.

Fanny and Alexander - what a majestic film, every frame has greatness written over it. The final hours were very creepy. As great and as intriguing a Bergman film could be.

8 1/2 - My first Fellini's film. Enjoyed watching it, though couldnt make much out of it. Thirumba paakkaNum.

Also, revisited All About My Mother. The film makes more sense at every viewing.

[Dinesh84]

Watched "Joe Dirt" in AXN :lol:

pretty much similar to "Forrest Gump"

[Appu s]

:notthatway:
For me it makes complete sense because he has to cover up his war crimes. Since the Allies have attained better strength it was wise of him to do so.



all Bourne movies :bow: :bow:
i equally liked the last 2 , the stunt sequences in Ultimatum is phenomenal .. the waterloo station and the morocco scenes were thrilling one.. however we need a strong villan to the sequal(is there a 4th one?) now i like bourne supermacy& ultimatum than casino royale :D

QoS stunt co-ordinator is the one who did Bourne films too.

oh ok, i enjoyed QOS too... :D

Inglorious basterds :clap: Landa's ending was ridiculous.. could have been better...[/quote]
i have no complaints on the idea of making the deal with allies which make sense to me too ,i mean the Landa , a cunning character QT portrayed for the whole movie became a stupid at the end.

[salaam_chennai]

The General
Other than Charlie Chaplin movies, this is the first silent movie that i watched. Almost 60% of the movie is a train chase sequence. pinneetaanga. :notworthy:

[Appu s]

State of play nnu Russel crowe nadicha oru padam paathathaiye maranthutten, hmmm Time pass movie.

[littlemaster1982]

I didn't like that film. Romba sumaar :|

[ajithfederer]

Welcome home Roscoe Jenkins - Funny.

[ajithfederer]

Enna solreenga :huh:. Your statements contradict itself. He is cunning and that is why he made the deal. What's there to be stupid?.


:notthatway:
For me it makes complete sense because he has to cover up his war crimes. Since the Allies have attained better strength it was wise of him to do so.



all Bourne movies :bow: :bow:
i equally liked the last 2 , the stunt sequences in Ultimatum is phenomenal .. the waterloo station and the morocco scenes were thrilling one.. however we need a strong villan to the sequal(is there a 4th one?) now i like bourne supermacy& ultimatum than casino royale :D

QoS stunt co-ordinator is the one who did Bourne films too.

oh ok, i enjoyed QOS too... :D

Inglorious basterds :clap: Landa's ending was ridiculous.. could have been better...
i have no complaints on the idea of making the deal with allies which make sense to me too ,i mean the Landa , a cunning character QT portrayed for the whole movie became a stupid at the end.[/quote]

[Appu s]

Enna solreenga :huh:. Your statements contradict itself. He is cunning and that is why he made the deal. What's there to be stupid?.


'coz the way landa surrender to basterds without keeping any weapons looks stupid for me, it screwed up Landa's character. athu than deal nnu thirumbavum sollatha, antha deal ye better aa irunthirukkalamnnu naan feel pannen. it looks like QT want that german character looks funny at the end :wink:

[ajithfederer]

Soreenga aafisar :mrgreen:.

[VENKIRAJA]

The Hangover :rotfl3:
Crimes and misdemanors :)

The former was a glorified Venkatprabhu movie. Yeah, everything was very well executed and all. But, was way too American.
C&M is classic Woody! Not as intellectual as Manhattan or as funny as Annie Hall, but definitely masterclass. I don't know why the movie 'looked' worser than Annie Hall being made after a decade or so.

[Appu s]

The Hangover :rotfl3:

The former was a glorified Venkatprabhu movie. Yeah, everything was very well executed and all. But, was way too American.
.

Just finished D/l ng. :D

[Raikkonen]

Psycho (Original) - Sollanuma??

:bow:

masterpiece.. genuinely chilling, amazing backdrop screenplay, and you just can't take your eyes off the screen... even after 49 years..

Perkins :omg: :bow: what a performance.

[ajithfederer]

As Good as it gets - Good. Looks like both Nicholson and Hunt got Oscars. Well deserved.

[Aalavanthan]

Law Abiding Citizen..

Its the opposite of Shawshank Redemption in some aspects :) .. But the movie holds your breath until the penultimate scene to the climax. It atleast made you to think whoz behind all. A well narrated story but the climax lacked its punch. Jamie was awesome as usual and especially in the scene where he says "never ever think about touching my family again" .. Heart pumping !

Clyde did his job I must say. One time watch

[Dinesh84]

2012 :shaking:

[Appu s]

The hangover :neutral:, i think i had high expectation :( it had some moments.

[VENKIRAJA]

The hangover :neutral:, i think i had high expectation :( it had some moments.

neenga gounder aLavukkellAm espett paNNi engleesu padamE pArka koodAthu.. Someone else had told about 'Goa' strikingly drawing parallels with the plot. The trailer with Bikinis, Premji looking exactly like that 'pack of wolves' guy, stills of Sneha and Piaa releasing everyday with glam and glitz... ennavO pOnga.

[ajithfederer]

Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times (2002)

Noam Chomsky :clap: :clap:. Enna oru knowledge cum courage.

The phrase 'war on terrorism' should always be used in quotes, cause there can't possibly be a war on terrorism, it's impossible. The reason is it's led by one of the worst terrorist states in the world, in fact it's led by the only state in the world which has been condemned by the highest international authorities for international terrorism, namely the World Court and Security Council, except that the US vetoed the resolution.

Noam Chomsky: Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

[Appu s]

The hangover :neutral:, i think i had high expectation :( it had some moments.

neenga gounder aLavukkellAm espett paNNi engleesu padamE pArka koodAthu.. Someone else had told about 'Goa' strikingly drawing parallels with the plot. The trailer with Bikinis, Premji looking exactly like that 'pack of wolves' guy, stills of Sneha and Piaa releasing everyday with glam and glitz... ennavO pOnga.

Venki :lol: goundar range kkulam illappa, i said it had some funny moments, but its not thoroughly a ROTFL kinda movie..

[groucho070]

2012 - Awesome CGI, awful film.Same here...except CGI ellam erkanavee parthathu. Nothing new. I went knowing well I would hate it. Boy do I hate it sometimes when I am right.

[Raikkonen]

groucho..

they're showing the psycho trilogy (and the remake) on cinemax on tuesdays 10pm.. :)

i think it set the template for the jaws/predator rule (only original was good and the rest were awful).. but i remember really liking the 3rd one.. mainly because the vhs poster (norman holding the keys) was really attractive..

can't wait to see the 2nd one..

[groucho070]

Thanks, Raiks. Will keep an eye out for it. Haven't seen the sequels and, thankfully, the remake. :D

[Appu s]

Malena :P :bow:

[kid-glove]

Seven days in May
- Oru murai pakkalam

[ajithfederer]

Nee romba padam paakure !!!

Malena :bow:

Unnai kandikka aal illama dhan ippadi irukke.

:P

[Vivasaayi]

Malena :P :bow:

have watched it in parts...looked like a very very good movie from whatever I have watched

[Appu s]

Nee romba padam paakure !!!

Malena :bow:

Unnai kandikka aal illama dhan ippadi irukke.

:P

:lol: ithellam Art padam thambi :lol2:

i think wat i watched was uncut version,1.43 mints. anyone have watched more running time than this? :roll:

[kid-glove]

Enna solreenga :huh:. Your statements contradict itself. He is cunning and that is why he made the deal. What's there to be stupid?.


'coz the way landa surrender to basterds without keeping any weapons looks stupid for me, it screwed up Landa's character. athu than deal nnu thirumbavum sollatha, antha deal ye better aa irunthirukkalamnnu naan feel pannen. it looks like QT want that german character looks funny at the end :wink:

Firstly, he being a devil himself makes deal with devil of other kind (American Nazi-to-Nazi's). It had this sense of irony. I see you agree with this. But the problem is for Landa to confiscate his arms & hand himself over to Basterds just like that. But that is the protocol to 'surrender'. As per the superior's orders (with whom Landa made the deal), The basterds had no authority to kill him. But they being ugly basterds, do like to serve the Nazis they spare - a memorabilia on forehead. And Landa shouldn't be knowing this. At the very end of Chapter two, we see Pitt addressing a Nazi soldier on how they would remain to live after the wars. the soldier replies they could burn their uniforms and live in some hideout village. So, he plants a swastika in his head. The soldier reveals this to Hitler, who commands to keep that discreet as it would only cause anxiety. Hence why Landa is not to have known this. He is a clever, and cunning thief. He describes so himself. In the first part, he reveals how he is different from other Nazis, to hunt Jews as one would hunt Rats. And the key being the fact that he could think and act like a Rat himself. Not so subtlety but evidently Landa ratted the Nazis out in the end. Staying true to the character's sketch. He takes a calculative and measured risk, but he didn't have the details of Basterds methods. Or else, he would have twice thought this over. :)

[Vivasaayi]

i think wat i watched was uncut version,1.43 mints. anyone have watched more running time than this? :roll:

edhuvum cut aayirukadhu...worry pannaadheenga

[Appu s]

i think wat i watched was uncut version,1.43 mints. anyone have watched more running time than this? :roll:
edhuvum cut aayirukadhu...worry pannaadheenga
Muzhusaa paatha Thripthi venumla,oru confirmation-kku ketten :mrgreen:

[kid-glove]

Hey Appu. Do you agree with my assessment of IB's ending and Landa especially.

[ajithfederer]

k_g

good exblanesan. Even good avatar. Wendy, I'm home :lol:.

[Nerd]

But they being ugly basterds, do like to serve the Nazis they spare - a memorabilia on forehead. And Landa shouldn't be knowing this. At the very end of Chapter two, we see Pitt addressing a Nazi soldier on how they would remain to live after the wars. the soldier replies they could burn their uniforms and live in some hideout village. So, he plants a swastika in his head. The soldier reveals this to Hitler, who commands to keep that discreet as it would only cause anxiety.
IIRC, Hitler asks the Nazi soldier, "Did they do *that* to you" or something like that. Hitler (and probably a bunch of others) knew about the swastika thingi. Or am I hallucinating :D

I did not like Pitt's character (basterds in general) in the film.

Great avtar, btw :clap:

[kid-glove]

Thanks Feddy and Nerd.

Nerd,
The soldier removes the cap and shows it to Hilter. Hitler orders him to hold Basterds attack & other details to himself. And pretend they were ambushed. Other details to be kept discreet including removing scalps of dead Nazis and forehead swastika to ones alive. When he goes berserk about "Bear Jew" (:lol:), he is pretty concerned about Nazi's morale more than anything.

[kid-glove]

Pitt's character is an interesting one.

I love the long dialogue which pretty much sets his character.


I'm the direct descendent of the mountain man Jim Bridger. That means I got a little Indian in me.

This is explained well in wiki,

Brad Pitt as 1st Lieutenant Aldo Raine, aka "Aldo the Apache":[10] A thickly accented, vengeance-driven 1st Special Service Force officer from Maynardville, Tennessee, who puts together a team of eight soldiers for the OSS. He claims to be a descendant of mountain man Jim Bridger and bears a rope burn on his neck, which is never mentioned in the film (the script implies that he might have survived a lynching once). One of the film's protagonists, the character has been described as "a voluble, freewheeling outlaw" similar to Jules Winnfield from Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.[11] The character's name is a tribute to the character actor Aldo Ray, who appeared as a tough soldier in many war films such as Men in War, Battle Cry, and What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
Besides, it also works in my own theory of this been Good, Bad and Ugly of spaghetti WWII. Ugly part fits well with Lt. Raine and Basterds. Tuco's rope marks (one in the end which Blondie relieves from distance) has some bearing to Raine's own. 8-)

And also,

And our battle plan will be that of an Apache resistance. We will be cruel to the Germans. And through our cruelty, they will know who we are. And they will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled, dismembered and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us

And the German won't be able to help themselves but imagine the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels and the edge of our knives. And the German will be sickened by us. And the German will talk about us. And the German
will fear us. And when the German closes their eyes at night and they're tortured by their subconscious for the evil they have done, it will be with thoughts of us that they are tortured with.

Hitler fears of this. Hence why he doesn't want the news and other details to be spread. Landa, especially, is unaware of this.

[groucho070]

The Thin Blue Lines (series)

Reason why I can no longer stomach US sitcoms. Every episode is a gem, not as great as the Blackadder series, but can stand on their own. To have Rowan Atkinson known only for Mr. Bean is a crime punishable by death :evil: Sad that there are only few more episodes left in the DVD collection :(

[ajithfederer]

First 45 minutes of Dr. Strangelove

General Buck Turgidson :lol: :lol:

"Its not like that we won't get our hair mussed". But i do say no more than 10 to twenty million killed, tops and depending on the breaks sir"

[Bala (Karthik)]

First 45 minutes of Dr. Strangelove

General Buck Turgidson :lol: :lol:

"Its not like that we won't get our hair mussed". But i do say no more than 10 to twenty million killed, tops and depending on the breaks sir"
The way he says this is :rotfl3:

[bingleguy]

GI Joe Rise of the cobra .... :roll: indha padathai pathi enna solradhu :roll:

padathai edukka aarambikkum podhu, idhu dhaan kadhai nnu decide pannaama vittutaanga pola irukku :P

[Aalavanthan]

Thanks to one of the fellow hubbers. Saw Run Lola Run and was just stunned the way the screenplay was written

A short movie of 1.21 hrs, with 20 minutes for each story and as usual happy ending :) .. Viewer's choice is the director's choice in the climax.
Technically well made !

[Appu s]

Thanks to one of the fellow hubbers. Saw Run Lola Run and was just stunned the way the screenplay was written

A short movie of 1.21 hrs, with 20 minutes for each story and as usual happy ending :) .. Viewer's choice is the director's choice in the climax.
Technically well made !

LM,success.... one more feather to the cap :mrgreen:

AV, did u guess who was that guy in the ambulance? ;)

[Appu s]

Hey Appu. Do you agree with my assessment of IB's ending and Landa especially.
K_G ,thank you for the nice explanation :)

[ajithfederer]

Donnie Brasco - Quite underwhelming. Idhukkku edhukku al pacino?. Depp was good.

[HonestRaj]

May I come in:

kitta thatta 1 month munnadi parthadhu:

Nicolas Cage in "8MM"

- OK / average
- underworld / palana padam story
- Light'ah subtitle help oda parthen

1 thing to share:

VV'la Kamal thannoda Boss'ku update kudupparu, from a public telephone.... same kind of scene was there in this film.. kitta thatta adhe style of scene.. Nicolas cage will update in same way.. Goutham jegajala killadi... < I believe 8MM released much earlier than VV >

[VENKIRAJA]

2012 :(
attu!

[ajithfederer]

Vendaamnnu sonna nikkava poringa?

May I come in:

[groucho070]

VV'la Kamal thannoda Boss'ku update kudupparu, from a public telephone.... same kind of scene was there in this film.. kitta thatta adhe style of scene.. Nicolas cage will update in same way.. Goutham jegajala killadi... < I believe 8MM released much earlier than VV >Ithu "Hollywood cliche"-nu sollalaam. Antha kaalattulernthu intha mathiri scene ellam pOtangga, so you can't blame GM for taking it, because basically he is making a Hollywood wannabe film, therefore you got to pick up cliches from there.

I rushed to see the film when it came out (in Singapore R-rated) because I was crazily into private eye fiction then. Film was intriguing when it started, really disturbing at that time...but after halfway I felt shortchanged. Can't really put my finger in where and why. Maybe the ghost of Batman & Robin (Schumacher directed it, remember?).

[Shakthiprabha]

The Hangover!

Total riot! Logic dont really help you. Who cares, movie wins as it makes u sit and wonder what have they gotten themselves into. I dont know the rating but safer not to watch it when kids are around.

There was a short story n play telecasted in vijay tv (long ago) featuring almost a similar circumstances and the end was tragic.

Bradley cooper reminds me of handsome n young Imran khan !

[Raikkonen]

Psycho II 8-)

hey that was really good.. defienetely very underrated. last 20 mins were just awesome

[Appu s]

Vertigo :)

felt the same when i finished watching Psycho , but i could understand the time hitchcock directed these masterpieces, should be a innovative.. :thumbsup:

[bingleguy]

The day when the earth stood still

:roll:

[P_R]

Dizzy from watching a succession of "daring" foreign films made by shoestring producers, a movie critic in New York was heard to mumble, "I'm beginning to realize what a great service is being performed by all those new schools that teach you to read faster. After a short course, you can often read the foreign subtitles before the heroine gets her clothes back on"

- Sound of Laughter by Bennet Cerf
First published in 1970

:lol:

The accompanying cartoon has shows a film screen (some heads in the foreground watching in the cinema). The scene shows a close up of a couple in an intimate moment as the screenfilling subtitle reads:

But by working within the system to change the system don't you think that we are simply playing into the hands of the capitalist pigs who are exploiting the downtrodden masses whose lot, we as fellow members of the human race <text trails off in the cartoon>

:rotfl3:

[Nerd]

Ebert calls avatar an extraordinary film (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091211/REVIEWS/912119998)

I am completely uninterested for some reason. OTOH been dying to watch the Coens' "A serious man" but that aint releasing in my city :twisted:

[P_R]

EllArum romba overAvE pOraainga.
Trailer guppy-A irundhucchu.
Nolarudaiya Inceptionukku waiting.

[Nerd]

Nolarudaiya Inceptionukku waiting.
Whoa! I was just watching the HD trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHQq9SJ8wTQ

Nolan is going to enter into people's dreams it seems. But summer 2010 :twisted:

[Appu s]

Whoa! I was just watching the HD trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHQq9SJ8wTQ


wow... :clap: :clap:

[VENKIRAJA]

EllArum romba overAvE pOraainga.
Trailer guppy-A irundhucchu.
Nolarudaiya Inceptionukku waiting.

ejjatly. idhukke ipdinna... kaalejla new moon-nu pithu pudichu alaiyuraanga!

[Appu s]

Hotel rwanda :thumbsup:

[Aalavanthan]

Paranormal activity :banghead:

I have got no idea of why I went to this movie.. Maybe a trendsetter with the entire movie taken on handycam (yes, the hero shoots for the film). They say its a horror movie but ended up being a humour one and especiallly where the heroine is dragged by her legs :lol:

Please dont watch 8-)

[venkkiram]

"I don't know if Charlie's silence here today is right or wrong; I'm not a judge or jury. But I can tell you this: he won't sell anybody out to buy his future!"

what a movie it is ! one of the best memorable drama I have ever seen. that too with the brilliant performances from Al Pacino and Chris O'Donnell.

Its a film where music also along with the script takes you to different level of enlightenment.

Salutes to Mr Thomas Newman for providing such a wonderful scores.

[Raikkonen]

Psycho III

Brilliant. Actually stuck to the original concept unlike the 2nd (a brilliant standalone movie i should add).

[littlemaster1982]

City of God. Generally I don't get affected by onscreen happenings, but one scene in this movie made my stomach cringe :oops:

[kid-glove]

City of God. Generally I don't get affected by onscreen happenings, but one scene in this movie made my stomach cringe :oops:

Killing that kid sequence?

[Appu s]

City of God. Generally I don't get affected by onscreen happenings, but one scene in this movie made my stomach cringe :oops:

that short guy killing his wife?

[littlemaster1982]

City of God. Generally I don't get affected by onscreen happenings, but one scene in this movie made my stomach cringe :oops:

Killing that kid sequence?

Yes. The acting of the kid who gets shot in the foot got me :cry:

[Bala (Karthik)]

EllArum romba overAvE pOraainga.
Trailer guppy-A irundhucchu.
Nolarudaiya Inceptionukku waiting.
Science fiction naala dhoora vilagidradhu. Only exception is 2001.
Aana indha padathula appadi enna irukku nu pakkanum.

LM,
Bangalore la endha theater la 3D vasadhi irukku?

[littlemaster1982]

LM,
Bangalore la endha theater la 3D vasadhi irukku?

Fame Cinemas, Ulsoor & Fame Shankarnag (Old Symphony theater), MG Road both have 3D shows.

Inox - Garuda Mall is also supposed to screen in 3D, but I'm unable to confirm.

[P_R]

EllArum romba overAvE pOraainga.Trailer guppy-A irundhucchu.Science fiction naala dhoora vilagidradhu. Not much about that.
Political metaphor, vadakku vaazhgiradhu, nature of the self, otherness, triumph of the human spirit...idhellAm yErkanavE many times pArthuttOm.

[littlemaster1982]

I'm not expecting much from this. Oru popcorn flick level-kku irundhale podhum. T2 level-kku action scenes irundha innum better.

[kid-glove]

EllArum romba overAvE pOraainga.Trailer guppy-A irundhucchu.Science fiction naala dhoora vilagidradhu. Not much about that.
Political metaphor, vadakku vaazhgiradhu, nature of the self, otherness, triumph of the human spirit...idhellAm yErkanavE many times pArthuttOm.

True, but how many films have actually got it right? There is never an universally accepted combination that caters to every taste.

Suggestions are "Avatar" will be a plot-based film with special effects.

At best, I expect action/sci-fi film like T-2 where also the man gets connected to the machine, to team up against an evil machine for a greater cause. Here though, the characters, plot and themes recur close to that of Blade Runner with its "Romantic" touch. :P

[VENKIRAJA]

City of God. Generally I don't get affected by onscreen happenings, but one scene in this movie made my stomach cringe :oops:

padam epdi? indha one line revee ellam podlaya?

[littlemaster1982]

I don't know if I like the film :roll: One of the disturbing films I have seen. :hatsoff: to the director.

[VENKIRAJA]

I don't know if I like the film :roll: One of the disturbing films I have seen. :hatsoff: to the director.

:shock:
Summer: Overture pugaz Requiem for a dream (Besant Nagar meet nyabagam irukka?) pArkalaiyA innum?

[littlemaster1982]

Innum pakkala, dl panni romba naalachu. I dl-ed it even before that meet.

[groucho070]

At best, I expect action/sci-fi film like T-2 where also the man gets connected to the machine, to team up against an evil machine for a greater cause. Here though, the characters, plot and themes recur close to that of Blade Runner with its "Romantic" touch. :PI got that feeling too, interviews padikka padikka...

But watching it mainly for the CGI...since I have not been impressed with any since Jurassic Park (yeah, Matrix too, so what??? :twisted: )

[ajithfederer]

Die Hard :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow:

A fan of this right from the AXN channel days in India. Everything about this film is so perfect. One of the best screenplays ever. I have watched it multiple times even though I know whats gonna happen next. The characters are etched in memory forever. The pick of the lot is Hans Gruber. Yes I am always a fan of the villains. Right from him, Robert Patrick till the Joker last year. Alan Rickman will be remembered even after his life for this role. His right hand karl was an other good role which suits the adage brain over brawn.

Bruce Willis as John Mclane is :thumbsup:. His conversations over the radio with Gruber are legendary. Yippie kie yae motherF!@#r. Set the trend for action films from that year. This film is the best of the series and it makes sense why even Die hard 4 was a hit. It's a shame that i forgot this film on my top 10 list :twisted:

[Vivasaayi]

In the mood for love

Acting,music,cinematography lam soooper...

but the romance feelings between the leads dint work at all...

[VENKIRAJA]

The Fountain (for the 4th time, I think)

Not much to absorb this time around, but is still interesting. Very well made film, and the acting is totally amazing. Clint mansell's score, is very impressive. The flow of the movie is quite disruptive and sometimes not at all engaging. Must comment on the cinematography... Subtle effects like Bokeh, Silhoutte and zoom blurs are effectively used. Could have reduced the clues. There is so much thinking into the movie... but somehow feels ordinary after some viewings. People say, it is modern day 2001, but it is no way near it. Aronofsky has done a commendable job, his 2 best movie, I would put.

[ajithfederer]

The Departed

Thanks to the Asian original Infernal Affairs this film is the most entertaining films of Scorsese's for me. I found the acting better in The Departed though Andy Lau and Tony Leung Chiu wai themselves are very acclaimed actors from what I know. Asian films are always a tinge bitter i believe and by Asian i mean the East Asian films.

[Wibha]

new moon :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

ugh ugh ugh ugh :x

If I were the girl I'd choose the werewolf. He's hotter unlike gay looking edward :banghead:

[rangan_08]

[tscii:3b41332075]Hotel Rwanda in Sony Pix. After Schindler’s List, another touching & well made film about genocide. The chilling menace and horrifying truth about the core theme that pervades in the film, keeps one dumbfounded.

One of the best aspect of the film is that, though it is about genocide, the on-screen violence was very minimal. The tension and the required effect is brought out simply through a voice that is played on the radio and a few scenes showing the extremists roaming around in the streets with deadly weapons and by showing dead bodies scattered all over the streets.

Paul, the protagonist (beautifully essayed by Don Cheadle), takes the entire film on his shoulders. He doesn’t seem to be aware of the word “ panic “ and the cool that he maintains in any given hard situation, and his business-like attitude is amazing.

There are scenes that sends out the message clear and loud. In the scene where Paul, along with one of his hotel staff (a traitor) goes to the Hutu’s camp where he’s got a friend who supplies him materials. On their way back to the hotel on a riverside road covered by fog, they feel like going on a bumpy road. Paul asks his staff to stop the vehicle and gets down and what he sees is a ghastly sight. Hundreds and hundreds of corpses lay scattered on the road and due to fog they were actually riding over these corpses!!! Such an appalling scene! Subsequently, he comes back to his room, takes a shower and wears a new shirt. When he prepares to wear the tie, his hands tremble and he finally breaks down.

In another scene, where he takes his wife to the terrace and slowly tells her that if the extremists surround the hotel, she must come up to the terrace along with the kids and then, JUMP !!! Just at this point, one begins to think, “ what sin have these people committed ? why are they being abandoned ? why have the government, the UN and other peace mongers of the world have turned a blind eye towards this unfortunate, helpless human beings “ – many, many, many why’s, if’s & but’s.

And, before the climax, you see the plight of thousands of innocent people including children, holding their lives in their hands and whatever belongings they could manage to get and moving out of town. Such a terrible scene that it makes me feel guilty to even thank God for keeping us all comfortable, safe & happy.

All these days, “ Why blood, same blood “ was a comical tag line that I have been using on various occasions. But now, things will be different.
[/tscii:3b41332075]

[Appu s]

extraordinary film of a True story :bow: :bow:


hotel rwanda
And, before the climax, you see the plight of thousands of innocent people including children, holding their lives in their hands and whatever belongings they could manage to get and moving out of town. Such a terrible scene that it makes me feel guilty to even thank God for keeping us all comfortable, safe & happy.


one more fav. scene where paul's family and few other tutsi families got chance to reach the camp.. but when he looking at the tutsi people who can not come with them... the way he looks at those poor and his hotel staffs :bow:

[rangan_08]

one more fav. scene where paul's family and few other tutsi families got chance to reach the camp.. but when he looking at the tutsi people who can not come with them... the way he looks at those poor and his hotel staffs :bow:

and as i said, what is more amazing, even in this scene, is that the way in which he makes quick decisions. A real shock for his wife when Paul gets down from the truck suddenly and stays behind.

[Bala (Karthik)]

Eyes Wide Shut (2nd viewing only) - Stunning

Kubrick edhu pannaalum adhu master piece dhaan :notworthy:

[kid-glove]

Eyes Wide Shut (2nd viewing only) - Stunning

Kubrick edhu pannaalum adhu master piece dhaan :notworthy:

:thumbsup: This man completely revamps any given genre and has something to say about the human condition. This is a taboo subject - infidelity and relationship crisis. If pressed more, the taboos of New york/urban culture of sex occults and orgies. Above all, the film works as a thriller in my books. So grand in its scale & abused themes(by hollywood) that it shouldn't be ignored IMO.

[ajithfederer]

Eyes wide shut is a very good film. Actually when I watched the film I had no expectations but Kubrick just blew away everything. Tom Cruise and Nicole kidman are the apt lead casts for this film. The story is just pretty simple but Kubrick's direction is just too good.

P.S: Did anyone of you notice a Tamil song being played at the background during the orgy scene?

[kid-glove]

Eyes wide shut is a very good film. Actually when I watched the film I had no expectations but Kubrick just blew away everything. Tom Cruise and Nicole kidman are the apt lead casts for this film. The story is just pretty simple but Kubrick's direction is just too good.

P.S: Did anyone of you notice a Tamil song being played at the background during the orgy scene?

Yes yes. :lol:

The ending scene in "Carnal knowledge", starring Jack Nicholson directed by Mike Nichols, has a sex sequence with a Indian devotional song played in background (Jack will be making out with Indian prostitute). :shock:

[Bala (Karthik)]

I think this is the most 'direct' Kubrick film (apart from his earlier B/W films??) - e.g. in the morgue, the atypical redundant VO of the dead woman from the orgy scene, the final scene between Tom and Nicole...... Or has the master packed in more?
Thilak,
Your thoughts....

[Bala (Karthik)]

This man completely revamps any given genre and has something to say about the human condition. This is a taboo subject - infidelity and relationship crisis.
Whatever he has to say on anything is so arresting. I guess Nerd had mentioned about the dope scene between Tom and Nicole. Kubrick's intensity is unmatched and it is relentless throughout his films....
Woody Allen made a career talking about infidelity. I've enjoyed his films but Kubrick just trumps everyone on the subject with this. Kubrick-e idha lesser film nu sonnaalum idhu master piece dhaan IMO :lol:

[Bala (Karthik)]

P.S: Did anyone of you notice a Tamil song being played at the background during the orgy scene?
Amaam amaam :razz:

[littlemaster1982]

(500) Days of Summer - quite good and the soundtrack was great :musicsmile:

[kid-glove]

I think this is the most 'direct' Kubrick film (apart from his earlier B/W films??) - e.g. in the morgue, the atypical redundant VO of the dead woman from the orgy scene, the final scene between Tom and Nicole...... Or has the master packed in more?
Thilak,
Your thoughts....

I had the same impression. But considering Kubrick is a New yorker ( Even though Kubrick did settle down in England.) and this-is-his true "New york" film, I believe he had something to say about the city. He had kept it straight for the most part. I'm unaware of occults and discreet sex rituals of the upper crust, so maybe I couldn't absorb certain things. (the conspiracy is that he got killed by occult groups through some death wish ritual, when they got to know of this film. :lol: )

Reg. Woody Allen comparison wrt. Infidelity. He made lighter films of serious, darker themes with attachment to his characters, much unlike Kubrick. Kubrick was vehement towards form as much as content and did something magical with the purest cinematic tool - Camera and tried to cut through the medium. Woody was more old school kind of guy who married classic European film making to New york (pseudo-intellectual) sensibilities. I don't think he wanted to be pretentious and fail, so he mostly kept to his natural talent - humour. Although I believe he has it in him to explore darker themes.

Btw Kubrick's favorite filmmaker is fellow New yorker Woody Allen. 8-)

[kid-glove]

(500) Days of Summer - quite good and the soundtrack was great :musicsmile:

:thumbsup: Summer is a nailed-on "She" representation. Kuthunga ejaman kuthunga...:lol:

Have you also checked out the dance number (based on bank heist movies like Bonnie and Clyde) and a short spoof on "Sid and Nancy". Both available in youtube. :)

[littlemaster1982]

Read about it but yet to see. Will check out :)

[ajithfederer]

ah rendu (penelope cruz)

naalu (nicole kidman)

aaru (marion cottilard)

yettu

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810053986/trailer

anybody checked this out??.

[kid-glove]

A fan of DDL, pretty much a must-watch for me. Cotillard is a great actress. Her perf. in "La Vie en rose" is like "Sophie's choice" of our generation. :shock:

[groucho070]

A fan of DDL, pretty much a must-watch for me. Cotillard is a great actress. Her perf. in "La Vie en rose" is like "Sophie's choice" of our generation. :shock:Great combination of beauty and talent. Am I the only one who saw The Good Year (2006) :oops: and liking it :oops2:

[ajithfederer]

Strangers on a train :thumbsup:

Swappin Murders is a cool idea even now. And this is from 1951 :clap:.

[Raikkonen]

Strangers on a train :thumbsup:

Swappin Murders is a cool idea even now. And this is from 1951 :clap:.

:cool2:

the movie was inspired by a book (same name)..

but make no mistake.. hitchcock is the bret hart of hollywood.. excellence of execution :bow:

[groucho070]

but make no mistake.. hitchcock is the bret hart of hollywood.. excellence of execution :bow:Adanggoniya, Hitchcock-a wrestler range-ukku kondupoyitenggalaa!

SOT is not his best...in fact, sad to say, the script was co-written by one of my favourite writers, Raymond Chandler. Chandler had terrible experience working with Hitch and hated him immensely (he also hated Billy Wilder with whom he worked with on Double Indemnity, Chandler is not exactly nice guy that way). Chandler also bitched that most of what he wrote never ended up on screen. Also, during one of the discussion session when Hitchcok arrived, Chandler had famously remarked, "Look at that fat b***ard getting out of the car." :lol:

[ajithfederer]

The movie was good. The villain 8-).

Nice to see an old fashioned tennis match in the movie.

P.S: Actually when I came upon this film I knew that you too guys had earlier given good comments about the film.

[Raikkonen]

There's no thread for his movies?? :shock: :cry:

[ajithfederer]

Go and the start blees!!.

There's no thread for his movies?? :shock: :cry:

[Raikkonen]

annan neenga start pannunga.. naan veliya irunthu aatharavu tharen.. :D

[groucho070]

AnA ingga Hardcore Hitchcock fans illa-nu nenekkiren. Like some, don't like some range-thaan. I have old but still good condition VCD of the movie, might revisit soon. Not his best doesn't mean it's not good, it's awesome compared to, say, John Wayne films :P

[ajithfederer]

Done raikks.

[kid-glove]

A fan of DDL, pretty much a must-watch for me. Cotillard is a great actress. Her perf. in "La Vie en rose" is like "Sophie's choice" of our generation. :shock:Great combination of beauty and talent. Am I the only one who saw The Good Year (2006) :oops: and liking it :oops2:

Haven't seen the film. The plot came off a bit bland for Ridley Scott's hands. If you liked it, should be something worthy here.

[groucho070]

Haven't seen the film. The plot came off a bit bland for Ridley Scott's hands. If you liked it, should be something worthy here.Appadinggerenggenggenggalaa....sorry about that. Well, for one it had Russell Crowe who once I believed would be De Niro/Pacino successor (once) and that fabulously talented and drop dead gorgeous babe. It's like taking a break from your usual heavy lunch and have small portion of pasta with olive oil, garlic and some herbs. Light and satisfying. :D

[Avadi to America]

AnA ingga Hardcore Hitchcock fans illa-nu nenekkiren. Like some, don't like some range-thaan. I have old but still good condition VCD of the movie, might revisit soon. Not his best doesn't mean it's not good, it's awesome compared to, say, John Wayne films :P

I never liked john wayne movie as i like thala clint eastwood movies... I do not know... i have seen more americans especially old guys like john wayne over clint eastwood....

[Raikkonen]

Psycho IV (Beginning)

That was a disappointment after 2 great sequels. Maybe i should have known better and realised that it followed the halloween rule (prequels always sucked).. :lol: :oops:

Perkins was good, but the boy who played the young norman role was just brilliant. And the mom's role was quite awful and the actress.. hey it's Agnes of Black Christmas :D (Olivia Hussey).

Next week, they're showing the remake (1998).. oh god no.. Please do something, Norman.. stop em.

[ajithfederer]

The Untouchables

Ok good, nothing great but good. I must have been a gangster in my previous birth as i like most gangster films. Sean Connery was a revelation. Expected more meaty content on the life of Al Capone but the film was awfully short. 2 hours for a gangster film is very very less. The showdown at the train station was captured well. De Niro hadn't much to do sadly. Andy Garcia was adequate.

[Appu s]

The Untouchables
Ok good, nothing great but good. I must have been a gangster in my previous birth as i like most gangster films. Sean Connery was a revelation. Expected more meaty content on the life of Al Capone but the film was awfully short. 2 hours for a gangster film is very very less. The showdown at the train station was captured well. De Niro hadn't much to do sadly. Andy Garcia was adequate.
other than that railway station scene, sean connery's that scene :shaking: and the first Bridge chase scene have taken well.. connery given a enjoyable performance..

[kid-glove]

The film was elevated by Ennio's score and brought down a bit by Costner's 'performance'. (Would this guy be the most hyped-up actor of all time, especially when I read my good friend Groucho not rating James Stewart in the other htread :shock: ) the only time I've ever seen Costner get half-way into the character is "A perfect world" by Clint Eastwood where he played a deranged criminal (surprise surprise), and possibly "Field of Dreams" and "Bull durham", he cuts it in Baseball related films. But I could never take him seriously (as the subject requires to) in JFK, Untouchables and Dances with Wolves. Maybe it's the preconception.

[groucho070]

The film was elevated by Ennio's score and brought down a bit by Costner's 'performance'. (Would this guy be the most hyped-up actor of all time, especially when I read my good friend Groucho not rating James Stewart in the other htread :shock: ) Very, very overrated. Look at his career now :twisted: Afterralll Kurt Russell pwned him as Wyatt Earp (badassery is Kurt's speciality, see the films with Carpenter)


the only time I've ever seen Costner get half-way into the character is "A perfect world" by Clint Eastwood where he played a deranged criminal (surprise surprise) There we go again, totally agree with this. :D

The Untouchables? Connery and De Niro took turn to chew him up. And yes, Morricone's soundtrack rocked (ARR fans take note :P )

[kid-glove]

I agree - Kurt russell any day over Kevin Costner. Interesting actor. He played different bad-ass roles, for example the one in "Death Proof" would be much different from Snake.

But Jamie stewart was really a good Good-guy actor. Better than our contemporaries (except maybe Tom hanks?) and his own contemporaries like Cary Grant. Why would you find him to be overrated in Vertigo? I thought he was terrific. :twisted:

[groucho070]

He played different bad-ass roles, for example the one in "Death Proof" would be much different from Snake. Not to forget the dull Soldier, Kurt is the only good thing in that one, pure baddassery.


Why would you find him to be overrated in Vertigo? I thought he was terrific. :twisted:Not overrated. I said that I cannot take him seriously, cannot buy the "I am obsessed with Kim Novak" thing in the film. Plus Vertigo is not known for the same reason Streetcar is known for Brando. Vertigo is pure Hitchcock. :) as would all his film, I guess :?

I haven't saw The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, maybe he was good in it. Watch How The West Was Won and possibility is his will be the most forgotten episode in it.

[kid-glove]

And you haven't seen his Capra films? He is just terrific in 'em.

[groucho070]

Only It's A Wonderful Life. Like it as a film. Come to think of it, I actually liked him in The Philadelphia Story. Hell, everyone was good in it.

[ajithfederer]

La Vie en rose is in the live streaming list k_g. Have to see it soon.

[kid-glove]

Must-watch for the actress. :thumbsup:

hope I don't flunk (like I have, time and again, to Venki )

[Sid_316]

Tropa De Elite 8-) nice crime thriller!

[kid-glove]

Tropa De Elite 8-) nice crime thriller!

:thumbsup:

I like these Brazilian Crime/Gangsta/Corrupt_Cop films. :D

[Wibha]

Brothers- Intense. :)

[Bala (Karthik)]

Revisited Amadeus

Was just referring to Wiki now and found a couple of interesting points:

From Amadeus Wiki (Play) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus)



Factual accuracy
Shaffer used dramatic licence in his portrayals of both Mozart and Salieri, but there is debate as to just how much.[citation needed] Documentary evidence suggests that there was some antipathy between Mozart and Salieri, but the idea that Salieri was the instigator of Mozart's demise is not given academic credence. While, historically, there may have been actual rivalry between Mozart and Salieri, there is also evidence that they enjoyed a relationship marked by mutual respect. As an example, Salieri later tutored Mozart's son Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart in music.
Writer David Cairns called Amadeus "myth-mongering" and argued against Shaffer's portrait of Mozart as "two contradictory beings, sublime artist and fool", positing instead that Mozart was "fundamentally well-integrated". Cairns also rejects the "romantic legend" that Mozart always wrote out perfect manuscripts of works already completely composed in his head, citing major and prolonged revisions to several manuscripts; see Mozart's compositional method (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart's_compositional_method)

[MADDY]

Cairns also rejects the "romantic legend" that Mozart always wrote out perfect manuscripts of works already completely composed in his head, citing major and prolonged revisions to several manuscripts; see Mozart's compositional method (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart's_compositional_method)

aaaha, summava sonnainga vellakkaaranunga :bow:

[Bala (Karthik)]

Maddy,
:lol:

Rendu vishayams after reading this:
1. We always tend to romanticize a lot of stuff without actually having access to the things really happening. I guess Cairns implied that he usually has everything on his mind, but he also finds the need for correction, enhancements etc...
2. I wonder about the aforesaid(romanticizing stuff) in the context of Raasayya. Of course, as many people from the field have observed, he follows the compose in mind and write down everything - first time/only time model. However, there might have been times when he would also have found the need to correct/revise/enhance, perhaps(?). This does not change the basic model much IMO.

Irrespective of the degree, it is reinforced in my mind more strongly than ever, that what Raaja does while composing is absolutely mind boggling. People might take sides as to which approach they prefer, or some might say the approach matters little and we laymen should not be commenting on such things and should be confined only to talking about the music etc... but in my mind, whatever side one is on, such talent is beyond fathomable levels! Without parallel! :notworthy:

P.s: Towards the end of the film, there is the "Confutatis" dictation scene. That is how a typical Raaja composition session would be i guess!!!

[kid-glove]

There is always a liberal usage of "born genius". If were not just music but in many different areas of art and craft. I always use Mozart example in this debate. :D A useful Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/jan/01/arts.music)article. I used it in this one too - BBC 606 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/F14485584?thread=6850880&skip=20&show=40). (my id is FooballVanity)

[kid-glove]

Just realized I also quote (like a quote-whore) guru Woody Allen in there. :oops:

[kid-glove]

Raaja's method is astounding. :notworthy:

But whatever said of artist's methods, we aren't paying enough credence to their "intentions" in first place. For all we know, the first attempted notes might be a masterwork in its own right. But the art of perfecting and getting the right essence is absolutely essential and matters to the artist. Best example would be (and also quite relevant to the thread) Kubrick getting countless shots/takes of reactions from actors and is known to chose eccentricity/theatricality over the apt/right choice - which was quite likely to be nailed in the very first take. Why? Because the artist wants the creation to fall in line with his overall vision and in setting it up in the right way for "us" to see/hear/feel/experience. The process is quite often fine-tuning and chipping off the rawness of creation to what the artist absolutely needs to convey. Than necessarily a hit-and-hope or luck. :thumbsup:

[bingleguy]

Avatar !!!!

[ajithfederer]

The Pianist - Good. Actually I thought this was better than Schindler's list. There are some movies you need to recognize and give awards so that some stories and messages passes through the next generation and holocaust is one of them.

[kid-glove]

The Pianist - Good. Actually I thought this was better than Schindler's list. There are some movies you need to recognize and give awards so that some stories and messages passes through the next generation and holocaust is one of them.

:thumbsup: I like Polanski's direction. He was originally offered Schindler's list, but Roman declined it.

[ajithfederer]

Polanski, polanski, polanski - Why on earth would you do that crime man? :twisted:. God knows how many Chinatown's and Pianist's Hollywood missed during those 3 decades?

k_g: That's something new info to me. I actually read that some of Polanski's family have been actually murdered in the holocaust.

[kid-glove]

Yeah. His mother was executed in Auschwitz..

His wife Sharon tate and many of his friends were executed by Manson family.

He got caught on charges of rape and pedophilia...Have you seen "Pokanski: wanted and desired" documentary. Brilliant case study of a failed American judicial system. Of course, what Polanski did is inexcusable. Moral reprehensibleness and all that.

[ajithfederer]

I haven't seen that documentary. Will keep this in mind for future references. :).

[Bala (Karthik)]

Raaja's method is astounding. :notworthy:

But whatever said of artist's methods, we aren't paying enough credence to their "intentions" in first place. For all we know, the first attempted notes might be a masterwork in its own right. But the art of perfecting and getting the right essence is absolutely essential and matters to the artist. Best example would be (and also quite relevant to the thread) Kubrick getting countless shots/takes of reactions from actors and is known to chose eccentricity/theatricality over the apt/right choice - which was quite likely to be nailed in the very first take. Why? Because the artist wants the creation to fall in line with his overall vision and in setting it up in the right way for "us" to see/hear/feel/experience. The process is quite often fine-tuning and chipping off the rawness of creation to what the artist absolutely needs to convey. Than necessarily a hit-and-hope or luck. :thumbsup:
Yes, there is the question of what the artist wants and that determines the artist's approach.

Also, unlike cinema, music is more direct to the artist IMO and hence, i'm not sure if we can have a direct comparison to respective approaches.
As for retakes, its a matter of getting the execution right, isn't it? And retakes happen in Raaja's studios too :)

Rahman and others with a similar approach work like a band. Rahman is the driver. Ideas are bounced off/written, notes are played on instruments, discussions happen, improvisations and revisions are made and so on. For e.g he might give a base brief/theme/raaga to an instrumentalist to play for a while. He then selects what he sees as the best fit for his goal.

And like you mentioned, the call to be made as for when the work is 'perfect', is solely the artist's. If Raaja knows exactly what he wants (and more importantly, everything he wants), there is no question of perfecting by collaboration, reviewing, etc [like i said, there must have been exceptions to this rule surely, like Ajay Chakroborty improvizing, etc and many more, romanticized legend notwithstanding :) ]. Whether a work is perfect (in terms of adherence to vision and goals of passion) or not is decided by the artist. The audience may dislike it but Raaja decides how finished his work is.

Anyway, comparison of approaches is one thing. Comparing music composition to software engineering, peer review, management is not fair at all IMO.

My point was the sheer ability and the talent it takes to do what Raaja (or Mozart?) does is something which is just beyond words.
Imagine this: Raaja must be absolutely sure what the music will sound like when he is writing into the score sheet. He must hear the composition in his mind. If you imagine this process for something like Thiruvasagam, even to digest what this means and how it is possible is quite something.
Like i mentioned, the "confutatis" scene brings this to mind in a striking manner.

[kid-glove]

I do acknowledge Raaja's method is astounding. That is not something I'd even attempt to debate on.

I was sticking to Mozart's method. The Kubrick example makes sense - in that, he is going to choose out of many variations through which the narration could be made to match his vision/intention. In that, it is comparable to a Mozart symphony, and whether note C is preferred over E or F. In that, there are many variations. and how the final touch is absolutely vital for the creation to work as he intended it.


Comparing music composition to software engineering, peer review, management is not fair at all IMO.

appadi yaarunga sonna.. :wink:

[kid-glove]

The audience may dislike it but Raaja decides how finished his work is.

Absolutely. With greatest of respects and credence to first-shot method and mental arrangement/conception of the creation. I was only talking about second method.

[VENKIRAJA]

Must-watch for the actress. :thumbsup:

hope I don't flunk (like I have, time and again, to Venki )

:? nAnA? :confused2:

[VENKIRAJA]

Tropa De Elite 8-) nice crime thriller!

sid ippO 2001 patri Oriru vArthaigail solvAr :P

[ajithfederer]

Rachel Getting Married :clap: :thumbsup: :clap:

A sister(Anne Hathaway) returning from drug-rehab with a troubled past to attend her sister's wedding. Family tensions between a divorced father trying to accept her daughter and feelings of differences between these two sisters over various events that have happened through their lifetime. At no place in the film it looked like a film. This was like a real-life documentary. Stunning achievement by the director(Jonathan Demme). Great performances by the entire family

Anne Hathaway :bow:. Broke back Mountain, The Devil wears Prada. Becoming Jane and this film. One of the most promising actresses of this generation. In many of the scenes in this film you can spot her with a cigarette in her hand :lol: . Looked convincing for a druggie role. A richly deserved oscar nomination.


K_G: Have u seen this? :).

[MADDY]

Comparing music composition to software engineering, peer review, management is not fair at all IMO.

appadi yaarunga sonna.. :wink:

//obvious mock in thilak's post refers to someone near me :lol2: .....software engineering - each team member is owner of their own modules illaya? so thats not correct analogy......by "management" or more precisely "decnetralisation" i mean rahman listens to others and makes optimum usage of resources available.......his sucess rate and the way people love working with him, we understand that things are better "managed" ......i dont understand whats so atrocious in saying this :confused2:


Raaja must be absolutely sure what the music will sound like when he is writing into the score sheet. He must hear the composition in his mind. If you imagine this process for something like Thiruvasagam, even to digest what this means and how it is possible is quite something.

pre-1992, MDs used to hold notes in their heads before disposing them into scoresheets.......it would mostly be the basic melody but yes, holding the complete score in the head is something great.......in todays compositonal style too, MDs do need to hold "a part" of it in their heads to get it right......you cant just document every note u try and make a song as string of such documented notes.......

im sure even rahman has a "vision of sound" in his subconscious mind which his conscious mind achieves after constant sharpening, polishing .......the no. of strands, directions that "a single composition" of rahman takes before final product cannot be put in words.......rahmans compositons are a spectacular amalgamation of grafting, tools, heterogenous ideas and why only he achieves the spectacular is something which cannot be documented as well.....//

[Sid_316]

Tropa De Elite 8-) nice crime thriller!

sid ippO 2001 patri Oriru vArthaigail solvAr :P

Stanley kubrick thread la adhan padatha paathu mirandu post pani irruken :P

[Bala (Karthik)]

//obvious mock in thilak's post refers to someone near me :lol2: .....software engineering - each team member is owner of their own modules illaya? so thats not correct analogy......by "management" or more precisely "decnetralisation" i mean rahman listens to others and makes optimum usage of resources available.......his sucess rate and the way people love working with him, we understand that things are better "managed" ......i dont understand whats so atrocious in saying this :confused2:

Mock ellam illa, seroous a dhaan sonnen :) , that analogy is absolutely unacceptable because of the simple reason that you cannot use parameters like "optimization", "decentralization", "review", "output" etc in a work of art. Yeah execution, implementation which are required to realize art involves these things and things can be done better with better management i guess. I'm also not implying that these are unimportant (the importance of sound). However, composition itself, like a painting, cannot be discussed in these terms IMO. We are not talking about engineering here! This is like the typical damager's more "more # of resources = less time for delivery" kind of reasoning. So, Picasso's art would have been better had a team worked on it with all the life cycles and optimizations??
As for people loving to work with him, do i take it that you mean it in the sense of people having the best 'comfort level' with him?
Kubrick must have been arguably the most difficult guy to work with !



pre-1992, MDs used to hold notes in their heads before disposing them into scoresheets.......it would mostly be the basic melody but yes, holding the complete score in the head is something great.......in todays compositonal style too, MDs do need to hold "a part" of it in their heads to get it right......you cant just document every note u try and make a song as string of such documented notes.......

According to Raaja's musicians, Raaja is able to do just that - write down every note. To the level of every syllable of the rhythm (may not be true for all songs). And i don't mean merely "writing down" here. I meant the ability to perceive and 'hear' the music while composing without having to actually listen to the instrumentalists execute the notes that he had in his head (like i said, with exceptions surely)



im sure even rahman has a "vision of sound" in his subconscious mind which his conscious mind achieves after constant sharpening, polishing .......the no. of strands, directions that "a single composition" of rahman takes before final product cannot be put in words.......rahmans compositons are a spectacular amalgamation of grafting, tools, heterogenous ideas and why only he achieves the spectacular is something which cannot be documented as well.....//
Well, Rahman would have some kind of a general vision but in his own words, its like he doesn't need/want to know everything up front. His music is more 'evolutionary' in nature, going by what we heard from people in the industry and from Rahman himself. His approach is that of a band. He is "open" to getting inputs/ideas from the performers. So, he directs and selects what he wants step by step. The results of this approach might be the best according to some people, like you have mentioned, while others might prefer Raaja's results. Thats besides the point.

The point is, how Raaja (now where do we put Mozart! :lol: ) does his work, if you look around, doesn't have much company in the realm of music.

Anyway, meesic section la podradha movies section la podradha nu decide panna mudiyaama inga pottutten. Semma digression already :oops:

[MADDY]

The point is, how Raaja (now where do we put Mozart! :lol: ) does his work, if you look around, doesn't have much company in the realm of music.

the methodology, yes, ofcourse! he is unique....

working style - yes rahman is similar to others from a birds' eye view but the output is what sets them aside.......rahman has a different philosophy from raaja and others in terms of output - in terms of trying to achieve a better design at each step.....mind you, the inputs from others stops at the "input" stage, once its in processing and output stages, its rahman alone and his synth/softwares.......this is where he is completely different from bands as well....


Anyway, meesic section la podradha movies section la podradha nu decide panna mudiyaama inga pottutten. Semma digression already :oops:

VKR in agninatchithram: thangamani enjoy, indha sectionkku moderator kedayadhu :lol:

[kid-glove]

Must-watch for the actress. :thumbsup:

hope I don't flunk (like I have, time and again, to Venki )

:? nAnA? :confused2:

:twisted:

Yes sir, you have flunked on some of my favorite films.. (twbb, rear window, sunset blvard, on the waterfront.....etc etc) :twisted:

[kid-glove]

Rachel Getting Married :clap: :thumbsup: :clap:

A sister(Anne Hathaway) returning from drug-rehab with a troubled past to attend her sister's wedding. Family tensions between a divorced father trying to accept her daughter and feelings of differences between these two sisters over various events that have happened through their lifetime. At no place in the film it looked like a film. This was like a real-life documentary. Stunning achievement by the director(Jonathan Demme). Great performances by the entire family

Anne Hathaway :bow:. Broke back Mountain, The Devil wears Prada. Becoming Jane and this film. One of the most promising actresses of this generation. In many of the scenes in this film you can spot her with a cigarette in her hand :lol: . Looked convincing for a druggie role. A richly deserved oscar nomination.


K_G: Have u seen this? :).

Yes! This is a very un-Demme film and I liked it nevertheless. As you said, they wanted to show the wedding, the procession of it. Reminded me of Dogme films like "Festen" and "after the wedding". Shot by same DP of "Monsoon wedding", no coincidence because there are some overlapping themes. Hathaway acted well as Kym. Her part was to play the ugly duckling of the family, the drug addict on rehab, and haunted by past guilt. The father and mother(who have split after that incident?) are both at polar opposites to Kym. Her sister, Rachel is to get married to man of her dreams, but she is extremely worried for Kym. There is a combined feel of compassion, remorsefulness, and fear towards Kym. The fear is that Kym would mess it up as Rachel was set up for her marriage. Her biggest problem in upbringing was to put up with Kym's f-ed up life (and how it broke her parents marriage and also loss of something I wouldn't mention just yet), and her father and rest of family being focussed and ultimately keen on Kym than on Rachel. All these emotions were brought out well by my man Demme. 8-)

[irir123]

Yeah. His mother was executed in Auschwitz..

His wife Sharon tate and many of his friends were executed by Manson family.

He got caught on charges of rape and pedophilia...Have you seen "Pokanski: wanted and desired" documentary. Brilliant case study of a failed American judicial system. Of course, what Polanski did is inexcusable. Moral reprehensibleness and all that.

lots of digression here from me - mods, pls bear with me, but I cudnt resist it!

all that Polanski might have endured does not absolve him of crimes of the kind Polanski did - for every holocaust survivor relative who is like Polanski, there are millions of them who lead perfectly normal rational lives!

Polanski's past life simply caught up with him - thats all

But, if Polanski was persistently pursued, one cant understand the bizarrely unjust manner in which Libyan leader Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi was let off the hook - even after having been directly implicated in the September 1986 hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in Karachi, Pakistan and the more deadly 21 December 1988, bombing of the New York bound Boeing 747-121, killing all 250 plus ppl on board and also some on the ground when the parts fells on residences in Lockerbie, southern Scotland.

its said that Gaddafi probably got off coz he paid a handsome compensation of $2.7 billion to settle claims by the families of the 270 killed in the Lockerbie bombing, representing US$10 million per family.

and more than that, the decision to get him off possibly came abt from some behind-the-scenes dealings of the Bush-Cheney govt - who knows how much money these two guys made to give a clean chit to Gaddafi ??


so if Mr.Laden pays off close to 10 billion USD as compensation for the WTC incident, will be forgiven/let off the hook ?

and talking of rape and pedophilia, a certain percentage of priests in america have been perfecting this art last few decades and they shd all be behind bars, the same way as Polanski is!

-end digression -

[kid-glove]

what Polanski did is inexcusable. Moral reprehensibleness and all that

[ajithfederer]

irir

To set the reocrd straight Nobody is sympathizing with Polanski here. Well let's keep waeld palitics out of this section. This is one of the cleanest sections with no mod's intruding our space. Let's keep it like that. Thanks for your understanding.

[ajithfederer]

Thanks for your views boss. 8-).



Yes! This is a very un-Demme film and I liked it nevertheless. As you said, they wanted to show the wedding, the procession of it. Reminded me of Dogme films like "Festen" and "after the wedding". Shot by same DP of "Monsoon wedding", no coincidence because there are some overlapping themes. Hathaway acted well as Kym. Her part was to play the ugly duckling of the family, the drug addict on rehab, and haunted by past guilt. The father and mother(who have split after that incident?) are both at polar opposites to Kym. Her sister, Rachel is to get married to man of her dreams, but she is extremely worried for Kym. There is a combined feel of compassion, remorsefulness, and fear towards Kym. The fear is that Kym would mess it up as Rachel was set up for her marriage. Her biggest problem in upbringing was to put up with Kym's f-ed up life (and how it broke her parents marriage and also loss of something I wouldn't mention just yet), and her father and rest of family being focussed and ultimately keen on Kym than on Rachel. All these emotions were brought out well by my man Demme. 8-)


Yes


The father and mother(who have split after that incident?)

[ajithfederer]

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810062520/info

Anybody seen up in the air?.

[ajithfederer]

Finally finally once upon a time in america - Good. I saw the lengthier version of 229 minutes.

[groucho070]

The Pink Panther 2.

Out of curiousity and love for Andy Garcia, chumma paarten. I anticipated its badness but this was atrocious!!! What a waste of talents like Garcia, Molina, Reno and Jeremy Irons!!! What's wrong with Jeremy Irons these days???? And is it me or do you think that Aishwarya Rai is overrated? I mean, the film is terrible, the actors did their part, but Mrs. Bachan went all the way to prove how bad she is. Oh my senses :hammer:

[groucho070]

Batman: Gotham Knight (2008) @ HBO.

The Animatrix-like rendering, supposedly on incidents after Batman Begins and before The Dark Knight, told in separate sketches by different directors. One word for it: Gorgeous! Down side, the Bruce Wayne of first few shorts look like taken directly from any Japanese Anime. They got it right on the last one. But Batsy looks almost exactly like Michael Keaton's face in the mask :shock: , which is awesome for me :D . Great delight for Batman fans.

[ajithfederer]

Charlie wilson's war 8-)

Thanks to Tom Hanks for producing and acting in this one. Cold war at its fantastic best portrayed in this film. Spoilers: Forging an arms deal between Israel, Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and with the US to fight the Red Army in Afghanistan. Only Amerikka fossible. If only they had given the few million $ as asked by Congressman Charlie then to reconstruct Afghanistan they wouldn't have been spending trillions now. What a heavy price :).

Philip Seymour Hoffman :thumbsup: :rotfl:

[ajithfederer]

Bride wars - This one was a not so bad timepass for one and a half hours. Anne Hathaway again was very impressive.

[MADDY]

Identity - high on recommendation of Ajay and LM, i saw this movie.......pretty scary twists towards the end.......i knew the killer before but the way it unfolded was superb......while unfolding too, couple of twists put me off track to be honest.......

very good :D

[ajithfederer]

Revolutionary Road - Kate winslet, dicaprio and sam mendes (2008)

Well acted but who in this wide world would want to leave and settle in a foreign country(Paris, France) when you have a high paying job(eventho you hate it) two kids and a posh house and settle there. Can't fathom the premise.

[P_R]

Revolutionary Road - Kate winslet, dicaprio and sam mendes (2008)

Can't fathom the premise.

adhi ippo puriyAdhu...

[venkkiram]

watched "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel".

Nice movie. My 4.5 year son enjoyed it.

Watched the trailers for movies The Karate Kid, Shrek 4.

Simply awesome! Awaiting for..

[ajithfederer]

Flags of our fathers - Very Good. The war scenes were on par or even better than Saving Private Ryan. The story follows the life of 6 marines( 3 actually as the other 3 died fighting in japan) who the american public mistake it for the marines who hoisted the flag on Iwo Jima. But the truth is that these marines replaced the original flag. The picture makes them as overnight heroes and they are drafted towards the bond drive which is needed for the american's war effort.

The struggles faced by the marines who are disturbed by their conscience that they are indeed just normal marines and not heroes as said in the press are brought out well. The post war life of these marines is mixed as some lead happy and some lead not so good lives. Clint Eastwood deserves appreciation for making such films and one can understand why the movie didn't do as expected in the states.

[ajithfederer]

ennang??


Revolutionary Road - Kate winslet, dicaprio and sam mendes (2008)

Can't fathom the premise.

adhi ippo puriyAdhu...

[ajithfederer]

The Life of David Gale.

I started watching this film knowing for two reasons.
The first being that this was the one of the inspiration for one of this decade's best tamil movie known as the Virumaandi and the second it has Kevin Spacey and Kate Winslet both of whom are very fine actors. And also spacey's colleague acting in this movie was very good which was a bonus.

The film was fantastic for the most part. The acting was excellent. This is done by a director or a writer who i believe has some serious hatred towards capital punishment. The thrill factor was always there and it maintained very good suspense although i did guess the final twist myself. The plot was very much believable and these things could happen.

Finally Thanks to Kamal Haasan for taking this idea onto Tamil without which i wouldn't have had a thought to watch the film. And as far as scenes between TLODG and Virumaandi are concerned there are absolutely no similarities. In fact in this film Winslet takes the interview in a span of 3 consecutive days for two hours.

[kid-glove]

Feddy,

I think Leo realizes that he had to contend himself with his job, big house, children, and state of living in suburbia. But Kate winslet's character couldn't be the proverbial housewife doing routine chores.

[ajithfederer]

Ok but what strike me out even when she proposes that idea was "why would any husband who is rich, working and could probably go places will leave and settle in a foreign country making his wife work" and so this guy can read books.

Sounds ridiculous :huh:.

[kid-glove]

Yeah, but he does feel aggrieved in the job initially, and had also kept promising her that they would leave. Her mind had completely taken to that idea (with him implanting and reassuring it), to a point where she could never go back. Even if he had finally realized it wouldn't be wise..

[Appu s]

Man on fire - ok, too lengthy. intha padathai appdiye allakka thookki Tamizh la Arjun nadicharu ,peru maranthiduchu :roll:

[great]

Man on fire - ok, too lengthy. intha padathai appdiye allakka thookki Tamizh la Arjun nadicharu ,peru maranthiduchu :roll:

Aanai in tamil and Ek Ajnabee in hindi.

[Nerd]

Paranormal Activity - Climax was good/scary. Avlodhaan :-)

[Appu s]

Man on fire - ok, too lengthy. intha padathai appdiye allakka thookki Tamizh la Arjun nadicharu ,peru maranthiduchu :roll:

Aanai in tamil and Ek Ajnabee in hindi.

Thankx machi :D

[VENKIRAJA]

Must-watch for the actress. :thumbsup:

hope I don't flunk (like I have, time and again, to Venki )

:? nAnA? :confused2:

:twisted:

Yes sir, you have flunked on some of my favorite films.. (twbb, rear window, sunset blvard, on the waterfront.....etc etc) :twisted:

:lol2: adhukku namma enna seyya mudiyum.. TWBB innum muzhusA pArkala, BTW. Will watch asap.


Finally finally once upon a time in america - Good. I saw the lengthier version of 229 minutes.

:notworthy:

[groucho070]

Horror of Dracula (1958) revisit.

Hammer Films take on Stoker's novel, but not faithful. It's Van Helsing's show all the way, and he is played by the underrated British badass Peter Cushing. Actually it felt more like Sherlock Holmes vs Dracula. Christopher Lee was awesome, but it's Cushing's show all the way. The chicks were not hot though :(

Okay, for Generation X-ers, Cushing is General Tarkin in Star Wars (1977)

For Generation Y-ers, Cushing is General Tarkin in Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope (Special Edition) (1997). There...

[ajithfederer]

The Good shepherd (2006). Again in cable. Plenty of spoilers below.

Fantastic. I got this wrong previously this is not a film about the CIA. This is about the intelligence activities mostly about the Coldwar up until the birth of CIA. This film is about an US Counter intelligence and a KGB Officer. Throughout the film KGB outsmarts the the US CI officer in many ways. They have a mole planted right under his nose foil their plans in Cuba and even has his son in love with a spy, No highfi car chases, acrobatic hitman's with suave weapons but just pure conversations. The most thrilling moment is when Edward has her spy daughter in law thrown from the plane. Some exhilarating photography i should say.

Damon is as self assertive as one can be. He rarely smiles, never cries and shows very less emotion. This film is supposed to be based on the lives of James Jesus Angleton and Richard Bissell. Fantastic stuff. Francis Ford Coppola is a co-producer and Robert De Niro can be surely proud of his work as a director.

[kid-glove]

Chinteresting. :)

[ajithfederer]

:D

Neenga paathuttu sollunga. It doesn't matter even if it is in the extreme opposite. Your views are needed.

[kid-glove]

I will post what I made of the film. Mostly we are in agreement. :D

[ajithfederer]

13 Tzametti :thumbsup:

[Vivasaayi]

Battle Royale [Japanese] :thumbsup: :notworthy: :thumbsup:

[kid-glove]

:2thumbsup:

[great]

13 Tzametti :thumbsup:

Awesome movie!! watched it long back.

[Raikkonen]

P2 - :cool2: neat psychological horror

Rear Window - :sigh2: really boring and disappointing.

[groucho070]

P2 - :cool2: neat psychological horror

Rear Window - :sigh2: really boring and disappointing. :D Athan solla vanthen. Nanbar Thilak kovichiduvaar :P

[kid-glove]

Rasanai ketta mummy dadies :twisted:

[groucho070]

:lol: It's good to have a break, rather than agreeing with each other too often.

[littlemaster1982]

The International. Average :|

[kid-glove]

:lol: It's good to have a break, rather than agreeing with each other too often.
8-)

[Appu s]

A clockwork orange :thumbsup:

[groucho070]

A clockwork orange :thumbsup:Still very disturbing flick and still awesome!

Wonder how many, especially Kubrick fans, especially Thilak, know about this B-side track by U2, referring to the title character?:
http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/130291/

Awesome track.

[Appu s]

A clockwork orange :thumbsup:Still very disturbing flick and still awesome!
.

yes the most disturbing film :oops:

[VENKIRAJA]

A clockwork orange :thumbsup:Still very disturbing flick and still awesome!
.

yes the most disturbing film :oops:

How was the experience? Did I reccomend right? Watch Requiem for a dream next! :redjump: ACWO wakes up the psycho inside me or rather outside me. :twisted:

[VENKIRAJA]

Rear Window - :sigh2: really boring and disappointing. :D Athan solla vanthen. Nanbar Thilak kovichiduvaar :P
Rasanai ketta mummy dadies :twisted:

:bluejump:
RW is a ISI certified vetti mundam veena pona dhandam :yes:

[Appu s]

A clockwork orange :thumbsup:Still very disturbing flick and still awesome!
.

yes the most disturbing film :oops:

How was the experience? Did I reccomend right? Watch Requiem for a dream next! :redjump: ACWO wakes up the psycho inside me or rather outside me. :twisted:

Yes.. :D but i enjoyed watching "The shining" :P , will watch it venki. :)

[VENKIRAJA]

Yes.. :D but i enjoyed watching "The shining" :P , will watch it venki. :)

Why "but"? I'm not against the Shining!

Lock, Stock and two smoking barrels.
The colour tone, the music, the characters, the typical screenplay, the tension... the brilliant dialogues!! Best comedy ever. :rotfl3:

[Appu s]

Yes.. :D but i enjoyed watching "The shining" :P , will watch it venki. :)

Why "but"? I'm not against the Shining!


i just compared, i may watch the shining few more times, but i am not sure that i will watch ACWO again :shaking:

[littlemaster1982]

The Italian Job (2003). Good timepass :)

[ajithfederer]

Live Free or Die Hard - Good.

hmm.. 50 pages in less than 5 months.

[HonestRaj]

Vantage Point

- 1 1/2 hrs ... I liked it

[Aalavanthan]

Paranormal Activity - Climax was good/scary. Avlodhaan :-)
I went to theatres here to watch the movie and there were hardly 20 people.. couple almost.. The theatre until one moment was so silent and broke into laughter when she was dragged out of her bed and through the doors.. We found it very funny :)

But yeah, the only horror part was the climax..

[littlemaster1982]

Paranormal Activity - Climax was good/scary. Avlodhaan :-)

:exactly: Seeing this post just now. Munnadiye paarthirundha paisa michm aagiyirukkum :|

[VENKIRAJA]

Vantage Point

- 1 1/2 hrs ... I liked it

:shock:
Terrible movie

[Vivasaayi]

Vantage Point

- 1 1/2 hrs ... I liked it

Entertaining movie :)

[rangan_08]

" Born Free " in Sony Pix. Animal sentiment :D

Namma K.S. Gopalakrishnan, Vikraman padam madhiri irundhichi.

But the way the animal is tamed and made use of (with bgm, of course) should be appreciated.

A big :notworthy: for making it so believable & natural.

[HonestRaj]

Vantage Point

- 1 1/2 hrs ... I liked it

:shock:
Terrible movie

Nan pudhusu'ppa.. adhan nalla irundhadhu..

idhulayE pazhagittanna.. nalladhu kettadhu seekiram therinjukkuvEn :)




Vantage Point

- 1 1/2 hrs ... I liked it

Entertaining movie :)

yes. . never got bored

[HonestRaj]

What Happens in Vegas -Nice timepass

how do others feel about this one?

[HonestRaj]

Additional information:
Subtitle illamathan padam parkkurEn :D

[Appu s]

Insomnia - Good. brilliant Pcino as usual,no twists at all for a whodunnit movie,but pacion's sleep disorder part playing major and the movie deals with the characters feeling of guilt,Pacino given a excellent performance,made us to believe he really having insomnia. :bow: :bow:

[great]

UP: watchable once .

[VENKIRAJA]

Vantage Point

- 1 1/2 hrs ... I liked it

Entertaining movie :)

Everytime the time clocked back, I prayed it should be the last time.. the security stuff they show are highly idiotic, worse than even Zimbawean arrangements.. Highly unrealistic and irritating stuff.

[Vivasaayi]

Vantage Point

- 1 1/2 hrs ... I liked it

Entertaining movie :)

Everytime the time clocked back, I prayed it should be the last time.. the security stuff they show are highly idiotic, worse than even Zimbawean arrangements.. Highly unrealistic and irritating stuff.

Nevertheless,it was entertaining :)

most of the times - imdb rating/comments heading paathe mudivu pannikalam - what to expect.

[Prabo]

Watched Bullit.
I liked it, searched for any other Steve McQueen movie in my HD and found 'The Getaway'. Its even more better. Sema stylish action flick :thumbsup: