A perfect supernatural horror movie. I haven't hooked to a ghost story for a long time, until i saw this movie by accident. The movie was never above or never below the ghost formula, which is being used in n number of movies. Must watch, if you're a ghost movie freak. You would change your perception of a ghost, after seeing this movie.
read about it. certainly seems to be different from the usual bandwagon of Indian horror movies. i like such movies that are closer in actuality to supernormal incidents & experiences, not the scare-for-entertainment types. unfortunately, i don't know Tamil.
I don't see this falling too much in horror genre more of thriller genre.
Felt this is much better than the other Tamil movies around which seem to be much of B Gradish.
I remember a TV documentary Marilyn and Me (1991) which was telecast by History Channel long time ago. I want to watch it again but am unable to find it anywhere. Can somebody help me with it?
i remember a tv documentary marilyn and me (1991) which was telecast by history channel long time ago. I want to watch it again but am unable to find it anywhere. Can somebody help me with it?
You don't "bump" a day old post. You wait patiently for someone to answer for a few days atleast.
Anyway, watched Hawaizaada today. Felt dragged too much with stupid songs. First half is barely bearable. No mention of actual science. Everything happens just because it happened. Premise and production value was good, but director failed to use it for its advantage, or to provide any kind of "thrill" of a man "flying".
I say watch it since it's tax free in UP. Else wait for it to come down to small screen.
Watched Baby. Misleading title. Movie is not too bad. It is like Indian version of James Bond. There is a hard drive hacking sequence which actually shows a plain old CLI and not some flashy animated UI.
You don't "bump" a day old post. You wait patiently for someone to answer for a few days atleast.
Anyway, watched Hawaizaada today. Felt dragged too much with stupid songs. First half is barely bearable. No mention of actual science. Everything happens just because it happened. Premise and production value was good, but director failed to use it for its advantage, or to provide any kind of "thrill" of a man "flying".
I say watch it since it's tax free in UP. Else wait for it to come down to small screen.
Watched Baby. Misleading title. Movie is not too bad. It is like Indian version of James Bond. There is a hard drive hacking sequence which actually shows a plain old CLI and not some flashy animated UI.
The movie was good. Albeit dragged but was OK by Bollywood standards. They could have choreographed the action sequences better. Especially the opening scene. More spec ops tactics and less regular policing.
it would be incorrect to deem so IMO. the particular incident may be real or may not be, we can't ascertain facts about that in view of lack of information, but there have been documents of the era mentioning about the scholar and his attempts, so i think there might be something to it, failed or successful, i don't know/can't tell. but i won't refute the possibility & probability of the incident happening, just because of the reason(s) i stated.
the IISc 'project' pertained to the study of Vaimaanik-Shaastra. as per our current understanding of flight-mechanics (and there's a very specific reason i write so), the scientists perhaps found only one craft described in the text as complying with the known ways of a craft taking to flight.
Ayushmaan admitted to not having details about the incident for the team to put (more) efforts into research, and hence dubs it, in lack of a better term, as a 'conspiracy theory'. they just expounded upon a little-known historical incident in a fictionalised manner, the bollywood way (the way of singing, dancing, romancing, rosy goodie-goodie stuff, and less, if any, of good details to the plot).
even many hollywood movies are made so; for instance, just got up after watching 'the men who stare at goats'. they took on the plot to fictional details, taking cue from actual, highly confidential experiements like MK-ULTRA, project stargate, etc., but yes, in their hollywood way.
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about baby - certainly could've been made better. i was more excited about the movie for not having any songs (i strongly dislike singing-dancing-romancing poppycock!) , but was disappointed that it still had sprinkles of them. anyway, nevermind. some scenes/turn of the events seemed like they could've been certainly avoided, for instance:
one that comes to my mind was of the rogue agent that jumps off of the building to kill himself. they nab him after having a tough time, and then don't tie him up to the chair, and even stand casually like waiting for their turn at the loo while interrogating him/after that! funny! plus, akshay's CQC skills seemed lacklustre here; he counters a couple of times, but all moves futile! plus the demeanour of a Forces-person, esp. put up by akshay, seemed very artificial and amusing to me! there were some more scenes. can't recall at the moment. i was hoping to find it better than the movie of a similar basis, one of my favourites, 'body of lies', but the latter still stays at its position, for now!
i won't give out the plot-details; many of you may not like it, and many who have watched it may not have liked it too. its a slow-paced movie, with twists and revelations scattered few and far in between. seems almost like an art movie, such is the direction/screenplay/cinematography; but if you sit through it (not that it would bore you to a coma), the climax, though short-lived, is highly rewarding! i like movies having subtlety, parables, etc. in them, and prefer them over the usual chaotic & loud movies any given day! this one seemed close to being the former, although could've been a bit better. heck! even a dog did some good acting in it!
at some places, liked the BGM score too. all-in-all, found it to be a unique and refreshing movie i watched in some time. would like to add it to the list of my favourites of similar-in-essence movies like baraka, unbreakable, life cycles, ghost dog, etc., but not sure if i would; though it certainly aspires to belong to that list.
I finally finished watching the live adaptation movies of Rurouni Kenshin. I didn't expect these movies to be any good, but for the sake of anime, i watched them..Surprisingly, they were good.
The fight sequences were shown nicely. They were not as good as the anime, but it was different and good enough. The base story is same as the anime, but the director Keishi Ōtomo has made quite a few changes in the plot.
The role of Juppongatana has been omitted. They are shown in the movie, but unlike the anime where they are a big part of shishio's army, they had very little role in the movie. Similarly, yahiko too had very little role to play..
There's also not much revealed about Aoshi Shinimori's past - a character that i liked very much.
Munetaka Aoki who plays Sanoske Sagara did his part well acting like a slightly dumb brawler..
Takeru Satoh as Himura Kenshin was a wonderful cast..slightly stony-faced, but he did his part well.
Emi Takei as Kamiya Kaoru was ok..
Yosuke Eguchi as Saitō Hajime was probably one of the best cast in this movie..he replication of the anime character was wonderful.
Yūsuke Iseya as Shinomori Aoshi was decent as well..
The biggest flaw/problem that i had with this movie series was the Soundtracks..apart from a couple of tracks, all the BGM were HORRIBLE. They could've at least used the Anime's OST...
Certainly, a one time watch though for the Rurouni KEnshin/Samurai X fans !!
The Hobbit : An Unexpected Journey (2012) - 7.5/10
The Hobbit : The Desolation of Smaug (2013) - 8/10
I watched these two movies a couple of weeks back. Certainly not as epic as the LOTR, but these had their own charm.
Martin Freeman as Bilbo was fantastic. It was good to Ian McKellen as gandalf.
Plot-wise, i found the Desolation of smaug to be more interesting than the Unexpected Journey..
I can't wait to watch the third part - The Battle of the Five Armies..
Ok, I need answers first. Whoever has seen this movie, just tell me why they show "introducing Gautham" while its clearly "Mahesh Babu"!!!
Interesting approach to storytelling but falls prey to the old tried and tested 'revenge' drama.
The director averts himself executing the clisches in the movie but that doesn't save the movie. The movie is too long, the thrills that it created in first half an hour gets lost when the director settles for safe path.
Again, Mahesh Babu fans like me would care less about these things and that shows in the high IMDB rating (8 fcking point 9!!!! )
I'm not sure if this will fall under spoiler but still would go ahead and say that the child actor who portrays Mahesh babu's child character is Mahesh babu's son Gautham.
I'm not sure if this will fall under spoiler but still would go ahead and say that the child actor who portrays Mahesh babu's child character is Mahesh babu's son Gautham.
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