Movies Discussion Thread V1: Ratings and Opinions

Piyush

Piyush

Lanaya
sam9s said:
X-Men : First Class ... easily my best super hero movie, this year, we discussed about C.America, Green Lantern, Green Hornet ...blah blah , but I am surprised this movie was never brought in to discussion. THIS is how the characters are drawn, an absolute perfect prequel to the series. I have not seen X-2, but this one would be in my top two X Men movie and the best super hero movie after the obvious TDK, Batman Begins and the Iron Man 1. Though the major characters had to be missing as it was a prequel, they still manage to create very well developed ones for the same. Effect and CGI was spot on as always and action was just about the right dose ......
The one drawback I felt
was the character Megneto was a bit rushed towards the negative side at the end of the movie. Same goes with Mystique, ...after all professor X took care of her right from the child hood. It was a bit unnatural to see her leaving him that easily .....
... over all a truly entertaining stuff .....6.8/10
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I haven't seen the rest of the X-Men movies too except Wolverine:Origins and First Class mainly because of no sequential story between various releases.
Starting from Wolverine :Origins, the X-Men series surely will provide the required storyline in a sequential order .

And yeah, I too felt that the ending was fairly rushed if we talk about Magento's and Mystique's separation from Professor Charles

PS:Why do you rate all the movies 6.8?
 
ssb1551

ssb1551

Technomancer
@ sam9s - How much dija give The Way Back & how much will you give Black Bread a.k.a Pa Negre?? I was surprised to not see Godfather , Citizen Kane , Kramer vs Kramer , Sinchin no Samurai , Rashomon & Casablanca in the 9/9+ list.
 
ssb1551

ssb1551

Technomancer
Krow said:
Sam, I'm sure you would be known among students as a strict teacher (in terms of marks given).
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:lol:..Guess I'm much more lenient than sam9s!!:lol:

@ sam9s - Yeah Kramer vs Kramer was the first Dustin Hoffman movie I watched even before The Graduate & also the first Meryl Streep movie for me too. At the end of the movie Dustin Hoffman became one of my favorite actors till I passed 12th & Meryl Streep became one of my favorite actresses & she still is. The next week after watching Kramer vs Kramer I went on Hoffman spree & watched Graduate, Hero , Rainman , Marathon Man , All the President's Men & Papillon. Thats why I can never forget Kramer vs Kramer.
 
asingh

asingh

Aspiring Novelist
I preferred T1 though. Had more heart and a better storyline. But yes, T2 had better affects and told 'more' about the Terminator universe.
 
eggman

eggman

I have Yolks not Brains!
sam9s said:
Ra-One ...... As I have always said, that the only time I review a Bollywood movie on this thread is,,,,, if it either is some phenomenal cinema, exceptionally good movie, or pure utter garbage, ...... I am reviewing Ra One, and rest you can guess what it might be.

The previous three records for the uttar garbage that were thrown to our poor souls were crowned to Fanah, AB's RAVAN and then came ROBOT, and I thought nothing could further go bad. But Ra-One simple takes the cake here ...... With RAVAN I was angry I was shouting, I wanted my money back. I was dissappointed to the core (being it a Maniratnam;s movie) with Ra-One it went so bad that all of my anger turned in to pitty and utter condolences for the production and the direction that after spending 120+ cr they were not able to get a single (note "Single"), not a single thing right.


Oh man where to start ..... the opening sequences itself gave me the feeling this is gonna be a tough 2 hrs. The humor for the first half is so bad and so cheezy that you just cover your face and hope that the scene finishes. Specially the way kareena was introduced, utter crap I tell you.

Then starts the real thing..... when the technical aspects creeps in (not the effects, I havent started on that yet.), The technical aspects ...... first they take an almost impossible task of taking the concept of video game characters out in the real world, Then with just couple of big screen,(with a laughable martix screen saver) few keyboard click you accomplish the task ..... with both of the characters behaving and challenging the laws of physics in a total different manner, ra One can take any shape, ge one cant, beats me ... ...... also just because we have a character out of the game he becomes super man, and can do almost about anything imaginable, including bullet dogging and flying and what not.......

But this one takes the cake .......:: Character Ge One can be controlled by motion sensors on your body in the virtual world, okie,..... then... .....listen to this ...... at the end of the movie, our heros kid want to help daddy to win in the real world..... so he chooses to use motion sensing again, HOW, by wearing a cheap jacket connected to PS3!!! ....

Technicaly everything...... everything this movie had was worse than anything that has ever offered by bollywood.

Rest comes the characters, absolute horrendous. The daddy SRK dies and his wife and kids gets over it in seconds if not minutes ..... why....... coz we have a robot at our hands to protect and amuse ..... doing silly, funny and stupid things that leaves you nothing but embarrassment.

Deep down I am sure SRK was certain this movie wont work, and SRK is a master in branding his product, with constant hammering of promos in virtually every corner of your life. He still managed to get decent collection dispite of throwing utter garbage ......

1.5/10 ... The new Uttar Garbage crown has been snatched again goes to Ra-One.
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I loved how
SRK was buried in Christian tradition :-D
 
ajayritik

ajayritik

Technomancer
ssb1551 said:
Thats one heck of a review for a crappy flick!!:D..man I wish those 2 Khans stopped acting!!
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I hope the other Khan you are referring to here is not Aamir. Aamir I feel is a good actor.

Eggman I don't agree with what you mentioned in the spoiler.
 
clmlbx

clmlbx

Technomancer
@ eggman. I agree with you, That srk knew this movie won't fuel itself.. that is the particular reason for this BIG promotion. By his name and lot of hype he created he saved himself from a Black Hole :lol:..

Promotion:-

Nvidia Signature GC
stick Ra.one with every brand he endorses
Music launch live on web and then on telly (failed on web at least, delayed for couple of hours)
Ra.one Game
Reality shows (I don't remember the day, but that day he was on 3-4 or more reality shows which telecasted on same night).
+ all typical Promos
 
rhitwick

rhitwick

Democracy is a myth
I've reviewed Ra.One earlier and won't comment about other aspects but only point I would agree is that SRK knew about the end product.
He's a clever businessman and he did whatever he could do to get the money back ASAP. An honest effort from him anyway.

If you remember there was a movie "Krazzy 4" under Rakesh Rosha nbanner. It had three item songs! I was sceptcal why so many item songs? and the reason revealed when I went to watch it in theater.

These are nothing but tricks to create enough buzz b4 movie release so initial 2-3 days business recovers 80% of the cost.

And, I don't understand what is wrong with others. Everyone is bashing Ra.One...there were worse movies than this.
Golmaal 3, Double Dhaamaal, No Entry 2, Bodyguard, Ready etc. Why none bashed 'em like Ra.One?!
 
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