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I went to watch 7 Khoon Maaf today. I had been waiting for this movie for quite some time. Based on the short-story by Ruskin Bond's short story "Susanna's Seven Husbands", starring Priyanka Chopra (as Susanna) was enough to get me excited. Susanna, who leaves behind a trail of dead husbands.
Movie was good, not great. But since it is not a clichéd overdone love stories it was fun to watch something different for a change. Before I go and tell you about what I didn't like about the movie, Priyanka Chopa has indeed done an amazing job as Susanna and that it premiered in 61st Berlin International Film Festival, which I think is a big deal.
First half hour of the movie, I was wondering if it was a bad joke. The nightmare of sitting through another "Whats your Rashee" was daunting. But as the movie progresses, it did turn into something amazing. Though I was never too engrossed in the movie or brooded for Susanna or her husbands, it was a good watch. Oh! And now I know what a black comedy is.
For all the moviegoers, I would say go watch it, it is watchable. For those who want something more, it is not worth it.
Movie was good, not great. But since it is not a clichéd overdone love stories it was fun to watch something different for a change. Before I go and tell you about what I didn't like about the movie, Priyanka Chopa has indeed done an amazing job as Susanna and that it premiered in 61st Berlin International Film Festival, which I think is a big deal.
First half hour of the movie, I was wondering if it was a bad joke. The nightmare of sitting through another "Whats your Rashee" was daunting. But as the movie progresses, it did turn into something amazing. Though I was never too engrossed in the movie or brooded for Susanna or her husbands, it was a good watch. Oh! And now I know what a black comedy is.
For all the moviegoers, I would say go watch it, it is watchable. For those who want something more, it is not worth it.
Tron is a reminder of an age gone by; today's Hollywood is a hallmark of amazing CGI to create "real" real world scenarios. On the contrary Tron uses more traditional techniques and real world elements to generate a virtual world, that of inside a computer.
This is a movie for those who at some point in life shared an undying excitement for pong, pac-man and upright cabins of arcade games. Inspired by animation techniques of MAGI and the gaming excitement of Pong, director Steve Lisberger had a vision of integrating the two and bringing the spectacular of video games and computer visuals to silver screen.
Tron is a story of a game designer/ hacker Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) who is cheated by an ambitious ENCOM programmer named Ed Dillinger (David Warner) who locks Flynn out of the system and presents Flynn's work as his own. To prove Ed Dillinger's wrong doing Flynn tries to hack into the ENCOM mainframe to find evidence of Dillinger's wrongdoing, but his program, Clu, is caught and erased by the Master Control Program (MCP).
MCP is this big-fat AI antagonist who thinks "it" can do thing "900 to 1200 times better than any human." and decided to take on Pentagon. Meanwhile, Alan a.k.a TRON (Bruce Boxleitner) and his girlfriend, Dr. Lora Baines a.k.a Yori (Cindy Morgan), friends of Flynn sneak him into ENCOM's laser laboratory, where he forge access to mainframe. Lora, who has been developing a method of digitizing real objects into the computer, sets Flynn down at her terminal in the laser lab. As Flynn attempts to break into the system, he is confronted by the MCP, who takes control of the laser and digitizes Flynn into the ENCOM mainframe. Flynn finds himself in the digital world, where Programs resemble their human creators, the Users. Here Sark, a MCPs minion forces the captured programs in a gladiator combat till they are eliminated.
Tron is almost wholly a technological movie, of a computer world where programs make themselves romantic and display human nature; first of its kind with many to follow in its footsteps.
"It's exciting, it's fun, and it's just what video-game fans and anyone with a spirit of adventure will love—despite plot weaknesses."
This is a movie for those who at some point in life shared an undying excitement for pong, pac-man and upright cabins of arcade games. Inspired by animation techniques of MAGI and the gaming excitement of Pong, director Steve Lisberger had a vision of integrating the two and bringing the spectacular of video games and computer visuals to silver screen.
Tron is a story of a game designer/ hacker Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) who is cheated by an ambitious ENCOM programmer named Ed Dillinger (David Warner) who locks Flynn out of the system and presents Flynn's work as his own. To prove Ed Dillinger's wrong doing Flynn tries to hack into the ENCOM mainframe to find evidence of Dillinger's wrongdoing, but his program, Clu, is caught and erased by the Master Control Program (MCP).
MCP is this big-fat AI antagonist who thinks "it" can do thing "900 to 1200 times better than any human." and decided to take on Pentagon. Meanwhile, Alan a.k.a TRON (Bruce Boxleitner) and his girlfriend, Dr. Lora Baines a.k.a Yori (Cindy Morgan), friends of Flynn sneak him into ENCOM's laser laboratory, where he forge access to mainframe. Lora, who has been developing a method of digitizing real objects into the computer, sets Flynn down at her terminal in the laser lab. As Flynn attempts to break into the system, he is confronted by the MCP, who takes control of the laser and digitizes Flynn into the ENCOM mainframe. Flynn finds himself in the digital world, where Programs resemble their human creators, the Users. Here Sark, a MCPs minion forces the captured programs in a gladiator combat till they are eliminated.
Tron is almost wholly a technological movie, of a computer world where programs make themselves romantic and display human nature; first of its kind with many to follow in its footsteps.
"It's exciting, it's fun, and it's just what video-game fans and anyone with a spirit of adventure will love—despite plot weaknesses."
The English Patient grabbed nine Oscars (including the Best Picture), along with three other nominations in 1997. Need I say more that this is a must watch. A word of caution this is not your regular movie; it is slow, steady, poetic and slightly on the classical side (if you get my drift).
The movie open with an aircraft shot down somewhere in Sahara Desert. The pilot, Count Laszlo Almasy (Ralph Fiennes), survives with some serious burns and very little recollection of the past, and is rescued by a Bedouin. Turned over to the Canadian medical unit stationed in Italy, with nothing to go on (due to serious burns and amnesia) he is named "English Patient".
Hana (Juliette Binoche), a nurse in the unit takes care of him. Realizing that "English Patient" is slowly dying, Hana manages to persuade here superior to care for him alone in an abandoned villa, until he succumbs to inevitable.
It is not too late they are accompanied by- a mysterious, crippled war veteran named Caravaggio (Willem Dafoe), who has a hidden agenda, and a pair of bomb experts, the British Sgt. Hardy (Kevin Whately) and his Sikh superior, Kip (Naveen Andrews).
The storyline swings to-and-fro between past and present, through dreams and waking flashbacks as Laszlo's memory slowly return. Constant flip-flops between late-'30s and early- '40s, reveal Laszlo to be a part of a British map-making effort of Sahara under the banner of Royal Geographical Society. It's then that he meets Katharine Clifton (Kristin Scott Thomas), the wife of a fellow pilot (Colin Firth) who is helping with the project. Laszlo and Katharine fall for each other, and so to forbidden tale of love starts.
It sure throbs of melodrama; I would rather like to call it classical. In its defence, it is a well-crafted story brought to screen with great care by British playwright and director Anthony Minghella and based on the prize-winning novel by Michael Ondaatje, that serves up the love of Almasy and Katharinein a way that is simultaneously epic and intimate.
The one flaw in The English Patient- The "modern-day" scenes with Almasy awaiting death aren't as nearly as involving as the flashback sequences. Characters of Hana and Kip aren't fully-realized, though they are on sideline, the scenes that take place in this time frame, some of which are quite lengthy, seem unwanted interruptions.
The English Patient is an epic of life, death, love, sensuality and war. It is heartbreakingly poetic, wonderfully directed, keen importance to detail, and contrast of pain and pleasure. It is a sort of love story that seem rare these days.
The movie open with an aircraft shot down somewhere in Sahara Desert. The pilot, Count Laszlo Almasy (Ralph Fiennes), survives with some serious burns and very little recollection of the past, and is rescued by a Bedouin. Turned over to the Canadian medical unit stationed in Italy, with nothing to go on (due to serious burns and amnesia) he is named "English Patient".
Hana (Juliette Binoche), a nurse in the unit takes care of him. Realizing that "English Patient" is slowly dying, Hana manages to persuade here superior to care for him alone in an abandoned villa, until he succumbs to inevitable.
It is not too late they are accompanied by- a mysterious, crippled war veteran named Caravaggio (Willem Dafoe), who has a hidden agenda, and a pair of bomb experts, the British Sgt. Hardy (Kevin Whately) and his Sikh superior, Kip (Naveen Andrews).
The storyline swings to-and-fro between past and present, through dreams and waking flashbacks as Laszlo's memory slowly return. Constant flip-flops between late-'30s and early- '40s, reveal Laszlo to be a part of a British map-making effort of Sahara under the banner of Royal Geographical Society. It's then that he meets Katharine Clifton (Kristin Scott Thomas), the wife of a fellow pilot (Colin Firth) who is helping with the project. Laszlo and Katharine fall for each other, and so to forbidden tale of love starts.
It sure throbs of melodrama; I would rather like to call it classical. In its defence, it is a well-crafted story brought to screen with great care by British playwright and director Anthony Minghella and based on the prize-winning novel by Michael Ondaatje, that serves up the love of Almasy and Katharinein a way that is simultaneously epic and intimate.
The one flaw in The English Patient- The "modern-day" scenes with Almasy awaiting death aren't as nearly as involving as the flashback sequences. Characters of Hana and Kip aren't fully-realized, though they are on sideline, the scenes that take place in this time frame, some of which are quite lengthy, seem unwanted interruptions.
The English Patient is an epic of life, death, love, sensuality and war. It is heartbreakingly poetic, wonderfully directed, keen importance to detail, and contrast of pain and pleasure. It is a sort of love story that seem rare these days.