Sunday, January 29, 2006

Softy, I Scream!

I think I am becoming soft in my old age. I've liked all the three movies I've seen on screen recently - Rajamanikyam, King Kong and now Rang De Basanti.

19 comments:

  1. Can you throw in a review for Rajamanikyam here, please?

    http://imdb.com/title/tt0483131/

    I wanna watch some decent mallu movies but don't have access to any place that has those, right now. If ever I end up in a more desi-friendly part of the world, I'll remember to ping you for recommendations ;-)

    On an aside, have you watched this tamil movie called Autograph ? If not, I think you should.

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  2. >Rang De Basanti.

    Ah, finally, someone who can satisfy why curiosity. Why did de basanti ring?

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  3. IMO, the director was trying to cram too much into RDB. Nothing that some nifty editing couldn't resolve...

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  4. Oh, Rajamanikyam is not a good mallu movie by any stretch of the imagination. I liked it because it has Mammootty playing a character who talks in the 'purest' Trivandrum dialect possible, a first for Mal movies. It's more of a dappankoothu movie, if you know what I mean.

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  5. And no, I haven't watched Autograph yet. Have heard a lot about it though.

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  6. Slickly made, tight script, good characters, interesting story idea, good use of songs, decent photography and passable acting. Has plenty of flaws, but I found it quite enjoyable.

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  7. I didn't really get that feeling, but yeah, perhaps.

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  8. Probably just come full circle.

    I was surprised about the King Kong comment too actually.

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  9. King Kong (the new version) was the totally awesome monster movue ever! It had its heart in the right place, and the effects were so mind-blowing. I want to watch it all over again!!

    PS: I wish I could scream like that

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  10. You should post a review at your movie review site. It’s been a long time…:)

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  11. Oh, that's not really a movie review site. I just use it to track the movies I've seen. Thanks for reading, though.

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  12. Oh, I liked it too and even posted to the effect.

    I was just surprised when madhav said he did. It's not exactly like an opinion ventured by one of us lesser mortals now, is it? ;)

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  13. I thought the editing was super in RDB.

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  14. That's rich, from someone calling himself Übermensch ;)

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  15. Yeah, but that was quite a while back.

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  16. Seems like day before yesterday, though.

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  17. Oh, those were the yester days.

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  18. It's good that you left me that comment. ;)

    It's not a super fantastic movie or anything — It's just "different" in the way that it is not yet another stereotypical kollywood movie ... I guess somewhat like how Rang De Basanti isn't a regular bollywood movie

    Anyways, I have the movie for you now, enjoy!

    http://tamil.zaatar.org/autograph/

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