Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Movie Updates

Feels like it has been a while since I posted a movie update. Watched a number of movies in the last few weeks/months. Here is a summary:
  • Slumdog Millionaire - Nice. Nothing extraordinary. Rahman won so many accolades for this film. To me this was very ordinary work by the maestro. But, what to say, he won it because "It was written"
  • Luck By Chance - Not Bad. Expected more based on reviews. Didn't get boring even for a second. So I'd pass it by.
  • Dev D - Pathetic. Not sure why people are raving about it.
  • Oye Lucky, Luck Oye - Disaster. Could not figure out whats going on in the movie.
  • Billu Barber - Agree with the box office collections. This one is a dud.
  • 13B - This is a decent flick. Wasn't expecting much from it but it is not bad after all. Can watch it at home on a DVD at night when no one is around and see the results.
  • Halo - This 1996 children's movie is a neat watch. Arbit and arty. Little girl Benaf (Shasha) was sweet.
  • Raaz 2 - Ordinary. Don't even remember how it was. That speaks.
  • The Other End of the Line - Bring on the mush. Aah! I loved it. The best of the entire lot of movies. Mush. Dark chocolate. Watch it when in that kind of a mood. Saran girl is impressive. If someone ever knows if it is her voice in the film (in the American accent) or if it is dubbed, please drop me a line. That would be very important for Saran.
  • Outsourced - Funny in parts. Some of the scenes are downright hilarious. Though such scenes are few and far between. On the whole it is just about passable.
  • The Laws of Attraction - More mush. Decent lovey dovey movie. Easily watchable.
  • Dil Kabaddi - Exceed expectations. It is better than the title.
Come to think of it 11 movies in 2-3 months ain't that bad after all.

3 comments:

LA reader said...

Not sure how you have the patience to watch Hindi movies.

Jimit Shah said...

And if you see, not even one Hindi movie in the list gets two thumbs up.

I am on an english movie watching spree right now and I have figured that it isn't much different either.

Bottomline - Good movies are few and far between. Great movies are even more of a rarity. Language (Eng/Hin) is not truly a consideration.

sanikajc said...

hey Jim, a few suggestions for "good" english movies are the Bourne triology (all 3 of them are good), curious case of benjamin button, Rat Race (later copied by some hindi movie), Back to the Future Triology. These are just a few to list now, to save some time from watching crappy movies. :-)