movie reviews

Now that the stir between the Multiplexes and directors/producers is over we will see quite a few movies being released. I just thought of starting this thread so that our own members could post their reviews about a movie they see. No offense meant to anyone but I doubt if the reviews in the newspapers are genuine as they say in todays world anything can be brought! If this thread does kick off we can continue else the MODS can definitely go ahead and delete this.

The last one I caught up with was 99. I liked it. It was a different kind of comedy was tasteful. Though not ground breaking, I will give it a 3 star. I won't say it is a must watch, but, is perfect entertainer in your liesure time.

Ofcourse, my experience of the movie was a tad hampered with the the fact that I was watching it at Cinemax in Mumbai - Somehow, they always manage to goof-up something or the other. I personally would not recommend Cinemax / BIG Cinemas to anyone. PVR is the best.

Regards,

K Prasad

It is a nice idea. I am sure there will be lot of ppl who can contribute. Including me. I am a big time movie buff.

OT: I guess our forum is becoming a full fledged forum covering various topics.

No comments on the 'bought' part.

Regarding 'Reviews', there is no hard and fast rule on how it can be done. A Critic does a critiques a movie based on his preferences. They may/may not match with your preferences.

eg, You may like a movie X, but your close friend may not like it.

@MODS: I do have the same view/doubt as Centaur. Can we keep such a thread?

I want to throw in my unsolicited opinion

If food is ok, cameras are ok, why not movies? After all after cars and food, movies is my next love. So if this thread could keep me on CW Forums for longer in a day, why not...?

(I have ~20 movies lined up - all Hollywood all-time top movies - for first hand reviews once the thread gets a go-ahead...)

Absolutely fine (Gen. Discussion) - go ahead please

Thanks Pankaj for the nod to go ahead with this and thanks Prasad for opening the account with your review on 99. I generally prefer comedy, action or movies with fast bikes/cars in them. I am eagerly waiting for the fast and the furious part 4 to release. Shall post my reviews after I watch it

Me first!

I often visit IMDB (Internet Movie Database) an interesting site that contains tons of information on movies, all round the world. The information is contributed by members worldwide, and it is kinda world movie wikipedia. The page of particular interest to me there is Top 250 movies ever - they have both US and the world categories.

I saw the movie "Its a wonderful life" rated very high - 8.6/10, and got curious. This movie is made in 1946 (Yeah I know, my dad was a teenager in that timeframe...) but the topic is human nature and emotions, so it is timeless in its appeal. It has a great lesson to learn from the story it tells, so I thought I share it with you.

The story is about a common man who learns to crimp his own ambitions and desires to support his family, and gets into the family business of running a cooperative savings and loans. These are the equivalents of credit cooperative societies in India, and are always on the bad books of money lenders and loan sharks. The sharks play dirty tricks to get our hero in trouble with money matters, and force him to the edge of sanity - he tries to commit suicide, with his reputation in tatters and no hope of redeeming his name and respect.

In comes a guardian angel - for the sake of comedy, he is shown to be an apprentice angel, so without wings - he is supposed to get his wings on doing a project work of saving a good man's life or such a noble deed. He pulls our hero from the brink of suicide, and then cuts a deal with him - he would show our hero the world like it would be when our hero were not there at all.

A couple of scenes after this  point are kinda rough and inelegant - to the point one wonders if the director has blown it.. only to stunningly recover and take the movie to a superb happy ending. The viewer then reverses his opinion about the rough patch, and realizes that it was intentionally rough and inelegant. The movie

The story is pure joy to watch, in spite of black and white, and the dapper James Stewart and pretty Donna Reed in the lead roles are excellent. There are shades of formula in the villain, but then it should be that way, isn't it?

My advise to like minded movie buffs is - get your hands on this movie as soon as you can, and watch it.

Well i think its a good way too ! And "movies" the very word i have heard after a LONG time. Thanks to the strike,recession, and Of Course IPL !!

Its nice that they (movies) are making a comeback. i remember Last waching CC2C, for which i am sure none of you want to know how it was.

but honestly, i found it pretty ok. Action comedy's in my view is for a differently targeted audience. i mean the way Everyone doesn't like Jackie Chan's flicks. Chandni Chowk to China is in that section of movies. Of Course Akshay's stunts cannot be compared to Jackie Chan's thrilling stunts with that extra bit of special effects. But it in terms of Indian cinema, It was a "different" movie. Now "different" doesn't really work in Bollywood it seems :-p

 Fast & Furious 4,

It nice paul waker is a FBI cop in this movie later joins with vin disel to take down a mexican drug lord.In the end paul does not like judge's decission for vin disel so leaves FBI again when vin disel is taken to jail in a bus & a part of F&F 5 is shown. 

Bolt

Its a nice story about a dog.How a dog comes from the reel world & experiences the real world in search of his person Paane with whome he works in a cartoon on tv named BOLT.

Xmen orgin,Underworld 3 Rise of lycans,

After watching this 2 movies u will feel this should comes before the other movies which came before from this 1 this starts before the 1st part of these series starts ends at the starting of the 1ST xmen or underworld.U will think this should come 1st before other parts.

Bobin, since you've watched Watched Bolt.

Wanted to ask you, is it a good movie for Dog Lovers ?

i am a very very VERY Big Dog Lover, So would like to know if its a good one