Inception - Review

One of the movies that is bound to keep you dreaming oops thinking. If you are planning to watch it do it quickly. This is bound to be regarded as the classics. Comparisons of this movie to that of matrix is quite natural,  and since this one has come a good 10 years after matrix if it has to make a mark then its got to raise the levels of matrix atleast 10 times and Inception does that. Inception is good in terms of originality, action, special effects,  acting and screenplay.


Inception is one of the best movies I have seen in the past one year, and ranks among the best movies I have seen over the last few years. Its a kind of movie which would make you see it again and again just like matrix.

Matrix took you into a virtual world and do things that are not imaginable in real life and Inception takes into the dreams world where others can extract your deep secrets.


Story: Dicaprio is an extractor, adept at infiltrating into a person's mind to access his most secret and valuable ideas. Technology is so advanced that people can share other people’s dreams and together be in the same dream world. Now DiCaprio is faced with the task of not extracting but planting a dream into a person's mind. To make the story all the more interesting, to plant a dream into his victim's mind he has to get into the dream world in the dream world, this upto a level of 5 levels where you have the added risk of permanently going into dreams forever. Will he be able to come out of it or permanently lost in each others dreams.

DiCaprio is at his best. After titanic he has been choosing movies which are one better than the other. Be it Blood Diamond, Shutter island or Inception.

Indiana Jones - cristal skull

Need to get into the habit of writing blogs frequently. Another movie I watched recently was Indiana Jones. After a lot of friends saying its a good movie I thought of watching this. If you want to watch a movie its always better to watch it in the first week itself.

The movie is good even though its slow moving and kinda childish story, or rather I would say outdated. If the same was released about 10 years back it would have been greatly appreciated. I felt the first half, was tooo boring. The second half makes up for it though. Nothing much in the story. Direction and Acting is ok. Overall this is not bad. Worth watching once...

vantage point

Long time since I wrote any blog. Its a long time since I watched any movie worth a blog. Vantage point is a good movie, especially I liked the way it was narrated. It shows 5 different views of a single murder sequence and each time explaining a little further in the story. Although I liked the direction, I found the movie lacking in the story line. Its only the direction which makes it watchable, else it would have been a boring movie. It could have been made much better...

300

Long awaited movie review after a long time :)

This is an all out war story. This is acutally a story book adaptation. It is a story about a group of 300 people fight aganist an army of a few lakhs who have come to invade their country. Wonderful computer graphics makes the movie worth the money. Many people liked the movie but somehow I felt there was something missing in it.

First of all the movie is narrated in a story book style. Some may like this as it is different from the normal way the movie is presented. In a movie you are supposed to show the actions that you try to imagine in a book, which is the basic difference between a book and a movie. You repeat the same dialogs as in the book is something absurd. Just imagine this when the war is going on and the son of the captain dies you hear a background dialog saying " the way in which the captain was fighting after seeing his dead son was something even the enemy feared". The same could have been shown in the form of actions... the enemy army being shown with fear in their eyes after looking at the captain's fury.

The war scenes are fantanstic. But the same being repeated for a long time is what I felt was boring. At any point of time you dont feel attached to the movie. Basically the fact that 300 people are sacrificing their lives for their country isnt captured properly. For those who appreciate the special effects in the movie may like it. Overall its a movie watchable but could have been made much better.

Blood diamond

One of the very good movies that I have watched in recent times. The story is set in sierra leaon. This is a real life story of that country that touches the heart. The movie is very well directed and some excellent performances by the actors.

The country has large deposits of diamond. There exist no proper government control. Most of the parts of the country is controlled by the rebels who smuggle the diamonds to the neighbouring country and make money. These rebels make use of the poor people of the country for mining and are treated in very inhuman conditions. The story is narrated by a english journalist, who wants to expose the state of the country to the western world; a diamond smuggler and a normal civilian of the country, who by luck discovers a big diamond.

This may sound like a normal movie but I particularly like the way its directed which makes you think, are the diamonds really worth buying. Its coz of you so many people die...

There is a mention of India in the movie. They have mentioned India as the place where the smuggled diamonds are polished and mixed with other diamonds. I couldnt understand why India had to be drawn into all this. India is still a good market for diamonds. Maybe its time we stopped buyin diamonds and also all other precious stones...

Dhoom 2

AAAh finally I am watched Dhoom... it took me an entire day to get the tickets of this movie. Right from the morning I was struggling to get the tickets, finally at 7.00 in the evening got the tickets for the second show :D

Dhoom boasts about its star cast as the best in bollywood and its shows. The movie is basically made for Hritik and he performs a wonderful role. Ashwairya and Bipasha are at their best. Abhishek is typically wasted and uday chopra is a joke. The songs which was very good part1 in Dhoom2 you can find only remixes.

The initial part of the movie where hritik jumps onto the train, the sequence is very good even tho I couldnt understand what he was trying to do there ;) the different ways in which he robs was very creative. Right from the start Hritik mania takes over and keeps on the edge of the seat. This was supposed to be a cop-thief story and thats exactly what you get. There are many sequences where you feel that the director has tried to copy some of the hollywood movies like MI2 but at other times its just as funny. The movie has a few good twists and turns which makes you think why the movie doesnt have a proper story. Aishwarya has tried to look very sexy which i dont think suits well to her but the hritik-ash pair looks wonderful. Bipasha is sizzling hot... Overall the movie is very good. Defineatly worth watchin...

lage raho

lage raho munnabhai the sequel of MBBS does better than the first one. Some of the dialogs are worth watching. its a wonderfully crafted movie. normally you never expect the sequel of the movie to do better than the previous one but this one is exceptional. The characters munnabhai n circuit make the perfect combination.

I would say that this is just another movie along the trend set by rang de basanthi. it marked a new era in indian cinema. how you can use the ides of popular historical figures in your everyday life. lage raho did a step better by including comedy along with the theme of the movie.

if you havent seen it yet then go watch it now :D

Rang de basanthi Contd...

going ahead with not just movie reviews but with some comments on the story.

the movie rang de basanti was very good which made many people think but according to me the ending of the movie wasnt right. It fails to capture the ideology of Bhagat singh, what he wanted to put across to his people.

In trying to bring it parallel to the story of bhagat singh all the people are killed in the movie. But this movie doesnt capture the reason why and what he was fighting aganist.

Nothing can be perfect in this world. The british empire was aganist the indians. Bhagat singh was trying to expose this to the entire world. Thats the reason why he put a bomb in the parliment. This wasnt such a serious crime to be given a death sentence. In the court procedings these flaws were clearly exposed.

If the movie has to be completely parallel to his story then the ending should be re-written with a friend of bhagat joining hands the enemy to plan a plot to kill everyone... I intend to write it soon... wait for it... Coming soon... Rang de basanti 2

36 China Town

I have made a habit of writing movie reviews :)

36 China town, another abbas-mustan moive. something that i will never miss. They are very good in given bollywood some of the best thirllers. This movie has one of my favorite actress ishaa kopikar but alas she gets killed in the very starting :( This is a detective story played by akshay khanna who tires to investigate who killed isha. my other favorite Tanu also makes a guest appearence for one song... All the songs are clubbed together in the starting of the movie which makes it quite boring, but once the story gets going its quite ok. the directors have tried to inculde some comedy in this movie somethin which i didnt like. i dont think trillers and comedy go together. The background music is ok. The biggest drawback in this movie is that the story goes on in the expected lines. you can actually predict whats gonna happen next. I would say this is a good timepass movie. :)

Fanaa

Sorry folks for not writing a blog for a long time...
I am back with another movie review for fanaaa

Aamir khan together with kajol make a wonderful couple on-screen. Both are good in playing their characters in the movie. The first half of the movie is just like any other romantic movie, but some of the shayaris is worth listening. Towards the second half the director has thought of adding some story into the movie and its a total disater... Even some of the TV serials have a better storyline than this movie. The movie just goes on as expected but way too slow. Its still amases me how I managed to watch the entire movie. The biggest letdown in this flim is its music. My advise is not to watch this...

Rang de Basanti

After a long time i found an interesting movie in indian cinema. This movie was shot with a difference. we have seen a lot of cinemas on the same topic bhagat singh and how great he was but none of them captured the feelings of bhagat singh like the way this movie does. None of previous moive tries to describe why he took such a decision and what made him do that. Rang de Basanti does this by relating it to the present day situation.

This movie is made from the heart and that is evident while watchin the it. The movie has the mix of both the modern day masala together with a message, the combination very rarely found in the same movie.

The movie starts with british director who wants to make a movie on bhagat singh. As the story goes on the actors acting in the flim land up in a situation which is very much similar to what bhagat singh faced. The similarities in these two situations are highlighted which is the best element of the movie.

Some would say the ending does not suit it properly, but i would say that this is the the best ending this movie could have. This is exactly what is happening in present day situation. Relating this to Bhagat singh, this is exactly what had happened to him.

One major element in the movie is its music. The background score is very good. Also the timing of each song is fantastic. My favorite song is "rang de basanti". In other movies of bhagat singh we have heard many versions of that song. This one is the modern version and it lives upto its reputation.

War of the worlds

if u think this is just another movie with a lot of action and nothing actually there to watch out for then you are absolutely right. the first half of the movie is just the hero (tom cruise) running from the aliens since there is a attack from the other world. And now if u think there is going to be some twist in the story in the later half then you are wrong again. The hero finally gets caught by one of the alien machines. and what does he do. yup rite he destroyes it. then then what happens........ all the alien machines and the aliens die themselves on their own with no particular reason. and the movie ends with a voice sayin the aliens dont have the immunity to stay on earth..... what a sad ending. i would have liked if all humans had died, thats atleast logical. anyways according to me the greatest drawback of this movie is that it doesnt have any heroine. seeing the heroine run from the aliens (like in baywatch) would have been really entertainning. i missed her very much in this movie :(

Kya Kool hai hum

After a long time i saw a hindi movie that was worth watching. quite a funny movie. the first half of the movie is too good and in the second half it just takes the usual course. the movie is unable to maintain the same tempo like the start. but still i would say overall a good movie defineatly worth a watch. most of the story is unrealistic but who cares as long as it is funny to watch.

see this movie with ur close friends or alone. the choice that i made was to see this movie alone. As my computer was not working i decided to see this in a theather. was a wrong choice. my two neighbours were two very beautiful gals n with such a intimidating atmosphere it was very tuff to control myself for 3 hours. one was like isha (one of my fav gals) and the other like neha. thanks to their boyfriends or i donno wht i would hv done to them ;)

if u still havent watched the movie then go watch it and give ur reaction as a comment to this post.