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Engaging in some parts, mostly just blah

Posted : 8 months, 3 weeks ago on 18 April 2008 04:42 (A review of The Thomas Crown Affair)

The movie has some clever and engaging parts. For most of it, it's dull, the acting is mediocre and it's just not very interesting. I really wanted to like it but by the time it ended, I was glad it did.

Maybe the original is better, I've certainly heard better things about it.

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Los Angeles never looked so good

Posted : 8 months, 4 weeks ago on 16 April 2008 12:17 (A review of Blade Runner)

Ridley Scott's imagining of a dark, multicultural and ugly/beautiful Los Angeles in a dystopic 21st century world is brilliant, right from the very first scene.

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Quite boring

Posted : 9 months ago on 13 April 2008 12:44 (A review of The Unbearable Lightness of Being)

The book was a dry read but what the movie also lacks is most of the intellectually engaging parts. So it is interesting at times but for the most part is dry and un-engaging on an emotional level. Good acting cannot save this either. It reminds me of 2001: A Space Odyssey, in that the movie was hard to completely understand without having read the book. However, 2001 was still a very good movie.

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Expected more than what I got

Posted : 9 months ago on 12 April 2008 02:03 (A review of Smart People)

The premise of the movie isn't the most original. Dennis Quaid plays a widowed professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He is pompous, acerbic and having a hard time moving on from the death of his wife. He doesn't have much of a relationship with his son and his daughter is an isolated teenager who tries very hard to fill the gaps in their life by being the perfect housekeeper of sorts. The characters in the movie are 'smart people', smart as in intellectual and brainy, but not very good at the social lubrication that is very much a part of everyday life. This makes them isolated and lonely.

Life forces some changes on them and brings in new people into their lives. What I really like about the movie is that none of these characters have any epiphanies or life changing revelations and suddenly become 'better' people. The characters gently come out of their shells and try to become happier people.

The movie traces the several months of the story with good humor without going overboard and the acting is top notch. However.... I liked the premise so much that by the midway point, I was expecting a little more than the rushed climax. It was a little incongruous considering the languid pace of the rest of the movie. So, I came away a little disappointed.

'Smart People' is a mostly smart movie.

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Unsatisfying

Posted : 9 months, 1 week ago on 6 April 2008 02:49 (A review of And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...)

Vague plot and poorly fleshed out end left me unsatisfied. Seems like most of the movie was either a dream or a red herring. With the cast, production values and a pretty decent idea for a plot, they could and should have done much better than this.

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WTF??

Posted : 9 months, 1 week ago on 1 April 2008 11:47 (A review of Love Me If You Dare)

Both of them had to be in absolutely DIRE need of therapy.

Sophie and Julien play a bizarre game starting as kids where they try and one up each other, one that keeps increasing in intensity as they grow up. Refer to last paragraph.

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Surprisingly gory

Posted : 9 months, 2 weeks ago on 28 March 2008 06:22 (A review of RoboCop)

I saw this movie around 18 years ago and then again, just recently. It's aged surprisingly well, despite the clunky, stop frame robot animation. The plot is pretty good, there's plenty of blood and gore (including a guy with his skin melting off his body) and crucially, not too much reliance on CG effects. I did not remember all the blood and gore. This movie is definitely not for kids younger than 13.

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Umm....

Posted : 9 months, 2 weeks ago on 25 March 2008 07:24 (A review of Bad Guy)

Kim Ki Duk loves to mess with his audience's head and he's in great form here. The movie follows the relationship between a girl and the her pimp who is also the one that forced her into prostitution. That's just scratching the surface of this twisted tale.

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Definitive biography of Gandhi

Posted : 9 months, 4 weeks ago on 16 March 2008 04:00 (A review of Gandhi)

The definitive movie on the leader of modern India's movement to gain independence from British rule comes from ..... you guessed it, a Britisher.

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Not one of the better Bond movies

Posted : 9 months, 4 weeks ago on 16 March 2008 03:58 (A review of Octopussy)

In the sequence where Bond flies in his helicopter, the manage to squeeze buildings from three different Indian cities into one strange concoction of a city. Well, Bond movies don't usually have too much commonsense anyway.

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