Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Good Night, and Good Luck.

+Loved the documentary style, black and white texture of the film.
+Marvellous acting, equally good editing and very well directed by Clooney (the first attempt Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was thumbs down for me)
+ David Strathairn as Ed Murrow is perfect, absolutely fantastic in his dialogues, diction, oration all just perfect. The dialogues in the movie are worth keeping your ears open.
++Overall message of the movie is moral, intellectual and dignified. The immense power of information and the media which delivers them, the bold responsibilities of the people incharge of these and their courage to deliver the truth without fear of loosing corporate funding and more importantly of our duty to demand more than what media bullies and feeds into us.
Inspiring :)

-This is more of my short coming than of the movie, I think some knowledge of the events related to the movie would help to appreciate it better.

Recommended when you are in for some serious thought provoking mood.

Sunday, February 12, 2006

Hostel
A saga with lack of everything except ruthless depiction of torture.
Well, what did we expect when we went to see this movie. We had seen the trailer, there was blood n screaming n torture. Yes so that was pretty much what we got in the movie. It was not scary in the manner of Ju-on, Omen or Rosemary's baby, it was just bloody hell gory.

Not sure what mood you should watch this movie, probably before planning a trip to eastern Europe :)

5/10 for English movies.
Rang De Basanti

8/10 on the scale of hindi movies.

+ Very Fresh screenplay, simple yet thoughtful.
+ The juxtaposing of scenes containing events from British Raj with the events in current Corrupt Raj is brilliant. I think the word for that is Cinematography, and finally hindi movie makers seem to be learning it.
+ Good editing, the movie doesn't seem to slack or loose pace at any time. Especially the songs are well timed n blend nicely in the story while adding melody to it.
+ Songs are good.
+ Acting is good. Aamir shows his talent in timing the dialogues. Alice Patten does a fine job. Rest of the cast all have space for their characters and perform brilliantly. All credits to the director for good use of the ensemble cast.

- Second half the events are somewhat propelled and lack the critical character transformation needed to justify the events. The first half builds all the characters as a normal bunch of college boys n girls with love, romance, careless free attitude. In second half, by the time you come to grip u see these jolly bunch turned into assasins and rebellions of the calibre of extremist freedom fighters.

+++ The scene where Agashe is portrayed as General Dyer is probably one of the best scenes from recent hindi movies.

Overall, am sure u wud watch it twice :)