Watchmen
Now I consider the Alan Moore's cult classic graphic novel an effort that is just above average, except for the Rorschach character who is exceptional, I would state the same about the movie. Watch it for Rorschach if nothing else, but beware, this one is a 3 hour long movie that takes some watching, it stays quite loyal to the original graphic novel, but then by now, Zack Snyder must be pretty used to taking comic books and making them into movies :)
You won't recognise even a single actor, unless you are a huuuge movie buff, but that one must say is one of the positives from this movie.
'Who watches the Watchmen' should one ask? heh.
The Wrestler
A wonderfully made movie, one you would enjoy if you like drama. I am not a huge fan of Mickey Rourke, but like in 'Angel Heart' before, he impresses again here as an aging professional wrestler who struggles with the 'real' life outside the ring.
Unfortunately, another performance by Marisa Tomei, where she has to strip (professionally for this character she plays), I bemoan the loss of a great actress such as her.
The Reader
Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes do a great job in this movie, I quite enjoyed it and thought it had parts that impressed and some that were average. But watchable nevertheless.
p.s: I read Chekov's "Lady with the dog" but was not impressed.
Lives of Others
Another movie depcting life in Germany, East Germany of the 1980's this time and this one is a German movie.
We follow the lives of 3 characters, A Dramatist, his girlfriend who is an actress and a Secret Service surveillance officer who is given the job spying on them. Mostly we get to know the characters from the point of view of the Secret Service officer and just like him we get drawn to their lives and the movie that is slow to begin with grips us suddenly, as we begin to relate to the principal characters, including the lonely SS officer who from being a staunch socialist soon starts to draw inspiration and changes, after following the lives of the very people he is spying on
A brilliant movie, one that I rate very highly.
Vertigo
Alfred Hitchcock present's Kim Novak and James Stewart in Vertigo!
Brilliantly made movie, a true classic. Must Watch!
An Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain
Hugh Grant plays a cartographer, who along with his senior visits a small Welsh village, to chart the height of a local hill. This is 1917, the World War is on and the quaint village and its people take offence to their mountain being called a hill!
They reckon it is over a 1000 feet high and must be called a mountain but the Catographer measures its height as being 986 feet, 14 feet short of a mountain.
Romance and hilarity ensue in this wonderful plot, as the villagers ensure that the hill becomes a mountain.
Nice movie!
Now I consider the Alan Moore's cult classic graphic novel an effort that is just above average, except for the Rorschach character who is exceptional, I would state the same about the movie. Watch it for Rorschach if nothing else, but beware, this one is a 3 hour long movie that takes some watching, it stays quite loyal to the original graphic novel, but then by now, Zack Snyder must be pretty used to taking comic books and making them into movies :)
You won't recognise even a single actor, unless you are a huuuge movie buff, but that one must say is one of the positives from this movie.
'Who watches the Watchmen' should one ask? heh.
The Wrestler
A wonderfully made movie, one you would enjoy if you like drama. I am not a huge fan of Mickey Rourke, but like in 'Angel Heart' before, he impresses again here as an aging professional wrestler who struggles with the 'real' life outside the ring.
Unfortunately, another performance by Marisa Tomei, where she has to strip (professionally for this character she plays), I bemoan the loss of a great actress such as her.
The Reader
Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes do a great job in this movie, I quite enjoyed it and thought it had parts that impressed and some that were average. But watchable nevertheless.
p.s: I read Chekov's "Lady with the dog" but was not impressed.
Lives of Others
Another movie depcting life in Germany, East Germany of the 1980's this time and this one is a German movie.
We follow the lives of 3 characters, A Dramatist, his girlfriend who is an actress and a Secret Service surveillance officer who is given the job spying on them. Mostly we get to know the characters from the point of view of the Secret Service officer and just like him we get drawn to their lives and the movie that is slow to begin with grips us suddenly, as we begin to relate to the principal characters, including the lonely SS officer who from being a staunch socialist soon starts to draw inspiration and changes, after following the lives of the very people he is spying on
A brilliant movie, one that I rate very highly.
Vertigo
Alfred Hitchcock present's Kim Novak and James Stewart in Vertigo!
Brilliantly made movie, a true classic. Must Watch!
An Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain
Hugh Grant plays a cartographer, who along with his senior visits a small Welsh village, to chart the height of a local hill. This is 1917, the World War is on and the quaint village and its people take offence to their mountain being called a hill!
They reckon it is over a 1000 feet high and must be called a mountain but the Catographer measures its height as being 986 feet, 14 feet short of a mountain.
Romance and hilarity ensue in this wonderful plot, as the villagers ensure that the hill becomes a mountain.
Nice movie!
4 comments:
Don't stop reviewing movies! You're quite good at it.
Have you seen "To Kill A Mockingbird"? "Inherit The Wind"? "Hair"?
Ooof. Did not think 'Lives of Others' was brilliant. German fillums always leave me a little disappointed. Like the other day, I found a DVD I hadn't watched yet, 'The Princess and the Warrior'. Looked interesting but in the end was just so-so. Good story but just not up to the mark in the end. Still.
Now, French movies I love for the most part. Have you watched 'Roman de Gare' (2007)? 'Crossed Tracks' I think in English. Very nice it was. Also, 'Caramel'. Lebanese fillum. Watched both at the PVR festival in Bangalore.
@ Leanna : I am forced by habit :) I do not think I would stp reviewing!
@ LBV: I loved "Lives of others", had not even heard of it or read reviews of it, so unbiased. But I think it is brilliant!, I looked at caramel did not watch it though, I did not feel like watching it, maybe I should if you recommend it
'Caramel' is almost a chick-flick, but I loved it. Also because I love the Middle East and anything that has an even miniscule Arabic reference, language-wise. So.
But 'Roman de Gare' is defintiely good watching.
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