Saw three movies over the long weekend - quite an achievement!
1. Wolverine - Apart from the fact that it had Hugh Jackman which made the movie watchable and "timepass", everything else was just sub par. The plot was childish and made no sense - what was the deal with that psycho brother Victor? I am still confused about the real motives of Stryker and why he went through all that trouble of tricking Wolverine but I don't even feel curious enough to read it on Wiki.
2. X-Men - Saw the first X-Men after watching Wolverine.. and must say - this was a fun movie. Not great but a good watch. Oh and it had funny corny dialogs - Storm to Toad: "Do you know what happens to a toad when it is struck by lightning?" At this point, she zaps him and adds (with style), "The same thing that happens to everything else". Wah wah!!!
3. Kaminey - OVERHYPED! I mean, cmon!! This movie was getting rave reviews everywhere, 8.2 on IMDB, people are comparing it to Tarantino flicks.. are they crazy? Does filming everything in the dark make it a classic? Why the lisp and stuttering - wasn't the direction and editing confusing enough already that you have to make the dialogs difficult to understand as well? National integration theek hai - but arre to what extent? And what was the big deal about the dead father? Anyway, I don't need to add much - read this review instead and do stay away from this movie.
3 comments:
Not Tarantino - Guy ritchie - film was very similar to Snatch and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Many gangs, takes a while to understand what's going on, then all end up at the same spot at the end and the good guys win. However nowhere as well done.
Watch Up. Brilliant. Also watch Proposal for a TP chic flick
Your choice of movies is very bad. Don't choose a movie based on the actor etc. A simple way to choose movies is see the ratings by Bernardelli and Ebert. If the ratings are bad, the movie is almost always bad, except maybe once in 10 years.
If the ratings are very good, does not mean you will necessarily like the movie, but the probability of getting very good movies by watching very good rated movies is very good.
Also cross check with IMDB to see the rating by the junta. Avoid anything below 7 unless it is a slapstick. Around 8 is usually very good.
The best site to do all this www.mrqe.com where you can actually see a good moviemeter and Ebert's and Bernardelli's ratings below. Just see the ratings, don't read the reviews before watching the film.
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