More movies - this weekend

Aladdin:

Ordinary movie.
Trivia: Robin Williams has lent his voice for Genie!
In this movie, there is a lot of Indian influence - girls with kumkum (aka bindhis aka pottu), few of the characters with the typical sethji kind of looks.

Reservoir Dogs:
Good movie. Quentin Tarantino's style written all over the movie. Guess, Tarantino's movies will never reach Oscars thanks to his adoration of violence and obscene dialogues - this movie had lots of it. Movies that go to Oscars invariably have this 'feel-good' content and I guess, Tarantino wont really make those kind of movies. Wonder how 'Kaante' was?('Kaante' an hindi movie is said to have the same story as 'reservoir dogs').

Shawshank Redemption:
Great movie.
Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman were great all through the movie. The final few minutes reminded me of 'The usual suspects' last-twist. Tim Robbins was good even in 'Bull Durham' - but then his bigger co-star Kevin Costner stole most of the limelight. I felt Tim Robbins was ordinary in the Clint Eastwood movie 'Mystic River', but his performance in 'Arlington Road' was real good . But, 'Shawshank redemption' has to be his best-ever. Feel the same for Morgan Freeman as well, his other movies including his latest one with Clint Eastwood 'Million Dollar Baby' just wasnt in the same class as this movie.

KwK with Vivek Oberoi and John Abraham:

Vivek was tight-lipped and made the show uninteresting. John Abraham just stole the show all the way. John Abraham during the chat said that 'he is a director's actor' - think it is very difficult to be one of such kind. Guess, the actor has to call the shots at some point of time - because in Hindi cinema, I think it is saleability of actors that still counts and not that of the plot. Director just has to move the plot around the main-actor and not the other way around. This also applies to our politics and cricket where politicians and cricketers score over their parties and teams respectively.

The Boondock Saints:

Oridinary movie. The movie started more like a comedy movie under the backdrop of mafiadom. But soon took an ugly turn when the movie became more like a 'right' vs 'wrong' and 'what are values' type. So, became boring and predictable in the end. Ashok Amritraj is one of the Associate Producers of this movie. Similar to most of Ashok's movies it has lots of action-sequences.

Little Terrorist:

I guess this movie went for the Best Oscar in short-film category. A Pakistani boy comes into Indian territory by mistake and gets back to his country with an Indian's help.
Trivia: Guess all the technicians worked for free as per the request by Ashwin(the director) who shot this movie with a very small budget.

Cheaper by the Dozen:

Good movie.
Movie mostly talks about 'small-town values'.

Ghost and the Darkness:

Good movie.
Val Kilmer was outstanding. I think Michael Doglous during his cameo was overacting, he also happens to be the executive producer of this movie. Some of the dialogue delivery pattern of Michael Douglous is similar to the tamil actor Sivaji Ganesan. Om Puri plays a listless role. Some of the scenes including the scene where lion pounces on Val Kilmer's wife and kid(during his nightmare) was really well shot.