Sunday, May 01, 2005

Movies by Weekend

The Alamo:

Ordinary movie.
Dennis Quaid and Billy Bob Thornton play American patriots in this movie. This movie sings about american-jingoism - tells us all the story of how Texas was born!

Chandramukhi:

Rajni movie.
Tinge of Sherlock Holmes-style and Byomkesh Bakshi-style explanation of events - makes this movie interesting.
Another movie which dared to be different was 'alavandhan'. In 'alavandan', Kamal Hassan choreographed interesting sequence of events including the gory animated-fight sequences (Note: Kill Bill 1 had a similar fight sequences). Kamal was quite certain that censors would cut those gory fight sequences, so he took the animation route. Guess, Quentin Tarantino also did the same!

Both 'alavandan' and 'chandramukhi' had a not-so-usual-storyline, but the disappointing aspect in both these movies is the 'comedy'! Both these movies lacked the 'sensitivity-angle' when dealing with topics like 'split-personality' or 'schizophrenia' and followed the formulaic-cinema route. In 'alavandan' the psychopath-Kamal looked like a prankster in the climax segment of the movie.

The Peacemaker:

Movie in the Jerry Bruckheimer mould.
Seems like movies like this just keep coming out of Hollywood day-in day-out! Of course, entertaining one.

Closer:

Good movie.
Found this movie to be interesting and the leading ladies were gorgeous (Natalie Portman and Julia Roberts). Guess, Julia Roberts gels well into Brit based movies.(include: Notting Hill)

Young and Innocent:

This is the first time I saw an Alfred Hitchcock movie.
Nothing extra-ordinary about this movie. It was a fairly decent thriller, except that you know what the next scene is going to be!

3 comments:

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