Love Story:
Kind of liked this movie. It was a really clean movie and the theme music was good.
Remember hearing one Landmark final quiz question based on this theme music, guess this theme must have been picked
from some Bach's symphony.
The Hitchhiker's guide to Galaxy:
This movie appeared to be more like a TV serial or talk-show that they show on TV.
The comedy part in this movie was a bit stale.
Though the last 15 minutes of this movie was good.
I think I will try to read this book, which I feel will be more interesting than this movie-adaptation.
Grapes of Wrath:
Really good movie, based on Steinback novel.
Quite sad how rural poor or the rural unemployed gets manipulated by all for their own ends.
The rural poor have nothing to do except for moving to prosperous regions. And the minute they migrate, they join the nobodies of this world. They are paid lowest wages because they dont have another job. If the law or the employer uses his muscle they just have to be spectators against this injustice, if they talk-back they are silenced.
The parting-off conversation between the mom and the rebel son was interesting, the son wants to change the exploitation of the poor folks and mom wants him to stay with her, but realises that he also cant stay with her, because he s a bit of an idealist himself so he would be off-place here with her where she and her other family members just crawl before the mighty since they dont have a job.
Memoirs of Geisha:
Not a good movie, wonder where the hype came from.
The lead characters didnt look like Japanese i.e Zhang Zhiyi and Michelle Yeoh. Though Zhang Zhiyi looked brilliant without make-up. Rob Marshall was quite pathetic in Hollywoodising many of the components in this movie. The bright colours all around seemed to be too artificial. For similar reasons I found 'The Last Samurai' movie too nauseating, there is hardly any realism in any of the sequences. The role of Michelle Yeoh seems to be similar to the role of Rekha in the movie 'Kamasutra'.
Akiro Kurasawa movie 'Drunken Angel' was top-class Japanese movie, guess one cant see a better Japanese movie than that..
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i have to disagree with u there on Memoirs Of a Geisha.. i thought the film was shot beautifully... i predicted that it would win oscar for cinematography.. and it did. but yeah, its a very ordinary love story and michelle yeoh was so uptight in her acting. Also, i felt that they could have spoken in japanese itself. english kinda screwed up the film. otherwise, wonderful watch.
Sai abishek,
The photography sometimes shows picture-perfect backgrounds whether it is in the streets or inside-closed-doors or the outdoor shots near stream/mountain and add to that the characters' way of looking at things, it is really nauseating to see this for a long time.
I felt like seeing a K T Kunjumon or Shankar kind of movie where they try to paint a really rosy picture of anything and everything which is totally different from reality.
The last straw was when the Jap culture was glorified.. just could not digest this movie...
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