Sunday, 18 September 2022

Middle Class Love, Siya, Matto Ki Saikal, Jahan Chaar Yaar

Watched four movies as  mentioned above. All movies were watched on the big screen

Middle Class Love

  • This movie is like Archies or Student of the Year.
  • One need not wait for "official Archies"
  • One can watch this movie.
  • This is shot near Nainital and great landscapes are captured.
  • Worth watching on big screen

Siya

  • This is based on what happens in real life.
  • Things like rape and cremation and killing of witnesses.
  • Bit serious movie.

Matto Ki Saikal

  • This movie should be watched for tremendous acting by Prakash Jha.
  • He has worked as labourer and portrays the character flawlessly.
  • It has comedy plus serious bits.
  • Worth watching once.

Jahan Chaar Yaar

  • This movie needs to be watched to see how parties can turn ones life upside down.
  • This case is of party happening in Goa.
  • Goa is the ultimate an Indian can think of partying without going abroad and that is a fact.
  • This movie shows that.
  • Worth watching once.

All the above movies I could watch because it was on big screen. In cinema theater we can pass the time and watch the movie quite easily. If it was mobile or TV or computer I could not have found the time or inclination to watch the movies.

Wednesday, 14 September 2022

Brahmastra, Resident Evil, Sita Ramam, Kartikeya, E.T., Beast

Watched several movies and series as mentioned above

Brahmastra

  • This movie was watched on big screen and on 3D.
  • I will say Special effects and visual effects are the real star of the movie.
  • It doesnt look like 410 crores have been spent on the movie.
  • Maybe they could have been paid for the inflated salaries of the stars and the special effects.
  • But the "Astra universe" has been brought to life by this movie no doubt about that.

Resident Evil

  • This web series of eight parts was watched on Netflix.
  • It is okay for  one time watch.
  • Guess cloning angle is brought into the picture.
  • Sequel is definitely coming.

Sita Ramam

  • This was watched on big screen.
  • Too good movie.
  • No one could have guessed what will happen next.
  • In that sense the director has done perfect work as audience will not get aware of what will happen next till the very end.

Kartikeya

  • This Part 1 2014 movie was watched on amazon Prime Video.
  • Movie is too good .
  • No doubt the sequel went on to become such a big hit.
  • The hero has not changed in eight years. Look is same.
  • Guess that is the case with celebrities. They try to maintain their looks.

E.T.

  • This movie was watched as part of 40 year anniversary in IMAX big screen.
  • Too good movie.
  • Like I had said the heart of any movie is that it should be made believable.
  • And this "impossible story" seems so real.
  • So real that when ET leaves we actually feel sad.
  • Such is the power of direction.

Beast

  • What a movie.
  • This movie gaves you the feeling that you are actually there in the movie among the lions and the jungle.
  • Intense action and good acting makes it worthwhile.

Sunday, 4 September 2022

Top Gun Maverick, Liger, Three Thousand, Kartikeya 2, Dragon Ball

Watched several movies as mentioned above. Incidentally all the movies were watched on the big screen

Top Gun Maverick

  • This is one movie where the hero Tom Cruise plays his age and does not romance a significantly younger heroine.
  • Here the military target is most likely a North Korea. Because the landscape shown is mountainous and full of ice.
  • It cannot be a NATO Ally. Nor can it be an existing nuclear power like China or Russia.
  • They have not named the enemy country.
  • As the movie progresses we feel it is Iran but the landscape makes possible as only one country and that is North Korea.
  • But Tom Cruise proves what the world is like.
  • While United States is limited to a piece of floating metal on abroad seas (it may be an aircraft carrier), the adversary has unspoiled natural beauty of landscape of mountains, valleys, lakes, rivers and trees.

Liger

  • This movie is too good.
  • I will say Vijay Devarakonda fits the role.
  • In this world of so many talented people the fact is no one could have replaced Vijay Devarakonda.
  • He is true hero.
  • The movie fails because it just goes ballistic in the 2nd half.
  • Like I have come to believe the secret of success to a movie is that it should be "made believable"
  • Don't make it so ballistic that audience will simply dismiss it.
  • I will definitely rewatch it when it comes on OTT. Worth watching.

Three Thousand years of Longing

  • This movie is also worth watching.
  • As it deals with the subject of Djinns from a Western perspective.
  • Western society should make possible for Djinns to exist among humans.
  • That is the message.
  • It shows past from African origin of Djinn to Greek and Ottoman Empire.

Kartikeya 2

  • After a lot of positive reviews watched this movie.
  • I liked it. 
  • This movie deals with Pandemic also. How a miracle cure lies to be discovered by the hero.
  • Also found out Kartikeya Part 1 had come in 2014 and is available on Amazon Prime Video
  • Have watched it and it is just as good.
  • Now Kartikeya 3 will definitely come and will go onwards to abroad towards Atlantic Ocean.

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero

  • This animation movie is must watch.
  • Looks too good in IMAX screen and big screen.
  • What is not possible in real life becomes possible in animation.
  • Just full of unimaginable animation.
  • Must watch.

Monday, 29 August 2022

Vikram, Dobara, The Batman, Om

Watched three movies as mentioned above.

Vikram

  • This movie was watched on Disney+ Hotstar.
  • I liked the movie.
  • The secret of a good movie or series is to make it all believable.
  • Vikram is that kind of movie.
  • All the action sequences make you believe that what they have shown is possible.
  • Kamal Haasan, Vijay Sethupathi, Vinod Jose and Fahadh Faasil all play good roles.
  • I would say it is the role of lifetime for them.
     

Dobara

  • This movie was watched on big screen.
  • I liked the movie.
  • Classic movie shows this kind of story is Frequency and it is linked to Northern Lights.
  • Rest of the movies can only be like copies of the original.

The Batman

  • This movie was watched on Prime Video.
  • I thought this movie is perfectly made.
  • I mean like all scenes were necessary and required for the director to convey the story.
  • The purpose of the movie is to show that Batman becomes an orphan when his parents are killed.
  • In this movie that history is analysed and so the audience does not feel sad for the fact that Batman becomes orphan when he was young.
  • The city gets flooded in the movie and lot of cleanup required towards the end including the corruption which has infected the society.

Rastrakavach OM

  • This movie was watched on Zee5.
  • This movie and Vikram should be compared.
  • Vikram movie makes impossible action believable.
  • This movie makes impossible action unbelievable.
  • I mean Aditya Roy Kapur has gone amazing transformantion and has done a lot of effort.
  • Shot in Armenia as well.
  • But something is missing.
  • Why movies succeed and some fail no one knows the formula else all would be giving out hits.

Tuesday, 23 August 2022

Shamshera, Nope, Get Out, Texas Chainsaw, Raksha Bandhan

Watched four movies as mentioned above.

Shamshera

  • This movie is too good. Watched on Amazon Prime Video.
  • The role played by Ranvir Kapoor and Sanjay Dutt among others is too good.
  • Ranvir Kapoor weapon of choice is too good. It is like Turgut's weapon.
  • I felt the Samshera weapon is bigger than Turgut weapon.
  • Sanjay Dutt role is like the Sanjay Dutt we have always known.
  • Recent roles of Sanjay Dutt like Samraat Prithviraj does not capture the true essence of his personality.
  • The reason for the failure can be analysed.
  • The area shown is Rajputana but resembles North West Frontier Province or Afghanistan.
  • If the area could have resembled somewhat jungles of Eastern or Western Ghats like RRR movie then the case would have been different.
  • But then racial profile of the tribes would have been different.
  • Now they resemble Pathans but are Hindus like actual Raj Kapoor or Sunil Dutt families are. They are Pathans but Hindus.
  • And Indians felt opposite of this movie.
  • This is why the movie is great.
  • Because I felt this movie is like opposite of Kesari movie which came out in 2019. 
  • In Kesari we saw Afghan tribes fighting British Empire and Sikh soldiers. And they were heroes.
  • Here we saw Shamshera's tribes becoming slaves in a fort and fighting British and British Indian soldiers including Sikh foot soldiers.

Nope

  • This movie was watched on big screen.
  • Too good creature effects.
  • I felt people who have spent decades there without knowing such a creature exists is impossible.
  • Or maybe the creature resembling an UFO got more and more hungry.
  • We just don't know.
  • All I can say the movie is worth watching on big screen to get the creature and sound effects.
     

Get Out

  • This movie where black people are hypnotized and used as slaves (or perhaps organs used for rejuvenating old and diseased people they have not shown in the movie though) is must watch.
  • If not killed for organ harvesting we cannot account for hundreds of missing blacks.
  • Watched on Amazon Prime video.

Texas Chainsaw

  • This is the 2013 of the Texas Chainsaw franchise.
  • Watched on Amazon Prime Video.
  • It shows the family side of the "leatherface" and it shows why family matters.
  • Ultimately Leatherface lives and the enemies who are vigilantes are killed one by one.
  • Not immediately but over the course of several years.

Raksha Bandhan

  • This movie was watched on big screen.
  • Good clean movie.
  • I think this movie should have been set sometime in past like two or three decades ago.
  • As dowry was very much prevalent in the society.
  • If director would have made that way then the movie could have succeeded.
  • But if he has set in present then audience would not accept it as dowry is not that prevalent in the society as per my understanding.
  • But good way to pass time if you have nothing better to day.
  • Good clean Indian family drama set in the heart of Old Delhi.

Lal Sing Chadda, Halloween, Ertugrul

Watched several movies over last few days as mentioned above.

Lal Sing Chaddha

  • This movie was watched on big screen.
  • I found the movie okay but it failed on box office.
  • I think I know why it failed.
  • The reason could be the way the hero strikes conversation with stranger on the train. It doesn't happen like that in real life.
  • Also he is a multi millionaire and why he needs to travel in 2ns class train is not understandable.
  • The wide diversity of roles played by Aamir Khan was too much for the audience.
  • Also the Chaddi-Baniyan (underwear) businessman from South India had no meaning being in the Army where his life could be extinguished anytime. Why he joined that is the big question.
  • But the stunning visual of India Gate when Aamir Khan and Kareena Kappor walk around the monument looks too good on the big screen and that makes it worth it.

Halloween

  • This original 1978 movie was watched on Amazon Prime Video.
  • I know it has many sequels.
  • But the fact you can watch it from beginning makes it worthwhile.
  • Masked serial killer gave rise to many copycats like Scream franchise and others.
  • Wherever serial killers arise you have to look at Michael Myers for inspiration.

Ertugrul Season 4

  • Last I had watched till Episode 87
  • Surprisingly on Episode 87 itself, Ogedai Khan dies.
  • Once Ogedai Khan dies, The Mongols and Noyan declare the agreement between Ogedai and Ertugrul as representative of Seljuk State as null and void.
  • They are after Ertugruls blood but somehow Ertugrul manages to escape and meanwhile after return to his tribe Ertugrul signs peace treaty with the Nicaea Emperor who has sent his son as envoy.
  • Ertugrul also reveals that he never intended to betray the Seljuk state but do peace with Ogedai Khan to buy some time and regroup.
  • Ertugrul has himself crossed the sea to reach Ogedai Khan which means he has gone to Crimea crossing Black sea and met Ogedai there.
  • Ogedai Khan's son comes to Desh-i-Kipchek becomes successor of Mongols and declares one commander of China operations and makes Noyan incharge of Anatolia and declares himself as ruler of Desh-i-Kipchak which is nothing but present day Ukraine.
  • Towards the end Ertugrul and his people begin migration to Sogut which was given to them by the Sultan Keykubad and they have also made peace with Emperor of Nikaea.
  • Noyan meanwhile is making plans for massive invasion of Anatolia.
  • So concludes Season 4. And now Season 5 is to begin

Saturday, 13 August 2022

Old, Prithviraj, Hlloween, Ertugrul, Morbius, Tall Grass, Indian Predator

Watched several movies and series as mentioned above.

Old

  • This movie was watched on Amazon Prime Video.
  • I liked the movie
  • How people grow old in a particular beach in one island is shown.
  • And they are used as guinea pigs for medical experiment that is sown.

Samraat Prithviraj

  • This movie was shown in Amazon Prime Video and watched.
  • I liked the movie.
  • The movie failed because its shows "Indian failure".
  • Indians will not tolerate "failure" and hence this bombed in box office.

Halloween Kills

  • This movie was seen on Amazon Prime Video.
  • It shows Michael Myers the deadly serial killer in action.
  • I liked the movie.
  • Worth watching according to me.

Ertugrul Episode 87

  • Last I had seen till Episode 84
  • By Episode 87, Ertugrul has met Ogedai Khan and surprisingly decided to join forces with Ogedai Khan and Noyan.
  • He is convinced that Seljuk Empire is a "dying empire".
  • Many Turks have joined Ogedai.
  • If they don't join forces they face shedding "rivers of blood" and face obliteration according to the Mongols.
  • Three more episodes to go in Season 4 and still Season 5 to go.

Morbius

  • This is superb movie trust me.
  • It shows a scientist who does experiment to cure him of a dreaded and fatal disease and trust me no one could have portrayed the character quite nicely as Jared Leto.
  • Movie is far better than the trailer.
  • Worth watching according to me.

In the Tall Grass

  • This movie was watched on Netflix.
  • This movie shows how people get lost in grasslands with little hope of rescue and escape.
  • Actually this movie carries a hidden message and that is against abortion and idol worship.
  • Movie is worth watching according to me.

Indian Predator : The Butcher of Delhi

  • Watched on Netflix
  • A terrifying story of a serial killer in Delhi.
  • Actually the killer is caught by end of episode 1 and 2 and the third and final episode even before it begins one wonders what they will show in third episode.
  • Then the terrifying story is unraveled in third episode.
  • It is revealed that the killer may have killed more than seven people. Perhaps dozens more.
  • Though they have identified the killer as "Bihari migrant", truth is whether he is Bihari or not does not matter.
  • Racial profiling does not matter. The fact the story is real and ethnicity does not matter.
  • That is what makes it terrifying.
  • One can directly watch the third episode also.