Watched a lot of movies over the week and the weekend - here are some mini-reviews -
1. Anger Management - Very funny movie. Not very predictable like the usual romantic comedies, which was a good thing, or maybe it was because I didn’t watch too many trailers. Jack Nicholson was really fun and Adam Sandler a lot less juvenile than usual. Go check it out - it is worth the DVD rental price.
2. Hollywood Homicide - boooring! Josh Hartnett was alright - especially his so-called efforts to play Stanley Kowalski in his side job as an actor. Harrison Ford’s role was really sketchy in that the writers seemed to have focused a lot on trying to make him look so different from his previous roles that they made him look really washed out and stupid - making Harrison Ford look like that, I have to say is a major achievement - of a bad kind! Skip it!
3. Boom - one word! Gross! Ugly movie filled with ugly people and situations. I think the guy who played the transvestite in “The Crying Game” was a lot more feminie and beautiful than Madhu Sapre can ever to hope to be - what was up with the washed-up whore look? My husband and his friend wanted to watch the movie supposedly to look at beautiful girls walking around half-naked, but they gave up so fast it was amazing.
4. Joggers’ Park - I have to admit that one of the things that made me not like the movie was Victor Bannerjee. There was something about the way he talked, enunciated his words and even looked that just grated on my nerves. That aside, I was really offended by the story as a wife and a woman. Here it is, this retired judge falls for a young, vivacious woman he meets in the Joggers’ Park - she falls for him because he takes her to the hospital when she is sick. Great!
What about the judge’s wife? y’know that one who is so in love with her husband and respects him so much, but is lied to on every single occasion? Even when finally the judge lets go of his “passion” in the end, it is because his daughter lectures him about family honor. I thought that was ridiculous - forget honor. What about love? Didn’t the judge love his wife? After being married to him for 40 years, is this all she means to him? A big, fat nothing? Another thing that really irritates me about movies like this is how they call this whole affair from the “infatuation” to the “love”, friendship - as in, “Oh, this world will never understand our friendship”. Bull shit! This is not friendship - this is the respecful mask behind which rages a sexual urge that the old judge is obviously too scared of the society to unveil. On the whole, a very irritating movie.
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My movie of the week is Mr & Mrs Iyer. I really liked it. Controlled acting, great theme, very different movie
Posted by: JK at October 13, 2003 11:45 AM
My husband watched the movie a while ago, JK - he liked it too. He thought it was really well made and found the characters very likeable.
Posted by: Shanti at October 13, 2003 11:57 AM
I agree about Anger Management. Great movie! Jack Nicholson is the world’s most loveable jerk. You don’t know whether you want to kill him or pinch his cheeks.
Posted by: Lynn S at October 13, 2003 3:28 PM
Jack Nicholson is the world’s most loveable jerk
Perfectly put, Lynn - That was how I felt when I watched “As good as it gets” :)
Posted by: Shanti at October 14, 2003 9:57 AM
Perizaad Zorabian is a honey.
That is all.
Posted by: MadMan at October 14, 2003 5:54 PM
MadMan, now that is something I will agree with - she is a cute one ;) Of course, it made her relationship with that guy even creepier :confused:
Posted by: Shanti at October 14, 2003 6:05 PM
I believe that like criminals, directors like Kaizad Gustad are made, not born. It is society’s fault that they turn out like this.
Four years ago, when he made Bombay Boys, if we had put some sense in him and made him take up some less-damaging profession than film-direction (like organized crime), we wouldn’t have had to put up with Boom. But no! Everyone was going ga ga over it. Critics called it a refreshingly dirfferent movie. No one listened to people like me who were trying to tell anyone who cared to listen that Kaizad Gustad had to be stopped before he became a menace to society and good taste.
Posted by: Ravikiran at October 15, 2003 8:50 AM
Ravi, I guess you could be a seer if you believed in God - we will just call you a visionary and leave it at that :)
I am sure your new honey Katrina Kaif didn’t disappoint you much, especially since she stated publicly she regretted doing “Boom”.
Posted by: Shanti at October 15, 2003 9:11 AM
Jessica Alba sucks, she can not dance and she is to simple looking to be a main character in a movie, she stinks!
Posted by: Brian at November 24, 2003 5:24 PM