Movies
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For lack of anything better to write, I shall talk about the movies which I have seen in recent past. I don’t get to see movies as they are released, so most of the times, I am several years behind the release dates.
Couple of weekends back, I saw two movies back to back and I realized later, that their titles make such a funny combination. They were “Mean Girls” and “Bad Boys- II”. I know "Bad Boys II" was actually sponsored by some Aspirin manufacturers, yet, I had to see it. I had seen Bad Boys I about four years back and after saving myself for a year I gave in to the temptation. Of course I had the strip of Aspirin with me and generously consumed them. “Mean Girls” is based on high school life, similar to Drew Barrymore’s “Never been Kissed”. The previous Barrymore movie being “50 first dates”, the other numerical title which I saw in recent past was “How to Lose a Guy in 10 days” featuring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey.
Yesterday I saw the movie “Blow” which is third in series of drug movies for me. Previous ones being, “Scarface” and “The Untouchables”. I saw “Scarface” as I like the acting of Al Pacino who was superb in “God Father“. “Blow” has Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz. I don’t know what Tom Cruise liked in Penelope Cruz ? may be her being Spanish. Tom Cruise reminds me of the movie “A Few Good Men”. I had stopped watching Tom Cruise movies after the “Top Gun” but with “A Few Good Men”, I feel Cruise has re-established himself. “A Few Good Men” has got excellent direction and keeps the audience glued for the whole duration. It is totally centered on one issue and there is not a single scene which is unrelated. I keep this movie in the genre of “Chariots of Fire”. I am trying to get one other movie of Cruise, “The Client” based on the novel of John Grisham.
When we speak of Cruise how can Nicole Kidman not come in mind, her last movie which I saw was “The Interpreter”, a compact suspense thriller with Sean Penn. Sean Penn has shown some good acting with his role of pathetic loser in “The Assassination of Richard Nixon”, this movie has similarity to “Taxi Driver”.
Christmas is the time for romantic movies like “When Harry Met Sally”, “Serendipity”, “The Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind” and the recent one “Love Actually”. Out of the above four, I still have “When Harry Met Sally” and “The Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind” with me and I am planning to see them in the holidays. “Serendipity” has John Cusack and cute Kate Beckinsale. The other movie of Cusack I saw recently was “High Fidelity” which has cameo by Catherine Zeta-Jones. Catherine’s award winning movie “Chicago” was so boring that I could not go beyond the first CD.
One of the best movies which I can see only once in a month is “Schindler’s List”, this movie always makes me go numb. The other such movie, and this too based upon real facts is “Hotel Rwanda”, where the protagonist Paul Rusesabagina saves many Tutsi people.
The post is getting long so I should stop. But I would like to mention this 21 year old promising actress Scarlett Johansson. I have seen two of her movies and liked both of them, “In Good Company” and “Lost in Translation”.
For lack of anything better to write, I shall talk about the movies which I have seen in recent past. I don’t get to see movies as they are released, so most of the times, I am several years behind the release dates.
Couple of weekends back, I saw two movies back to back and I realized later, that their titles make such a funny combination. They were “Mean Girls” and “Bad Boys- II”. I know "Bad Boys II" was actually sponsored by some Aspirin manufacturers, yet, I had to see it. I had seen Bad Boys I about four years back and after saving myself for a year I gave in to the temptation. Of course I had the strip of Aspirin with me and generously consumed them. “Mean Girls” is based on high school life, similar to Drew Barrymore’s “Never been Kissed”. The previous Barrymore movie being “50 first dates”, the other numerical title which I saw in recent past was “How to Lose a Guy in 10 days” featuring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey.
Yesterday I saw the movie “Blow” which is third in series of drug movies for me. Previous ones being, “Scarface” and “The Untouchables”. I saw “Scarface” as I like the acting of Al Pacino who was superb in “God Father“. “Blow” has Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz. I don’t know what Tom Cruise liked in Penelope Cruz ? may be her being Spanish. Tom Cruise reminds me of the movie “A Few Good Men”. I had stopped watching Tom Cruise movies after the “Top Gun” but with “A Few Good Men”, I feel Cruise has re-established himself. “A Few Good Men” has got excellent direction and keeps the audience glued for the whole duration. It is totally centered on one issue and there is not a single scene which is unrelated. I keep this movie in the genre of “Chariots of Fire”. I am trying to get one other movie of Cruise, “The Client” based on the novel of John Grisham.
When we speak of Cruise how can Nicole Kidman not come in mind, her last movie which I saw was “The Interpreter”, a compact suspense thriller with Sean Penn. Sean Penn has shown some good acting with his role of pathetic loser in “The Assassination of Richard Nixon”, this movie has similarity to “Taxi Driver”.
Christmas is the time for romantic movies like “When Harry Met Sally”, “Serendipity”, “The Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind” and the recent one “Love Actually”. Out of the above four, I still have “When Harry Met Sally” and “The Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind” with me and I am planning to see them in the holidays. “Serendipity” has John Cusack and cute Kate Beckinsale. The other movie of Cusack I saw recently was “High Fidelity” which has cameo by Catherine Zeta-Jones. Catherine’s award winning movie “Chicago” was so boring that I could not go beyond the first CD.
One of the best movies which I can see only once in a month is “Schindler’s List”, this movie always makes me go numb. The other such movie, and this too based upon real facts is “Hotel Rwanda”, where the protagonist Paul Rusesabagina saves many Tutsi people.
The post is getting long so I should stop. But I would like to mention this 21 year old promising actress Scarlett Johansson. I have seen two of her movies and liked both of them, “In Good Company” and “Lost in Translation”.
posted by greensatya @ 11:23 PM
3 Comments:
At 6:19 AM,
Freeze said…
Tom cruise is awesome. I liked most of his movies. Even mission impossible and jerry maguire. But he was best in a few good men.
Chrismas movies ARE good (the kiddo movies).I like the whole snowy atmosphere and all the miracles happening. :)
Snow is awesome ;)
At 9:12 AM,
Raj said…
I stay away from romantic comedies cos they are all alike. Top gun is a horrific movie. I have no clue why people like it. A Few good men was really good, otoh.
Scarface is a classic.
N i am yet to watch "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind".
I have only seen Scarlett Johansson in Lost in Translation but she is good.
My favorite, however, is Naomi Watts ever since Mullholland Drive and i'm gonna watch King Kong just for her.
At 11:25 AM,
greensatya said…
Freeze - you bet Cruise was fantastic in Good Men. You like snow, is that why you are 'freeze' :)
Raj- I would suggest "Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind", Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. It is not run of the mill romantic movie, it has got a new concept and bit of intensity.
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