mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 15 2007 | movies, watched, austria, gentrification, documentaries, review
Quoted: Ostensibly a look at four old-world Austrian businesses that won’t survive gentrification, this rewarding documentary is really about the quiet moments and the banter that takes place among the aging proprietors. Beautifully shot and absolutely charming, it recalls of a time when community was more important than consumerism.
mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 29 2008 | movies, spike lee, chaiyya chaiyya, watched
I was pleasantly surprised when I popped in this DVD and heard Chaiyya Chaiyya through the opening credits. As for the movie itself, it has some interesting plot twists but doesn't quite fit together.
Quoted: I said that this movie was like a jigsaw puzzle with some pieces missing. Actually, it's worse. The pieces we have are colorful shards that form some interesting patterns as they twist and turn. But they ultimately seem to come from several different pictures altogether.
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The whole movie is like its concluding music. As the closing credits roll, we hear a rap song juxtaposed against a Bollywood ditty that I guarantee you won't be able to get out of your head. They are both good pieces of music. But they have no logical reason for being stuck together here - other than the fact that they both must have struck Spike Lee's fancy.
ShareViewed: 2 Times- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 04 2008 | movies, watched, review
Light and enjoyable.
Quoted: Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - May 05 2008 | movies, iron man, reviews, watched
I may be in the minority here: I thought this movie was good, but not great...
Quoted: For all of it's anti-corporate military themes, "Iron Man" spends too much time watching technology genius Tony Stark tinkering with his super-hero costume design to get around to developing much of a story.
ShareViewed: 50 Times - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 01 2008 | movies, watched, sci-fi
I am not particularly knowledgeable about sci-fi. This movie helped me appreciate the genre...
Quoted: There are a handful of 'classic' SF movies that really demonstrate why this genre has appealed to intelligent lay audiences for so long. It's not the cheesy special effects and it's not _just_ the coolness of making contact with extraterrestrial cultures.
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The best of these films -- like the low-budget and sometimes horrid original _Star Trek_ that they spawned -- succeed in using the genre and the medium to present the cinematic equivalent of a morality play. And if some of them, like this one, come across as a bit heavy-handed today, it's because they have fewer cliches to overcome now.ShareViewed: 1 Time 
mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 31 2008 | new jersey, american gangster, watched, movies, denzel washington, vietnam
New York Times article on Frank Lucas and the movie.
Quoted: It was the early 1970s, and every week nearly four dozen American soldiers were returning home from Vietnam in flag-draped coffins. Frank Lucas, who ruled a crime empire in Newark and Harlem, had a plan: smuggle the purest Asian heroin he could find into New York, stashed inside those coffins.
ShareViewed: 8 Times- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 31 2008 | movies, american gangster, denzel washington, russell crowe, watched
Enjoyed it, although I tend to like "based on true story" sorts of movies. Did not know about Frank Lucas or the rampant police corruption of the time until watching this.
ShareViewed: 20 Times - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 25 2008 | movies, watched
Great (but violent) movie. Seems like many before me have already Faved it...I pretty much agree with their assessments.
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mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 03 2007 | movies, watched, review
I thought this was moderately interesting, but it had tons of plot holes and unexplained events that just made the movie feel kind of arbitrary.
The reviews say that the book is completely different from the movie.
Quoted: Things not explained in this movie include: the title, The Human Project, the infertility, the reason for the treatment of the immigrants, what happened to the rest of the world...and I could go on. Michael Caine is a complete sidebar with no real purpose to the story line with holes that you can already drive a tractor trailer through.
ShareViewed: 10 Times- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 20 2007 | movies, grizzly man, documentaries, watched
I thought this was just okay. I have two takeaways:
1) What Treadwell was doing was not really helpful. Historically, bears and humans have a balanced relationship where they just stay away from each other. Treadwell was threatening that balance by getting too close to the bears and "teaching" the bears that it is okay to get close to humans.
2) The bears (unlike gorillas or monkeys) don't really bond with humans. While Treadwell thought he was befriending the bears, they looked completely indifferent. They were just contemplating whether they should eat him or not.Quoted: A devastating and heartrending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzlies in Alaska.
ShareViewed: 24 Times - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 17 2007 | movies, documentaries, watched, koko, gorillas
Watched this on Netflix "Watch Instantly". There were many amazing scenes, including
a) A male gorilla describing (using sign language) how his mom was shot when he was an infant.
b) Koko selecting a mate through video dating. She was very clear about who she liked and didn't. When she found her favorite, she asked her trainer to bring him to her.
c) Koko painting a picture of her favorite dog -- deliberately selecting only black and white from a palette of 5-10 other colors.Quoted: Narrated by Martin Sheen, this installment of the Emmy award-winning PBS series Nature features the story of the famous gorilla named Koko. Collecting conversations -- in which Koko "spoke" via sign language -- from a decades-long dialogue with the ape, this program details the wants and needs expressed by Koko and her complexity and creativity.
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- timchao - Jun 15 2007
- mohit - Jun 15 2007
- timchao - Jun 15 2007
You must be Mohit's friend before you can comment on this Fave.Hey did you like it?
i enjoyed it. i liked that it was primarily a "first-person" documentary -- with the goal of capturing reality will soon cease to exist. most documentaries are very different, with heavy emphasis on a narrator to tie everything together.
i guess my only issue is whether the movie was really about gentrification (as stated in the quoted text above) or more about globalization.
I enjoyed the first person-ness of it as well. It was like spending an hour of your day with a bunch of quirky seniors rambling on about the good old days. And every once in a while, in their ramblings, they would suddenly blurt out something immensely poetic.
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