mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 06 2007 | ratatouille, movies, pixar, 3d, animation, stuff i've done, watched
Just saw this. As with all Pixar films, my ego didn't want me to watch a cute little kids film! But, I came away happy I saw it. The CGI breaks new ground and the story was enjoyable.
Quoted: So many computer-animated movies are brash, loud and popping with pop-culture comedy, but Ratatouille has the warm glow of a favorite book. The characters are more than the sum of their gigabyte-consuming parts -- they feel handcrafted.
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.
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mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 04 2008 | news, bollywood, sci-fi, movies
Quoted: A new Bollywood romance based on the premise of time travel is being seen as the Indian film industry's first serious attempt at science fiction.
Later in the article:
Quoted: Special effects include a robot teddy bear that runs errands for leading lady Priyanka Chopra.
ShareViewed: 26 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 30 2008 | documentary, movies, e-Dreams, todo, tosee, netflix, kozmo.com, startups
Faving this to watch later. It's available on Netflix.
Quoted: e-Dreams is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Wonsuk Chin, portraying the rise and fall of Kozmo.com, an online convenience store that utilized bike mesengers to deliver goods ordered online within an hour.
ShareViewed: 6 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.
ShareViewed: 12 Times - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 11 2008 | india, bollywood, movies, utv
UTV, the studio behind Rang De Basantu, avoids song and dance love stories.
Quoted: UTV Motion Pictures is using Hollywood methods to modernise Indian film
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- Rich - Jul 06 2007
You must be Mohit's friend before you can comment on this Fave.That was a good movie with impressive CGI. Glad you enjoyed it.
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