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.
mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 04 2008 | movies, watched, review
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 - 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.
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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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mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 15 2007 | movies, stuff i've done, watched, horror
Watched this because a friend told me it was the scariest movie she'd seen. Agree with the following review.
Quoted: Finally, a horror film that is aimed at adults, not your average teen-slasher film of the 80s and 90s with a script that let you figure out all of the major plot points within minutes of viewing. The script always stays several steps ahead of you and keeps you in a wonderful mixture of suspense that never fails to please. The first fifty minutes seem quite eerie, and it seems like nothing much happens, but after that, it is all thrown at you with full force. Utterly disturbing and dream-like, watching this film will relive your childhood nightmares of the bogeyman. The atmosphere is dark, creepy and intense.
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- akabagel - Oct 03 2007
- mohit - Oct 03 2007
- btreloar - Oct 04 2007
- akabagel - Oct 04 2007
You must be Mohit's friend before you can comment on this Fave.Yeah, the movie did leave a lot unexplained, but I don't really see it being possible to try to explain all that stuff in a two hour film without completely destroying the pace and energy (which is one of the films biggest strengths). I also felt like it was ok that most of that stuff was unexplained. Who cares what the human project is? And who cares why people are infertile? Why would knowing these things help understand what Clive Owen's character is experiencing? I was able to simply accept all of these things as premises for the movie and pay attention to everything else.
yah, those are valid points. i guess the issue was that movie came across like it was trying to be much more than an action movie. as such, that left me expecting more of the plot.
I was very disappointed in this film. Poor acting, lousy continuity, pointless violence. I expected better.
Bummer. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Amazing cinematography, incredible action shots, suspenseful all the way through and an excellent ending.
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