I am still excited about my birthday as i was when i was on my first birthday! It seems that i invited all my relatives to join my bday bash when i was just one! I am your total social media person :)This year, my hubby and me planned a sneak lunch and movie when the kids were at school. (Angels and Demons is a A-rated movie, i told myself to erase the itty bitty guilt i was feeling)
The show was at 10AM. We reached the theater before the clean-up crew and got ourselves the gold class tickets. (Treat for the birthday baby!) Reclining comfortably on the leather, gazing at the huge screen with extremely good sound quality, hand-in-hand with an attentive hubby, without the tension of the mid-of-the-movie-bathroom-breaks, i even loved the damn commercials. (Yeah, we rarely get to go to the theater for the movies)
Anyway, the movie Angels and Demons was bright (unlike the Da Vinci Code), fast-paced and i think, did justice to the book. Tom Hanks is a Symbologist who is summoned when there is a threat on the Vatican city by the Antimatter and the “Illuminati” claim responsibility for it. Robert Langdon has to again understand the set of clues, help the Swiss Guard find the maniac who also plans to kill all the four Preferiti (the cardinals who are most likely to be the next Pope) in the name of the Illuminati by branding them with an ambigram {Ambigrams are a form of word play in which the words are written in such a way that they can be read in more than one way, similar to the one above} representing the four primordial elements (Earth, Air, Fire and Water) and also find the AntiMatter which would destroy the city. The movie too picks up pace right from the start and though the movie has been modified from the book, the story is still as captivating. Tom Hanks looks and accomplishes the part of an aging professor with flair and Obi-Wan (as we chellama call Ewan McGregor) came off great as the Carmelango. Vittoria is the bright scientist who helped create the AntiMatter and was a vivacious personality in the book. Somehow, she didnt seem to be such a big deal in the movie. Tons of information about the Conclave, the nuances of the statues, the history of the Illuminati and their followers were lost, but thats movies for you! But, it was really nice to “see” the churchs, chapels, and the Angels that Dan Brown so nicely draws in your mind.
I loved the book but liked the movie too.
I’ve been listening to horror stories ever since i can remember. My dad is a remarkable story-teller. He tells all kinds of stories but the horror ones are my favorite. Way back, when there were not many distractions and loads of power cuts, we would all cuddle up together under a blankie and listen to my father’s narration. Dracula, Exorcist, Omen -I’ve made my own version of these characters long before i got the guts to watch it in DVD. The movies were not that thrilling nor scary, though! I always make it a point to see scary movies with my dad because i prefer a strong person near me (just in case). My husband is a scardy cat who jumps even before the horror scene starts!
The movie, let me tell you, is not scary at all. But the concept was nice. Human body is the most complex machine- and if ghosts are able to control it, then, it should be a cinch to control the appliances- including the TV… I found it interesting. Sure, “they” could have controlled more appliances and made the story-line interesting, and cant imagine why the others in the family never get affected or see that the things on the serial on the TV is wierdly similar to their own lives, i dont understand, but taking the movie at face value, especially Madhavan’s, is gripping. I would have expected more spooks and and thrills but thankful there were no disgusting made-up faces called “ghosts” and cheap scenes when you are expected to jump in the seat. They could have derived some more scares through the blind-man-with-a-dog but i thought that he was wasted. Though the ending was predictable, it took you all the way there without you getting bored in the middle. (The songs were a squirm,though) It was clean movie with not much of a horror but an interesting watch, nonetheless!
Mummy for us is like cricket in India. We can fit it anytime, analyze it, scrutinize it, quarrel over it, laugh with it. It is just a great way of passing time! Not having the privilege of watching the previous mummys at the cinemas, we made a big fuss over this movie and drove 20km to PVR to watch it in the silverscreen.
- Watching the movie the real way
- Brendan Fraser- “Ricochet O’Connell” (wish he was younger)
- The war scenes
- Pretty Shangri-La
- Sweet Lin
- Slow start, Lots of boring unwanted scenes about how Rick and Evelyn pretend that they are living happily in retirement
- Alex (Wish he was younger, too)
- Evelyn- Whatever happened to sweet, innocent and ravishing Rachel Weisz?
- No funny punch lines- that was the life line in both the mummy movies!
- Way too much unwanted graphics (Who needs the Emperor to become Wild Mutt/ 3headed serpent? we already know that he is a bad guy)
- As the master of the elements, i wish the Emperor did something with metal too (like in Terminator2), instead of just throwing fire balls and ice forks.
- Too many repetitive scenes
- Missed the mummy original background score
Though the out do the :)s, it was nice, watching the movie in the big screen, with the whole family, happily munching the popcorn. We had a nice 20 km drive back home doing what we do best -analyzing, scrutinizing, quarreling and laughing about the movie together! Will happily wait for the Mummy4, Perils in Peru hoping they come up with a better story line and use the graphics sensibly (hopefully on Rick to make him look dashingly younger!
I love the movies. Especially the English ones, thrilling, scary, funny, adventuresy kinds. M Night Shyamalan movies were one of the “Must-See” movies for me. I loved the Sixth Sense and Signs. Village was like a short story dragged for one and half hours. But was worth a watch.
“Happening” is strange. The film starts at a rapid pace. We totally get hooked into the plot.
- Nature attacks humans. Nice. Well, it is bound to happen with all the attacks we have been inflicting on her.
- Science Teacher helping everybody and trying to make sense of the strange phenomenon- Fits.
- Love Story in the midst- Why?
- Nature not affecting the lovers and make us undergo True Love at the time when we are waiting for an answer- Crap.
- No answers to questions, no climax, just pregnancy? -Flabbergasting.
- Maybe Nature doesnot answer, but i need a closure, Mr Shyamalan. Thats why i watch your movies, not a bland documentary…
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