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An error has ocurred. Please try again"I've been getting a lot of requests for a top ten list, which is difficult for me to do (I love so many) but I guess ten personal favorites in alphabetical order (I'm copping out on trying to rank them), which I'm pretty sure are all on the list, would be:
1. 8½ 2. Apocalypse Now 3. Breathless 4. El Topo (though this one is definitely not for everybody) 5. Ikiru 6. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 7. Pulp Fiction 8. Raiders of the Lost Ark 9. Seven Samurai 10. Star Wars."
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Her Chapter 1 (2023)
A good action flick
This is the only Telugu movie I was able to enjoy without setting a part of my brain aside. But that's not the only reason I'm writing this review. I do love a good action film with a female protagonist. But that's not the only reason either. It's a well-written and well-made movie by any standard. Ruhani Sharma's performance is excellent. The camera work is excellent. The production values are top-notch. And, to top it all, it's one of the few Indian movies that passes the Bechdel test too. But don't watch it expecting too much - it's just a simple investigation movie that progresses at the right pace and delivers the right punches at the right time. Nothing more and nothing less.
Padma (2022)
Good script but subpar direction
I really wanted to give this movie a better rating. Because it has got a good script, and excellent performances by all the actors. Surabhi Lakshmi, Maala Parvathi, and Dinesh Prabhakar were exceptional. Surabhi's performance is the backbone of the movie. But the weakness of the movie is that it is terribly slow and unnecessarily drawn out, especially the last act. Anoop Menon is a good writer but he is not by far a good director; he should have left that job to someone else (like V. K. Prakash with whom he has worked in "Beautiful" and "Trivandrum Lodge"). My rating for the screenplay is 8/10 and direction is 2/10, so averaging the two, the movie score becomes 5/10.
Kumbalangi Nights (2019)
Overhyped average feel-good movie
Everyone was going nuts over how amazing this movie is, so I watched it on Amazon Prime to know what the whole fuss was about. Enough to say that I was left underwhelmed by how bland it was except for the amazing performance by Fahad Fazil.
1) None of the four lead characters manages to evoke any kind of empathy because, for the average viewer, they are impossible to relate to. Two of them are jobless delinquents who get drunk and get into bar fights with each other. The other two are a child and a mute respectively, neither of whom do not have much to do in advancing the plot. There is this scene in particular, where Saji cries in the arms of his therapist, praised by critics as the most touching moment in the movie. It just comes off as melodramatic to the point of being unintentionally funny. In fact, the only character in the whole film who does elicit any sort of emotional response from the audience is Shammi, the antagonist.
2) The mute guy (Boney) and his love interest (Nylah) just seem like completely useless background characters who could have been written off without affecting the story much.
3) The movie doesn't make clear what's the exact relationship between the four lead characters. All I managed to understand from the scene where Bobby tries to explain it to Baby was that some of them have the same father, some of them have the same mother, and Saji and Boney have neither in common.
4) Even though the movie attempts to portray empowered female characters who don't hesitate to question male superiority, it indirectly feeds male entitlement in another way: by showing lazy, alcoholic, good-for-nothing men with serious anger issues win the affection of strong, independent women by merely existing, it feeds the idea into the heads of mediocre men that they deserve female attention too.
Fahad Fazil's acting proves to be the sole redeeming feature of this otherwise bland and seriously flawed movie that does not deserve the kind of critical appraisal it has received.
Krrish 3 (2013)
Absolute mind-dumbing retardedness
I have heard this movie was bad but it was on TV so I thought, what the heck, I'll just give it a try.
Big mistake.
The movie opens with our hero's father, a brilliant scientist, making a device that can revive dead plants (and people) by harnessing the power of the sun's rays! This is just the tip of the iceberg ... . (Oh, and yes, the device predictably fails in the first trial.)
Get a load of this: The villain of the movie has been a quadriplegic his whole life, but one day he receives a bone-marrow transplant, and within a few minutes starts walking around like a normal healthy person. Then he turns on Magneto mode and pieces of iron and steel from around his dungeon come flying towards him and sticks to his body. This, dear reader, is his armour for the rest of the movie. This movie is so awful, so pathetic, so terrible, that it will drain you of all intellectual capability you have. You won't be able to form a proper sentence for an hour after watching it.