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Badhaai ho (2018)
Not funny and ACTUALLY quite boring
How is this even funny? I don't get how people rate this highly! It's so boring and dull that I feel asleep watching it. No comedy by anyone and characters are not memorable.
I was NOT entertained!
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Humorous in places but predictable too
I won't rehash the story-line here as everyone will know that by now. Instead I'll talk about other elements.
The movie has some nice visuals and action sequences but they seem to be spaced out too much with more drama in between than the first GOTG. Rocket is an obnoxious character here while he seemed to be just a sarcastic quick witted character in the first one. His change at the end didn't make much sense because it wasn't Peter Quill who "gets" him.
What I liked about this movie is that it showed other worlds and other alien cultures in a manner similar to humanity and the animal kingdom. The filmmakers raised the philosophical question that just because some species don't look like us or feel like us or think like us, is it morally alright to annihilate them completely and make their world in our image? This is the question faced by Peter Quill, albeit he attacks his father for another reason altogether (which by the way was COMPLETELY predictable and I saw it coming a mile away after the big reveal!).
The filmmakers show different alien cultures and civilizations on other worlds who are pretty much the same as us in terms of basic survival. They eat, they live, they reproduce and they too fear death like us. In addition, living in space has made Peter Quill VERY VERY tolerant of other cultures and species. So much so that he falls in love with Gamora who is neither white skinned (as he is) nor dark skinned but..... GREEN SKINNED!!?? Peter represents something divine in all of us which needs to come out to the fore. The film makers could have easily made Gamora a White Woman but chose a black actress and then made her skin green in colour to send us the message that we must accept people as they are. A good message in of itself.
As for the rest of the movie, it sometimes drags on a bit and in some places it is so completely predictable that you might as well have been reading the script when it was written.
Good for a once see but will not hold up well on repeated viewings.
Yu qing ting (1978)
AVerage movie
Quite boring in bits, but somehow it felt like a Spaghetti Western movie rather than a Kung Fu movie. In fact, felt more like a Sartana or Sabata movie with Kung Fu skills and showdowns rather than gunfights.
Plot also felt like a Spaghetti Western. Robbers double cross each other to retrieve gems and a "man with no name" whose motives remain unclear till the very end. Just imagine the kung fu fighters as hardened Spaghetti Western heroes who carry swords instead of guns and you'll feel right at home.
One good thing about this movie is that it doesn't mention Shaolin or show any training at all or show clan vengeance or school rivalry or Chings vs Manchus, etc. This is pure greed with an every man for himself feel and none of the characters have that much depth, hence the Spaghetti Western feel. The body count is also high.
If you're tired of 36th Chamber type Shaolin movies or Shaolin Temple related movies, watch this but don't expect to be immersed in the story. Watch once and forget.
Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
A bad bad remake of the original with too much PC thrown in. They should have left the original alone or just made a direct copy.
I watched a bit of the old movie on TV sometime ago. It was good. I decided to watch this BECAUSE Miranda Otto was in it. I liked her in Lord of The Rings and wanted to see more of her.
I got pretty rogered in that fact! She had nothing much to do except act all prissy because her company was closing down her oil rig and then she starts screaming all the way in the end or whenever something bad happens. What a WASTE of such a good actress! Not to mention beautiful too! I mean, come on! If they wanted a female (when there was no female in the original) just to drive some sexual tension, they could have at least given her some tighter clothes to emphasize her curves! And to hell with PC. If they wanted her to act like a man and all bossy, just give the bloody part to a man! Why make a woman do what she cannot? (Some people may not agree with me on this!)
The character of Elliot was bad, they shouldn't have made him American if they wanted him to look like Hardy Kruger in the original! Same blond hair,blue eyes but too psychotic a walk! It looked like he had epilepsy or something! I suppose I could go on and on about how bad this movie is but I won't. I'll sum up my feelings in a few sentences.
They should have taken out the black actors or replaced them with someone who was at least credible. They shouldn't have made it look like the Britons in the group are coming apart and the Yanks are holding them together. In the original, both nationalities worked hand in hand and sorted out their differences to build a plane and escape. Hell, they even made friends with a German who looked like a pin-up boy for the Nazis. If they wanted a woman, they should have put her in better clothes to emphasize her curves. Every woman would want that. They should have had an equal number of Brits and Americans on set. They should have stuck with the original premise of killing off the Mexican and not the Scotsman (Hey! The Scots hated the British too! Weren't they like you then?). They should have been more clear with the chronology of events and how many days they survived. They should have used less drama and more acting skills (They had a terrific cast like Miranda, Hugh and Tony) to show character development. They should have ABANDONED BLOODY POLITICAL BULLS**T! Don't watch this movie. Find the original and watch that.
Thank you.
Unleashed (2005)
A surprisingly good movie with minimal violence and nudity (Well, compared to Jet Li's standards)
Luc Beeson made this film. That should tell anyone everything about the quality. Luc Beeson made Leon:The Professional and that was a good movie. This was in the same mould.
When I first started watching this movie, I thought it would be another mindless action flick like Jet Li's other films like The One or Romeo Must Die or even Kiss Of The Dragon with people swinging on wires and a fight scene with corny dialogue every other minute. However I was pleasantly surprised.
For the first time, Jet Li has actually brought some feeling and emotion into his character and despite being labelled a killer, I don't think he kills a single person in the entire movie. Well, if you count the character in the white dress and the sword. But I did notice that the director shows Jet Li's character catching the dress of the guy until he tears out of it and falls.
At first, when that happened, I thought that Danny (Jet Li) was going to look at Bart in the eye down on the street below and then release the character that was going to kill him. But then I realized that he was genuinely trying to save him. He desperately tried to pull him back but could not do it. So this death was not intentional but accidental. Most of the killing is actually done by Bart and in spite of the R rating, I think only about 4-5 people died. Well, very less. Even Bart does not get killed which is good as in most of Jet Li's films, the villain dies a spectacular death.
Also, I was surprised at the lack of real nudity on screen. True, there are some sex scenes but the lighting is dark and the camera angles hide everything and the action is over so quickly that one can't really tell what's going on.
The main villain himself actually has a human side, or so it seems. I think that was a bit ambiguous. In some scenes, I felt that Bart really regretted killing Danny's mother but then in the end I thought that he really didn't much care for her. Someone needs to clarify this for me.
Jet Li, for the first time as far as I can recall, has actually given a good performance instead of the mindless martial arts superhero he portrays in most of his movies. He doesn't swing around on wires much and there is no prolonged fighting with lots of stares and all.
Even though the pit fighting has some stares and all the masala typical of some fighting scenes, it is quite different. Jet Li does not really attack the people who are hell bent on killing him but picks up the weapon only to defend himself. The character change is clearly shown here. I was under the impression that he would go into the pit, get the living daylights beaten out of him, suddenly have a click from the goading Bart and start killing everyone again. But I was wrong again. Luc Beeson cleverly toys with the idea of whether Danny will revert to his old self or not. Then he shows us that once humanity awakes in a killer (Like it does in Leon in Leon:The Professional) it never sleeps again but continues growing until it encompasses us. At the end of the fight, Danny has clearly thrown away the shackles, er... leash, and become a human being again with feelings and not just a wild animal to be unleashed when it is profitable for his employer.
Morgan Freeman delivers an outstanding performance customary of him. His blind character is so in the keeping with the spirit of the film. He "sees" Danny but sees the innocence in him and not the killer. I was again under the impression that Danny would start killing or fighting because someone threatens Victoria on her way home from school but it is not until the end that he starts fighting. And the old cliché of the villain holding the hero's family at gun point is done away with over here and something new is shown.
Although this movie is good, I gave it an 8 out of 10 because the fate of Bart and Lefty is not clearly shown. Were they arrested or fled the city? Also, what happened to Danny? Did he go back to New York with Sam or went back to China or stayed in London (They never mention the damned city's name!) or wherever? All in all, an enjoyable movie and a refreshing change from the drivel that usually comes out today.
28 Weeks Later (2007)
Bad, awful and worst movie ever! Might lose my appetite for movies for 28 weeks or so
This is a f*** awful movie! The previous film was much much much better than this crap! The camera angles were bad and the story doesn't have much sense in it at all. Plus the absence of the previous cast is just crap.
They never did explain why Don's wife was immune. Also, there is a hint that the genetic nature of her children was like her's so they might be immune too. But that is never mentioned.
Too many important characters die when they should not and the lighting is so awful in places one can't even see what's going on. How can people like this movie I wonder! If you're clever, stay away from this movie for not just 28 weeks but for ever.