RIP Dev Anand

RIP Dev Anand, second only to Guru Dutt and Dilip Kumar. He was brilliant in Guide, Baazi, Kaala Paani, Johnny Mera Naam, Jewel Thief and so many more films. Guide was I think one of the first, if not the first hindi film to have a protagonist with shades of grey.

Tintin shines through the weaknesses

Tintin 3D is a colorful, bright, charming movie which will undoubtedly please its loyal fanbase. Also for us Tintin fans you HAVE to watch this movie, the story is a strong point in here its a completely original work with colorful Tintin Characters and a dastardly new villain thrown in as well. The story has a hint of Secret of Unicorn, Red Rakham's treasure and a LOT of Crab with the golden claws (surprisingly). The film has some of the best action sequences I have ever seen which shows Spielberg's penchant for action cinema, this guy could take Michael Bay and Justin Ling to school. The Francis Haddock flashbacks has better action than the entirety of Pirates 4. The other action sequences are charming and have that parkour, street feeling all of Tintin books are famous for.

That being said, Tintin's screenplay is clustered with too many events and adventures, the movie should have slowed down a little and let the plot settle for a while before jumping to the next sequence. Captain Haddock has always been my favorite character and as awesome as Andy Serkis is, I feel more could be done for him. This is a great first step and completely original story, The Secret of the Unicorn had mediocre antagonists and this film really steps it up with a complete badass antagonist played by Daniel Craig. This film will please all but will make us Tintin fans even more happy because its a marriage of so many of our favorite books and characters we never thought could be possible. More importantly this film made me dust off my 15 year old Secret of the Unicorn copy which reminded me how detailed the comics were, the movie falters a bit in this department but just a bit. I can't wait for the next installment, Spielberg has done a good job in capturing the pulse of the series and I am sure his grip would only improve in the next film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op3w_ICK4us

Ides of March is very very good but could have been great

Ides of March is written, directed and starred in by George Clooney that itself speaks for the pedigree of this film. The film is a talk movie just like The Social Network and Thank You for Smoking i.e. actors are always speaking, tons of time is spent in delivery of dialogues, I love these movies where actors actually have to memorize a lot of content and still act well in scene after scene. Speaking of acting, this film has GREAT acting and is a very solid movie through and through. However it falls short of both previously mentioned short films because of a cliched moral lesson - "Don't fuck the intern". LOL a political thriller where presidential candidate fucked an intern? Really? This is almost 20 years late man!

A special mention regarding the lead, Ryan Gosling who has put Hollywood on notice, delivering quality films year after year with Drive and Blue Valentine. Good to see a talented actor step up from mediocrity (The Notebook). Yes Notebook fans, its cliched and mediocre get over it and watch a real romantic film like Gosling's Blue Valentine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McCt-_yYLpo

Twilight still sucks

Breaking Dawn's Huge Debut Just Shy of 'Twilight' Record

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni18417747/

WTF!!!! I was forced to watch the trailer while seeing Ides of March yesterday. Even the trailer was pathetic, Kristen Stewart has an expressionless face and can't act even if her life depended on it. The wolves had one of the worst CGI rendering I have seen in the past five years. Badly rendered CGI wolves engaging dialogues is one of the most laughable sequences in history of cinema.

Say what you will about Michael Bay,  at least the guy makes his movies look good.

The Rum Diary is good.....very good.....

To a casual cinema goer The Rum Diary is constantly being in a phase of drunkenness, getting high on drugs and dropping liquid in your eyes. However this is no Hangover but something much better there is a lot of depth and pain associated with the Rum Diary its about a writer struggling to find his voice, his place and his writing style. He is also haunted by his incompetency to actually write a publish worthy book. There is a constant struggle between what he is and what he wants to be. This film is a masterpiece and though is not as funny and entertaining as Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas it is more spirited. Its good to see Johnny Depp find form and he delivers after a long time, all his films in past 5 years have been garbage (all Pirates, Alice, Tourist etc.). However this film is far from perfect it has a haphazard story and the genuine message is often distracted by comical acts. Its refreshing to watch a film like this, a flawed, imperfect human of a film in the horde of mechanical and machine like movies being churned out on a daily basis.

Watching The Social Network for the fifth time

This movie is so good! watching this on television takes me back to the first time I saw this. It was October, 2010, I was so blown away I instantly put it up there with my favorite movie of 2010, Inception. Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher really outdid themselves with this one.

One of the best things about this movie is that it is always aggressive, it doesn't play nice. It challenges you and demands that you keep up. Normally the sequences of the past are distinctly seperated but in here they are mixed so you gotta be alert. However its so well done that you would get it unless you have an IQ of a moron, if that's the case stick to a retarded Salman Khan movie.

What do you folks think about this gem of a movie? Let me know!