OK, so this isn't a really SCARY movie. It's got its moments of force-fed tension, but that's not the reason I really like it. What I really like about it, and what really plays true, is the chemistry between Lewis (Walker) and Fuller (Zahn). The interplay and dialog between these two is very believable and HILARIOUS. For the first part of this movie, I spend more time laughing than anything else. That being said, it does have all the hallmark classics that Hollywood seems hell-bent on to drum up tension and supposed fear. I wouldn't get too hung up on nitpicking its qualities or lack thereof. It's simply a fun movie to watch.
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Shabd
(2005)
Worth-watching movie
29 September 2005
Warning: Spoilers
Indian cinema has been struggling hard to come up with good stories. All they have got is the same usual love stuff that no longer inspires anyone. Finally, today I was changing channels and happened to passby a channel playing this one. I just started watching it from the mid, and thought it would be the usual love and life stuff and I'll get bored in a minute. But as moments passed by, the movie gripped me, and I couldn't help watching it to the very end, and to the very end mean"very end"(does anybody know after half the cast, Zayed Khan is shown riding a a bike;) I am not saying that this is like the best movie ever or the biggest hit of the year, but its at least different. Its good to know that they are at least coming up with different subjects on which to make movies. My intuition says that if I dig deeper, it will turn out to be a rip off of an English movie on a similar subject. But even if thats so, its a really good effort.
The movie tells us the story of a writer who starts to believe that he understands the human mind as much as it gets. And that not so wrong afterall, as throughout the movie he is always right. But this Power he thinks he possesses is sure to fireback as such power of perfect prediction of events takes away human part of a human. In the end, he has intermixed feelings of pleasure and despair when her wife lies to him that the ending he wrote turned out to be true. He simply cannot accept the power he thinks he possesses to change lives with his words, as this is unnatural for any human mind. He wants to change the end to lift the burden of his chest (because the ending he gave was really cruel, but you have to watch it to know it). Finally, like a typical suspense-like flick, the last five minutes of the movie are hard to understand. Why does Sanjay Dutt thinks the story is not finished even when he himself typed it to the end? Was he in that place at the end only because to make-up for the initial cruel ending, he re-wrote the last part and chose this for him? Was he living at the end for real, or still as a character? All these questions have no answer.
Anyways, its definitely a movie worth-watching. Although it has no masala and vulgarity the Indian cinema is so used to these days, but it shines out and outstands. I personally think that in every three months, only one Indian movie turns out that is worth watching, and I think this is the movie of these three months!
The movie tells us the story of a writer who starts to believe that he understands the human mind as much as it gets. And that not so wrong afterall, as throughout the movie he is always right. But this Power he thinks he possesses is sure to fireback as such power of perfect prediction of events takes away human part of a human. In the end, he has intermixed feelings of pleasure and despair when her wife lies to him that the ending he wrote turned out to be true. He simply cannot accept the power he thinks he possesses to change lives with his words, as this is unnatural for any human mind. He wants to change the end to lift the burden of his chest (because the ending he gave was really cruel, but you have to watch it to know it). Finally, like a typical suspense-like flick, the last five minutes of the movie are hard to understand. Why does Sanjay Dutt thinks the story is not finished even when he himself typed it to the end? Was he in that place at the end only because to make-up for the initial cruel ending, he re-wrote the last part and chose this for him? Was he living at the end for real, or still as a character? All these questions have no answer.
Anyways, its definitely a movie worth-watching. Although it has no masala and vulgarity the Indian cinema is so used to these days, but it shines out and outstands. I personally think that in every three months, only one Indian movie turns out that is worth watching, and I think this is the movie of these three months!
Hangman's Curse
(2003)
Ridiculous beyond words
25 September 2005
This was a ridiculous piece of crap. Just another attestation to the fact that "horror" flicks today are nothing like they used to be. What a piece of garage. The lines were so stupid, acting sub par, and even with David Keith, it was hopeless. Stereotyped characters and unbelievable plots abound in this waste of celluloid. The idea that these two teenagers were trained FBI kids working with their parents is patently stupid. When Elisha suits up in her white protective suit to crawl the ducts of the school in search of a noise, why is it that there are never any students around? And if she's so jittery screaming at this and that throughout this movie, why does she alternate being brave walking around the dark forbidden floor all by herself all the time? The relationship between her and Blake was also unbelievable and forced with dialog that is neither engaging or intelligent on any level. The exchanges and not-so-clever quips between her and her brother border on ad nauseam. The "mysterious entity" behind all the attacks is so very predictable. Your eyes will thank you if you never rent this.
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