Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Movie Weekend.
Despite major reservations, a bunch of us did finally give in to the hype, and decided to watch the best advertised movie in recent times--Snakes on a Plane. In case you haven't heard, it is unadulterated crap. The highpoint for me was waiting for Samuel L. to say m*&^%$#f&^%$# which he did--sorry if I'm killing the suspense here--just twice in the whole movie, with the first one coming when the movie was almost 80% over (almost killing me with anticipation... sitting outside a plane). It was fun nonetheless, like watching a Govinda movie, and admiring and celebrating the incomparable cheesiness of it all. Here's a no-nonsense review (scroll to the very end to read the review for this film).
On Saturday, decided to watch Little Miss Sunshine with friends claiming that it had got good reviews in the NYtimes (which is definitely high praise, after all, when was the last time Stephen Holden actually liked a movie?). This one started off looking like a typically vague and pointless arty movie with strong existential themes (i.e. not my kind of movie): the opening shot is about a woman taking in deep breaths before entering a hospital room to meet her depressed brother who slit his wrists in an unsuccessful bid to end his life. The brother is forced to move into the sister's house and has to share a room with her son who reads Nietzsche and has not spoken a word in the last 9 months in one of those teenage-rebel-without-a-cause deals. Fortunately, the mood of the movie becomes lighter from there on--we are introduced to the father who is trying to make a career out of teaching optimism, a grandfather whose cussing ways would put Samuel J in his Pulp Fiction avatar to shame, and finally the daughter who is a sweet 8 year old whose sole ambition is to win the Little Miss Sunshine which is a beauty pageant for young kids in distant California. The plot of the movie revolves around the family's very eventful and entertaining 600 mile trip to that pageant.
The movie is highly recommended--it's thoughtful and sensitive, along with being one of funniest movies I have recently seen.
On Saturday, decided to watch Little Miss Sunshine with friends claiming that it had got good reviews in the NYtimes (which is definitely high praise, after all, when was the last time Stephen Holden actually liked a movie?). This one started off looking like a typically vague and pointless arty movie with strong existential themes (i.e. not my kind of movie): the opening shot is about a woman taking in deep breaths before entering a hospital room to meet her depressed brother who slit his wrists in an unsuccessful bid to end his life. The brother is forced to move into the sister's house and has to share a room with her son who reads Nietzsche and has not spoken a word in the last 9 months in one of those teenage-rebel-without-a-cause deals. Fortunately, the mood of the movie becomes lighter from there on--we are introduced to the father who is trying to make a career out of teaching optimism, a grandfather whose cussing ways would put Samuel J in his Pulp Fiction avatar to shame, and finally the daughter who is a sweet 8 year old whose sole ambition is to win the Little Miss Sunshine which is a beauty pageant for young kids in distant California. The plot of the movie revolves around the family's very eventful and entertaining 600 mile trip to that pageant.
The movie is highly recommended--it's thoughtful and sensitive, along with being one of funniest movies I have recently seen.
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# posted by Mohit Nayyar : 7:52 PM
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You mo@$#@@@###ing piece of s%%$! I have had it with your mo@#$@##$%ing review about what is a mo#$@^%%$ing good movie.
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