Sunday, November 20, 2005

HP, P&P .. Movies and me

I am a movie buff .. but hardly watch any Desi movies .. even back home watched very few select ones ..
Netflix has been feeding my appetite and have been able to watch some good movies which I had missed .. and have been discivering some new ones too .. but off-late have not liked that many Hollywood flicks ..
watched Pride and Prejudice on Friday Friday night. liked it .. have loved the book and thought that it was pretty well made but for a few places .. which I feel was more to do with personal dislikes that stood out as sore points for me, Keira was good for most of the time and the Hero (who ?) was OK .. he looked uncomfy initially .. the mjusic score was good and the Brit feel was all prevelant .. which I liked :-)
Harry Potter was a complete dissapointment ... for ppl to see this as a first time HP franchisee might like it .. for the special effects and the look of the film, but for soemone who has read the book, am sure this would be a letdown ..no Quidditch games, no scenese from the classrooms, the trivialised 3rd challenge from the TriWizard .. and too little time spent on anythng .. kept getting the feeling that it was too fast moving no not fast moving, but rather disjointed .. and very little of Prof Snape !! and talking about Proff .. what is Dumbledore prancing about all the time?
Overacting by Hermione at times, the weasely twins lookign girlish (?) .. dont rem much of the book but wasnt there more of Sirius? and was there anythgin in the book showing the weasely twins and Ron and Harry sitting in the same Snape class?
anyways .. was a letdown :-( and dont like Order of Phoenix at all .. so not looking fwd to the movie .. but will b interested in the next one after that ... hmmm ..
apart from this .. have been watching loads from Netflix .. Layer cake .. another Brit gangsta movie (like Lock, Stock and two smoking barrels, features the new James Bond), Oldboy .. was Tarantino's fave movie sometime back, is an Asian flick .. was a good movie .. but the Über surprise(loveee the word :-))ending was great tho was disturbing .. looking for more Korean\Japanese movies and Brit ones .. Hollywood is turning into another bollywood :-(
got "pi: Fith in Chaos" and "Hitchhikers .." at home now .. the former is a Mathematical dosucmentry and the other is .. well .. ppl who recognsie will know and others wont :-D
oh .. also have "The Clockwork Orange" .. by someone called Stanley Kubrick :-P

2 Comments:

At 2:43 PM, Blogger Suprada said...

I dont know if you've watched these but some must watch movies (in my book....ahem...list) Monty Python series and of course Snatch...

 
At 10:14 AM, Blogger Prashanth said...

Heh Heh...Monty Python is absolutely hilarious!
Try out A Fish Called Wanda as well from John Cleese. Funny is the word!

 

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