Simply put the film rocks. It takes off from Batman Begins. A new villain surfaces in Gotham City and calls himself the Joker. Played by Heath Ledger, He is the star of the film. The joker just makes you want to applaud actually. Christian Bale has made a convincing performance by no means bad but against the Joker, Batman is just not good enough. But I must add that the shots of the Hong Kong and Chicago skylines are amazing and with the background scores just make the scenes where Batman flies, sexy to watch! The story of how one man through his ability to make decisions as he wishes(actually it's two men now, both Batman and the Joker)can change a lot of things just comes to tell how much people who actually dare to do what they wish to, can really achieve if they do it, be it good or bad. You have example for both in the movie.
The scene where Batman topples a whole container truck is just SEXY! The return of the Lieutenant from having died of gunshot wounds was amazing and made everyone happy. We also see acts of courage from the people stuck on ferries and even when they are given the option to save themselves at the cost of a bunch of criminal convicts on another ferry, the fear and the assorted emotions are just a spectacle to watch. Seriously I think had it been a bunch of crazy Indians on board they would have pressed the detonator first thing without care for the other people. Somehow sadly, I beg to think so. I do hope Indian society will prove me wrong. Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent, the straight District Attorney played a pivotal role in the movie, I do wish to sympathise with him, yet, given the post he holds in Gotham city, his actions were not totally what one could expect from a person of such stature. But then, he is ultimately human, and all humans have one weakness - Emotion is what the movie justly exemplifies. Rachel Dawes is beautiful here with not much of a role to play, but somehow I preferred Katie Holmes. The ending was just amazing, Batman taking on the blame for Two face's mistakes so that Harvey could be pronounced a hero to Gotham City. Somehow it was a magnimous moment...
The joker seriously could root for an Oscar. Sadly if he did win, he wont be there to collect it. The batmobile is a sexy piece of machinery. As Lieutenant Gordon said in Batman Begins "I gotta get me one of those things!". Each and every scene is filled with either action or amazing acting or seriously cool quotes. A magnificient movie, to be watched surely, in a proper theatre please. It's one of those movies where it would become a cardinal sin if watched from a theatre rip on a computer.
Check out the link below. Quotes from the movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/quotes
Monday, July 21, 2008
Monday, July 07, 2008
Lovestory 2050
Let me tell you the story in brief. I missed out the first 3 odd minutes, but my cousin filled me in. Apparently our hero crashes his MG while driving really dangerously. He has a typical rich father who just has no time for his son. Anyways the guy goes around and happens to spot pretty Priyanka Chopra and takes a liking for her. After the regular case of mistaken identity issues between the lead girl and guy, our hero (whatever his name is, I don’t know, I think the character was called Karan) woes Priyanka (Sanaa) and begs her to come on a date with him. She finally agrees and they do so. She enjoys herself and blah blah and they fall in love (not really worth going into detail- If it's not worth MY blogspace, then you can imagine). And yes, we have an important character in the form of our Sanaa's mom. One of those typical Desi moms we've seen in so many films. She prays for a good looking guy for her daughter and when she opens her eyes she spots Karan walking. She stalks him to find him sitting at a restaurant with her daughter,… and…. She is overjoyed!!?? In fact she is so overjoyed, I had to verify with my cousin as to whether she prayed for a guy for her daughter or for herself(And yeah for those readers who don’t know me well, I don’t understand Hindi. So all this stuff I'm telling you is from the visuals, and a little bit of translation from my cousins).
Anyways, so everything seems to be going well, when Mr. Fate decides to pay a visit, in the form of a truck and a hit and run accident. Guess who was hit?? It had to be the prettiest person on screen… Well Sanaa dies and Karan is distraught. And yes, amidst this chaos here, we have a scientist uncle of Karan's, who lives in the same town as Sanaa. This guy is on the verge of creating a time machine which Karan and Sanaa test out once and blow the fuse as well. So after Saana's death, Scientist uncle discover's the exact equation(which was accidentally created by the couple during a romantic moment at the chalkboard - Seriously which scientist in 2008 writes his equations on a chalkboard??) to make the time machine work. He gets the whole set up running and he comes up with an idea. Take Karan back to the past where he can prevent the accident from happening. But while they try to do that, the systems uncannily hang(Must be based on windows or something) and the time machine gets stuck at Mumbai 2050 which incidentally was keyed in by Sanaa sometime back. Karan thinks it is fate. I think it's a case of the component supplier selling faulty components.
So the scientist and Karan decide to go to 2050, and while they are busy preparing the spacecraft, sorry time machine, two little kids, who are Sanaa's younger siblings sneak on board. Now we are in 2050. Well Mumbai in 2050 is a changed place. Skyscrapers galore, flying cars etc. What did take me by surprise was the lack of traffic! Indians seem to have adopted technology pretty well too, what with a panwallah using a micro robot to sell pan and the best was, a snake charmer charming a robotic snake! Else the whole place looked like it was snitched out of I, Robot. And yes did I mention fashion of 2050? Seems to be predominantly leather. Looks like cows and crocodiles are on the extinction list too. Anyways, the hero spots the re-incarnation of Sanaa in the form of Zeisha, a red haired popular singer. He starts tracking her and mysteriously she gets drawn to him too when she sees him. The power of love eh?? Anyways Karan starts wooing her too and they pretty much fall in love. At this stage things kind of get messy, I kind of lost the plot, and they discover he is some fake guy or something, fake ids and stuff. Karan is chased away by her guards. During this process, Sanaa's diary falls out of Karan's shirt and Zeisha duly picks it up and reads it at home, and now she realises that whatever Karan was blabbering was true and she gains memory of the past or something. And yes, how can a bollywood flick not have a villain? So we have a Dr. Morishi or someone, who used to be Scientist uncle's la assistant of some sort. He has become some big shot guy and now realises that scientist uncle is visiting town and that the time machine is here. Uncle scientist is captured and questioned on the whereabouts of the machine. He enjoys the moment and comments on Dr. Morishi's 'microchip boss' appearance (Similar to Mottaiboss of Sivaji fame except that microchips are encrusted on his bald head!!?) Anyways Karan come to the rescue, high tech fight scenes ensue and the good win and yeah we have a high speed flying car chase involving the baddies from 2050 not being as good drivers as a guy from 2008 and end up crashing everywhere. And finally, the space ship which came to 2050 with 4 people, now has 5 people and 2 robots, and returns to 2008, I think. End of story.
1.I found the hero imitating Hrithik too much, some people in the theatre were querying if the new face was Hrithik's re-incarnation or something. But then we realised Hrithik was not gone yet.
2.Priyanka was pretty as usual, but I found Sanaa to be too giggly and Zeisha to be a bit loud mouthed initially.
3.The movie was weird. Period. Don’t bother watching, unless you want to check out Priyanka or the new hero guy, or if you want to try the new comfy seats at Kanakadhara (Central theatres, Coimbatore)
Anyways, so everything seems to be going well, when Mr. Fate decides to pay a visit, in the form of a truck and a hit and run accident. Guess who was hit?? It had to be the prettiest person on screen… Well Sanaa dies and Karan is distraught. And yes, amidst this chaos here, we have a scientist uncle of Karan's, who lives in the same town as Sanaa. This guy is on the verge of creating a time machine which Karan and Sanaa test out once and blow the fuse as well. So after Saana's death, Scientist uncle discover's the exact equation(which was accidentally created by the couple during a romantic moment at the chalkboard - Seriously which scientist in 2008 writes his equations on a chalkboard??) to make the time machine work. He gets the whole set up running and he comes up with an idea. Take Karan back to the past where he can prevent the accident from happening. But while they try to do that, the systems uncannily hang(Must be based on windows or something) and the time machine gets stuck at Mumbai 2050 which incidentally was keyed in by Sanaa sometime back. Karan thinks it is fate. I think it's a case of the component supplier selling faulty components.
So the scientist and Karan decide to go to 2050, and while they are busy preparing the spacecraft, sorry time machine, two little kids, who are Sanaa's younger siblings sneak on board. Now we are in 2050. Well Mumbai in 2050 is a changed place. Skyscrapers galore, flying cars etc. What did take me by surprise was the lack of traffic! Indians seem to have adopted technology pretty well too, what with a panwallah using a micro robot to sell pan and the best was, a snake charmer charming a robotic snake! Else the whole place looked like it was snitched out of I, Robot. And yes did I mention fashion of 2050? Seems to be predominantly leather. Looks like cows and crocodiles are on the extinction list too. Anyways, the hero spots the re-incarnation of Sanaa in the form of Zeisha, a red haired popular singer. He starts tracking her and mysteriously she gets drawn to him too when she sees him. The power of love eh?? Anyways Karan starts wooing her too and they pretty much fall in love. At this stage things kind of get messy, I kind of lost the plot, and they discover he is some fake guy or something, fake ids and stuff. Karan is chased away by her guards. During this process, Sanaa's diary falls out of Karan's shirt and Zeisha duly picks it up and reads it at home, and now she realises that whatever Karan was blabbering was true and she gains memory of the past or something. And yes, how can a bollywood flick not have a villain? So we have a Dr. Morishi or someone, who used to be Scientist uncle's la assistant of some sort. He has become some big shot guy and now realises that scientist uncle is visiting town and that the time machine is here. Uncle scientist is captured and questioned on the whereabouts of the machine. He enjoys the moment and comments on Dr. Morishi's 'microchip boss' appearance (Similar to Mottaiboss of Sivaji fame except that microchips are encrusted on his bald head!!?) Anyways Karan come to the rescue, high tech fight scenes ensue and the good win and yeah we have a high speed flying car chase involving the baddies from 2050 not being as good drivers as a guy from 2008 and end up crashing everywhere. And finally, the space ship which came to 2050 with 4 people, now has 5 people and 2 robots, and returns to 2008, I think. End of story.
1.I found the hero imitating Hrithik too much, some people in the theatre were querying if the new face was Hrithik's re-incarnation or something. But then we realised Hrithik was not gone yet.
2.Priyanka was pretty as usual, but I found Sanaa to be too giggly and Zeisha to be a bit loud mouthed initially.
3.The movie was weird. Period. Don’t bother watching, unless you want to check out Priyanka or the new hero guy, or if you want to try the new comfy seats at Kanakadhara (Central theatres, Coimbatore)
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