Back after some time, this time to review a bunch of movies....I am setting out NOT to review a particular movie but all the (dozen odd) movies I saw from the past 2-3 weeks (and maybe more as I remember) ....so I'm here to write abt any and every movie I can remember :-) howzzat..
Let's start by
Analyse this and
Analyse that I'd watched '...this' earlier but hadn't watched '...that'. I thought Analyse this was pretty funny throughout with both Billy Crystal and Robert De niro doing ace jobs with their comic outings. 'You'll have a good time' kinda movie with some hilarious moments..
Analyse That slightly disappointed overall ...that said, there were some moments which I just had to re-wind (it was a VHS!) and catch again :-)) Major funny haa-haa hee-hee kinda comedy but Crystal and De-niro are awesome in those couple of scenes.
Quoting our review guru Mr.Berardinelli, 'It's ironic that one of the best comedic performances given this year comes not from noted funnymen Robin Williams, Jim Carrey, or Adam Sandler (all of whom are spending time exploring serious acting), but from dramatic actor Robert De Niro. As was the case in Analyze This, the primary reason to see the movie is De Niro, whose deadpan lampoon of his gangster image is Analyze That's high point.'
Go watch it but you might get bored in the latter part (esp if you've seen the earlier funnier part)
Analyze That - IMDBSee the funny part is this ...De niro is in prison continuing from the first part, and he senses somebody is trying to kill him. So he acts as a bumbling oaf who alternately performs from 'West side story' or becomes
Catatonic. So Psychiatrist Billy Crystal is called upon who has to 'test' him...giggle..
Reminded here of 'Awakenings' when I wrote Catatonic...to think that De niro is the Catatonic in both cases and the latter is such a serious movie, in stark contrast. Also doing a very serious role, of a Psychiatrist, is Robin Williams in this.
Hmm lets see, other movies...aah yea
The Negotiator made in 98 with Samuel Jackson and Kevin Spacey, my-god-amazing actors both of them. Watch this as a further testimonial as the edge of the seat thriller leads you into terrific acting by both actors giving out gritting stuff! I think Kevin Spacey is in top-form!
Two movies I enjoyed watching a lot and were kinda similar were '
Blast from the Past' and '
Kate and Leopold'. 'Kate ...' really is more charming and enjoyable thanks to the charming Hugh Jackman and the ah-so-pretty Meg Ryan. The former however is very very funny :-D thanks to a the title phenomenon Brendan Fraser (some of dialogues and situations are major LOL!! It's how a 35 year old man who has grown up literally underground all his life has to go 'up' to find himself a girl) Speaking of the girl, its cutie-pie Alicia Silverstone...just too damn cute :")
That reminds how my friend here Rajat was drooling over new Latina sensation Paz Vega. Well she is a hottie! Not too bad in acting too, case in point '
Spanglish' starring Adam Sandler and Paz Vega, which I watched yesterday thinking it was a comedy but to my surprise was not. Talk of a surprise, Sandler deserves an ovation for this dramatic performance. Some nice romantic moments in the movie too...is our
Billy Madison taking his career seriously?!
What else what else...aahhh!!!
Psycho If you are looking for a recommendation from me frm this review and if you have not watched this yet, then first go get it! and for best effects start watching it alone at your home starting after 11 in the night :o) No really, it has a couple of chilling ones! you might find some of the scenes predictable, but still very good.
Then caught on by this deliberate effort to 'thrill' myself, I go and get '
The Exorcist' Sadly it did not scare me ...sigh. It was more like a documentary on the technical mechanisms, if you may, that priests would use to exorcise ghosts. The ghost itself was pretty scary, although it only made my movie watching a disgusting experience.
For all these classics, I can imagine how shocking these were when they were released, but for us now a ghost in a child's body is like 'oh please move-over' Will ya?
Other movies I saw over the past couple of weeks were:
Rising Sun (Very good thriller with some ethnic flavors thrown in. Ace acting by Sean Connery),
Sleepless in Seattle (It's all sweet and mushy but come-on!! They dont meet till the end and then suddenly they are soul mates. Not something some of us looking-for-logic appreciate),
Mrs. Doubtfire again (The last 30 minutes is some of the best comedy in Hollywood history!)
Unforgiven ( What a movie!! Especially Gene Hackman's deliciously evil villain role and the ending!!Talk about such a thread-bare story being turned into an oscar winner)
Serendipity (I liked this better than Sleepless in Seattle, a good example of a romantic movie) and
Alfie (Amazing playboy role by Michael Caine. The movie is funny at times, sad at times. Caine was ridiculed for his heavy british accent in this 'comedy)
There were surely others I can't recollect.. oh yea
Herbie Fully loaded,
Mr.Mom (both starring Micheal Keaton, a talented actor)
In the pipeline for the week: Batman starring Micheal Keaton, Reservoir Dogs and Birdcage.
Cheerio!
