Blame It on Rio?
I'm terrible at keeping promises made to myself! I had sworn off movies, and look what I did ....
Saw Amelie - honestly, this wasn't my fault - the library folks called me up and said it's available and you gotta come right now and pick it up..opportunity knocks and can I say no?? Loved the movie - such a common story told so uncommonly well - it left me wondering what would have happened if Amelie had not found the love of her life, or if it hadn't worked out all that well - but that's the cynic in me - the romantic was all blubbering and teary-eyed...
And then, there was Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. We bought this DVD, so come on, don't we have to watch it? I was well prepared to be disappointed, but it was ok. I mean, there's only so much a movie can do as compared to a book. I've long stopped expecting a movie to do justice to a book. I just wonder how the next two books will work out - and I can't even imagine how Mira Nair is going to treat Order of the Phoenix - I'm already prepared for it to be a superflop! :))
When I went to return Amelie, I chanced upon Sunset Boulevard. A B&W 1950 movie, I thought it was extremely well made. I particularly liked the narration - kind of dry...
And then I caught up on the great and grand and famous Main Hoon Na on Star Plus. Gosh! It reminded me of Lou Bega's Mambo No 5!! A li'l bit of this and li'l bit of that.... spotted influence of Matrix, Jackie Chan, Ally McBeal, Sholay, Chopra (much talked about in interviews), and God knows, what else? It was total bubble-gum - I swear the dialogues equalled the songs - as superficial as can be! One thing that did strike me was that Shah Rukh played the step-son here (progeny of an affair), and in K3G, played an adopted son. Hmm...quite a variation there from the standard stuff...
Today, I came across on Chocolat on ZMZ, as the new Zee MGM is known. I loved the book, and the movie was comparably soothing. The taste of chocolate in my mouth...yummmm...incidentally, we have quite a pile waiting to be devoured!!
Now listening to Tapestry Revisited - A tribute to Carole King.
You can't talk to a man, with a shotgun in his hand!!
Saw Amelie - honestly, this wasn't my fault - the library folks called me up and said it's available and you gotta come right now and pick it up..opportunity knocks and can I say no?? Loved the movie - such a common story told so uncommonly well - it left me wondering what would have happened if Amelie had not found the love of her life, or if it hadn't worked out all that well - but that's the cynic in me - the romantic was all blubbering and teary-eyed...
And then, there was Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. We bought this DVD, so come on, don't we have to watch it? I was well prepared to be disappointed, but it was ok. I mean, there's only so much a movie can do as compared to a book. I've long stopped expecting a movie to do justice to a book. I just wonder how the next two books will work out - and I can't even imagine how Mira Nair is going to treat Order of the Phoenix - I'm already prepared for it to be a superflop! :))
When I went to return Amelie, I chanced upon Sunset Boulevard. A B&W 1950 movie, I thought it was extremely well made. I particularly liked the narration - kind of dry...
And then I caught up on the great and grand and famous Main Hoon Na on Star Plus. Gosh! It reminded me of Lou Bega's Mambo No 5!! A li'l bit of this and li'l bit of that.... spotted influence of Matrix, Jackie Chan, Ally McBeal, Sholay, Chopra (much talked about in interviews), and God knows, what else? It was total bubble-gum - I swear the dialogues equalled the songs - as superficial as can be! One thing that did strike me was that Shah Rukh played the step-son here (progeny of an affair), and in K3G, played an adopted son. Hmm...quite a variation there from the standard stuff...
Today, I came across on Chocolat on ZMZ, as the new Zee MGM is known. I loved the book, and the movie was comparably soothing. The taste of chocolate in my mouth...yummmm...incidentally, we have quite a pile waiting to be devoured!!
Now listening to Tapestry Revisited - A tribute to Carole King.
You can't talk to a man, with a shotgun in his hand!!
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