Release Year: 1999
IMDB Rating: 8.0
Wanted
Release year: 2008 |||| IMDB Link:Wanted |||| IMDB Rating : 6.8/10 |||| Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller |||| My Rating: 6.0/10
Its a good watch provided your can control your basic common sense to start questioning the actions and stunts which are like Matrix yet not justified like it(fighting in mind or computer generated world etc). Movie flows good amount of adrenaline which action scenes go. If you watch this with innocent mind it gives a lesson as well that to active something way different from what you get everyday you need to go way different and challenge yourself and journey can be immense pain provided you charge yourself with what you are becoming and what the goal. A great watch for kids, and youths mostly who love action, thriller and crime (and frustrated yet hopeful and imaginative youths who love to spend a great deal of life in day dreaming where BELIEF is a more important than what you see immediately). In the language of the this movie last kind can be called as Fraternity of Day Dreamers.
First few lines which are spoken by the lead character of the movie, Wesley (James McAvoy);
First few lines which are spoken by the lead character of the movie, Wesley (James McAvoy);
It's my anorexic boss' birthday. This means there's a certain amount of inter-office pressure to stand around the conference table, eating crappy food and pretending to worship her. Acting for five minutes like Janice doesn't make all our lives miserable is the hardest work I'll do all day. My job title is account manager. I used to be called an account service representative, but a consultant told us we have to manage our clients, and to not service them. I have a girlfriend who I neither manage or service. That's my best friend Barry fucking her on an Ikea kitchen table I picked up for a really good price. I'm finding it hard to care about anything these days. In fact, the only thing I do care about is the fact that I can't care about anything. Seriously, it worries me. My name is Wesley Gibson. My dad walked out on my mom when I was seven days old. Sometimes I wonder if he ever looked into my baby blue eyes and asked himself "did I just father the most insignificant asshole of the twenty-first century"?
The Pacifier
Release year: 2007 |||| IMDB Link:The Pacifier |||| IMDB Rating : 5.3/10 |||| Genre: Action | Comedy | Drama | Family | Thriller |||| My Rating: 6.0/10
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A smart Navy SEAL Shane Wolfe(Vin Diesel) with many experiences of various tough commando missions finds the most challenging one when, was assigned a duty of tacking care and protecting 5 kids of a family. When it came to discipline and rule kids and Shane Wolfe were birds of contrast feather. How he manages, what are the consequences is something you shall checkout in movie. I found it a fun watch family movie.
Rendition
Release year: 2007 |||| IMDB Link:Rendition |||| IMDB Rating : 6.9/10 |||| Genre: Drama, Thriller, War |||| My Rating: 7.0/10
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Another story revolves around the concerns which world started paying attention to, after 9/11 and its consequences; shown in a different way. A good mix of insights from personal life, emotions, love, relations and current emerging international terrorism concerns.
Movie shows following:
- How rules are changed and to what extent, when purpose is important for a government or community. Both the government and the terrorist take their purposes seriously and gives you chance to wonder who is wrong!!!
- Behind every person in whatever position or side he/she has a personal side and everyone has a not hero and not villain side, and also has a hero and villian side, government official, terrorist or other normal common man. I liked this most about this movie.
- Movie doesn't have all good end and neither has a all bad end but it can make you ponder about certain things.
- Everyone is not lucky at-least sometimes.
- A question; who is good and who is bad and why when its all about purpose? And who suffers?
Good things:
- Nice screen play and acting
- Fine storyline which fits well for the movie time-line.
- Two stories played in a parallel way which occurred in different time-lines and merged very nicely at the end.
- Nice cinematography things look pretty real even if they are unrealistic
Bad things:
- I didn't like the non-english dialogs being exchanged without subtitles.
I think its a nice watch and story is worth watching than telling.
Apur Sansar (Bangla)
Release year: 1959 |||| IMDB Link:Apur Sansar |||| IMDB Rating : 7.6/10 |||| Genre: Drama
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"Apur Sansar" which means "World of Apu", a movie based on the novel of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay. Few chapters of Apu's life is the script of this movie. Starting chapter is when Apu aka Apurba Roy(Soumitra Chatterjee) discontinues his education because if his poor financial condition and last chapter is when he loved the life back again after confronting his 5 year old son Kajol(Alok Chakravarty), whom he never loved even possibly in imagination.
After Apu drops out of college he had no liabilities and no one to live with or go to. He has nobody to call a family. He was not much bothered about his condition of life too. He was in debt, not used to get good food at times, used to play flute and loved to write. And in-spite of lots of mess in his life, he kind of loved it in a way, untill he loved life and got to feel love in a different way which he had only possibly remotely imagined as a writer. And that different way was chosen by an accidental situation, which he met when he went to the country side to attend the marriage of cousin sister Aparna(Sharmila Tagore) of his friend Pulu(Swapan Mukherjee). Attending Aparna's marriage was never an accident untill Apu was asked to be the saviour of Aparna and her familie's social respect and future by marrying her, as the marriage of Aparna was cancelled when they got to know the prospective groom was mentally ill. After initial surprise and denial, Apu agreed to be the saviour but rather than being exited, happy or possibly sad about this change and situation, he was more worried that how would he take care of Aparna in the poor financial state he was, as Aparna belonged to a financially quite established family. But Aparna gradually and beautifully took away all his worries and filled Apu's life with a smooth and soothing bliss which Apu has never experienced or imagined before. Aparna was the most important and most wonderful thing ever happened to Apu. But this gradual soothing bliss changed for Apu within a momentary eye flip when he got to know the demise of his most beloved Aparna while giving birth to their sign of love, their son. Life was never more meaningless and worse for Apu before. But Aparna didn't leave Apu so hopeless and which he finds back after few years when he meets Kajol. Instead of Aparna, it was Kajol who was waiting for him.
"Apur Sansar" which means "World of Apu", a movie based on the novel of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay. Few chapters of Apu's life is the script of this movie. Starting chapter is when Apu aka Apurba Roy(Soumitra Chatterjee) discontinues his education because if his poor financial condition and last chapter is when he loved the life back again after confronting his 5 year old son Kajol(Alok Chakravarty), whom he never loved even possibly in imagination. After Apu drops out of college he had no liabilities and no one to live with or go to. He has nobody to call a family. He was not much bothered about his condition of life too. He was in debt, not used to get good food at times, used to play flute and loved to write. And in-spite of lots of mess in his life, he kind of loved it in a way, untill he loved life and got to feel love in a different way which he had only possibly remotely imagined as a writer. And that different way was chosen by an accidental situation, which he met when he went to the country side to attend the marriage of cousin sister Aparna(Sharmila Tagore) of his friend Pulu(Swapan Mukherjee). Attending Aparna's marriage was never an accident untill Apu was asked to be the saviour of Aparna and her familie's social respect and future by marrying her, as the marriage of Aparna was cancelled when they got to know the prospective groom was mentally ill. After initial surprise and denial, Apu agreed to be the saviour but rather than being exited, happy or possibly sad about this change and situation, he was more worried that how would he take care of Aparna in the poor financial state he was, as Aparna belonged to a financially quite established family. But Aparna gradually and beautifully took away all his worries and filled Apu's life with a smooth and soothing bliss which Apu has never experienced or imagined before. Aparna was the most important and most wonderful thing ever happened to Apu. But this gradual soothing bliss changed for Apu within a momentary eye flip when he got to know the demise of his most beloved Aparna while giving birth to their sign of love, their son. Life was never more meaningless and worse for Apu before. But Aparna didn't leave Apu so hopeless and which he finds back after few years when he meets Kajol. Instead of Aparna, it was Kajol who was waiting for him.
A closing note:
I generally don't watch( out of some phobia which is out of scope of this text) and also don't get to watch Bangla movies. But this one stumbled upon in a way which couldn't be ignored. I watched it and really loved it like a sort of movie which probably I would love to mention about when I shall be narrating the list of movies, which is not biased by language, though mostly English. Yes, I am mostly a fan of good English movies(even if, at times, I can't enjoy them without subtitles) and always felt that the taste and sense of Hollywood viewers and creators is much different(actually I meant better in my opinion). But when I watched this movie, I felt this all time favourite hit movie wouldn't had been a hit at box office and and possibly ever made unless viewers and creator(Satyajit Ray) would had the taste of it. I don't know how many times it is actually watched by non-Bengali viewers yet I think it is worth watching even with subtitles. When you are done watching, it will be interesting to think back why you liked this movie(if you like it). I know why I liked it but I will tell you that if you don't like it. ;-)
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