Saturday, November 22, 2008

Weekly Movie Review

This week I had chance to watch a lot of movies.. 3 of them on the same day[.. or should I say d same night :)]
Dasvidaniya, Fashion, Green Street Hooligans and the 4th one's name I don't remember..( well.. it was that type of movie)

Moving ahead, Fashion is a movie which was released around 2-3 weeks ago nd no one will be needing a review on that. For those who haven't seen it yet.. download and watch it. You won't be dissapointed.
My rating 2.5 out of 5.

Dasvidaniya is a really good movie. Last week I talked about Bucket list.. It is on the same theme and is as good. The director has adapted it for the Indian audiences and done it well. Though the film slows down at places, the length of the film covers it up. The movie is 10 minutes shy of the 2hr mark. I can happily declare it to be the Movie Of the Month.
Amar( Vinay pathak) has been diagonised with cancer and he has only 3 months left. Till now, he has been living a mundane life. The highlight of his day is a to-do list which he makes in d morning. When he learns of his predicament, his alter ego kicks in and coaxes him to create a to-do list.. but this time it is of things which he wants to do before he is dead.... so that he can say that he lived a fulfilled life!!
Good Movie, Great actors.. My rating 4.5 out of 5.

Green Street Hooligan is again in a different genre. It is a about a guy Matt( Elijiah Wood.. ->LOTR-> Froddo) who gets kicked out of Harvard bcoz his cocaine is found in his room and he takes the fall for his room partner. He doesn't fight the charge assuming that as his roomy's dad is in a high position at University.
As he can't go back to his dad, he moves across the ocean to UK...where his sister stays along with her family. Once in England, he gets to see what Football Hooliganism is all about from an insider's point of view as his sister's brother in law is one of them.In the process he learns a lot new things which he wouldn't have in Harvard. He gets his first fight and many more after that... he learns to stand by his friends.. You guys are going to love it!! 
The treatment of the film is fantastic, specially the fight scenes. You would all want to pickup a headfone though.. the accent is mostly native english!!!
My rating 4 out of 5.