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MOVIE: Kung Fu Panda

My Take: Must watch for all animation lovers

My Rating: 8/10

Deep in the heart of ancient china, the evil warrior tai lung has escaped from maximun security Chorh-Gom prison. He is returning to destroy a village and claim the dragon scroll. Only the chosen one, the dragon warroir can stop him. Yes, "THE PANDA MASTER".

It's a story of a big fat panda, who dreams of becoming a Kung Fu warrior. By accident or grand design, it's chosen as the dragon warroir and the great Kung fu master shifu has to train him.



This is a funny animation movie with great action sequences and witty one-liners. Unlike many kung fu movies, this movie is funny and have nice screen play and characterization. Jack Black's voice for Panda is exceptional.

MY TOP 30 MOVIES

ARRANGED FROM THE BEST TO VERY GOOD

The Shawshank Redemption (Best Movie ever, Narration of Morgan freeman, Gr8 Climax)

The Prestige (Good Screen play, Excellent Ending)

The Lord of the Rings (Best adopted screen play, Visual effects)

The Dark Knight (Characterization of Joker, Best Superhero movie)

Pulp Fiction (Tied for the best editing with memento, Very pulpy)

Fight Club (Brad Pitt and Edward Norton's performance, Best Dialogues)

The Pursuit of Happyness (A very good movie)

The Usual Suspects (Kevin Spacey's Performance)

The Matrix (Best Sci-fi movie, visuals and sound effects)

The Silence of the Lambs (Anthony Hopkins, "I'm having an old friend for dinner")

Memento (Tied for the best editing with Pulp Fiction)

Pirates of the Caribbean (Captain Jack Sparrow)

Se7en (Ending is exceptional)

The Departed (Every minute is worth watching for the climax :) )

Big Fish (Best fantasy movie after LOTR, one of a kind)

Ocean's eleven (Robbery and the dialogue between Pitt and clooney)

Ice Age (Best animation movie)

Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks, Spielberg)

1. Reservoir Dogs ('')
Stardust (Excellently narrated fairy tale)

Snatch. (Best movie of it's own kind)

Gladiator (My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.)
Finding Nemo (Can't miss this one in the list)

The Incredibles (Animated family of superheroes)

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Second best movie of it's own kind)
Scent of a woman (Al Pacino's performance as blind man, Speech at the end)

L.A. Confidential (Cast)

Twelve Monkeys (Brad Pitt's performance, Cycling story)

My Cousin Vinny (Best Comedy)

2. When Harry met Sally (Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Meg Ryan, Meg Ryan)
   

Movies That Almost Made It

1. Negotiator
2. Butterfly Effect
3. Sixth sence
4. Harrypotter: Sorcesor's stone
5. Phonebooth
6. Godfather
7. Titanic
8. A Beautiful Mind
9. Saving Private Ryan
10. Princess Bride
11. The Big Lebowski
    

New Entries

1. Kung fu Panda
2. Wall-E

The Worst Acclaimed-Film Ever

MOVIE: SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

MY TAKE: It's in the title of this post

My Rating: 6/10

Unreal story.
Mediocre acting.
Out of place music.
Poor direction.
Pathetic script.
This sums up the movie for me.
If the movie is based in Mexico or Brazil, I could have liked the movie because i don't know anything about these countries. But it's based in India and the movie is pure fantasy, nothing realistic is shown.

The first negative point is language used in the movie. What is that about? I don't understand why the characters in the movie speak english. If they have to make an english movie why do they need those hindi bits and the funny accent. Theere is no depth in characters.

There are many loopholes in the script.

1. An Indian who doesn't know that pictures of Gandhi are on indian currency but knows that the picture of Benjamin Franklin is on Dollar.
2. Why would Salim help Latika at the end?
3. Jamaal is extraordinary in English and keeps upto date information. He can answer any questions that is thrown to him. How?
4. Yet he doesn't know "Satyameva Jayate" is on our coins, gandhi on our currency. Strange
   

This movie is mediocre. Golden globes and Oscars don't change that fact.

Are You Watching Closely?

MOVIE : THE PRESTIGE

My Rating : 9/10

My Take : Second Best Movie Ever

Genre : Drama, Mystery, Thriller


Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't. The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige".

This movie is like a great magic trick. First one hour is "The Pledge". Next 45 minutes is "The Turn" and the climax is "THE PRESTIGE". Christopher Nolan is not a magician, but a wizard.

Analysis : Best part of the movie is screenplay and the editing. After an excellent screenplay in memento Christopher Nolan worked his magic again, but this time it is even better. Dialogues are so well written that every dialogue has a hidden meaning. You have to watch the movie a second time to savour all the little points in the movie.

Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale played the roles of two ambitious magicians, who try to outperform each other. Each of them portrayed their characters so well that it appeared as if they are really trying to outperform each other in acting. Michael Caine is brilliant as usual.