Team-BHP - The English Movies Thread (No Spoilers Please)

Watched Anitchrist yesterday.

The movie is about a couple who loose their child due to their negligence and how they deal with it to come over the tragedy.
The wife, in particular, is devastated with the loss and her husband (a psychologist) helps her overcome/deal with the guilt.

Movie direction is very artistic and is full of symbolism.

Starts of very slowly and became very gripping towards the second half. Solid performance all around (Well, there are only 2 characters in the movie).

I would admit, some parts of the movie (symbolism) did go over my head. I would have to read a detailed review and watch the movie again to appreciate the beauty.

I would rate it 4/5.

1 star deducted for the slow start.

PS. Movie has its fair share of nudity, blood and gore, not advisable to watch with family.

Rating of the movies that I watched recently

1. She is out of my league:
good fun movie to watch for the weekend evening. Its a light hearted one with the kind of Notting hill touch.
Rating 4/5
2. KICK-A.S.S
Good movie to watch, though one might not see that much of a story in it.
Rating 3.5/5
3. Shutter Island:
Though the story is a bit predictable the way the movie is taken is very strong.
Leonardo deserve applause for performing well.
Rating 4/5

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Originally Posted by rupinder (Post 1867921)

any review of how to train your dragon 3d

3D is quite wasted in this one. Decent, feel-good kinda movie though. It is amazing, however, that whenever in one of these flicks there is a need to make a creature/ animal look cute, the creators model the mannerisms after a dog. Check out Night Fury:D

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Originally Posted by SumitBahl (Post 1868254)

I've been wanting to watch this movie. Everyone who's seen it seems to be raving about it. Is it a good shocker?

Watched these movies recently :

A Christmas Carol : Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey) hates to spare even a penny for Christmas and finds himself being visited by ghosts on Christmas eve.
My rating : 3.5/5

Office Space : It is a story of company workers who hate their jobs and the employees being exploited by their boss. Peter Gibbons played by Ron Livingston visits a hypnotherapist and the story turns from there. Highly recommended if you want a good laugh.
My rating : 4/5

The Royal Tenenbaums : Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal (Gene Hackman) had left them long ago, and comes back to make things right with his family
My rating : 3.5/5

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Originally Posted by Wolfheart (Post 1869505)

I've been wanting to watch this movie. Everyone who's seen it seems to be raving about it. Is it a good shocker?

Very artistically shot movie.
A must watch!!!

Though, I must warn you, some scenes can be quite disturbing.

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Originally Posted by SumitBahl (Post 1871915)

Very artistically shot movie.
A must watch!!!

Though, I must warn you, some scenes can be quite disturbing.

No problem mate, I love extreme cinema and have seen it all. In fact last night I tried to watch "A Haunting in Connecticut". It's the same old formula horror movie with same crappy dream sequences and haunted house story. Boring! Couldn't stand it for more than 30 minutes.

I like innovative cinema and Antichrist looks promising.

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Originally Posted by Wolfheart (Post 1872398)

I found 'A haunting in connecicut' quite good mainly because the movie was based on a true story. Now the talks on Antichrist is making we want to see it soon. Hopefully i will catch it this weekend.

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Originally Posted by artofzen (Post 1845665)

Watched
1. Hachiko _ A dogs Story - Lovely movie. And the fact that its based on a true story makes it even better.

2.IL Divo (Italian) - About the life of Italian PM Andreotti. A bit slow, watch it if you are a movie buff. 3/5

3.Jerusalema ( South African) - A very well made movie about a gangster in SA. Film takes us through his rise from a car jacker to a rich well known hoodlum. 4/5

Lust,Caution (Chinese) - Directed by Ang Lee of Brokeback Mountain fame. Couple of very explicit bonding scenes :). Movie is about chinese underground spying against Japanese oppression.4/5

Planning to watch this years oscar winner for international category . Will update tomorrow.

Although the thread is about English movies, some of the international movies are too good to miss. And you get ENG subtitles for all these movies.

Good point; when i came across this thread I was actually wondering if we could start a World Cinema/Foreign Language thread. But I do not know if there would enuf interest for the same.

Talking of Ang Lee, have you seen Eat Drink Man Woman?

I have missed Jerusalema. Will check it out. If you liked Il Divo, another recent italian movie should be Gomorra.

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Originally Posted by maddy42 (Post 1851303)

Do watch City of God. Pretty awesome movie about the slums of rio in brazil. Pretty scary if you watch it u will understand what i mean

That is a fantastic movie for sure. For a different Brazilian movie, try catching Behind the Sun by Walter Salles of Motorcycle Diaries and Dark Waters fame.

Gran Torino is one of my Favorite movies of all time.
Clint Eastwood shows us , at 80 he still is the bad *** he is when he was 20.
The climax is the best part and can bring you to tears.
And the movie was never about the car but rather the car was a part of the movie.

4/5 for Gran Torino From my side.

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Originally Posted by vinaydas (Post 1873591)

Hey, thats a surprise.. Just saw that last night for the first time. I completely agree with you there. Clint gets better with age.

I saw Avatar a couple of days back. Now I know how they managed to spend millions of $$$. I would rate it at 4/5 (due to the graphics, effects and overall quality of production).

I also saw, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)) and would recommend watching the movie. Rating 3.5/5