Movie: 3 Idiots
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
Producer: Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Starcast: Aamir Khan, Sharman Joshi, Madhvan, Kareena Kapoor, Boman Irani
Director Rajkumar Hirnai's much awaited flick ‘3 Idiots' is all set to release on December 25 (Christmas Day) across the globe.
Mr Perfectionist Aamir Khan Sharman Joshi and R Madhvan Starrer Three Idiots has already hogged limelight due to its unusual promotional spree.
Movie Review:
Oh Bhaiyaa All Izz Well in ‘3 Idiots'. This is must watch movie in the passing year 2009. The story of 3 Idiots revolves around Aamir Khan, Madhvan Sharman Joshi. The Three Idiots in the movie are Rancho (Aamir Khan), Farhan Qureshi (Madhvan) and Raju Rastogi (Sharman Joshi).
The story of 3 Idiots is a lighthearted and entertaining journey of three friends in college life. The three fast friends will take you in the world of laughter with their unique approach towards life.
The story becomes interesting all of sudden as Ranch goes missing and duo embark on a mission to Shimla, Manali and Ladakh to trace him. Farhan and Raju consider Rancho as a unique thinker and his approach towards life. However, Rancho has some conflict with Raju and Farhan's mentor, a character played by Boman Irani.
Kareena Kapoor plays the role of Pia opposite Aamir Khan in the movie. She is superb in her character. On the other hand, once again Aamir's one film in the year formula seems to be worked. It will be hattrick of hit after TZP and Ghajini.
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Avatar Movie Review
Simultaneously fantastical and firmly rooted in the historical here and now, James Cameron's Avatar is both raw and lyrical as all good science-fi epics should be. With an array of unlikely Hollywood heroes irreverently shaking up the cookie cutter scenarios of blockbuster conventions, Avatar impressively substitutes meaning for mayhem, and nuance for plot-preempting sheer noise.
Sam Worthington is Jake Sully in Avatar, a disabled marine and dejected wheelchair warrior yearning to have his mobility back, along with fulfillment in his life. So when the marine brass in league with a military industrial complex corporation collaborate on the Avatar, or alternate persona program that transports human consciousness into a born again, freshly buffed body, Sully goes for it. Though as he's prepped for a kind of pre-traumatic stress syndrome ordeal, the gullible grunt slowly gets hip to his exploitation as a capitalist tool. Namely, in a historically deja vu genocidal mission to clear the distant planet Pandora of its indigenous population, the better to covertly plunder foreign turf for minerals already depleted on a dying planet earth.
Let loose by his honcho handlers to essentially fend for himself on Pandora, the born again Sully goes native in lab-devised undercover tribal DNA, presumably to infiltrate, pacify and assist in an unscrupulous forest foreclosure and relocation of the unsuspecting Na'vi people. But in the process, wouldn't ya know it, he's afflicted with a serious case of jungle fever for the head digitalized princess, Neytiri (Zoe Saldana). A no-nonsense eco-friendly feminist woodland free spirit, Neytiri scolds Sully into mending his ways, and even teaches him a thing or two in a makeshift wilderness boot camp of sorts, about reverence for nature and opposing the duplicitous US military.
His first project since Titanic, marinating for fifteen years and four additional years in production, Cameron held his creative chops in check till he felt futuristic cinematic technology only dreamt of at the time, caught up with his fevered imagination. The result is a visually breathtaking extra-terrestrial travelogue, but where the mystique may going a long way towards upstaging the message. Which is that rebellion against imperialism and the US war machine by oppressed peoples and even within the military is recommended, while for kid viewers, questioning authority is a good and honorable thing. Though parents might draw the line on the family home front, about that particular advice.
In any case, anything labeled make-believe tend to be smoothed over, no matter how subversive the sentiments. Though a different sort of confrontation may be looming this awards season, as Cameron's Pandora's 'box' faces off during the yearly awards skirmishes, against ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow's 'Locker' and the oppostional contents of that patriotic celebratory pro-war counter-programming.
Twentieth Century Fox Pictures
Rated PG-13
3 stars
Prairie Miller is a multimedia journalist online, in print and on radio. Contact her through NewsBlaze.
Source : http://newsblaze.com/story/20091217121127mill.nb/topstory.html
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Avatar - Movie Review
Movie : Avatar
Cast : Sam Worthington, Siqourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana
Direction: James Cameron
Review:
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart,” said William Wordsworth. Thus, without letting our admiration for James Cameron come in the way of our verdict on ‘Avatar’, with a heavy heart, we’ll have to say that we found Cameron’s highly anticipated, expensive motion picture ‘Avatar’ not living up to our expectations.
Many who have seen the film have an opinion that since so much time (10 years), effort and sweat has gone into creating stereoscopic 3D effects for the film, and combining live and computer animation, one ought to appreciate it. True as it might be, at the end of the day, if a film fails to establish an emotional connect with the audiences, no effects whatsoever can salvage it or make it special.
Coming to the story, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) is an ex-marine who is forced into participating in Avatar program. The program is setup by humans and comprises of encroaching a distant moon Pandora as it has an abundance of precious minerals on its land. However, getting hold of Pandora won’t be easy as humans can’t breathe on it. Also, the warrior Na’vi tribe resides in it.
In order to encroach Pandora’s land, one has to be able to breathe its air and thus become one of the Na’vis. Scientists thus create these genetically-bred human-Na’vi hybrids known as Avatars. The Avatars have a Na-vi body and a human DNA. Jake becomes one such Avatar...human kind’s weapon to make truce with Na’vis and thus force them to evacuate their planet. As Jake starts shuttling between his human and Na’vi body, he starts getting emotionally attached to Pandora and there begins the conflict between his medium of existence.
Avatar begins well but goofs up as it progresses. The story which seems promising initially starts faltering the moment Cameron shows Jake fall in love with a Na’vi woman. The film then on becomes just another clichéd love story where a hero will save his lover and her people from the villains. The villains happen to be humans here who now want to wage a war on the Na’vis as they refuse to give in to their demands. Jake even readies himself to battle it out with the humans to save his Na’vi tribe... things people do for love! If the love wasn’t clichéd enough, Cameron even makes his hero single out the lead villain and engage him in a one-to-one fist fight with him!
Avatar begins well, drags tremendously in between and then picks up on its pace towards the climax, but its too late by then. Titanic oozed romance and we loved it but the setting of Avatar didn’t require romance as its prime ingredient. This wrong move of Cameron transforms a sci-fi ‘Avatar’ into a highly clichéd run-of-the-mill dramatic love story set against a war backdrop.
The film is a visual delight, but lacks an original plot. This visual treat doesn’t make up for the weak storyline. The infusion of human trauma in an idyllic fantasy setting doesn’t seem to be a good idea! Avatar loses direction somewhere along the way, and its huge length plays spoil sport too.
Performances are decent, but not outstanding. Unfortunately, so is the film! However, ‘decent’ is not what one expects from a James Cameron.
Source : http://movies.indiatimes.com/reviews/hollywood/Avatar-Movie-Review/moviereview/5341025.cms
Cast : Sam Worthington, Siqourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana
Direction: James Cameron
Review:
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart,” said William Wordsworth. Thus, without letting our admiration for James Cameron come in the way of our verdict on ‘Avatar’, with a heavy heart, we’ll have to say that we found Cameron’s highly anticipated, expensive motion picture ‘Avatar’ not living up to our expectations.
Many who have seen the film have an opinion that since so much time (10 years), effort and sweat has gone into creating stereoscopic 3D effects for the film, and combining live and computer animation, one ought to appreciate it. True as it might be, at the end of the day, if a film fails to establish an emotional connect with the audiences, no effects whatsoever can salvage it or make it special.
Coming to the story, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) is an ex-marine who is forced into participating in Avatar program. The program is setup by humans and comprises of encroaching a distant moon Pandora as it has an abundance of precious minerals on its land. However, getting hold of Pandora won’t be easy as humans can’t breathe on it. Also, the warrior Na’vi tribe resides in it.
In order to encroach Pandora’s land, one has to be able to breathe its air and thus become one of the Na’vis. Scientists thus create these genetically-bred human-Na’vi hybrids known as Avatars. The Avatars have a Na-vi body and a human DNA. Jake becomes one such Avatar...human kind’s weapon to make truce with Na’vis and thus force them to evacuate their planet. As Jake starts shuttling between his human and Na’vi body, he starts getting emotionally attached to Pandora and there begins the conflict between his medium of existence.
Avatar begins well but goofs up as it progresses. The story which seems promising initially starts faltering the moment Cameron shows Jake fall in love with a Na’vi woman. The film then on becomes just another clichéd love story where a hero will save his lover and her people from the villains. The villains happen to be humans here who now want to wage a war on the Na’vis as they refuse to give in to their demands. Jake even readies himself to battle it out with the humans to save his Na’vi tribe... things people do for love! If the love wasn’t clichéd enough, Cameron even makes his hero single out the lead villain and engage him in a one-to-one fist fight with him!
Avatar begins well, drags tremendously in between and then picks up on its pace towards the climax, but its too late by then. Titanic oozed romance and we loved it but the setting of Avatar didn’t require romance as its prime ingredient. This wrong move of Cameron transforms a sci-fi ‘Avatar’ into a highly clichéd run-of-the-mill dramatic love story set against a war backdrop.
The film is a visual delight, but lacks an original plot. This visual treat doesn’t make up for the weak storyline. The infusion of human trauma in an idyllic fantasy setting doesn’t seem to be a good idea! Avatar loses direction somewhere along the way, and its huge length plays spoil sport too.
Performances are decent, but not outstanding. Unfortunately, so is the film! However, ‘decent’ is not what one expects from a James Cameron.
Source : http://movies.indiatimes.com/reviews/hollywood/Avatar-Movie-Review/moviereview/5341025.cms
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