Baaghi – pretty cool stunts, typical bollywood luv, no substance
Trance – good art heist movie(Dir: Danny boyle) featuring Rosario Dawson , James McAvoy , Vincent Cassel
The Counselor – WTF did i watch! everything’s beyond comprehension ! At the understanding that life is not going to take you back. You are the world you have created. And when you cease to exist, this world that you have created will also cease to exist. But for those with the understanding that they’re living the last days of the world, death acquires a different meaning. The extinction of all reality is a concept no resignation can encompass. And then, all the grand designs and all the grand plans will be finally exposed and revealed for what they are.
Family man S2 – don’t be the minimum guy , jo jeeta wahi sikandar iski ma ka bhosda :D :D binge watch over a weekend , srikant tiwari is an absolute fun to watch ! very good storyline with twists and turns , season 2 has raised the bar and is certainly better than S1
Race 2 – its all about My hump my hump my hump my lovely little lumps – check it out! + “Aaj meri wajah se tumhari ek achchi aadat chute jayegi … zinda bachchne ki” , & dhokha logic goes overdrive! sometimes i need to watch such movies to reboot :)
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier S1 – cringeworthy, boring and boring!
The Army of the dead – all the fancy Americanish one liners are so ridiculous and cringeworthy, absolutely, totally loathe it! “Somewhere between leaving your ass and saving my own, I developed a conscience. It’s exhausting“, & indeed it was exhausting to watch the movie
T-34 – really cool special effects , second-highest grossing Russian film of all time, wondered how germans (Jäger) took an irrational decision to pick prisoners as opponents for training the panzer division!
Raya and the last dragon – Disney’s first southeast asian princess , visually stunning story, fun movie to watch it with kids.
Ghost in the shell (2017) – Half of the movie is done with praising how sexy Scarlett Johansson is! , Nowhere close to the original which was a masterpiece.
Spies in Disguise – pigen impossible – this is super fun! refreshing movie, and again need to watch it with kids ! : )
Pagglait – Sanya malhotra as Sandhya giri is uber Cringey, great cast but story’s boring!
Battle for Incheon: Operation Chromite – based on the real-life events of the Battle of Inchon, could’ve covered many aspects, could ve been really better
The Last king of Scotland – Forest whitaker’s terrific depiction of megalomaniac Ugandan dictator – Idi admin , won an academy award , did not knew that Israel carried out Operation Thunderbolt in Uganda, it is such a feat in itself!, prolly David fincher/ Denis Villeneuve ought to direct a movie out of it.
22 July – movie on 2011 twin attacks on norway, great first half !
Loki S1 – Just too good, Awesome story takes a bit of time to settle, wonderful ending , amazing retro-futuristic production design , looking forward for S2
A Walk Among the Tombstones – mournful NY cop – Really good opening, ending is a big dud!
Taking Lives – inspiration to Kahani, Jolie’s over obsessive FBI’s etiquettes.. eww!
Jagame thandhiram – what a crap! Did not think ; karthik subburaj would conjure up something as wasteful as this
Operation Finale – Based on a true story (Isralei agents hunting Eichmann) , the domain : the story does deserve better cast, budget, SFX, props , writing.
The Woman in the window – full marks to Amy adams, however the story doesnt stick/stand out to be a thriller!
Luca – signaturely pixar! beaaaautiful and wonderrrrfuly made :) really want to visit Cinque Terre , its been on the bucket list since 2018
Togo – Such an inspirational story ! i want a Siberian husky !!
The little things – found huge references to movie seven, the movie started well , complete bull-crap in the last 30 mins, Jared Leto is phenomenal
White Fang – Ah beautiful Alaska! , Ethan hawke + Wolf – really good adventure movie
Ray S1 – very subtle, but is stretched at time, Hungama hai kyon barpa , Spotlight stand out
Mulan (2020) – production design sucks, The animated version is any day better than this one
Project Power – Jamie foxx as pistol shrimp ! Big budget movies + netflix – totally disappointing
Haseen Dillruba – Very predictable, nevertheless an engaging thriller , Vikrant massey is terrific !
Kingdom of Heaven – dunno how historically , theologically accurate the movie is, however the cast , cinematography is and story is good, apparently has good reviews for the director’s cut
The 13th warrior – such an underrated movie! i was hooked till the end! awesome viking adventure!
The White Tiger – Based on Aravind Adiga’s Booker Prize-winning novel,”It’s the century of the brown man and the yellow man, and God save everybody else” , awesome movie which really sticks to the book, brilliant performance from Adarsh gaurav as Balram Halwai
Sherni – good man-animal conflict story , but the message is not portrayed as intended, gets lost in needless conversations, topics .
Gunday – bala & bikram + crap stunts , pathetic movie
Warcraft – have never player Warcraft, but this was a good fantasy movie
Chronicle – such a good first half only to be spoilt by a crap ending ,
Black Beauty – such a bore! original story is 100x times better
ÜberWeihnachten – mediocre, cringeworthy!
The Tomorrow War – countless movies with underlying tone, fuzzy inexplicable logic , nevertheless chirs pratt’s fun a good weekend watch !
Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb – fresh perspectives , Wahtye and malaria, this was really interesting to watch.
Unbreakable – 2nd watch after 20 years, One of the best superhero origin movies ever made!
The Social Dilemma – effective message, but poorly constructed orchestrations
Mimi – inspired from national award winning marathi film ‘mala aai vhhaychy’ , good weekend watch.
A Good Year – ridley scott and romance bruh!
Black Widow – meeeeow to Scarlett Johansson, full marks to Florence Pugh (yelena)
Jungle Cruise – prod design feels so artificial !
Comedy Premium league S1 – galliyan is the new comedy , distastefully boring
Thimmarusu – trademark gulti antics , intriguing story with justified twists
In “Good Will Hunting,” Robin Williams earned the Best Supporting Actor award for his depiction of psychologist Sean Maguire. Seated on a bench in the park, his dialogue with Will (Matt Damon) triggers a whirlwind of emotions, ultimately catalyzing a significant transformation for the troubled young man. Sean Maguire stands out as one of the most intricately crafted psychologist characters to date. The conversation with Will is expertly orchestrated, resembling a crescendo of therapeutic elements.
“So if I asked you about art, you’d probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life’s work, political aspirations, him and the Pope, sexual orientation, the whole works, right? But I’ll bet you can’t tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You’ve never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling. Seen that. If I ask you about women, you’d probably give me a syllabus about your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can’t tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. You’re a tough kid. And I’d ask you about war, you’d probably throw Shakespeare at me, right: “Once more into the breach, dear friends.” But you’ve never been near one. You’ve never held your best friend’s head in your lap, and watch him gasp his last breath looking to you for help. I’d ask you about love, you’d probably quote me a sonnet. But you’ve never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on Earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of Hell. And you wouldn’t know what it’s like to be her angel, to have that love for her, be there forever, through anything, through cancer. And you wouldn’t know about sleeping sittin’ up in the hospital room for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes that the terms “visiting hours” don’t apply to you. You don’t know about real loss, ’cause that only occurs when you’ve loved something more than you love yourself. And I doubt you’ve ever dared to love anybody that much.
I look at you. I don’t see an intelligent, confident man. I see a cocky, scared shitless kid. But you’re a genius, Will. No one denies that. No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine. You ripped my fuckin’ life apart. You’re an orphan, right? Do you think I’d know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, ’cause I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? Personally, I don’t give a shit about all that, because you know what, I can’t learn anything from you I can’t read in some fuckin’ book. Unless you want to talk about you, who you are. Then I’m fascinated. I’m in. But you don’t wanna do that, do you, sport? You’re terrified of what you might say. Your move, chief.”
References:
https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/quinn_robert_p_200608_ma.pdf
https://psyc2301.wikispaces.com/Will+Hunting
Daniel Day Lewis, Christoph Waltz won their third (best actor) and second (best supporting actor) Oscars respectively and Mr.Lewis became the first actor to win three best-actor Academy Awards. Lewis’s, Waltz’s performance for Lincoln and Django Unchained were of the highest order and its no surprise they won gold! Their respective characters Lincoln, Dr. King Schultz has so much depth and contour and it is really hard to comprehend the kind of authenticity that they illustrate, it is something which is ornamented with simplicity and perhaps this statement faultlessly explains the same
“The clearest of images of the great artists and their words are never clear to the end, rather as the limpid sky over our heads, when we gaze into it, turns out to be not pale blue at all, but a darker shade, deeper, fathomless. And so the works of great genius, for all their crystalline clarity, will sometimes make us gaze apprehensively into their depths, and define the clarity as the clarity of the deep…and that is all; what lies at the bottom of those depths eludes us.”
Being very ruthless, the common denominator is the technique, the meticulous approach (esp Lewis) that they adopt in order to inhabit a character. For Eg: Michael Mann referring to Lewis (Director: Last of the Mohicans) said in his introduction, “His work is so extraordinary he inhabits a character’s body and soul, in dimensions of authenticity like we’ve never experienced.” And Quentin Tarantino referring to Waltz “Hans Landa is one of the greatest characters I have ever written, and one of the greatest characters that I will ever write and thank you Christoph you gave me my movie.” And with their exemplifying stellar performances they’ve won the hearts of many, the greatest example is that, Tarantino wrote the part of Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained specifically for Christoph Waltz. Steven Spielberg was so thrilled when Daniel signed up to play the role for Lincoln.
Christoph in an interview, shares his experience: “I sat at his kitchen table — literally at his kitchen table — with pages in front of me that were still warm from the printer. It sounds like a figure of speech, but they were literally still warm from the printer, and I read it in portions because, you know, I didn’t sit there all the time and hear the typewriter click away in the room next door, but in like two, three weeks he invited me up to his house again and put another … warm stack of paper in front of me and then eyed me and watched me reading and sort of reading my face and my reactions to it, so … yes, I’m proud to say — and I hope it’s not being presumptuous — he did write it for me.” :)
In view of above experience, Daniel’s Oscar acceptance speech was one of the best and expressed his profound gratitude to “mysteriously beautiful mind, body, and spirit of Abraham Lincoln.”
The Best of Daniel Day-Lewis, Christop Waltz Movies and their respective movie quotes
4. Bill the Butcher – The Gangs of New York
Everything you see belongs to me, to one degree or another. The beggars and newsboys and quick thieves here in Paradise, the sailor dives and gin mills and blind tigers on the waterfront, the anglers and amusers, the she-hes and the Chinks. Everybody owes, everybody pays. Because that’s how you stand up against the rising of the tide.
3. Christy Brown – My left foot
All is nothing, therefore nothing must end.
2. Abraham Lincoln – Lincoln
For whatever reason, and I can’t explain why – that moment at which one is drawn into the orbit, irrevocably, of a life. I felt the tug of that orbit. I didn’t know why; I was quite alarmed by it…
1. Daniel Plainview – There will be Blood.
I look at people sometimes and I see nothing to like… I hate most people.
2. Dr. King Schultz – Django Unchained
- Normally, Monsieur Candie, I would say “Auf wiedersehen.” But since what “auf wiedersehen” actually means is “’till I see you again”, and since I never wish to see you again, to you sir, I say, goodbye.
- I’m sorry. I couldn’t resist.
1. Col .Hans Landa – Inglorious Basterds
- I love rumors! Facts can be so misleading, but rumors, true or false, are often revealing.
- Au revoir Shoshanna!
From Landa’s disdain for the inferior intellect to Butcher’s ruthlessness, from the demonic Plainview to the fearless, unflinching spirit of Lincoln, from Christy Brown’s vulnerability to King Schultz’s great empathy, and quite honestly haven’t seen any other actors who can perfectly embody these great, horrifying personalities.
References:
IMDb
http://www.npr.org/2012/12/18/167062665/unchained-admiration-between-actor-and-director
http://www.close-upfilm.com/features/Interviews/daniel_day_lewis.html
http://irishamerica.com/2013/01/the-genius-of-day-lewis-brings-lincoln-alive/
http://www.slashfilm.com/interview-christoph-waltz-on-playing-hans-landa-in-inglourious-basterds-working-with-quentin-tarantino-and-brad-pitt-and-the-legendary-strudel-scene/
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/dec/27/news/la-en-christoph-waltz-django-unchained-20121227
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