To All Intelligent Cine-Goers 1.9

Movie :: Batman Begins

Starring :: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman

Directed by :: Christopher Nolan

Produced by :: Benjamin Melniker, Michael E. Uslan, Emma Thomas


Review ::

"Batman Begins", the movie is very rightfully named.

There have been many Batman installments released earlier, that too starring actors like George Colony, Val Kilmer, Michel Keton, and some more actors I dont even know!

I have seen all the installments before Batman Begins(BB). It wouldn't be incorrect to say that Batman Begins is the movie which does complete justice to Batman, the super-hero.

The best thing about The Batman is that he is a normal human being... Made of flesh-n-blood, just like you and me! He hasn't been beaten by any radio-active bug, nor was he introduced to the world of super-powers by any stupid near fatal scientific-experiment.
It was the incidents in his life, which made him fear, beyond expressible words. And it was the fear, which he wanted to over-come, by any means necessary.
Batman uses various technologies to do all the things which people see as his superpowers!

The movie rightfully captures all the things practically a first part of the classic needed to cover.
Like, what was it that made him fear the bats,
Like why he decides to save the city of Gotham,
Like how can he fly, how can he see in the dark, how can he hear things at long distances,
Like how do police of Gotham signal him,
What is his suit made of, how is his cave designed, what a real bat-mobile could do.....

The movie captures all this very brilliantly.
Director Christopher Nolan has proved his abilities again.
This movie could be defined as come back for actor Christian Bale, who is absolutely brilliant at his performance and dialogue deliveries & most importantly his style statement for Bruce Wayne.
The conversations between Bale and Liam Neeson make the best parts of the movie, and are worth watching time and again.

The saga continues with "The Black Knight" again starring Bale who will fight his arch-nemesis The Joker. The movie is scheduled for 2008 release.

Could hardly wait for it...

Before signing off, i would like to put one of the brilliant dialogues of the movie:
Batman: Its not who I am underneath,
Its what I do that defines me.

~El Goldman

To All Intelligent Cine-Goers 1.8

Movie :: 300

Starring :: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Regan, Dominic West

Directed by :: Zack Snyder

Produced by :: Frank Miller



Review ::

What I managed to hear from somewhere was that this movie was shot in 60 days, and took 365 another days to add the special effects and finish the movie!

Yes, we are talking about "300", the movie, which is a must watch..
I dont remember watching such a nice climax since a while now. It was as real as possible.

The thing that I learned after watching the movie was, I will never again watch any movie trailers. The people in the west are no lesser Chus. 75% of the main movie dialogues are shown in the movie trailers which just killed the timing.
Also my experience was badly hampered by other people around me who had seen the promos and were uttering the dialogues every time!!! This could be pretty irritating...

Anyways, the movie was shot in the best possible manner. Of course, it could be made in a better way. (for details on this 1, people can contact me personally)

I will watch it again, thats the only thing I can say.

~ El Goldman.

To All Intelligent Cine-Goers 1.7

Movie:: The Prestige
Starring:: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, David Bowie, Scarlett Johansson
Directed by:: Christopher Nolan

Review::
"Are you watching closely"
These are the first words of the movie, and, believe me, they are very rightly put.

This is one of the best creations of director Christopher Nolan (others are Batman Begins, Insomnia, Memento and Following.) He is one of the best directors Hollywood has ever produced. He not only directs the plot brilliantly, but also manages to get the best out of his acting crew and also manages to excite his audience time and again.

The movie is based in 1970-80's when people used to be amazed by the tricks of magicians, and almost took them for saints.
The plot is set such that Hugh Jackman (The Great Danton) & Christian Bale (The Professor), in their early days are involved in presenting a trick which goes terribly wrong making them best of enemies for life. These blood-thirsty magicians find nothing but their tricks to out-cast each other. Each tries to cut the others trick and make a fool out of him, in a very barbaric manner, which again drives each one to develop a new trick.
It sounds pretty funny now, but, it isn't. They go to every extent possible to get on the one-another.

Some very interesting tochan dialogs, Nolan's USP, are screened very brilliantly.
The thirst of revenge drives them to unthinkable deeds, leading to the very best of climax.

The best thing is, IF you understand the climax properly, you will tell your self, "WTF! This was just in front of me!!! How could I have missed it?”

Interesting plot is screened showing a scientist named Tesla who is the competitor of Thomas Edison (yes, the dude who invented bulb.) If we go by the movie, it seems that Edison was really not that big of a dude. But, again, history is always written by the winners, which makes it one-sided. Let’s not get into this now.

On the whole, it’s a must-watch. One can definitely put this in the Nolan collection and watch any time.

~ El Goldman