#List: 59 movies you can watch on a random day
In the past, I have pondered over more than a hundred movie lists on IMDB, EmpireOnline Magazine, Listal and a lot more places on the internet and felt dissatisfied with the exclusion or inclusion of a certain cinema in many of them.
But now that, I have made my first list, I know its really tough to keep everyone satisfied. Anyways, let me explain what exactly this list covers.
This is the list of 59 movies that I can watch time and again and never get bored, which do not mean that these films are the best I have seen, you may miss some of the greatest films of all time in this list because some films are so great that you need a good 6-7 months gap to have a second watch of it, you give it a lot of time to feel and absorb every character in it, the classical dialogues and the unforgettable scenes that watching it for the second time instantly just ruin the magic it has. For example The Godfather Trilogy, I love this film, but I can't watch it twice in a week or in a month. Same goes with Citizen Kane, Gone with the wind and Casablanca.
Same goes with The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, I cannot watch it one more time, at least for the next 2 years but when I did watch it for the first time, I had huge respect for the perfection with which it was made by director Peter Jackson.
Basically this list covers all the film that can be watched on any random day, these are great films and there are greater films which do not make it to the list. The list is in alphabetical order so do not try figuring out who beats who. I will come up with a ranked list later.
Tell me what do you feel about the list above, and do mention name of the films that you think should have made this list.
Same goes with The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, I cannot watch it one more time, at least for the next 2 years but when I did watch it for the first time, I had huge respect for the perfection with which it was made by director Peter Jackson.
Basically this list covers all the film that can be watched on any random day, these are great films and there are greater films which do not make it to the list. The list is in alphabetical order so do not try figuring out who beats who. I will come up with a ranked list later.
Here goes the list:
1. 8 Mile [2002]
2. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective [1994]
3. American Pie [1999]
4. American Pie II [2001]
5. American Wedding [2003]
6. American Reunion [2012]
7. Apollo 13 [1995]
8. Batman [1989-1992]
9. Back to the Future Trilogy [1985-1990]
10. Black hawk Down [2001]
11. Bruce Almighty [2003]
12. Cast Away [2000]
13. Cloverfield [2008]
14. Deep Impact [1998]
15. District 9 [2009]
16. Donnie Darko [2001]
17. Einstein and Eddington [2008]
18. Face Off [1997]
19. Fight Club [1999]
20. Goal: The Dream Begins [2005]
21. Good Will Hunting [1997]
22. Iron Man [2008]
23. Jaws [1975]
24. Kick-Ass [2010]
26. Limitless [2011]
27. Magnolia [1999]
28. Memento [2000]
29. Men in Black [1997]
30. Ocean's Eleven [2001]
31. Pirates of Silicon Valley [1999]
32. Real Steel [2011]
33. Road to Perdition [2002]
34. Shaun of the Dead [2004]
35. Snatch [2000]
36. Source Code [2011]
37. Superbad [2007]
38. Superman [1978]
39. Terminator 2: Judgment Day [1991]
40. The Amazing Spiderman [2012]
41. The Avengers [2012]
42. The Butterfly Effect [2004]
43. The Dark Knight Trilogy [2005-2012]
44. The Girl Next Door [2004]
45. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly [1966]
46. The Goonies [1985]
47. The Hangover [2009]
48. The Matrix [1999]
49. The Others [2001]
50. The Polar Express [2004]
51. The Pursuit of Happyness [2006]
52. The Prestige [2006]
53. The Shawshank Redemption [1994]
54. The Sixth Sense [1999]
55. The Social Network [2010]
56. Toy Story 3 [2010]
57. X-Men [2000]
58. X-Men: First Class [2011]
59. Zombieland [2009]
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#Trivia: The Alternate cast of Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption, a movie which finds its place in almost every movie enthusiast's list of greatest films. Among many other important depiction of human emotions, it showed the friendship of two prisoners over a time period of almost 2 decades; Andy and Red. The supporting characters included Heywood, Lloyd, Brooks and Tommy. There was a great equation among these characters. However these characters could be completely different, if the actors who were first approached agreed to portray these characters .
Red; the role for Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding was determined to go to Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford, Paul Newman or Robert Redford. In the Stephen King's book, Red was a white Irishman, so it was meant to be played by a white skinned actor in the first place, but director Frank Darabont wanted to cast only Morgan Freeman as Red.
Frank Darabont made sure that his favorite character actor James Whitmore must get a role in this film, so he asked him to do the role for Brooks. The role for the character Tommy Williams played by Gil Bellows was first going to Brad Pitt. Though this character had a small part, it was an important role in the film.
Given the great actor Tom hanks is, we would have loved to see Hanks do the Andy part, or Clint Eastwood being Red, but then, could Shawshank achieve the cult status, it has achieved now? I doubt.
Given the great actor Tom hanks is, we would have loved to see Hanks do the Andy part, or Clint Eastwood being Red, but then, could Shawshank achieve the cult status, it has achieved now? I doubt.
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#List: Top 5 Mahatma Gandhi portrayal in movies
It is a National Holiday here in India, because of Mahatma Gandhi's 144th Birthday. So, I thought of writing something about the man himself. I am going to write about five of many portrayals of Mahatma Gandhi I have watched on the big screen and TV and will rank them performance wise. The idea of writing about a list of movies on the Mahatma seemed so common, perhaps everyone is doing it. So, I thought lets talk about the actors who perfect his role.
5. Portrayed by Rajit Kapoor in The making of the Mahatma [1996]: The only reason, he is at the 5th spot and not on the 4th or the 3rd is because this film showcased the life of Gandhi during his stay at South Africa only. Though, it was the only reason he was cast as Gandhi as Shyam Benegal wanted to make a movie on the younger Gandhi. He did all the justice with the role, just the film was a little slow.
4. Portrayed by Annu Kapoor in Sardar [1993]: Before Annu Kapoor became a popular anchor on Antakshari, he delivered some really fine performances in Ek Ruka Hua Faisla [Indian version of the classic 12 Angry Men], Mr. India [practically India's first superhero film] and Sardar. Sardar was made by Ketan Mehta on the life of Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, played by Paresh Rawal during the time of Indian freedom and partition. Annu Kapoor took care of almost every little detail, and was quite convincing as Mahatma Gandhi. Though he could have worked more on his speech, which was a little inappropriate.
3. Portrayed by Darshan Zariwala in Gandhi, My Father [2007]: This is a different kind film on Gandhi's life. It focuses on his personal life rather than his political life, his relationship with his son and how the nation's father couldn't be a good father to his own son. For his portrayal as Gandhi, Darshan Zariwala received mixed reaction. He deserves the 3rd spot according to me.
2. Portrayed by Naseeruddin Shah in Hey Ram [2000]: Many of you won't agree with Naseeruddin Shah on the 2nd spot for the best Mahatma Gandhi's portrayals. It is not because he is one of my most favorite actors, but because he did it as intelligently as any other role he executes, not taking the responsibility of being Gandhi too seriously and perfecting it with ease. No other actors who played Gandhi ever tried perfecting or working on Bapu's Gujarati accent but he did, that is Naseeruddin Shah for you.
1. Portrayed by Ben Kingsley in Gandhi [1982]: Do I even need to tell who tops the list of best Gandhi portrayals, Ben Kingsley lived Gandhi. For those who never cared to find out what Mahatma Gandhi looked like, what was his mannerism, how he used to get angry and the way he ate, slept or cried; go watch Gandhi, Gandhi did everything like Ben Kingsley did in this Richard Attenborough Biopic.
#Honorable Mention: Portrayed by Dilip Prabhvalkar in Lage Raho Munna Bhai [2006]: it is a contemporary setup and his character has no issues of his own. He is here to make a difference through the protagonist. It is a great film, but perhaps the other 5 Mahatmas scored a bit higher.
#Honorable Mention: Portrayed by Dilip Prabhvalkar in Lage Raho Munna Bhai [2006]: it is a contemporary setup and his character has no issues of his own. He is here to make a difference through the protagonist. It is a great film, but perhaps the other 5 Mahatmas scored a bit higher.
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The Resident Evil Franchise [2002-2012]: This was fun but stop it now
Cast: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Ali Larter, Oded Fehr.
Directed by: Paul W.S. Anderson [Part 1, 4 and 5], Alexander Witt [Part 2] and Russell Mulcahy [Part 3].
Resident Evil [2002]: ★★★
Overall Movie Geek’s Rating: ★★
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Okay, so I was having a little chat with my friend some days back about movies, movie reviews and about The Movie Geek’s Blog. He asked me if I am only going to maintain a blog that praises every film, or I am going to be harsh as well to those who deserves.
This remark was like an eye opener for me, and I rushed to check my previous reviews and I found out that most of the reviews I write are for the films I liked.
Following the advice he gave, I decide to write about a film franchise, which went from Alright to Bad to Garbage after every new part that came. I am talking about the Resident Evil Pentalogy [I don’t even know if that word exist or not].
So I watched Resident Evil: Retribution [the 5th part] a few weeks back only because I have this syndrome to finish off movie franchises I started, and I had to watch this film and I will continue watching it even if they come with a 6th part, which they will.
When the original film; the part 1, Resident evil came in, I kind of enjoyed it [okay I watched it in 2005, forgive me for saying that], it was one of the first few zombie films I watched. I can’t fake to be sophisticated enough saying I did not like it at all and totally trash this film; instead I admit I liked the first film of the franchise. The whole concept of the Umbrella Corporation was fascinating; they remained untouched even after the greatest of apocalypse.
Zombie films are a very dangerous investment for the producers if they are looking for some critical reception; most zombie films fail because of several reasons. The authorities do not consider such films for any form of accolades or awards, critics do not prefer rating them anywhere above a 6 on a scale of 10. These films have to be extremely innovative to climb the ladder of success and critics & user ratings.
Some of the coolest zombie films I saw in the recent times are Shaun of the Dead, Zombie land and Go Goa Gone. They were successful because they used the element of humor in the background to present the supposed Horror.
Resident Evil on a completely different note tried a serious approach to present an apocalyptic tale that failed miserably as it became more and more unrealistic with every new addition to the franchise.
A zombie film is kind of a fantasy film itself, so in a good zombie film, there should be no other fantasy element. This keeps the horror intact, while in this franchise, you will come across a dog with 4 faces, zombies with 4 tongues, some characters that never die, characters that multiply, laser beams and many more things that you will ultimately regret being a witness to a crap like this. I will make some honest remark that you can like the 1st part as it had a story to go after and save the curiosity of the viewer till the end, you can continue to see what happened later to Alice and the others she befriended in the 2nd part.
In the 3rd part, you can see some really nice cinematography and lots of brightness and sun in this otherwise dark patched film also do not miss the little section that showcased Las Vegas covered in deserts after the T-Virus infected everyone.
Do not go any further; if you are into good movies only, the 4th and the 5th part are real shame to this otherwise entertaining franchise.
If you are only into great cinema, do not bother yourself to watch any part of the Resident Evil franchise.
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Chennai Express [2013]: Shahrukh Khan's payoff for his previous accomplishments
Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Deepika Padukone
So, I watched Chennai Express yesterday at PVR Priya. As soon as I entered the theater, the movie has already started and I heard these words "Mera naam Rahul hai". I thought SRK is back to doing what he does the best; Romance; but no, he was not only up to that. Well, he tried Action and comedy too.
The Plot: Rahul's grandfather has died and he is going to Rameshwaram to dispose off his grandfather's ashes as it was his last wish. This led him to board the "Chennai Express" and the movie is all about that.
A refreshing start: The film started off with introductions of Rahul's family and it was good seeing Shahrukh as a regular guy with a regular life and it was very comforting to hear that he is finally playing a 40 years old character.
Going smooth: The movie was gripping till the time when Rahul boarded the train and left the train and then boarded it again, it was lovely seeing the famous "let me grab you up on the train" SRK scene all over again [that too 5 times in a row]; actually this is Deepika's 2nd time with this kind of scene, she did this in YJHD as well, I believe.
A Sudden downfall: After the Chennai Express crosses a few stations, the movie started to lose its charm, with unnecessary attempts to make people laugh. Something was just not right with the film, which made me feel bored for a good 50 minutes before and after the interval.
Good moments: There is hardly any good moment but the references to SRK's previous movies were funny, that's all.
The End: The last few minutes of the film were tolerable with the song I was awaiting the whole time "Tera rasta main chhodun na" sung by Amitabh Bhattacharya and the part when they reach Rameshwaram. They did overcome a lot from the time when I was not enjoying it at all.
Action: It ended with a fight scene which was kind of weird, I never like SRK fighting people double his size, watching Salman Khan doing the same is such a pleasure. Overall, the film may be a one-time watch or may not be, I went to watch it for the sake of my family's entertainment but I don't they were entertained at all.
A final note: Although, I didn't really like Chennai Express, I completely understand its box-office collection. When someone has worked for 20 years in an industry and delivered great performances like the ones in Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, Baazigar, Darr, DDLJ, Pardes, Devdas, Swades, Chak De India, Don, Rab ne Bana Di Jodi and My Name is Khan, you can't expect people to not go and watch his one bad film. So, what if Chennai express is a one time watch, the population of India is still 1.241 billion.
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Aashiqui 2 [2013]: Aditya and Shraddha's breakthrough film
Cast: Aditya Roy Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor
Directed by: Mohit Suri
Movie Geek's Rating: ★★★
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To begin with, Aashiqui 2 was surprisingly good. A successful film leaves a tough path for the sequel to follow and Aashiqui did the same for Aashiqui 2. With an immature star cast and unimpressive trailer, I wasn't expecting much from this film.
Directed by: Mohit Suri
Movie Geek's Rating: ★★★
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To begin with, Aashiqui 2 was surprisingly good. A successful film leaves a tough path for the sequel to follow and Aashiqui did the same for Aashiqui 2. With an immature star cast and unimpressive trailer, I wasn't expecting much from this film.
But Aashiqui 2 has proved to be more than what many of us may have anticipated. It will keep you glued to your seats till the end. It has a good plot and the story moves at a nice pace so that you will be totally involved with the film and its characters.
The characterization is awesome in Aashiqui 2, there is no extra unwanted characters in this film. The film revolves around the lives of 3 to 4 people only. Aashiqui 2 is the surprise hit of 2013, like Vicky Donor was in 2012.
The acting is decent by both of the lead characters, Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor. Shraddha was lovable all through the film, she has got real potentials of being a great actor, but it is Aditya Roy Kapur who steals the show. Although, the lead actors are a couple of films old in the industry, they managed to look refreshing and the romance depicted between them was adorable.
The music is the USP of this film but I assure you, there is more to this film than just great music.
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#Quotes: Happy Mother's Day and Forrest Gump
Happy Mother's Day to each and every Movie Geek.
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#Quotes: The Wolf explains 'Character'
So, when Jules [Samuel Jackson] and Vincent [John Travolta] tells The Wolf [Harvey Keitel] that he loved to watch him work on the problem they created by killing Marvin in the car. The Wolf was amused at the compliment and tells his girlfriend, about respect and character.
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#Quotes: Michael's Revenge
After Don Vito's Death, Michael hunts down the five families and his brother in law for betraying Sonny, Michael's elder's brother. So, When Michael asks his brother-in-law Carlo Rizzi, who he approached first for setting up Sonny's death, Carlo says that he is innocent.
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Kai Po Che [2013]: A Good Reconstruction of a Mediocre Book #QuickReview
Cast: Sushant Singh Rajput, Amit Sadh, Raj Kumar Yadav, Amrita Puri
Kai Po Che is a screen adaptation of the fiction novel "The 3 Mistakes of my Life" written by Chetan Bhagat. It is directed by Abhishek Kapoor, the man who made Rock On . Rock On was a fabulous film, and Kai Po Che is definitely a good film.
Although I found the book quite ordinary, I loved the movie on the same story. Chetan Bhagat never made me realize the substance this book possessed. But the film maker surely succeeded in doing that in this movie adaptation.
Kai Po Che has many great scenes that keeps you craving for more, the screenplay moves at a mild speed but you never get bored. Almost everyone in the lead has acted well and the background score is another high point of the film. The music by Amit Trivedi is brilliant and carries the tone of the film.
Almost all the scenes are from the book but the reconstruction makes it look better. The real life incidents mentioned in the film are well mixed up with the fictitious characters. Some of the biggest issues/entities in India; cricket, politics and religion are depicted beautifully and carefully in Kai Po Che.
The cast is inexperienced but talented, Abhishek Kapoor managed to extract something really extraordinary from the three of them. Sushant Singh Rajput steals the show, Raj Kumar Rao deliberately underplayed his part to perfection.
If you liked Dil Chahta Hai, Rang De Basanti, 3 Idiots, Zindagi na Milegi Dobara or any other coming of age story driven by a tale of friendship, then Kai Po Che is going to be another one on that list.
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I am not the kind of viewer who loves or hates a particular genre, if the film is good, I can watch it, no matter if its action, animation, crime, drama or a western.
Movie Geek's Blog is the place where you can read reviews of your favorite films and films which are good but not much talked about, At movie geek's blog you will be exposed to many interesting movie Trivia.
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