Some more movies

Updating blog for all the movies I see would mean putting too much time which otherwise I can use for watching more movies :) so for quite some time I have been watching lots of movies but haven't been able to update the blog. Here I put just a list of movies which I watched but don't have time to write separate posts... so here goes the list :

Infinity : A movie on Richard Feynman. It seems the movie script was adapted quite as it is from the Book by Feynman, so while I had loved reading the book, the movie fell short of being called good. Especially the acting other than of Matthew Broderick, was quite horrible.

Pi : An ambitious movie that used some of the movie making techniques which aren't widely used but studied in schools. I heard this was the first movie of Darren Aronofsky. The movie is intense and I liked it.

Artificial Intelligence : The last one from Kubrick and was given shape by Spielberg. The central question around which the movie revolves is probably the only thing which I liked, but then the whole movie is only about that.

The Seven Samurai : A movie which for a long time stood as a benchmark of movie making. Another quite intense movie, black and white, lots of violence, great acting and above all great direction from the great Kurosawa.

Memoirs of a Geisha : Didn't like the story but had a spellbinding beauty of cinematography. Ziyi Zhang as Sayuri couldn't be better. The soundtrack left me intoxicated. Though there are too many controversies around this movie, but who cares. I liked watching it. The movie invigorated my cherished desire to travel to and know Japan, the land of so much distinct culture and beautiful people.

Proof : One of those movies which I saw and wished I hadn't wasted my time doing so. Very flawed piece of work. This movie was like you go to watch a movie about Alan Turing which ends up not mentioning Turing Machine and The Enigma or like attending a lecture on understanding poetry without reciting a single poem. The story is a fiction about a mathematician's daughter who is herself a mathematician and in the whole story the director doesn't step a single foot on the subject of mathematics. It has such good actors but the Director made sure the movie turns out disgusting.

Taare Zameen Par : Its so nice to see atleast one movie in an eternity coming out of mainstream Bollywood which appeals to our good sense :) Lovely movie.

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