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Movie Ratings and Reviews, Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Monday, November 28th, 2011
Movie: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Year: 2011
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action/Thriller
Director: Rupert Wyatt
Stars: James Franco, Andy Serkis and Freida Pinto
Snapshot of Story:
The Planet of the Apes franchise movies have been with us close to 50 years owing much to it’s unique story and the play of Apes being the closest animal to humans. The version of this new movie goes back to the early times when a few apes come to have the same level of intelligence as humans and lead to the ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’.
Movie Review of Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Storyline:
There have been no references made about the accuracy of the movie in terms of the previous original movie and the version of the story in the original book. Since movies are made to entertain the audience, the issues of accuracy in content does not become significant as say a documentary. However, what is important are the true depictions of events that make up the whole story and stands well on it’s own merits. In this movie of ‘The Planet of the Apes’, the director has done well to capture the meaning and essence of the story in the two hours permissible but the story itself lends to some lack of credibility by the audience.
One of the primary conflicting points in the telling of the story is how ‘Ceaser’ the super intelligent ape is able to communicate effectively with the other normal apes in a humanistic way whereas humans to date have failed miserably to have any effective communication with apes. The director does well to picture Ceaser observing the behavior of his counterparts and have the apes take on his side and follow him to a revolt against the humans. This to me is the most difficult part of the story since Ceaser needed to deploy reasoning at the human level to convey to the other apes of his superior intellect, power and leadership. I particularly liked the ‘gesture’ of the ape in showing their hand face up with their heads bowed to the leader as a means of submission. The leader would swipe the hand with his fingers as a token of acceptance. One could argue that this gesture alone is a very high form of intelligent communication.
Another turning point in the movie is when Ceaser utters his first word ‘No’ that is made more credible by the director by deliberately leaving it late in the movie.
The special effects in this movie are superb and again we are mezmorized at how real the CGI graphics are becoming from year to year. It would only be a matter of time when entire movies are made from CGI graphics and we would not require real actors although this could be an overstatement.
There was another part of the story where I felt that the personality shift was too swift when the researcher Will Rodman played by James Franco who worked on the drug Alzheimer’s drug was quick to administer it to his father but was also adamant later in conducting more trials. However, in most cases the research establishments depicted in movies are often over dramatized to keep the momentum of the story going and hence lacks any substance but always includes more of the emotional content.
The Final Thought
The movie is a fair rendition of ‘what it could be like’ if there ever happened to be a super intelligent ape and the possibility of the ‘rise of the apes’. Although, in reality that would never be the case even if one were to create one intelligent ape since apes would never be able to work as an organized group. However, the movie scores well in portraying a fictitious movie that is both stimulating to watch and highly entertaining.
Score:
7.5/10
Tags: Andy Serkis, Freida Pinto, James Franco, Movie Ratings and Reviews, Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Unlock the Sci-Fi Code of Matrix
Friday, November 25th, 2011
Movie: The Matrix
Year: 1999
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action/Thriller
Directors: Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne and Carrie-Anne Moss
Snapshot of Story:
The Matrix movie is about a world set in the future where an unknown source creates a virtual world for humans housed in animated suspension. The digital entity known as the matrix uses the energy of the human brain waves to furnish their own survival by allowing humans to live in a dreamlike world but appears real to them.
Movie Ratings and Reviews of Matrix
Storyline:
There is a band of humans who live outside of the Matrix and searching for the coming saviour that can infiltrate the Matrix and thus release all humans from it’s clutches. Keanu Reeves plays ‘Neo’ as the hero in this movie and meets up with Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) who is the leader of the renegade team in search for freedom.
In one scene Morpheus offers Neo a red pill and a blue pill in each hand and asks Neo to choose. In his decision, Neo opens his eyes and sees the ‘real world’ outside of the matrix and Morpheus introduces him to his other team and their mission.
In the ship that they use to move around in the desolate wasteland of the world, Morpheus and his team have methods to enter the matrix and pull out by a phone call to one of the many phone booths within the matrix. Neo begins to see the ‘other side’ and the entire team begins to feel that Neo could be their potential savior. He must battle with the ‘Agents’ within the matrix to accomplish his mission and save mankind.
The Matrix movie is a very intelligent movie and came about at the right time where the digital world is widespread and makes this story all that more believable. Many people at first were confused by the concept of the matrix but in essence it is quite simple. The Matrix is a virtual world which required someone who could see through this and bend this world to his shape and liking as Neo does towards the end.
By using humans as energy traps and suspending them in an animated state, the matrix allowed the networking of the brains to create a virtual world. The humans effectively think they are living ‘real lives’ but in essence they are living in a vast computer program creating the virtual matrix. The whole matrix setup opens up interesting avenues for stories which the directors have done with superb clarity, creativity and execution.
Towards the end of the movie Neo finally understands the limitations of the matrix and is able to defeat the agents with some of the best action scenes in the movie.
Further Thoughts:
The Matrix movie caused quite a sensation when it first appeared and now has a cult following. With two Matrix stories to follow, ‘Reloaded’ and ‘Revolutions’ were equally original, creative and highly entertaining. The movie created some milestones in filming where the directors employed an array of multiple cameras surrounding the action scene to create some of the effects in the movie. In particular where we see Neo dodging an Agent’s bullet and the camera pans around Neo showing the bullet nearly missing him in slow motion.
The movie was a big hit when it came out and the initial complexity in deciphering it’s meaning did not hinder many people as this was a perfectly great movie in it’s own right with all the actions and thrills of a Sci-Fi action film.
Rating:
9/10
Tags: Carrie-Anne Moss, Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, review of the movie Matrix, Unlock the Sci-Fi Code of Matrix
Love Story of Aamir and Kajol - Fanaa
Friday, November 25th, 2011
Movie: Fanaa
Director: Kunal Kohli
Genre: Romance, Drama, Musical
Time:2006
Stars: Amir Khan, Kajol, Rishi Kapoor and Tabu
Snapshot of the story
Fanaa is big budget movie from Yash raj films with a superb star cast and before the release the hype created by Aamir Khan was a strategic marketing move which generated a huge interest in the opening. Fanaa is an emotional love story of frivolous and flirty guy Rehan (Amir Khan), who is frivolous, flirty, colorful, joyful young and a blind girl Zooni (Kajol) from Kashmir, who is patriotic, emotional and an extraordinary dancer. Fanaa is a romantic story which revolves around these characters and takes a tragic turn when Zooni comes to know of Rehan’s truth.
Movie Review of Fanaa
Storyline
Fanaa sets the tone of the movie with Zulfikar, father of Zooni who teaches her a lesson that “it’s easy to choose between right or wrong, but it comes to us when its time to choose the better one of the two rights or lesser of the two evils”. As she is going to stranger city first time is his life to perform on one republican day. There she meets local guide Rehan who impresses Zooni by his romantic poetry. Zooni starts liking him and expresses her feeling for him. Rehan on the other hand does not believe in love and all he is looking is to fulfill his sexual needs. Zooni does not get hurt by Rehan’s view and decides that she will change Rehan’s feeling one day.
This is the first time when Kajol and Aamir khan made the onscreen presence together. Romance was high when Zooni was making an effort to create feeling for her in Rehan’s heart. To see the beautiful world Zooni goes through a successful eye surgery followed by the sad news of Rehan’s death in a terrorist activity. Investigation reveals some shocking news of Rehan being the mastermind of the terrorist activity.
This unexpected turn gives a dramatic turn and makes the audience tied to their seat. What happens next must be explored by watching the movie.
Final Thoughts
Fanaa is a must watch movie, Kajol and Aamir both gave their solid performances. Director Kunal Kohli looked very mature with the amount of detailing he has put in the story and screen play. Lyricist Prasoon Joshi wrote romantics songs and duo Jatin-Lalit did a fine job in giving them a romantic musical touch.
Rating
Fanaa Scores 8.5 out of 10 with an entire team made of a masterpiece of talents. A strong storyline and screen play, good music and superb marketing skills by Aamir Khan made Fanaa the blockbuster of 2006.
Tags: Aamir khan, Kajol, Love Story of Aamir and Kajol - Fanaa, Movie review of Fanaaa
Movie Ratings and Reviews - Love Aaj Kal
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
Movie: Love Aaj Kal
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Genre: Romance, Musical, Comedy, Drama
Time: 2009
Stars: Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone and Rishi Kapoor
Snapshot of the story
The story revolves around a young couple, Jai Vardhan Singh (played by Saif Ali Khan) and Meera Pandit (played by Deepika Padukone) and their love affair.
The movie becomes an emotional drama after their mutual break up as they were not ready for a lifetime commitment with each other. The old man Veer Singh (played by Rishi Kapoor) meets Jai in coffee shop and explains to him that true love happens once in a lifetime and he should not leave her.
The story then takes a flashback turn and he narrate his own story to Jai, that motivates Jai and then the story takes a serious turn that was well directed despite a flat story line.
Movie review of Love Aal Kal
Storyline
The story starts with a young, dynamic, dashing and heartthrob Jai Vardhan Singh who is rich and has a young and gorgeous girl friend Deepika Padukone, studying archeology and in her final year of graduation. Both of them don’t love each other but stays together for fun and platonic relationship. Both are opposite to each other in personality and both had faced many heart break in the past. This time both of them decide that they should remain separate as they are not ready for any commitment. After their friendship breakup both start living their own lives but some where in their heart they miss each other tremendously which is depicted well in the movie. This is where Veer Singh, friend of Jai Vardhan come into the picture and try to convince him that this is what a true love is and he should do something about that.
On the other side Meera also realizes that she is fondly in love with Jai but separated by their promise she hesitates in trying to meet up with Jai. Jai’s coffee house friend plays an important catalyst to their love story goes and aflash back as Veer Singh tells him how he found his true love against all odds. This gives a lot of confidence to Jai in expressing his feeling to Meera.
Final Thoughts
This is the first onscreen presence of Sail Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone, both look very good with Deepika stealing the show from Saif Ali Khan. The movie is a good one time watch as Imtiaz Ali has made so so movies in the past with a weak storyline in this helping. The emotional scenes are the high points of the movie that keeps the audience glued to their seat. At times movie looses the track and becomes boring but music of the movie score well over the weak plot.
Rating
Love aaj Kal score 6 out of 10 purely because of on screen presence of the romantic couple Deepika Padukone and Sai Ali Khan with a sensational Pritam’s dance floor number.
Tags: Deepika Padukone, Movie Ratings and Reviews - Love Aaj Kal, Movie Review of Love Aaj Kal, Saif Ali Khan
Movie Rating and Review - Star Trek
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Movie: Star Trek
Year: 2009
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama/Action
Director: J.J. Abrams
Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Simon Pegg
Snapshot of Story:
The phenomenal success of the Star Trek movie series is followed by this helping where we are taken to the early days of James T Kirk as he embarks on his career in the Star Trek cadet school and almost immediately flung into his first adventure.
Movie review of Star Trek
Storyline:
Like many well known series there comes a time when producers of movies go back in time and tell a story of the ‘first happenings’ and how it all came to be. This maybe fueled in part by the huge success of the original series and the audiences desire to seek more. In any case, it is a challenge for producers to come up with something unique and in the process retell a story that is in the past with many references made from the series. For example, in many of the series Kirk or other members of the ship will recollect some events in the past while they were in the cadet which had an amusing tale or twist. Thankfully, many hardcore-fans will be pleased to learn that most of those historical facts are in tact in this story. A most notable past event that has been referenced many times was how Kirk single-handedly defeated the computer war program as part of his training, something which no other person was able to do. This scene was well portrayed and some of the dialogues exchanged between Kirk and Spock marked the hallway towards their future relationship and in particular their contrasting nature of thinking ie. rationality as opposed to logic.
In this movie we see a Spock played by Zachary Quinto which at first seems at odds end to the Spock that we have all come to know and love. Spock is portrayed by a ruthless sense of logic that makes him so cold and unapproachable and a character that many would like to disassociate. However, as we progress through the movie we see the ‘softening’ of Spock and a shift towards the character that we have come to appreciate today.
By far the two most important characters in this movie are Kirk and Spock with of course the arch nemesis to make the storyline. The young Kirk is well portrayed as a care-free immature man longing for something more and how his character becomes more refined and mature through each step of the movie. In typical Star Trek fashion, Kirk needs to make quick instantaneous decisions that can mean the difference between life and death. There is much action in this movie to keep all the action fans happy as well as those who seek to see the youthful star trek teams and how they came to be assembled in their current form.
Final Thoughts:
The director JJ Abrams has done a great job of putting together a movie of what could have had potential holes and leave the audience wanting. His portrayal of the characters were unique and accurate and the entire movie is highly watchable for Trekkie fans as well as an excellent movie in it’s own right.
Rating:
8.5/10
Tags: Chris Pine, J.J. Abrams, Movie Rating and Review - Star Trek, review of movie Star Trek, Simon Pegg, Zachary Quinto
