tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26829926.post3374670940430907723..comments2023-08-10T13:05:31.411+05:30Comments on The Woodchuck Chucks: Thus spake the movie criticUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26829926.post-40521881831168805802011-04-21T22:46:50.686+05:302011-04-21T22:46:50.686+05:30completely disagree.
it's too easy to do som...completely disagree. <br /><br />it's too easy to do some cheesy scene and claim "oh but this is how romance works" and whats worse is people buying into it<br /><br />it's much harder to get a truly romantic scene - i'm thinking perhaps the scene in sholay where AB plays mouth organ (ha ha) while the woman in white saree looks on. <br /><br />maybe what you - i mean a general "you" - consider romantic is so informed by what you see around you that independent choice is virtually assumed out? <br /><br />what i want to say is this: the scene struck me as very unreal. And I'm not some lonely individual who rejects love at its first sight or anything; I've been with the same girl now for 5 years and running<br /><br />true romance, I re-iterate, is not something easy to contrive. and the scene felt very contrived. "oh lets put these good looking people in a ha-ha scripted scene". <br /><br />F* that. Give me band baaja baraat's kissing scene. That's real okay?<br /><br />plus I'm a piscean. We are supposed to be romantic and tragic and all that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26829926.post-87175683721484661502011-04-21T21:13:51.268+05:302011-04-21T21:13:51.268+05:30Oh my god! Gerard Butler is the same guy as Denny...Oh my god! Gerard Butler is the same guy as Denny the Dead from Grays! Isn't he? Might as well be! You and I, we can go to the picture shows together! xElliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09130776138284979286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26829926.post-88820362198551075032011-04-21T12:59:39.022+05:302011-04-21T12:59:39.022+05:30Ro: The hrefs (/ech-refs/?) - I always have to goo...<b>Ro</b>: The hrefs (/ech-refs/?) - I always have to google the code. So cool that you can just remember them (if that be true). I did click, by the way! I <i>am</i> your doubled readership and you're welcome:P<br /><br /><b>Anon</b>: Here's the thing about skeptisism: even if the coffee-spilling-public-transport thing WEREN'T a movie, like all movies, not filmed to reflect 'real life', you'd keep all the romance away with just that attitude. Maybe you should read The Secret. It's a book written to get your goat. I guarantee it:)<br /><br /><b>Jan</b>: Noo, no confusion! Gerard Butler = dead Irish fool in soppy movie of letters fame. <br /><br />Denny/ J.Dean Morgan = dead beefcake in Grey's + lover of Uma Thurman in <i>The Accidental Husband</i>.<br /><br />Both have been paired opposite Katherine Heigl. Dead Denny in we know what and beefy Gerard in that other horribly predictable, over the top <i>The Ugly Truth</i>.<br /><br />But you have to watch <i>The Accidental Husband </i> -- Star movies -- JUST to see the most appropriate use of the first 35 seconds of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpRWv74F028" rel="nofollow">you know which song</a> in the first half of the movie. (Remember what a big deal it was that Baz sunscreen Luhrman used <i>chamma chamma</i> in <i>Moulin Rouge</i>?).Nimpipihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15971502879277219728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26829926.post-66388758094983305852011-04-21T09:46:58.414+05:302011-04-21T09:46:58.414+05:30I have happily skipped all the movie mentioned in ...I have happily skipped all the movie mentioned in the post above but feel compelled to point out .. Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Gerard Butler being confused methinks.. Gerard is the not quite dead one in the soppy movie about letters...Janakihttp://bluespriite.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26829926.post-88360449313564823982011-04-21T07:02:57.558+05:302011-04-21T07:02:57.558+05:30ya, right.
if a guy starts staring at your clothe...ya, right.<br /><br />if a guy starts staring at your clothes and spilling coffee on your skirt in a situation involving public transport, yes, very romantic.<br /><br />i can totally see how that would work in real life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26829926.post-72451426237851427072011-04-20T22:26:24.338+05:302011-04-20T22:26:24.338+05:30We programmers, even if unemployed, never forget o...We programmers, <a href="http://drfronkensteen.blogspot.com/2011/03/divans-of-foam-or-unemployed-youths.html" rel="nofollow">even if unemployed</a>, never forget our hrefs. Plus, all it takes is the occasional sucker to click on the links, and we've just doubled our readership for the day. :pAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26829926.post-31174284793478156542011-04-20T18:22:49.513+05:302011-04-20T18:22:49.513+05:30Per: Tell me what you think of that Blunt hottie.
...<b>Per</b>: Tell me what you think of that Blunt hottie.<br /><br />This boy once told me I look like Katherine Heigl. Tee hee. Also Katherin Ross (google butch cassidy and the sundance..). Do you realise how lucky you are to know my face?:P heh, sorry. slap me now.<br /><br /><b>Rohan</b>: Shit, yes, sorry, Dark CITY. I need to not post nonsense! Not after wine that hits the spot and movie names merge. Hic!<br /><br />P.S: How cool -- you put links in your comment! I'm clapping here! :)<br /><br /><b>Ellie</b>: Ugh, why do they do this, make handsome men so difficult to be attracted to?! Why why?! Gerard Butler? Tell me you think he's a waste. Such a pity. What a body. Sigh. :)) xx back atcha!Nimpipihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15971502879277219728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26829926.post-35693385845904541252011-04-20T13:42:03.890+05:302011-04-20T13:42:03.890+05:30Well, I know I can trust your opinion: we're ...Well, I know I can trust your opinion: we're on the same page about that dead guy from Grey's (He is everywhere!) and PS I Love You was so unbearable I couldn't be bothered to finish watching it on TV. Will catch Matt and Emily. Thanks for the review. xElliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09130776138284979286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26829926.post-20085159802401042222011-04-20T11:12:35.374+05:302011-04-20T11:12:35.374+05:30I liked it very much... as a romantic comedy.
I d...I liked it very much... as a romantic comedy.<br /><br />I didn't mean Dark Knight! I don't like it, either. <a href="http://drfronkensteen.blogspot.com/2009/03/you-complete-me.html" rel="nofollow">Weepy, moany tosh</a>, that one. I meant <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118929/" rel="nofollow">Dark City</a>, a film that also has as its premise a society run by aliens who can "adjust" our thoughts. It, too, has romance (with Jennifer Connelly, no less), but in that movie it is the sci-fi elements that have the driving seat. And it is dark and despairing. So you see, if you watch that movie and you like it, <i>then</i> you can claim that you liked a movie despite its gloomy sci-fi-ness. :p<br /><br />P.S. - Couldn't watch A Serious Man because I didn't think it released in the halls here. I did watch their True Grit, though, and enjoyed watching The Dude as a one-eyed, foul mouthed, bad-ass from the Old West. Haven't seen TTTW, either - I somehow have a mental block against time travel, much like your aversion to darkness and disturbances. :(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26829926.post-9929210413012495022011-04-20T10:59:35.576+05:302011-04-20T10:59:35.576+05:30Hey awesome. I was in two minds about paying to se...Hey awesome. I was in two minds about paying to see The Adjustment Bureau. I shall go before the movies change this Friday!<br /><br />Jeffrey Dean Morgan is his name, is it? That whole Denny story arc really bugged me, and turned me off both him and Katherine Heigl in all their other roles. PS I Love You would have been a really horrible movie even if he weren't in it, though.<br /><br />I've seen only the first half of The Time Traveller's Wife movie, despite it being cast with two actors I absolutely adore. I loved the book and the sense I got from the half-movie was 'it could have been worse'.Perakathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15108830079471227958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26829926.post-61739611647356747132011-04-20T07:46:22.171+05:302011-04-20T07:46:22.171+05:30But you liked it, right?
Now let's take you o...But you <b>liked it</b>, right?<br /><br />Now let's take you one by one. The movie is an adaptation of a book by one Philip Tracy, sci fi writer, yes? Sure, it felt much lighter (and so much easier on the scale of comprehension!)than anything written by Asimov and Arthur C Clarke that has, against my wishes, been stuffed down my throat. So your Reading Between The Lines skills, I'd say is in tip top working condition!<br /><br />I love an intelligent rom com.<br />However, in your suggestion that I must compare it with Dark Knight -- of which, I have heard good things, by the way -- <i>why?why?! why would I?!</i> I don't <i>want</i> suitably dark and disturbing! I hate suitably dark and disturbing!<br /><br />It isn't that I'm a flibbertigibbet who can't sit through a serious movie (doing nothing to prove my point: did you see A Serious Man? Oh, so bad, so bleak!). It's just that as far as premises go, I like them suitably light and uplifting. I'm a sucker for feel good factor, <i>bhai</i>. What to do.<br /><br />And nowhere near how fun I thought T.A.B was, but will you hate me if I say I didn't <i>mind</i> The Time Traveller's Wife, in spite of it's suitably boo hoo-so sad theme? :PNimpipihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15971502879277219728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26829926.post-85587410480789359072011-04-20T01:17:30.184+05:302011-04-20T01:17:30.184+05:30Thus replies the movie fan critically...
With my ...Thus replies the movie fan critically...<br /><br />With my highly developed Reading Between The Lines skills, I sense that you're trying to imply that you don't like sci-fi thrillers in general, but you like this one <b>inspite of</b> it being a sci-fi thriller. Ah-ha, except that The Adjustment Bureau isn't a sci-fi thriller; it's a romantic comedy with sci-fi thrillerisms thrown in as garnishing, if that is the cooking reference I'm searching for.<br /><br />And The Matrix is a disgrace to sci-fi thrillers. If you really want to compare The Adjustment Bureau with a sci-fi thriller, you must do so with Dark City, which has a similar premise and is suitably dark and disturbing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com