Movies seen and not seen

[dangermousie]

Unfortunately, my and katranna trip to see Lucky on Sunday and thus revel in Bollywood melodrama set in the Russian steppes (or something. Doesn't it sound like a blurb) got cut short by the simple fact that the inconsiderate production company did not send over a print with subtitles. We would have no problem with the Russian, but her Hindi being nonexistant and mine limited to passionate confessions of love or discussions of family honor, the movie was not to be. It looks like I'll have to wait till DVD to see Salman Khan romancing schoolgirls in the snow.

On a brighter note, I and Julia saw and thoroughly enjoyed Sahara. It's implausible (an ironclad in the middle of the desert), improbable(taking out an army of baddies with just three people), and probably offended the people of Mali (who have a peaceful stable government instead of being ruled by a megalomaniac with a gun fetish) but it was thoroughly glorious, silly popcorn fun. It has also the distinction of being the only movie where I found Mathew M. remotely attractive. Look at the definition on that boy! I guess between playing drums naked and stoned, he found some time for the gym.

The plot switches between finding the source of a plague, finding a lost ship, and thwarting an evil Frenchman but the fun is pretty constant. The love story is extremely tacked on. If you can call it a love story. It's pretty clearly "he/she is cute and available so why not have a meaningless fun fling" Which is OK. Ordinarily I'd view the proceedings as too Bondian for my liking, but Pitt and Al are just having too much fun and are genuinly both "gee-whiz" and stoned (hey, it's Matthew M after all) to be annoying, instead of likeable. Oh, and I got to see KoH trailer on a TV out front. Wanna see it now!


I love predictability in my movies. As soon as Penelope Cruz's doctor (who needs a meal or ten) was the one to go down the well, I knew the rest would get killed.

Comments

[wasabi-girl1.livejournal.com]

Aww, no subtitles sucks! :(

[plazmah.livejournal.com]

I thought Mathew M. was cute in Contact :)

[ayn-rand-fan-13.livejournal.com]

I actually thought Matthew M. was cute in How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days.
Regarding subtitles: I actually watched Kill Bill the first time without subtitles, and lost a lot of dialogue that way.
You speak Russian?
I was watching the movie of Phantom of the Opera, and the costumes were just spectacular. Thoughts?

[jonaki.livejournal.com]

...to see Salman Khan romancing schoolgirls in the snow
That sounds so wrong! Hopefully I"ll be seeing the movie next Sunday.

I don't care for Matthew M. and I don't like Penelope Cruz at all. I'm glad she gets killed off. :)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

That sounds so wrong!

LOL!

Actually, Penelope C is the only one of the docs that doesn't. Because she is hidden in a well. And also because she is the only cute girl one, so the rest are wearing red shirts.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yup. So they lost our 20 bucks. Serves them right!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I was born in Russia, so I am bilingual :)

PotO: I adore that movie. I don't care if it got critically trashed. Saw it 4 times in the theater and am planning to get DVD when it comes out.

Haven't seen HtLaGiTD, because I don't really like Kate Hudson or most romcoms.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen it as am Jodie Foster allergic :)

[plazmah.livejournal.com]

Have you read the book? Because if you haven't, then it's quite enjoyable (even with your Foster allergy). If you have read the book, it'll be pretty unsatisfying.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Nope. Haven't read it. It's by Sagan, right? He used to teach at my Uni.

[plazmah.livejournal.com]

Yep. It's one of my favourites actually. So... much... math!

[ayn-rand-fan-13.livejournal.com]

Hey, my friend saw it four times in theatres as well. It stopped playing after a really short time, so I never got to see it in the theater.
I've always wanted to be bilingual, but unfortunately I took Latin, which is fairly useless for conversing.
Eh, Kate Hudson bugs me. The movie is always on TV, though.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I took Latin but I don't remember much of it.

But if you could meet Julius Ceasar, it would come in handy...

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Scary girl!

[dawntreader717.livejournal.com]

ARGH!! Well ignore my PM to you then. I wanted a spoiler!!!

Well the people putting on Lucky here...their website says it has English subtitles so I'm hoping! I'm wondering if they have the print already and have double-checked that.....

More incentive for me to keep studying Hindi! One day I won't care if there isn't subtitles!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I found out it has happy ending (and pmed you) so don't worry! I might see it even without subtitles if it's still playing the week after next, as it's been since Veer-Zaara since I've seen a BW film in the theater and am getting withdrawals.

[dawntreader717.livejournal.com]

I saw Black last in the theater. Only about a month, but that's too long for me!

I'm going to check my PM. Thanks! :-)