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Blame (2021)
Pretty decent for home video
I actually liked it. It obviously not a 10/10 liike some people have posted, nor is it as bad as other have rated.
This is a very low budget movie, perhaps made with someone's retirement savings or some such thing.
For that scale, the script and execution are not bad. The script is about 5 young friends, some of which are killed in myserious circumstances and the surivors suspect each other.
The characters are shown to be unreliable narrators. For a bunch of tight close friends, they have plenty to hide. The police officer (who is also the script writer?) has a job to siift through these narratives and hopefully catch the culprit.
Initially I thought this would be a slasher movie, where pretty young kids are just brutally butchered. But the second half was a pleasant suprise. The director did a decent job of holdiing this well.
Stranger Things (2016)
Stranger things 2 is a great cinematic experience!!!
Season 2 was a huge improvement over the first, which was a surprising success last year. All characters of Hawkins were woven beautifully with the spurious events from the Hawkins lab. The creators of the show could have easily made an incremental progress and the second season would have still been successfully. However, credit should be give to the Duffer brothers & Netflix for really escalating matters. Season 1 had a Goonies or E.T. vibe to it. meaning, in spite of the lurking monster there was a cheerful excitement. Season 2 on the other hand has a much scarier and dark tone to it, like Aliens or Predator. You feel the tension even from the private lives of returning characters. The story arc of the main characters was progressed successfully this season. Among the kids, Will Byers who was rescued from the Upside down is experiencing 'visions' of possibly the mother monster. His family, friends and Sheriff Hopper are trying had to move on. In other side, Nancy is still reeling under guilt about her friend Barb's fate. This has strained her relationship with Steve. And last, but not the least it is Eleven who is hurting the most. She has not yet recovered from previous events, moreover she gets even troubled with her identity & place in the world. More details on this turn towards the Spoilers' domain. The monster thread is beautifully handled. The action scenes involving them have been shot on a cinematic scale: all scenes were framed nice, even the sound, score & CGI is top notch. The threat this time is more amorphous than last time so that you feel its tension even when its not present. The highlight of this season are again Eleven and her friends. They have carried this season on their shoulders. It is no secret that the show makes direct references to 80s movies. Still, the performance of each actor has added value to every scene. All in all, Stranger things 2 has been a great cinematic experience. I can only imagine the fun in watching it on a larger 4K screen, which is now the standard format for all Netflix produstions.
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
An excellent ape movie. Not much love for humans
This is a movie by and of Ceasar. The king Ape is already tired from the events of the Dawn. All he wants now is ensure that his tribe and their civilization have a safe home. He personally has no ill will towards humans and only wants to be left alone. Enter the colonel, who sees this as a zero sum game, either the apes like or do we. He has no reasons to believe that the two species can ever coexist. The resulting conflict results in deep personal loss for Ceaser. This is a story, of how Ceaser deals with grief, guilt, fear and weakness. Some how he has to overcome this for the sake of his species.
Full credits to Matt Reeves who has not only brought the best out of Andy Serkis' Ceaser , but also from the other Apes cast. You can easily feel the fear of the entire tribe as they go through the events.
Woody Harrelson's colonel is also great, though his presence is lower than I thought. Human's only have a supporting part in the movie. But this is to be expected if you had followed Reeves' comments.
Tamasha (2015)
Do not reinvent the wheel.
Bollywood directors should stop either stop reinventing the wheel or do it sensibly. The director wants to portray a dream like atmosphere. A damsel in distress meets a mysterious young man in magic-land Corsica. Both boy and girl meet again in Delhi, this time immersed in their daily lives. So far so good. This topic has been handled in many movies before. Turns out all the guy is missing is that he is in a wrong profession. He would rather be a movie script writer. However, the director unnecessarily tries to make this into some sort of a mystery, a soul searching quest. Significant scenes of this phase seem to have been inspired from other movies, however they seem out of place here. For example, at some stage Ranbir develops schizophrenia when Deepika ditches him for not being the same happy go lucky tourist she met in Corsica. He then decides to scare his boss, like the narrator in Fight club scares his boss. In another scene, his Buddha like quest to find the 'answer' leads to his childhood story teller, an answer the audience already knows. This may have been pointed out by other reviewers, but the character of Ranbir is a well earning young man, from a well to do family. If he really wanted to pursue his dreams, it would have been very easy. I mean if your humdrum job alows you to go on a 15 day vacation in Corsica and rent a convertible, Im sure you can enlist yourself in a film making course. If the protagonist was a from a poor or lower middle class background, his struggles would have been more understandable. Farhan Akhtar's Rock On dealt with the same issue of a rich broker trapped in hum drum life, in a simple but graceful manner. My advice to Imtiaz Ali: get basics right before emulating Hollywood greats.