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Les sales blagues de l'Echo (1995)
I can relate to this French TV Series because I consider it Autobiographical
When was the last time YOU EVER LAUGHED at anything French?!!! Messr. Jerry Lewis, anyone?!!! By accident, I found these cartoons on You Tube and the first time I saw them, I laughed so hard, I had bourbon coming out of my nose---which is excruciatingly painful.
I don't speak a word of French but I could relate to the near autobiographical nature of the pieces. For example, there is a short of My girlfriend talking to her mother about me. Then, there is a short of me taking my girlfriend to the Zoo. There is a short of me going to church (what could be more wholesome than that?) and a short of me talking to god as he's smoking his cigar, there are two shorts of me and my mother and a short of me at the table playing with a little dog and a scene of me being dealing with the US Army (Mort et Tchee Tchee).
I believe EVERY HIGH SCHOOL freshman class should be made to watch these very educational animated classics---if only to make them desire to learn French to know what was said. How come we get 'Family Man' and the French Get Les Sales...life is not fare (note pun)!!!
Don 2 (2011)
Save Feris Bueller; SAVE YOUR RUPEES & do not see!!!
When I am in the mood for Merg Boti Tanduri over rice with Garlic Naan and a Mango Lassi shake, I am not going to be happy if I am served Chicken McNuggets, a Coke and a fry. It doesn't matter that they both have chicken in them---its not want I expected and not what I wanted!!! What does the term BOLLYWOOD mean, Mr. Akhtar? A Pulsating dance movie of catchy WORLD BEAT (Indo-Pop) musique, performed by impossibly hot Indian Dancers. Don2 is none of this!!!
Mr. Akhtar, let me help you with DON3. Question: What was DON 1 about and why was it a hit at the San Francisco South West Asian Film Festible? ANSWER: It was the IMPOSSIBLE story about an IMPOSSIBLE SINGING & Dancing GANGSTER who would break into song and dance at totally inappropriate moments (murder scenes, entrapment scenes, hide-out scenes).
The movie was replete with plot twists, romance, in jokes and campy 'English-Urdo' dialogue. As icing on the cake, it was superbly choreographed with beautiful dancers and long legged singers undulating to catchy World Beat (Indo-Pop) songs pulsating and matching the atmosphere of each scene.
Now compare DON1 with DON2. Gone are the singing and dancing scenes!!! There are but three songs in the movie (So don't walk out early or you'll miss one). Worse, the songs are such uninspired MUSAK that they appear to have been penned as an after-though!!! You know what we were expecting, Mr. Akhtar? DON gets arrested and is taken to the interrogation room. The FEM-COM handcuffs him to a chair and (cue the music) performs a sultry, quasi erotic dance on DON. Don is so inspired/horney that he confess to something. THAT IS A DON1 moment. Remember the scene you did that with the revenge seeking Sister in the first movie (the one in the Gold Tankdress?). I was foaming at the mouth watching that part---my date for the movie ebbowed me three times to behave and stop embarrassing her!!! THAT'S DON1, not this dreck!!!
Notice how I am saving my contempt for this movie for the last. What were you thinking,Farhan Aktar?
a.) Hey, I'll use TWO separate writing teams on this movie because, well two sets of heads are better than one?!!! b.) Hey, I'll dump the singing and dancing aspects of this singing/dancing gangster and instead make DON go on a 'MISSION IMPOSSIBLE' type mission for the government? As IF!!!
Don is a Gangster, not a Special Ops Expert. Don is a Gangster, not an explosives expert. Where would he recruit such a highly seasoned/highly trained team? The slums of Calcutta? Place an advert in the Mumbia times? Place a collect call to the Pakistani Ambassador (OOOps, bad Idea---he'd only be placed on hold because, well, you know how us Americans like to gab!!!). FYI, Mission Impossible 3 had a better Bollywood scene in it that DON2 has---and that is a shame because Americans don't know how to make Fred Astair/Ginger Rodgers dance movies anymore!!!
I feel cheated!!! I've waited two years for this 'steak dinner entrée' and all I get is cow dung. Farhan, get the old writers back, get your dad a scene in the movie, hire the same song writers/Choreographers and redo this mess of a movie when you do DON3.
Margin Call (2011)
A Stupid Movie Leaves You Laughing; A GREAT Movie DISTURBES
My brother rented Margin Call (2011) and brought it over for my dad to watch. I happened to be over helping my dad file for his VA benefit and agreed to watch the movie. My brother described the movie as a 'must see' small film that the critics loved but 'died at the box'. I rolled my eyes. Then he winked at me "If you LIKED Michael Douglas in WALLSTREET, You're going to LOVE Kevin Spacy!!!
You HAVE to know my elder brother. First, he's a Book-Read, insufferable Rennaissance Man who has to INTELLECTUALLY 'hump my leg' every time he sees me. I MEAN EVERY TIME HE SEES ME!!! Second, his film reviews are almost always right ( I adored SOCIAL NETWORK!!!) and third, he played up the fact that I start my Managerial Accounting class JAN2012 and this has accounting in it.
I will not ruin the movie for you if you haven't seen it. Have you ever been in a situation where you WANTED TO THROW UP but nothing came out? Where you are so emotionally overwrought that you lose your manhood and dignity? This is THAT KIND OF MOVIE. This is an 'AW SH*T' movie. The kind where BAD goes to Worse then Worse goes to WORSER, and then Worse goes down the toilet until there is no trace of Worse at all.
I've lived these kind of 'Aw Sh*t' moments. Like when our director held an emergency staff meeting because one of our caregivers MURDERED our clients (State Hospital) or when five of my troops were raping prisoners. Its all 'All Sh*t'!!!
RENT THIS MOVIE. The performance is so riveting that its as if you are a fly on the wall. Just thank God it is a MOVIE and not happening to you for real!!!