STORY – 0
DIRECTOR – 1
ACTOR – 1
MUSIC – 1
CULT – 0
PROS –
1) Small town teenage love story of a tough guy and a simple girl with a tragic ending.
2) A decent soundtrack but for a particular audience.
CONS –
1) Run-of-the-mill cliched teenage romance from Nicholas Sparks. There is one available for every generation.
QUOTE –
Landon: I’m sorry she never got her miracle.
Reverend Sullivan: She did. It was you.
STORY – 1
DIRECTOR – 1
MUSIC – 1
CULT – 1
PROS-
1) HTTPete – best episode
CONS-
N/A
QUOTE –
Sorry, I was too busy taking a selfie while shooting a Snapchat while periscoping that Snapchat while Instagramming latte art while Shazaming the Weeknd while streaming Master of None while retweeting George Takei while saying, “This wins the Internet!” while still being #SoooBored.
STORY – 1
DIRECTOR – 0
ACTOR – 1
MUSIC – 1
CULT – 0
PROS –
1) The movie belongs to Helen and Mehmood with their huge screen presence overshadowing all other cast members.
2) A must-have Bollywood soundtrack/album from Shankar-Jaikishan with timeless gems like “Jaane Chaman Shola Badan”, “Hum Kaale Hain To”, “Jaan Pehechan Ho”, “Iss Duniya Mein Jeena Ho To”, “Jaane Chaman Shola Badan”, and “Gumnaam Hai Koi”.
CONS –
1) This Agatha Christie story adapted by Dhruva Chatterjee failed in execution by the director Raja Nawathe.
2) A weak screenplay is full of potholes underutilizing its excellent cast.
QUOTE –
“Mehmood : Khayaloon mein… Khayaloon mein… “
STORY – 1
DIRECTOR – 1
ACTOR – 1
MUSIC – 0
CULT – 0
PROS –
1) A gothic-horror based on a Russian folk-tale by Nikolai Gogol from the debutant director Mario Bava.
2) A prototype for numerous future horror movies based on the same theme.
3) Great production value and make-up.
4) Barbara Steele as the femme fatale
CONS –
1) A run-of-the-mill horror story.
QUOTE –
Dr. Kruvajan: You have no reason to fear the dead. They sleep very soundly.
STORY – 1
DIRECTOR – 1
ACTOR – 1
MUSIC – 0
CULT – 1
PROS –
1) This movie would have ended as just another sci-fi horror movie without the character of Mrs. Carmody [played by Marcia Gay Harden]. The entire movie came into life, when this bible-bashing boss-bitch character took the central stage, leading her minions like Jack in Lord of the Flies.
2) Lovecraftian giant creatures from a parallel universe came into our world through some portal thanks to a failed military scientific experiment.
3) The climax is unsettling. Just unsettling.
CONS –
N/A
QUOTE –
i]
Ollie: As a species, we’re fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?
ii]
Amanda Dunfrey: People are basically good; decent. My god, David, we’re a civilized society.
David Drayton: Sure, as long as the machines are working and you can dial 911. But you take those things away, you throw people in the dark, you scare the shit out of them – no more rules.
STORY – 1
DIRECTOR – 1
ACTOR – 0
MUSIC – 0
CULT – 1
PROS –
1) Parasitical creatures of a dying planet luring species from other planets to possess their bodies and spaceships.
2) This Mario Bava’s classic clearly influenced Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) and Prometheus (2012).
3) One can find a resemblance to this movie with Twilight Zone‘s episode Third From the Sun.
CONS –
1) Boring screenplay with hardly any action.
QUOTE –
Sanya: How will they accept us?
Mark: I hope, well. For them.
STORY – 1
DIRECTOR – 1
ACTOR – 1
MUSIC – 0
CULT – 0
PROS –
1) A sci-fi concept previously explored in movies like The 6th Day (2000), The Island (2005), etc.
2) The screenplay is well written with events of past episodes being explained in the subsequent episodes.
3) What’s better than Paul Rudd? Two Paul Rudd.
CONS –
1) The momentum and expectations built-up in the first 5 episodes fizzled out in the last episodes.
QUOTE –
“How can you be sure that you are you?”
STORY – 1
DIRECTOR – 1
ACTOR – 1
MUSIC – 0
CULT – 0
PROS –
1) There are not too many good sports movies in Indian cinema and also it’s never easy to pull off one, but Gowtham Tinnanuri managed it successfully with a tight screenplay.
2) Nani gave a strong and compelling performance of a washed-out first-class cricketer fighting against all odds
CONS –
1) The movie can easily be completed within 2 hours. A 150 minutes long movie is tiresome for audiences.
QUOTE –
“Arjun: I found myself when I was searching for 500 rupees in the last 3 days. I saw the past 36 years of my life. I didn’t understand myself in all these years but I finally found myself in the last 3 days.”
STORY – 1
DIRECTOR – 1
ACTOR – 1
MUSIC – 0
CULT – 0
PROS –
1) A well made 87 minutes long adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel.
2) Peter Cushing’s performance as Sherlock Holmes was very close to the one portrayed by Jeremy Brett years later.
3) The right amount of thrill and suspense with decent production value.
CONS –
N/A
QUOTE –
Sherlock Holmes: This, I think, is a two-pipe problem.
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