Yes the demon in Nun costume looks scary. Even in one of the earlier movies when they show this painting it had good impact. But beyond that there is nothing much.
I think its time Hollywood move's away from a scene where the demon either gets sucked into an abyss or taken away in a twister or burns to ashes in the final scene. This has been shown in so many movies to show the devil has been defeated. Now it has become so predictable its boring to go through it.
I fast forwarded most of the movie.
Lack of an engaging plot is a major problem with this movie. Not a single interesting character.
After a long time a Shyamalan movie. I have a liking for Shymalan on a personal level as one of his movies is linked to my personal milestone. Apart from that I liked The Sixth Sense. I also liked The Village. Devil, Signs, Old and Visit were all ok.
I had been postponing watching this movie and chose it as there was no other better choice.
I was put off by the same sex parents concept as that stands out like a forced thing. Nowadays it has become a custom to have at least one same sex couple character for DEI.
The movie becomes interesting as it moves forward and when it ends it does end well.
But a lot more could have been done with this concept but here they have dealt it in a straightforward way which is also not a bad choice.
The question that obviously comes in our mind "what will we do in such a situation" is what makes this movie interesting.
What will we do if we are asked to sacrifice something that we love the most to save the world?
I like the old Godzilla and King Kong movies for the VFX and SFX they used to have. When I collected DVDs I bought them to enjoy those effects on my Home Theater. However after some point of time we now have so many Godzilla, Kong movies it is not easy to distinguish one from the other. Same is the case with Marvel and DC movies as well.
My son is a fan of the Gen Z Kong, Godzilla movies and he can differentiate which scene is from which movie. To treat him with the experience of watching his heroes on big screen watched the latest movie on big screen in 3D.
The movie has a pretty straight forward story which we have seen in Tamil cinema since the days of MGR.
There is a bad monkey like Nambiar who tortures other monkeys and Kong comes to their rescue. There are even characters like Nagesh or Suruli both in animal and human characters. Top this story with some hollow earth scientific jargons and you have the movie ready.
I used to own a 3D TV with 3D blurays and used to analyse how good the 3D effect was in those movies. I didn't find the 3D to be very good in this movie except for some long shot scenes. Otherwise movie almost looks like a 2D movie.
Visually though the movie looks great. I realised it only after the movie was over. Not even once we think that these are not real monkeys or animals. We start to think they are real like human actors. That is the success of the VFX team.
All creatures keep growling at the drop of the hat. So be prepared for that.
I watched The Mission over the weekend and since I had watched Silence few weeks back I couldn't avoid the comparison between the two. While both of them deal with preaching Christianity to people who haven't heard about it, I felt Silence moved me more than The Mission.
Neither of the movies have a positive ending. While The Mission has lot of political plot but Silence was more direct about Christianity as a religion. Both movies were about how people stood by their faith in extreme situations.
The Mission had something more as it had a character who chooses what he chooses as a penance.
One reason why I found it difficult to connect with The Mission was because it felt more like a staged drama.
We have Robert De Niro, Liam Neeson, Jeremy Irons but there is very less dialogue. When there is less dialogue the scenes should speak but for some reason I couldn't connect.
The ending of The Mission which is more or equally brutal as Silence does not evoke that feeling inside us.
The visuals though were extraordinary. They have done a great job and it must have been very difficult without CGI.
The movie had some great quotes and to quote some "If might is right, then love has no place in the world", "the dead live on in the memories of the living".
The soundtrack by Ennio Morricone was also not that impressive compared to his other outings but the music conveyed the ominous feeling.
This was one movie which I was avoiding as I somehow could fee that it will not be good. But over a weekend when I couldn't find anything else I made the mistake of watching this. It is reimagining A Quiet Place with vision instead of sound. A monster which can find and attack you through sound or vibration makes more sense than compare to a monster which is fine with everything except you shouldn't look at it.
A invisible monster which only has the power to make you commit suicide when you look in its direction (since it's invisible you cannot look at it). Oh yes it also has the power to perform mimicry You can dance around the monster screaming loud and with your eyes closed it cannot do anything. You can run around it and mock it with a blanket over your head it cannot to do anything. Absolutely awful movie. I cannot walk around my house with my eyes closed and they go through a forest and a rapid. Sandra Bullock and those two kids can be part of Marvel or DC universe fir their superpowers.
The best part is they keep few birds in a shoe box and survive a fall in a rapid and all with blindfolded.
For some reason I did not like The Devil's Backbone or this movie Pan's Labyrinth. I expected a horror movie in Devil's backbone and got a drama and expected a fantasy movie in Pan's and got a violent war movie.
When I finished watching this movie it felt like I just came out of that haunted house. It is a great premise and as one of the other reviewers mentioned a lot more could have been done. So many missed opportunities but still it delivers.
I found the editing confusing during more than one occasion. It just moves from one scene to another without continuity.
Though there is lot of killing mostly it happens offscreen so there is less gore.
Also I didn't understand the ending and I assume they just kept it as something that happens inside the characters mind.
Elle is directed by Paul Verhoeven and stars Isabelle Huppert. I watched this movie expecting a thriller but ended up with a movie which I felt was weird for the sake of being weird. The movie has too many characters and difficult to follow who is who and the plot doesn't go anywhere so you keep wondering what the hell was happening.
To make things more complex there is even a flashback which is not explained clearly but the flashback plays a major role in the movie.
The movie does have some weird sexual scenes which again does not make any sense. At some point you don't even care what happens to the lead character which doesn't help when the movie is more than 120 minutes long.
I somehow finished watching it. It has a high rating in IMDB. This is one movie where IMDB rating is proved wrong.
Recently my Samsung TV which I bought in 2012 went bust. The panel started cracking and showed patches. It was a 3D TV and the service person said the panel had to be changed and it will cot 40 K and it is better to go for a new TV. The sad thing is we don't have 3D TVs in the market any more. All my bluray 3Ds will go waste.
When I started to research for new TV I could see there was no one place where we can get genuine information. Amazon and Flipkart many times specifications are incorrect for ex they mention 2 HDMI ports while the brand website might mention 3 HDMI ports. Many times they don't mention if the HDMI is 2.1 or 1.0 or 2.0. Again only if we know so many variations exists we can buy the right thing. No single place provides this information.
If you take visuals there are Dolby Vision, HDR, HDR 10+, HLG etc and in audio you have Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS, Dolby Atmos, DTS - X etc. From operating system point of view we have Android with its 9.0, 10.0, 11.0, Tizen, WebOS etc. From ports point of view we have ARC, eARC, Optical digitial out etc.
I agree it is good to have choice but as a consumer it is difficult to make the choice.
My old Samsung TV was good in all front but it costed me a lot and at the time of buying I was not aware of the features it had. Having used to that I didn't want to miss out on the vital features.
I noticed there were so many reviewers available in youtube even in Tamil but they focus on some fancy stuffs rather than on essentials. Also these guys are biased while a group says Mi is the best there is another one who says Sony is the best and Mi is worst. Even there are reviews where they call Samsung and LG as subpar.
The retailers are in different mode Vasanth & co supports Samsung while Croma store supports Sony. To buy a Sony you have to pay lot of premium. Again having owned Sony products it will cost you more but will not offer some critical feature.
For a novice buyer everything will look similar but only when you try to use each feature we will learn what is not supported and what is.
I found Mi 5X series having Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, it had eARC support and 2.1 HDMI support. It also supported DTS - HD. This was the only TV which had all these features and cost at least 30 K lesser compared to branded ones.
Yes it doesn't have two way bluetooth support or ambient mode. Also the "nits" may not be as good as a TV which costs as bomb but nowdays lifetime of a TV is 3 to 4 years. I feel it is not worth to shell out a lot unless you have lot of surplus.
I am happy with the purchase and you do research your stuff before you buy yours.
