Jump to content

Watched any new movies? *Please use spoiler tags*

Rajiv

By Rajiv
in Chit Chat

 Share

Recommended Posts

DomainK Newbie

DomainK

Posted
Posted

Watched Paa finally. Honestly, didn't like it much. I found the characters of Abhishek Bachhan quite ridiculously exaggerated. Amitabh's character was nice though and it was very well done. Vidya Balan was good, but hardly award winning. Some of the jokes were nice though.

Desi Cartman Newbie

Desi Cartman

Posted
Posted

lol at Teen Patti's review

Teen Patti is the kind of film that makes you want to send everyone associated with it for a urine test so you can confirm whether they had drugs in their system while making this senseless movie. For two hours and twenty minutes I sat in stunned silence as the film unfolded, desperately trying to figure out how and why something like this was made. Teen Patti has so many things wrong with it that a review threatens to become a list. Let me start with the most obvious: The film's trailers have already revealed its likeness to the Kevin Spacey-starrer "21", but the makers of Teen Patti don't even have the skills to plagiarize competently. In "21", a greedy university professor and his students figure out how to count cards and make a killing at Vegas casinos. In Teen Patti , a well-meaning professor is coerced and subsequently blackmailed into gambling for money. Since Amitabh Bachchan plays the central role here, the character is 'tweaked' from dubious to helpless, because let's face it, who'd dare cast Bachchan as a crook? So Venkat Subramanium, the character that AB plays, is a mathematics professor who assembles a team of five students and a younger lecturer to help in his research for a paper on the theory of probability. That research quickly turns into visits to gambling dens and casinos, where the team becomes addicted to making easy money. The holes in the plot aside, Teen Patti suffers on account of careless direction. Can it really be so easy for two professors and their students to walk in and out of seedy gambling parlors without raising any suspicion? Do red-hot, richie-rich bimbos actually throw themselves at someone that looks like R Madhavan only because he claims he owns an Italian gelato empire? And would anyone really agree to give up half their earnings to an anonymous blackmailer without even making an effort to find out if it's just a prank caller? You're troubled by dozens of such howlers in a film that gets virtually nothing right. The dialogues are impossibly stupid, and passing off over-fed, gaudily-dressed junior artistes as millionaire gamblers is laughable to say the least. Amitabh Bachchan appears positively embarrassed to be trapped in this amateur kindergarten-like production; he goes through his scenes robotically as if all wit and thought were beaten out of him. R Madhavan hams it up, and the younger actors fail to even make a passing impression. Directed by Leena Yadav, Teen Patti is an incoherent mess of logic-defying scenes that never come together as a fluid script. It's got snazzy camerawork and occasionally hip production design, but none of that matters in the end. What you take with you as you leave the cinema is shock. Shock that nobody associated with this film had the intelligence or the courage to turn around and say, "This sucks." At best, on a really boring day, this film might provide some unintentional comedy. For that alone, I'm going with one out of five for director Leena Yadav's Teen Patti. Formidable actors like Amitabh Bachchan and Ben Kingsley are cast together for the first time on screen in a film like this. We ought to be ashamed.
I just saw 5 mins and could already see that they have copied it scene by scene. Shameless people are now saying they havent even seen 21 .. :laugh:
Guest Hiten.

Guest Hiten.

Posted
Posted

I knew it all along that this was remake of 21 by reading the plot. I mean it's not that 21 is a product of creativity but based on a book so get the bloody rights and attempt making your own version why all the drama of changing the game all other nautanki ? I'm afraid this is the last time sir ben would be working in a Hindi film :laugh:

DomainK Newbie

DomainK

Posted
Posted
lol at Teen Patti's review I just saw 5 mins and could already see that they have copied it scene by scene. Shameless people are now saying they havent even seen 21 .. :laugh:
:wall: Really, shamelessness knows no bounds in Bollywood. I have no idea how directors like these and writers like these even manage to find work when hundreds of talented ones struggle everyday.
Desi Cartman Newbie

Desi Cartman

Posted
Posted
:wall: Really, shamelessness knows no bounds in Bollywood. I have no idea how directors like these and writers like these even manage to find work when hundreds of talented ones struggle everyday.
loser director said that the script was ready even before 21 was released although the first scene itself is a 100% copy where the prof asks students to randomly pick a card out of 3 and then asks them to reconsider their answer yada yada yada. Its amazing how SRK's character is somewhat inspired by Forrest Gump.. then this teen patti shyt ... Koi Mil gaya etc
DomainK Newbie

DomainK

Posted
Posted
loser director said that the script was ready even before 21 was released although the first scene itself is a 100% copy where the prof asks students to randomly pick a card out of 3 and then asks them to reconsider their answer yada yada yada. Its amazing how SRK's character is somewhat inspired by Forrest Gump.. then this teen patti shyt ... Koi Mil gaya etc
I think one can be forgiven for picking up an interesting character (not if they unfairly twist the character to add commercial elements). But copying a movie so clearly is just not excusable. How can the writer and director ever see anyone in the eye? If you are caught breaking into someones house and stealing valuables, it will be a matter of serious embarrassment and you would not want to face your friends and family after the shameful exposure. But these thieves roam in the society, get invitations to big parties, get respect, money and more work.:wall:
Riley's Girl Newbie

Riley's Girl

Posted
Posted

FINALLY had some time on my hands! X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Only because of Hugh Jackman :winky: Sherlock Holmes - Didn't quite live up to my expectations. Robert Downey Jr was good though. Avatar - Awesome.

Dark Warrior Newbie

Dark Warrior

Posted
Posted
Karthik calling Karthik :haha: Another movie with another disease :wall: this time it is schizophrenia:((
add spoiler :wall: I think I already guessed the suspense as disease but now it will be boring to watch. :((:((
Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share
Go to topic listing
×
×
  • Create New...