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Atlast the movie, I had been waiting for is here, the waiting was so tough that I even blogged when I was waiting. Forget the hype. I watched Dark Knight because I am fan of the series and always have been. I was in my 3rd grade when I watched my first batman movie. It was so dark and evil back then, but I still loved every bit of it.
And now I watch the Dark Knight..more eerie, more scary, more powerful, more evil and more of Joker. When I saw the promos, I was constantly disturbed that the movie was more of the Joker than the Batman. After I watched the movie, this is the first movie where all my thoughts have been on the villain rather than on what the hero did.
Batman does a few antics, packs in a few technology and suffers at the hands of the Joker. While the Joker plans and schemes ahead of everyone, thinks like a lunatic; yet with the precision of a scientist acts out his role like a dream. And so many others have said it, and I would say it too. Give him an Academy award; he deserves it…He plays Joker with elan, makes him look cruel, sadistic and as perfect as he could ever be. I think he even went beyond what the real Joker was. Now the Dark Knight stars Heath Ledger as the Joker, and that would be Late Heath Ledger, just in case you did not know. He was only 28 when he died in January 2008. He has already been nominated for the Academy awards so I really want him to win it this time. I am sad that hollywood has lost a star of this calibre. I really wonder how someone could undergo such a transformation and live the character.

The storyline is long, and it is one of the longest movies I have seen. It is engrossing, dark, chilly and gives you the feel that you are in the midst of the action. The storyline does not belong to an ordinary superhero movie. It would be more at home in the slick academy award winning genre. The storyline has action, but it does not disturb the aesthetics of the movie one bit, nor does it come in the way of the brilliant performances. Yeah, I would have liked more footage on two-face though..

All through my review I have not quoted a single scene from the movie. Because I do not wish to spoil the fun you are going to have when you watch the movie. But still, if you are one of those who wishes to read the plot before watching it. Read it here. So what is the final verdict? Watch it. 6 out of 5 stars for this one. Why so serious? Go watch it and have fun.

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Update:

Christian Bale arrested. He was arrested for alleged assault..Is this the curse of the Dark Knight?

From the creators of matrix trilogy, comes another movie…Speed racer. I decided to watch the movie, since I could not get tickets for anything else; plus the trailers weren’t too bad. But watching the movie, I was just blown away..The eye candy was great…the shots were superb..some places they went really overboard, but then what do you expect from a movie which talks about cars driving at around 800 mph? The plot is simple.  The races are fixed by a cartel of multinational capitalists who don’t care about the sport. Speed racer is out to stop them..

I realized during the course of the movie that the reason wachowski movies are so cool is because they try to convert japanese anime into cinema with real life actors. The action in the Matrix was inspired by “Ghost in the shell” (which happens to be one of my favourite manga series) In the same way, speed racer comes from an anime of the same name. Japanese cartoons a.k.a manga or anime is one of my favourite genre of tv shows..its no surprise that I loved watching the movie.

Since the movie is an anime adaptation, there is should ideally be no surprise value in the movie; after all you know that the hero will succeed. But, the exaggerated graphics, cool effects and the neck breaking speed keep you at the edge of the seat..since you wait with bated breath for the way the hero wins…unrealistically of course Forget logic, have fun…

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This blog is becoming too much of a movie review site I guess…but then I would like this one to be me last movie review…The only reason I sit and write this review is…because I did not do anything worthwhile blogging…

I watched “Race” today first day…Race is a typical bollywood flick which tries to mimic the success of dhoom and humraaz, but fails to do so somewhere..The movie stars Akshay khanna, Saif ali Khan, Bipasha basu, Anil Kapoor, Sameera Reddy and Katrina Kaif (not in any particular order) The movie has so many cooks thrown into it that I really had to rack my brains writing all of their names in here..

The first half is boring, really really boring…The plot twists are so damn extreme that they are unbelievable. The dialogues are pure nonsense…The girls are there only to show their skin…The movie could very well entertain someone who has never seen a girl wear skimpy clothes before..Lets not even get into discussing their acting skills…The second half is okay and manageable only because you are somewhere lost in 100s of twists you come across in the plot..I really think someone got really drunk writing the plot…The second half has some steamy songs, which really aren’t so steamy after all; I really am not a huge fan of any of these heriones so that could be one reason I wasn’t so entertained, but I guess the movie is focussed at the crowd which goes to watch a Dhoom (sans brains and thinking)…The title song is hummable, the climax is manageable and the rest is history…