extraordinarily brief movie reviews

[anotheranon]

Have seen a couple in the past week or so. No spoilers, so no snip:

Sin City - incredibly violent, but in a cartoony kind of way so it's not as disturbing as one would expect. Mostly. An INCREDIBLE cast and wonderful cinematography; I have (yet?) to read the graphic novels so I can't compare. I'm still sorting through what I think of this one - it's so "in your face" that it's hard to take in all at once.

Bride and Prejudice - multicultural Jane Austen, and it works SO well! I'm not overly familiar with the "Bollywood" style, but if it includes bright colors, musical/dancing numbers and a sweet romance, I'm keen - more of this, please :)

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[geekchick]

Bollywood movies are all about the musical/dance numbers. =)

Bollywood is FUN!

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Recommended Bollywood-for-Western-beginners type movies kindly loaned to me by East Indian officemate:

Bollywood/Hollywood (Deepa Mehta's spoof of Bollywood movies is pure Bollywood itself; about an East Indian family living in Toronto, whose lifestyle is part Canuck and part traditional)
American Desi (another east-meets-west film; a second-generation, fully Americanized Indian student ends up with three traditional roommates when he goes to university)

(she also loaned me Bend It Like Beckham, which isn't "Bollywood", but she considers it to be an accurate intro to the culture behind Bollywood)

[timcharmorbien.livejournal.com]

"Sin City - incredibly violent, but in a cartoony kind of way so it's not as disturbing as one would expect. Mostly. An INCREDIBLE cast and wonderful cinematography; I have (yet?) to read the graphic novels so I can't compare."

I am so looking forward to this. Though I've never read the comics, I've seen enough samples to be, once more, highly impressed with Frank Miller's work. That they have managed to translate that stark, black and white look (with the occasional splash of color) to film amazes me. Apparantly, the main director treated the graphic novel as the storyboard for the film, essentially translating the comic into film.

Tim, Black and White and Green with envy - - ;)