One Weekend – Three Great Movies
One great weekend. Three movies. All awesome. Things I liked about them below.
The Departed - 4.5/5.0
Who am I? I’m the guy that does his fuckin’ job! You must be the other guy!
The Departed is Jack Nicholson and DiCaprio’s movie. Matt Damon is good, the female (Vera Farmiga) is hot, but Leo and Jack make the movie what it is.
Okay. This is not a review. These are points I noticed about the movie.
1. The first one of the few movies I have seen with a Floyd song, Comfortably Numb at that, as a part of the OST. Just this alone made the movie worth all the money I spent on it. Though the rendition is not great, but still.
2. Fuck. Yes. You hear the word so much in the movie that Anoop requested that we shift to shit for sometime to recover from the after effects. Good shit man.
3. The movie has like a gazillion people getting killed, with only one dying a natural death. And that with no fuss at all.
4. I admit. I have started liking DiCaprio. I haven’t see The Gangs Of New York but The Aviator and now this. Martin Scorsese has picked a brilliant actor. In the current crop, no one beats Leo and Depp.
5. Two best scenes incidentally both involve Di Caprio. First, where he gets interviewed at the police headquarters by Mark Wahlberg. I mean the intensity on his face is just awesome. Second, when he is face to face with Jack Nicholson and tells him that he is not the rat.
You accuse me once, I put up with it. You accuse me twice… I quit. You pressure me to fear for my life and I will put a bullet in your head as if you were anybody else. Okay?
Best movie of the year so far, for me, and a sure shot Oscar contender in many categories. Better than V for Vendetta and Munich (which though are technically last years movies). So, all those who haven’t watched it yet. Guys you are missing something. Catch the movie ASAP.
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels – 4.0/5.0
Its been emotional.
If Sanjay Gupta is the Indian Tarantino, then Guy Ritchie is the British version. I mean the movie reminds you so closely of Pulp Fiction that you sometimes feel it is the same movie hadn’t it been for the thick British accent the characters had. The movie with no big stars, yet creating magic out of nothing. Which proves that the absence of stars from a cast is not a good reason to label a movie bad.
The story of four small time criminals who dream to make it big by betting big. The lose big time and end up half a million pounds in debt of a sort of a mini mafia boss. After that it is almost like a comedy of errors.
Jason Statham (The Transporter) is good. And so are Vinnie Jones (Big Chris) and Little Chris. Another character I liked is that of Rory, the black mafia boss. Hilarious like shit. Also the movie reminds me a lot of Snatch, another Guy Ritchie movie which I incidentally saw before this one.
Must watch. And last but not the least.
The School of Rock – 3.5/5.0
This movie along with Independence Day and Big Daddy is amongst the very few movies that I like, even though they are rated pretty low on IMDB.
Those who know me know why I would have loved the movie. Rock music is something I adore. Story of a useless bum who loves music, is kicked from his own band, pretends to be a teacher to pay off debts. He hears the kids play during a music class and believes that they have talent to make it big and will help him achieve his dream of winning a rock contest. During his interaction with them over the next few months he, unknowingly even, helps many kids get over their doubts and believe in themselves.
God of Rock, thank you for this chance to kick ass. We are your humble servants. Please give us the power to blow people’s minds with our high voltage rock. In your name we pray, Amen.
They finally don’t win the contest but are loved by one and all. And man they put up one hell of an act.
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The departed : Yeah, the best movie so far in this year. No doubt, and it’s very unlikely that a better movie will come up in next one and half months.
No mention of Marc Wahlberg? Surprising. For whatever small role he was given, he has done excellent justice to it, i must say. Kick a$$ dialogues delivery.
Floyd’s Money was featured in Italian Job, when the team successfully robs and proceeds to the snowy mountan to celebrate. (a Wahlber, statham connection)
Have to check for rest of the references, but I am sure there’ll be many.
“In the current crop, no one beats Leo and Depp” : Brad Pitt himself couldn’t have played Damon/DiCaprio?
Only 3.5 to School of Rock (when lock-stock is awarded 4) ??
Mark Wahlberg. Yes forgot his name. But he is part of the first good scene of the movie. And yes the dialogue is also there.
Oh yes. Italian Job. Liked Edward Norton in that. Forgot that. Error will be corrected. There might be many but not in any good movie as far as I remember.
Brad Pitt is good. He rocks in Se7en, Snatch, Fight Club and I liked him in Troy. But I club him with others of the earlier generation. And he could have played DiCaprio, not Damon, but you never know. Regan could have played Rick and might have been good, but it is Bogart we remember.
And 3.5 to School of Rock for just one reason. To me it does not have one memorable scene. Every great movie should have a great scene to be memorable. Independence Day had the President’s speech but was not that effective. Big Daddy has the court room scene. School of Rock unfortunately has none. But I still rate it along with the other two.