Bald for Vendetta

V for Vendetta is quite an interesting movie playing on the 5th of November theme-Guy Fawkes.

The setting is the future. To protect themselves against terrorists, the people of London have to give up most of their liberties. It was a police state that they lived in. The government did research using humans and our persona is one of the victims. So, he seeks revenge against the people in power.
Interesting knife play by the persona against heavy firepower of the government functionaries. In the end he managed to blow up Parliament House and Big Ben, giving up his life in the process.

Natalie Portman went bald in this movie and there is no reason for doing so, as far as I can see.
Watchable fare.

The Mother of Horror Movies!

The Forerunner of Satanic Movies!

Talk about the pioneering efforts in the Satanic cult genre, then it has to be Rosemary's Baby! It may not have the excitement, thrills and spills of and The ExorcistThe Omen but it held well on its own.

Mia Farrow was topless in this Roman Polanski effort and it must be a great event to see her as such since she was already famous from Peyton Place and do not have to do this.

Briefly, the movie centres around a couple who came to live in an apartment and unbeknownst to them, it happens to be a coven for witches and warlocks. Slowly they got the the couple by feeding Rosemary with all kinds of stuff and one night she dreamt she was inseminated by Satan.

The movie ended with the birth of the Satanic baby and we are left to our own devices to think out the ending. Will Rosemary kill off the baby or will she become a convert as well, just like her husband? Slow but watchable fare by today's standards.

An old classic featuring the mesmerizing,magnetic and ever wonderful Judy Garland.

Centering on the world's fair in St Louis in 1903-1904, Meet Me in St. Louis tells a story about love and romance of two sisters, the happenings at a Christmas Ball and how a family kept the Southern traditions by not moving away from wonderful St. Louis.

Lovely songs especially Have Yourself a Merry Christmas. sung by Judy Garland.

Brings you into the mood of the deep South. Lovely ambience. Great while it lasted.

A movie to see again and again.

A feel good again movie.

27 Dresses is a very relaxed B movie with little magic between James Marsden and Katherine Heighl. Movie paced on quite predictably.

The only gem in this movie is Katherine and all the happenings about are just appendages padded onto the movie.

Katherine needs a great movie to propel her into the big league and 27 Dresses is just not it.

The Superior Getaway

The Getaway continues to be good after all these years.

I remembered I saw this one in Seremban then in the late 70s.

En route to KL, I actually stopped the journey in Seremban, watched the movie and then took a bus back to KL.

Steve McQueen has always been gung-ho in his acting, the apha male symbol, so to say. I liked Ali Macgraw (she has been given more expressive space here)as she shows some good acting. Her elements really shine and she is no eye-candy here for sure, not like in Love Story.

Compared to the newer version featuring Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, I prefer this one even though Kim showed almost all (in graphic form,almost)in the latter version when all Ali had to show was a bare back!

The Sam Peckinpah version wins hands down!

Oil versus Religion

Beautiful story-line and fine acting.

One heck of a movie. Better ending than No Country for Old Men. Pulsating throughout and went out with a bang when preacher met oilman on the bowling lanes when Daniel Plainsview exclaimed," I am finished" after killing false preacher, Eli.

Beautifully crafted movie and well edited. Daniel Day deserves his second Oscar!

Not a dull moment. Do not miss it!

Shane-Still Engrossing

Yes, I finally watched Shane, touted to be the mother of all cowboy movies. Starring Alan Ladd, Van Heflin and Jean Arthur,it is bit dialogy. A tad slow by today's standards but the story-line is more of a rancher trying to amass land by crowding out the others through brute force. The rancher finally hired a gun-slinger played menacingly by Jack Palance,his hallmark throughout his entire movie-life right up to his demise.

The sub-plot is more of a boy, coming of age played by Brandon De Wilde, much enamoured by Shane which he took as a father figure.

The final scene when Shane guns down Wilson;the Jack Palance character in a saloon is supposed to be the gunfight of all times and this type of action scene was later to be adopted by the spaghetti movies.

Does Shane lives on and will he die as he rode into the sunset as he was also shot in the chest? That is the 64,000 dollar question.

I did have some nostalgia, watching the movie this time around.