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Akira

Everything was so bad about this movie! 🤢

Mesrine
Did'nt realize how tall and big Vincent Cassel is, till I saw him all bulked up for this movie.

This is his award winning role, but the movie itself about a French gangster who is apparently a cult hero there,was as dull as ditch water especially given how "action packed"it is.
All the Cassel movies that I have watched so far,whether I liked them or not,still caught my attention and I could not look away from the screen.This one I struggled to watch.

The first few scenes were interesting but then it was like Mesrine was a total turd,a very repugnant person and I could'nt understand why I needed to know anything about him and his life.
There is a 2nd part as well.

Akira a very well made movie. Proud of Sonakshi 👍🏼 Anurag Kashyap too good as well.

La Belle et La Bte (Beauty and the Beast)

Well,my wish to see a French movie with the end spelled out was finally fulfilled.
If the Punjabies are compared to the Italians,based on their movies I am going to say that the French are like Bengalies.

This movie is one of the slowest movies that I have ever watched .I mean there is really nothing to the story of Beauty and the Beast but this movie manages to butcher the little that there is to the story.

The actress playing Beauty was beautiful but had zero charisma or screen presence.
Vincent Cassel sleepwalked through his role.

He was much better in A Dangerous Method where he was onscreen for only 10 min or so but was just so mesmerising in those 10 min as a hedonistic psychoanalyst.

Baar Baar Dekho- Horrible, to say the least about this film. Amateurish direction and writing. Idea was good but execution was terrible. It baffles me how even after spending so many years in an industry that demands dialogue delivery in Hindi, Kat's hindi is as horrible as it was before. Also, such pathetic acting by both Katrina and Siddharth. They thought by giving a set of prosthetics, people would go gaga over such 'challenging' roles. Katrina was SO bad, people were laughing during their breakup scene.

Baar Baar Dekho

I really enjoyed the film till the childbirth scene. But after that the film went downhill and got repetitive and boring for me.

Performance wise I thought Sid was 100% natural. But he is still really boring to watch. I cant explain it... IMO he is far far from a bad actor but he doesnt light up the screen like many great actors do... Katrina, she was terrible in that breakup scene but is otherwise tolerable. Ram Kapoor as usual provides some laughs and Sarika is a pleasant lady to watch.

The biggest drawback of the film is its ghissapita message... Live for the moment, dont neglect your loved ones because of your career ladadadada...zzz...as if we needed another romcom to preach us this.

The story is also somewhat ghissapita with some time travel thrown in between... Guy is ambitious and commitment-phobic. Girl is desperate for marriage and is dumb enough not to see that guy is not interested in marrying her. Later in their married life they face mundane problems such as the guy not giving enough time to his family...And ofcourse by the end of the film our hero realizes that the girl is more important to him than his ambitions and so he agrees to marry her. Phew.

Well, its still a decent one time watch. But I hope BW starts becoming more innovative with roms-coms. Have had enough of these urban love stories with all the gloss and very little to offer in terms of originality.

2/5

Just saw Baar Baar Dekho

It was garbage

BBD:
I liked the pre interval part. It was more fun, but seriously they showed the same things in the promo.
I liked the future vision and gadgets. But post interval, the storyline is draggged to death.
My advise: Dont watch it in theaters. Watch it on tv instead, sabzi katte katte,that way you wont be that bored.

Baar Baar Dekho

Movie is kinda different but gets very boring and repetetive as it moves forward. Hardly any good dialogue, punchline or comedy. It is about loving small things in life and not running behind bigger things. It could have been shorter and better.

Sid and Kat look very good and beautiful. Ram Kapoor's parts were funny. Was refreshing to see Sarika. Songs were the best part for me, Dariya is a fav and Sid only for his looks.

Baar baar to shayad koi nahi dekhega.

Brotherhood of the Wolf
A beast is terrorising a province as the French play cowboys and Indians,a genre that IMO is better left to the Americans.
The hero with his Indian sidekick was a cliche ridden milksop.
Cassel, who did'nt have a lot of screen time, was awesome as the incestous villian .