Movie Review: The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Title: The Simpsons Movie (2007)
The Sentence: I totally agree - why would you want to pay money for something you can ignore on TV for free.
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August 16, 2007
August 14, 2007
Movie Review: L'Equipier (2004)
Title: L'Equipier (2004)
The Sentence: If you like this movie, then a) you're French b) you love French cinema or c) you love lighthouses.
Movie Review: Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Title: Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
The Sentence: Al Pacino got one more hostage than he bargained for - me.
July 11, 2007
July 10, 2007
Movie Review : Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)
Title: Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)
MisEntropy Meter: 3/10
The Sentence: The curse didn't work on screen but might have ended up working on the movie instead, if you know what I mean.
July 04, 2007
Movie Review: The Queen (2006)
Title: The Queen (2006)
MisEntropy Meter: 8/10
The Sentence: That Helen Mirren won an Oscar for her role is a credit to the Oscars - not the other way around.
July 03, 2007
Movie Review: Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (2007)
Title: Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (2007)
MisEntropy Meter: 1/10
The Sentence: You've got to hand it to Bollywood - when they set their sights on lowering the bar, they can dig really really deep.
July 02, 2007
Movie Review: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
Title: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
MisEntropy Meter: 3/10
The Sentence: The Silver Surfer saves the world from the antics of the Fantastic Four - now, that would have been a more sensible plot idea.
June 14, 2007
Movie Review: Shrek The Third (2007)
Title: Shrek The Third
MisEntropy Meter: 3/10
The Sentence: Has more of a plot than a random collection of forwarded jokes - but not too much more.
[UPDATE: The blogpoll that accompanied this review has been disabled because it was slowing down the page.]
Movie Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
Title: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
MisEntropy Meter: 2/10
The Sentence: Pirates of the Caribbean at wits' end, is more like it.
[UPDATE: The blogpoll that accompanied this review has been disabled because it was slowing down the page.]
May 28, 2007
Movie Review: Shoot Out At Lokhandwala (2007)
Title: Shoot Out At Lokhandwala (2007)
MisEntropy Meter: 2/10
The Sentence: Apparently, there are great legends in Mumbai about Maya Dolas, the gangster who stood up to Dawood Ibrahim; this, by the way, isn't one of them.
[UPDATE: The blogpoll that accompanied this review has been disabled because it was slowing down the page.]
May 25, 2007
Movie Review: Life in a... Metro (2007)
Title: Life in a... Metro (2007)
MisEntropy Meter: 2/10
The Sentence: The movie has its moments where it rises above the depths of mediority mediocrity to the heights of ordinariness.
[UPDATE: The blogpoll that accompanied this review has been disabled because it was slowing down the page.]
May 09, 2007
My top 5 single sentence movie reviews
Regular readers of this blog will be familiar with The Sentence - a series where I review Hollywood and Bollywood movies in, well, one sentence. I have been meaning to compile a top 5 of my favourite reviews for quite some time now - and this group writing project is the perfect reason to delay it no longer.
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): Who says they didn't make expensive, visually stunning but meaningless music videos for classical music chartbusters?
2. 300 (2006): 300 celluloid Spartans meet a heroic death while attempting to defend Frank Miller's glorious past against the mighty juggernaut of his current work.
3. Flags of Our Fathers (2006): The only saving grace for war is that such powerful and moving cinema can result from it.
4. The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin (1978): I remember watching this movie as a kid long long ago; I remember watching this again as a kid last night.
5. The Departed (2006): In case you missed the plot, it gets shot in the head at point blank range midway through the movie.
May 07, 2007
Movie Review: Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Title: Spider-Man 3 (2007)
MisEntropy Meter: 2/10
The Sentence: The real villians getting trapped in Spidey's webs are the scriptwriters, producers and (the otherwise talented) director of this movie franchise; and serves them right too.
Movie Review: Perfect Stranger (2007)
Title: Perfect Stranger (2007)
MisEntropy Meter: 3/10
The Sentence: Having watched this movie is motive enough for murder and, I suspect, might also make the eventual crime pardonable in some courts of law.
April 30, 2007
Movie Review: Ta Ra Rum Pum (2007)
Title: Ta Ra Rum Pum (2007)
MisEntropy Meter: 2/10
The Sentence: Unlike it's racing driver protagonist who only finishes first or last, the movie crosses the finish line in the company of the multitude in the middle - outstanding neither in excellence nor in mediocrity.
April 24, 2007
Movie Review: Mr.Bean's Holiday (2007)
Title: Mr.Bean's Holiday (2007)
MisEntropy Meter: 3/10
The Sentence: The title says 'Mr.Bean' but the movie itself is about 'Mr.Has Been.'
April 12, 2007
Movie Review : The Namesake (2006)
Title: The Namesake (2006)
MisEntropy Meter: 7/10
The Sentence: There are many many reasons why this film shouldn't be missed, but none more compelling than the understated brilliance of Irfan.
Movie Review: The Last King Of Scotland (2006)
Title: The Last King of Scotland (2006)
MisEntropy Meter: 5/10
The Sentence: As a character study of a brutal African dictator, it is short on the goods; as a story of a white man in black Africa, it is long on naivety.
March 31, 2007
Movie Review : Namastey London (2007)
Title: Namastey London (2007)
MisEntropy Meter: 1/10
The Sentence: My advice to the city of London will be to file a defamation suit pronto.
March 28, 2007
Movie Review: Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Title: Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
MisEntropy Meter: 7/10
The Sentence: The kind of sunshine that makes you forget your gloom of the moment, which for me was the despair of seeing 'Babel' and 'The Departed' do well at the awards last year.
Movie Review: Traffic Signal (2007)
Title: Traffic Signal (2007)
MisEntropy Meter: 5/10
The Sentence: Much of the movie is stuck in a traffic jam of delightful characterisations; and when the lights turn green for the plot to move, it ends up taking the turn towards preachy self-righteousness.
March 17, 2007
Movie Review: 300 (2006)
MisEntropy Meter: 4/10
The Sentence: 300 celluloid Spartans meet a heroic death while attempting to defend Frank Miller's glorious past against the mighty juggernaut of his current work.
Movie Review: Black Friday (2004)
Title: Black Friday (2004)
MisEntropy Meter: 3/10
The Sentence: Not every bomb explodes as intended; this is one of them.
Movie Review: The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
Title: The Pursuit Of Happyness (2006)
MisEntropy Meter: 6/10
The Sentence: I was told it was a story about one man and his dogged pusuit of happiness - but when I watched it, there were about 300 of us in the theatre joining in the pursuit on his behalf.
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