Frost/Nixon - Langella/Howard

I watched the Frost/Nixon movie directed by the much loved Ron Howard who gave us exciting dramas like the Apollo 13 and Beautiful Mind. Midway through the movie i felt so much captivated by the performance of Frank Langella that it left me wondering why had not anybody given such a brilliant actor a chance to prove his prowess earlier. With his deep voice and mesmerizing charisma, he dominates the movie even when he is put down on his knees. Gives us a very new perspective on Richard Nixon and proves the point that President of the US had a quality. A very good contender for the Oscar best movie category, it already has bagged Golden Globe and SAG nominations. More than the movie Frank Langella is the top choice for best actor. Supporting actors like Michael Sheen, Sam Rockwell have done their part very well. Overall the movie is extremely good.

Dark Knight - Close call!!

With the Motion Picture Academy deciding to reverse the decision on the eligibility of the Music Score of Dark Knight, it is back in the line to bag the maximum awards. I believe the music score is one of the greatest and deserves an Oscar. Hans Zimmer with already an Oscar and James Newton Howard composing the best in the recent few years have done a great job. Way to go fellas!! See you at the red carpet. 

P.S. For those wondering what happened, the score was rejected for being named with more than 4 composers.

Top Ten Action Movies of all time!

Here is my list of ten hard action movies. I have left out movies which have super heroes, is a science fiction or is a thriller. The movies are pure action and stunts.

1. Die Hard

2. Bourne Ultimatum

3. Kill Bill series

4. Rambo

5. Gladiator

6. Lethal Weapon

7. Enter the Dragon

8. Brave Heart

9. Lord of the Rings

10. Rocky

It was pretty easy to make the list because i had already filtered the rest based on other genres. I believe Die Hard is the best action movie.

Comic strip!!

My first comic strip creation. Characters have no name. It is just me and my roommate.

Michael Crichton (October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) - The greatest!

It was a warm sunny afternoon in the streets of Nanganallur, a well developed temple suburb of Chennai city. I was scooting down college road with the shops lined on either side of me. As i passed by the savories shop i slowed down a bit wondering if i should stop for a bite. But something told me to keep going and i reached my public lending library. It was a shop around the corner and i ran inside to the Crichton section while i threw my old books near the librarian. I had just finished reading "The Terminal Man" and i was excited to read the next book of his. A few years ago i had watched Jurassic Park and had read the book later that year. Michael Crichton had changed my reading material forever and i got out of the boyish adventure novels like Hardy Boys, The 3 investigators and started reading thriller novels. With the next novel of his in my hand and with a few Archies, which i always used as buffer material in case i ran out of mainstream novels, i ran to the friendly librarian and back home. I passed the savories shop yet again but not even turning to look at it because i had the greatest treasure in my hand. Michael Crichton is one of the greatest and will be remembered for ages to come.

A strive to become IMDB regular voter!!

As we all know that IMDB is the foremost source of info about movies and the film crew. And the IMDB ratings are top notch and give us a pretty good view of a movie. But to become a regular voter or somebody whose rating is considered by IMDB for the movie to get into the top 250 he/she has to have voted for at least 1300 movies. And my aim is to become one of them. I have voted around 460 movies and still looking for old movies that i could have watched but have not voted. Here is a link to the list of movies and also TV shows.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=38522895

Please inform me of any movie that needs to be voted.

Top Ten Sci-Fi films

Well, i am a movie buff but i was brought up learning science and i love it. Put them together and what you get is pure entertainment with lot of wit. So here is my list of top ten sci-fi films that i have watched.

1. The Matrix
2. Jurassic Park
3. Star Wars Chapter IV, V & VI- A new hope, Empire strikes back & Return of the Jedi
4. Minority Report
5. Alien
6. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey
8. V for Vendatta
9. Donnie Darko
10. The Prestige

Interesting Facts; our grand old film maestro Satyajit Ray had written a script to be called The Alien back then in 1967. It was an adaptation from a Bangla science fiction book by Bankubabur Bandhu. The earliest sci-fi movie from India was a Tamil-American co-production called "Kaadu" (The Jungle) in 1952.