Which non-indian film u saw recently has made u post here???

[groucho070]

Coraline - visual reedhiyila oru nalla padam
Niece and nephew liked it[/code]

enakku pidikkala.. i think its stritly for kids..

Kids like grouch? Sure...

Coraline (2009)

Beautiful. Fanstastic. How come I missed it first time around?

GM: Dey, ithe kelviya ettana tadavadaa ketpa?

[kid-glove]

You aren't alone here bud, I liked it too..

[groucho070]

Glad you liked it too Thilak. Watch The Expendables, and please don't forget to switch off the brain

[kid-glove]

Groucho,
There was a time (long before Internet invasion) when I was feeding on Arnie, Stallone, JCVD and Steven Seagal films on AXN. Don't where I left my brain then I'll have no problems.

[kid-glove]

Zodiac

reNdarai maNi nEram night kaN muzichu paarthEn

and, pidikaLai. Atha sollunga

eppo thrill varumnu wait paNradhu dhaan thrill pOla

I was searching for other reactions and tada!

nAnum oru 3 Zodiac padam pArthutten. oNNu kooda thERala. nejamAthAn solreengaLA? Testament? "athu ennathu unga mAstar pLANN?"

I felt everyone in the movie Ruffalo Downey, Gyllenhall, his wife, even Dermot Mulroney was exceptionally well characterized and he did an excellent job of capturing the fear that gripped San Francisco in the 70's that made catching the killer very difficult. I enjoyed the movie quite a bit.

Indeed Compli, in deed..

[ajaybaskar]

What happened to JCVD? My fav hero during my school days.

[kid-glove]

He acted in a film called JCVD that's eminently watchable and recommended..

[Sarna]

The great dictator - charlie chaplin - this man has so much control over his acting...that too in 1940

Charlie chaplin - dictionary/encyclopedia of controlled acting.

[groucho070]

What happened to JCVD? My fav hero during my school days.

JCVD and Seagal was approached but they refused. Stallone, "They have their own idea about their career"-nu solli siricharaam

[P_R]

I felt everyone in the movie Ruffalo Downey, Gyllenhall, his wife, even Dermot Mulroney was exceptionally well characterized and he did an excellent job of capturing the fear that gripped San Francisco in the 70's that made catching the killer very difficult. I enjoyed the movie quite a bit.

Indeed Compli, in deed..

I was bored very easily.

In that lakeside killing scene when the killer is first shown in full daylight engaging in conversation with the couple I felt something was seriously wrong about the film. If they were going to show him in broad daylight so soon in the movie why bother cloaking him in shadows thus long. Half the fizz was out then.

After that it was unending back and forth.

Department red tapism, all-being there and missed, self importance, Downey's issues, being at it taking its toll etc.

Regarding 'being at it for so long taking its toll' the performance I like a lot is Stephen Rea in Citizen X. It is also a thriller movie where, to quote Charlie Kaufman as mentioned by equa, "pretty much nothing happens". But the sense of desparation, being wedded to the problem for far too long etc. came out really well.

The scene where the boss asks the inspector to take off, his partner bailing out on him, Jake Gyllenhall taking obsessing endlessly reminded me of how much more impressive Rea was (all of this rolled into one). You can sense the weight of the whole investigation on him etc. Which is what I think Zodiac was trying to show.

To me it was a thriller that didn't thrill.
Perhaps the point was 'this is how bland an actual serial killer trail is' and all. If so, that is hardly ever a sufficient argument for making it interesting to watch.

Anyway, one thing that rankled me a lot was the music. It seemed incongruous to a film of this type (perhaps this was also about going against the type). Did you also feel this way? I found the BGM even lively at times (when the puzzles came in for instance) and left me quite confused. It was like Fincher was challenging the audience to feel thrilled!

I guess this is a hit-or-miss movie with little middle ground.