Movies galore

I just realized how I am lagging behind with this blog. The other one, has 49 posts and this one has 30 less. OK, 29 less. Anyway, I mostly save my rantings about life for that one, and movies for this one. I have reduced my movie-watching a bit nowadays, thanks to Mommy dearest, but yes, I did manage to get a few done. And there's lots. I'm afraid I can't write full fledged reviews, but I shall surely do as and when I manage to scrimp a little time.

Saving Private Ryan

Lots of blood, action, skin, and gore. Not typically my stuff, but this was part of my research on the 'Why guys are so weird' thesis. And as I have readily testified on so many occasions, I find fighting very sexy. This movie, is an Oscar-winning one, and no doubt, Tom Hanks - amazing. He salvages most sagging movies with his performances, and enhances the good ones. And the theme was off-beat. Not the typical movie about how soldiers face hardships and how they miss the family and the after-effects of war, though this does form an integral part of the story. It is about how eight men reluctantly set out on a mission to find a soldier who has lost all his brothers in the war, and they must find him, for his mother does not have any body else to fall back on. It is about selflessness, and about Ryan promising to live his life well - six men have given up theirs for his. I particularly liked the last scene - in which the veteran Ryan visits Miller's (Hanks) grave and tells his soul, that he has earned it, and lived a good life.

Bride Wars

Frilly, frothy, bitchy and very enjoyable. We all love a good fight, don't we? As long as we're not in the middle of it! And every one enjoys a cat-fight, and this movie is just about that. Childhood friends Emma (Hathaway, very pretty) and Liv (Hudson, bitchy and ruthless) turn into foes when forced to share the same date, time and venue for their respective weddings. Both are unwilling to compromise, or see the other's point of view. And this leads to a series of Bride Wars, in which both of them try their best to sabotage each other's weddings - including tanning the other orange, and colouring hair blue. If I were any of their wedding, I would be scared - very scared.

A perfect chick-flick, to watch with your girlfriends.

Princess Diaries

Anne Hathaway is at it again. She is perfect as the clumsy high-school teen who transforms into the graceful princess. It tells us how she copes with the sudden catastrophe thrust on her - as she slowly starts to drift from her best friends and family. It tells us how she manages to savour the best of both worlds - as a world-famous royal, as well as the regular high school teen. At one moment, she addresses a press conference in her long gown and tiara, while the other, she gets hit by a ball in her gym class. On the whole, very sweet and girly movie. Fun to watch.