A lot was said
about Paul Feig and his previous movie – Bridesmaids. Most of the world was swooning over but this
author was quite surprised and has always wondered why. I really didn’t see any reason for an Academy
Award nomination for screenplay. But
what Bridesmaids couldn’t expose, The Heat does quite convincingly. Proves that the Paul Feig is currently
average at best.
Showing posts with label Melissa McCarthy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Melissa McCarthy. Show all posts
Thursday, 25 July 2013
Thursday, 13 June 2013
The Hangover 3
At the outset, I would like to apologise for this delayed review of a movie that released 2 weeks back. A friend asked me if it was similar to Hangover 2 and whether he should watch it. I hadn’t seen HO2 and so decided that I would take this opportunity to watch HO1, 2 and 3 and then review all 3 together.
Thursday, 16 February 2012
Bridesmaids
If you look at the nominations for best original screenplay in this year’s Academy awards you will find that Bridesmaids shares space with the likes of Margin Call, The Artist, Midnight in Paris and A Separation (foreign film). Makes me sit back and wonder why actually. I mean, it was a good fun storyline but had too much of crappy scenes and over the top segments for it to be called really up there. I thought the likes of Rango for e.g. was much better. What stuns me even more is that Bridesmaids has been included in the Best Screenplay for even the BAFTAs. Now I think I need a serious relook at my understanding of screenplay. It was just a simple straightforward regular semi slapstick comedy with some decent dialogues thrown in. I personally believed that it was nowhere close to being Oscar league.
Lets then go onto the performance of one Melissa McCarthy. This one for my money’s worth takes the cake yet again. She shares the space with stunning performances from Bérénice Bejo (Artist), Jessica Chastain & Octavia Spencer (Help) & Janet McTeer (Albert Nobbs). Am I seriously missing a point here? So we are saying that the over the top slapstick antics of McCarthy are superior to the sincere solid performances from the likes of Chloë Grace Moretz (Hugo) or Shailene Woodley (The Descendants). Both performances far superseded McCarthy and were from less than 18 year olds – which cannot be the reason for the Oscars ignoring them. Need to get my fundas cleared.
Bridesmaids is definitely a very enjoyably flick. So don’t get me wrong on that count. Just that it is too tacky for Oscar nominations. There are truck loads of consistency errors. The performances are honestly quite average. There are moments in the movie which make you laugh out loud due to the simplicity of humour which is yet so well spoken that one cannot help but acknowledge the effort. However, several movies through the year have done a much better job than Bridesmaids and it is disappointing to not see their names on the list.
Director Paul Fieg hasn’t directed too many features other than the reasonably well known Unaccompanied Minors. He hasn’t exceeded himself or raised the bar significantly. If anyone stood out for my money’s worth they were Kristen Wiig in the lead role and Rose Byrne who for my money’s worth was much better than McCarthy. One need not have looked too far to find a performance that was better. Nevertheless, worth a DVD Rental. Enjoyable definitely. 6 on 10.
Watch the trailer at http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi4215119129/
Lets then go onto the performance of one Melissa McCarthy. This one for my money’s worth takes the cake yet again. She shares the space with stunning performances from Bérénice Bejo (Artist), Jessica Chastain & Octavia Spencer (Help) & Janet McTeer (Albert Nobbs). Am I seriously missing a point here? So we are saying that the over the top slapstick antics of McCarthy are superior to the sincere solid performances from the likes of Chloë Grace Moretz (Hugo) or Shailene Woodley (The Descendants). Both performances far superseded McCarthy and were from less than 18 year olds – which cannot be the reason for the Oscars ignoring them. Need to get my fundas cleared.
Bridesmaids is definitely a very enjoyably flick. So don’t get me wrong on that count. Just that it is too tacky for Oscar nominations. There are truck loads of consistency errors. The performances are honestly quite average. There are moments in the movie which make you laugh out loud due to the simplicity of humour which is yet so well spoken that one cannot help but acknowledge the effort. However, several movies through the year have done a much better job than Bridesmaids and it is disappointing to not see their names on the list.
Director Paul Fieg hasn’t directed too many features other than the reasonably well known Unaccompanied Minors. He hasn’t exceeded himself or raised the bar significantly. If anyone stood out for my money’s worth they were Kristen Wiig in the lead role and Rose Byrne who for my money’s worth was much better than McCarthy. One need not have looked too far to find a performance that was better. Nevertheless, worth a DVD Rental. Enjoyable definitely. 6 on 10.
Watch the trailer at http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi4215119129/
Friday, 30 December 2011
The Back-Up Plan
I know, I know this is an old movie but then I have this compulsion of reviewing everything that I have seen darlings. “So please to be bearing with me” as they would say in colloquial Ingliss for those who have already seen this not so funny RomCom. But spare a thought for those who have not seen it and may make up their minds based on the writings of “is nacheez” (this insignificant person for those who may be unfamiliar with Urdu). There are some 4-5 movies more to be reviewed which are not recent movies and with time quickly running out for me in this calendar year – a little over 30 hours to go, I thought I should quickly get this over and done with. The Back-Up Plan is playing these days on HBO if I am not mistaken – maybe any of the movie channels from 341 to 361 on Tata Sky – forgive me if I am wrong.
Jenny from the Block may not be my favourite singer by a country mile but I must say that I have always liked the fact that she picks up extremely lovable characters in most of her movies and comes up with a performance which is sincere, honest and endearing. I guess it comes very naturally to her – especially when she plays “Jenny from the block” kind of roles. In TBUP she plays the role of Zoe – a 30 something (I am assuming) young woman who runs a pet store and is not really getting the right guy to be in a relationship with – hah!!! Whats new??? With Zoe, however, there is a peculiar problem – she wants to have a child. And quickly at that. Typically that requires someone from the opposite sex or as Zoe attempted – artificial insemination. Wonder what people back home think about the concept as such? Would a woman in India today, mind being injected with the frozen sperm of some unknown donor? Anyways, as luck would have it, she gets knocked up and meets Stan (Alex O'Loughlin) on the same day and lots of love happens – sigh…. As the write ups would say when u press the information button on your Tata Sky remote – hilarity ensues – always wondered who writes these; I am betting s/he doesn’t get paid too much.
TBUP is another example of a TV directors making an unsuccessful transition to movie direction. Whenever I study film and understand the difference between the two, I am quite certainly going to be in a better position to understand why so many of them just bomb at the BO. Alan Poul has joined the list of these bombs. Is he bad. Not really. Just not up there or different in anyways. Anyone could have come up with this as the end result. Even novice directors. There is hardly any intensity that he is able to generate with the cast. The saving grace for us men is the presence of 2 really good looking women on screen – J Lo and Noureen DeWulf. For the ladies there is Alex O’Loughlin. Nothing much to write home about the humour or acting either. Overall, an average flick. Watch if you have nothing better to watch or see or do at home. 5 on 10.
Watch the trailer at http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi4230218777/
Jenny from the Block may not be my favourite singer by a country mile but I must say that I have always liked the fact that she picks up extremely lovable characters in most of her movies and comes up with a performance which is sincere, honest and endearing. I guess it comes very naturally to her – especially when she plays “Jenny from the block” kind of roles. In TBUP she plays the role of Zoe – a 30 something (I am assuming) young woman who runs a pet store and is not really getting the right guy to be in a relationship with – hah!!! Whats new??? With Zoe, however, there is a peculiar problem – she wants to have a child. And quickly at that. Typically that requires someone from the opposite sex or as Zoe attempted – artificial insemination. Wonder what people back home think about the concept as such? Would a woman in India today, mind being injected with the frozen sperm of some unknown donor? Anyways, as luck would have it, she gets knocked up and meets Stan (Alex O'Loughlin) on the same day and lots of love happens – sigh…. As the write ups would say when u press the information button on your Tata Sky remote – hilarity ensues – always wondered who writes these; I am betting s/he doesn’t get paid too much.
TBUP is another example of a TV directors making an unsuccessful transition to movie direction. Whenever I study film and understand the difference between the two, I am quite certainly going to be in a better position to understand why so many of them just bomb at the BO. Alan Poul has joined the list of these bombs. Is he bad. Not really. Just not up there or different in anyways. Anyone could have come up with this as the end result. Even novice directors. There is hardly any intensity that he is able to generate with the cast. The saving grace for us men is the presence of 2 really good looking women on screen – J Lo and Noureen DeWulf. For the ladies there is Alex O’Loughlin. Nothing much to write home about the humour or acting either. Overall, an average flick. Watch if you have nothing better to watch or see or do at home. 5 on 10.
Watch the trailer at http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi4230218777/
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