The Eye (2002), by the Pang brothers, at home => Not the recent Alba flick, but the original chinese film. A very good film, which I could describe as a mix between
The Sixth Sense and
The Mothman Prophecies.
Naina (2005), by Shripal Morakhia, on DVD => horrifyingly bad indian remake of
The Eye, trying to double the fun by adding references to
The Ring,
The Grudge and
Dark Water. The effects are pathetic and the actors are worse than Paris Hilton on a lazy day.
The Eye deserves to be watched.
Naina deserves to be scorned. The plan was to go see the Alba remake at the cinema afterwards but then I realized the alleged stinkfest wasn't showing anywhere anymore...something to do with it being a stinkfest I presume (still it can't be worse than
Naina)
First Daughter (2004), by
Forest Whitaker, on DVD => so this is the movie Forest turned
Lost down for... A generic, by-the-numbers, cheesy tween romance. Don't get me wrong it was watchable for sure and Forest does some interesting directing, blurring the lines between scenes in a way I've always wanted to do, but there isn't anything special about this film and the (very) similarly-themed
Mandy Moore starrer
Chasing Liberty is so much better.
Fool's Gold, at the cinema => It wasn't
that bad. Sure it was nowhere near great and I'll agree with a person who said the film couldn't decide what it wanted to be. But it wasn't
that bad. Probably not worth the price of a cinema ticket (hey I don't pay for my tickets) but watchable. The similarly themed
Into The Blue was much better. On a side note, isn't it amazing how
Kate Hudson seems incapable of delivering a hit movie? She's a financial black hole yet struts around like she's the hottest thing in Hollywood. Girl must suck a lot of dick!
Salaam-E-Ishq (2007), by Nikhil Advani, on DVD => A very good romantic film, part drama, part comedy. Somewhat similar to
Love Actually (but not at all a copy), a movie where we follow the love stories of 6 couples all around the world. After his excellent first film (
Kal Ho Naa Ho), gifted young director Nikhil Advani proves that he's one to follow.
The Other Boleyn Girl, at the cinema => An interesting piece of history (though not 100% accurate from what I hear) but not much more. Skharlott Hohansson has never been my type but it was hilarious how ugly she looks when next to true beauty like
Natalie Portman (this was even more obvious at the premieres). Nat gets rapingly buttfucked in one scene when Eric Bana couldn't take it anymore which was pretty funny (though not as much as
Lust Caution's rape scene). A fun thing is also that this can be seen as a prequel to Shekhar Kapur's
Elizabeth movies, though there's no "official" connection.
Interestingly enough I had a strange dream the night before going to see
The Other Boleyn Girl (without knowing I was gonna go watch it) in which I was happily married to
Natalie Portman. In a way it was a good dream because we loved each other very much and in a way it wasn't because we were threatened at gunpoint some time during the dream...weird, I know...
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