{"id":1344,"date":"2009-03-30T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2009-03-30T08:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T03:25:00","slug":"quick-movie-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2009\/03\/30\/quick-movie-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been seriously falling behind in Movie watching.<\/p>\n<p>But, since the beginning of the month &#8211; i have begun making a tentative time table. At least one Movie a week. See, it start to end. Do not let boredom or impatience overcome you. Watch. Don&#8217;t react. Watch from beginning fade in to end fade out.<\/p>\n<p>I started by watching stuff that is easy on the brain.<br \/>\nLast week was [tag]Australia[\/tag], and last night was [tag]Quantam of Solace[\/tag].<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0455824\/\">Australia<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Australia is a film in the tradition of &#8216;Thorn Birds&#8217; or &#8216;Gone with the Wind&#8217; &#8211; essentially where history is used as a prop to get two diametrically opposite characters together &#8212; Lady and the Hunter, the freedom fighter and the soldier, the priest and the confessor &#8212; together. Stories that would be described as Historical Romances.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apovcalamur.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/australia-20080417080508330_640w.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1345\" title=\"australia-20080417080508330_640w\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calamur.org\/gargi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/australia-20080417080508330_640w.jpg?resize=450%2C251\" alt=\"australia-20080417080508330_640w\" width=\"450\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lady from England, loves horses &#8211; comes to Australia to sell her farm &#8211; and falls in motherhood with a half Aboriginal half white child &#8211; and in lust with a cattle driver &#8211; Hugh Jackman. And despite racism, wars, bombs, the japanese and their own pig headedness (no romantic tale can be complete without retard level differences between the couple) &#8211; they traverse across a gorgeous looking Australia to live happily ever after \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apovcalamur.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/australia-2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calamur.org\/gargi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/australia-2.jpg?resize=450%2C251\" alt=\"australia-2\" title=\"australia-2\" width=\"450\" height=\"251\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1346\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, Australia looks wonderful &#8230; it&#8217;s nice, uncomplicated story telling. could have been 20 minutes shorter &#8230; but then, it could have been 20 minutes longer \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0830515\/\">Quantum of Solace<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apovcalamur.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/james_bond_quantum_of_solace_poster.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/apovcalamur.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/james_bond_quantum_of_solace_poster.jpg?resize=500%2C763\" alt=\"james_bond_quantum_of_solace_poster\" title=\"james_bond_quantum_of_solace_poster\" width=\"500\" height=\"763\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1347\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Craig looks good. that is pretty much what i can say about the film.<br \/>\nthe film is a sequence of chase, kill, chase kill, chase kill, some terse dialogue that doesn&#8217;t make sense, chase, kill, chase, kill, chase, kill and <strong>the end<\/strong>&#8230;. someone stole the script and they decided to make a film without one \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\ngood to watch if you are a completionist &#8211; or an action director looking for inspiration ! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been seriously falling behind in Movie watching. 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