My
expectations were a lot more. A lot more horror-thriller. Especially after
seeing its honest trailer which was hilarious yet a good adveritzing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGgA9t7mghY). We ordered food
at my friend's place. Food came quickly and hunger was satisfied. Also while
having dinner (some good Asian from Mini Wok: a Korean type rice stew which my
friend thought was rice before it arrived (reminded me more of Korean soup I
had had at Cafe Maroo once...was ok), steamed rice which he had not expected to
come with the Masaman curry (some nice light Thai style yellow meat curry,
thin, coconuty, delicious; unfortunately ruined by chewy bamboo shoots) and
some sticky starter-type red dish) we saw Apocalypto, a well-directed movie by
a historically inaccurate Mel Gibson. And Predator was on. Which was going to
be followed by Predator 2. And I chose to not see it, as I don't like Arnav
Shivajinagar very much. Which was good as I would have been triply more
disappointed.
Movie was the 11:10 show at City Pride Kothrud, which looked more like a site from No Country For Old Men. We had some Ti-Amo gelato (he had Dark Chocolate and I Belgian Chocolate. Mine was a bit sweeter, that's all). Unfortunately it was given in cups and there were no cones. This was an issue as once the movie-theatre went dark, lack of reflection of light onto the retina resulted us stabbing the ice-cream in the dark.
The movie was bad. Random things happen. Random comedy happens. More random than Chala Hawa Yeu Dya. One-liners stick out like badly applied eye-liners. People die randomly. There is failed attempt at making characters 3-D. But they die before emotional investment can be made. Apparently predators are more dangerous to good writing than naked women (if you see, you will know, but you won't understand). The regret was strong in the intermission. It got a stranglehold after.
Exposition is badly framed. On
this note, please see (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq5A5bppyUg). Towards
the end, the heroine(?) amasses super-soldier talent just by watching insane
killers. The hero does NOT use invisibility he gained except once. Everybody
can use alien technology and decipher it. There are more "Whats?" and
"WTF?" in the last 10 mins then a James exclaiming at his working
steam engine.
Alfie Allen's talent was wasted.
The lead actress was given a half-baked character: neither
"strong-willed" eye-candy (like Huntington-Whiteley in Transformers)
nor a genuine meaty role (like Furiosa). Boyd Holbrook looks like a discount
Hugh Jackman. Jacob Tremblay is the only saving grace.
Getting out of the theatre and onto the streets was a surreal experience: seemed we were stuck in an endless loop of corridors and stairs: as if we were in the computer game 'Wolf' designed by Escher. Yet that was the most exciting bit of time spent in the complex that evening.
On the way I noticed that all 24-hour pharmacies that are open at night were on the right side of the road.
The only time I was scared last night was while driving my friend home and we entered in a galli full of sleeping dogs. The heart skipped a beat, but we managed to let them lie.
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Movie Impressment: Ishan Tuljapurkar
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