movei review - 'avatar'

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after a month of evading the movie, i finally watch 'avatar'... all that hype created had forewarned me i'd be disappointed once i'd seen it... like the Taj Mahal... i remember looking for the 'amazing', 'seventh wonder' thing once inside...taj mahal, not avatar...i mean you see it... it's big, white, marbled... it's got some serious sculptures and stuff... i particularly remember some butterflies done beautifully...  but really nothing moves inside me, so it's kinda a let down...

anyway, this 'avatar' movie... i go to watch it with another kindred soul who'd also managed to not see the movie... peer pressure gets all eventually!!! so he wanted to see the movie one time, however good or bad before it was taken out of all theaters and we were left to lament for eternity about the one big, great movie we'd missed... i gave in to the drama and obliged... so we got the tickets, the 3D glasses...

"mastervision", my partner mumbled, impressed already with the 3D equipment... guys have a set of genes we sane folks don't share... it's probably on the Y-chromosome...  for anything mechanical, moving, breakable... cars, bikes, machinery, motors, goggles... i have a friend who bought ray-ban Aviators to look cool in... mission accomplished, but problem's his eyesight... whenever he "looks cool", he can hardly look at the mirror and recognize himself... thanks to some +4.5 or something eyesight... so bad, i had to hold his hand all the way to the local neighbourhood shop...and he mistook a "woman walking a dog" for a "man with a fluffy cat"... at all of five feet!!!

anyway, movie was already ten minutes past when we found our seats in the dim light of our sony ericsson phones... how i miss nokia truck cell with its torches!! and there's the recognizable hero, in a wheelchair and all... all cocky and smug... totally american... on his first day in Pandora, he manages to survive all the beasties, conquer the heart of the local Pandora Chief's girl, and formulate a strategy to get them to relinquish some 'unobtanium' for his military... i did not really get why 'unobtainium' was so expensive... i mean, what'd the earthling's do with it that could make it so precious??? a kilo for twenty million!! it hardly seemed like something you could smoke or sniff!!

special effects are fine... there was one time, when a grenade exploded and debris hurtled right towards me and i panicked and nearly jumped into the seat beside me, in an attmept to evade the flying shrapnel... that was a bit embarrassing...
"hehe!! good effects, huh?? ", i smiled sheepishly at the person already occupying it...

anyway, after some hours of the movie going wherever it was easily predicted to go, we get up and reclaim the 400 bucks for our 'mastervision' goggles... and walk back through every store in the mall on our way back down...

well, that's it!! another weekend well spent!!

4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days

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it is a hair-raising, mind-numbing movie, to say the least... i had it on my laptop like forever but it's in Romanian and without subtitles... so, i hadn't come around to watching it... but finally, today, when sleep evaded me because of all the caffeine/nicotine and other abusive substances in my bloodstream, i sat down to watch it... downloaded the subtitles, synchronised them and sat down with another cup of tea to watch it...

it isn't a happy movie... the opposite actually... and it's got just three main characters... two college girls, one trying to get an illegal abortion and the other, a friend helping her... and the third is the guy who they've been 'recommended' by a previous customer(ok, not exactly)... it all happens within a day, and the movie's less than two hours long... it's such naked, honest, truth about life in communist Romania(a little research on the side was unavoidable after i was done with the movie) that i had to consciously unclench the muscles in my jaws and neck when i was done with the movie... the ones in my head are still clamped uncomfortably...

anyway, the plot is, Gabita is pregnant(the movie title is exactly how long she has been pregnant) and on a friend's recommendation, hires Mr.Bebe to do the abortion for her... her room-mate, Otilia helps her in the ordeal... Mr. Bebe is a character you grow to hate more strongly than any real person who's crossed you bad... Gabita's foolishness gets on your nerves... and you can't but sympathize with Otilia for being caught between the two... and how!

i have quite a penchant for heart-wrenching movies and 'requiem for a dream', has been my favorite for a while, but this one is definitely going in the same line!!

Other movies to get you miserable may be - Pursuit of Happyness, Road to Perdition