Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy

An Anglo-French Spy saga with each person playing a role in an elaborate game of cloak and dagger set in Europa.

Spy Talk : "Each of us have spent our entire lives trying to find each other's weaknesses only to realize that life on the other side is no better."

It almost seems like the script is based on a book and after a quick search indeed found "Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy" an espionage novel by John le Carré.

Side Note :
Could not follow the movie that well since I was working on something while going through it. Need to watch again !

There use to be a time when I could get the movies that I wanted to watch without any ads in between and actually enjoy the movie.

These days watching the movie seems to involve constant channel surfing until you see want to see and then swiching again during the ad-breaks.

Top Gun

Iconic movie ! Nothing short of an adrenalin rush. It can never replace the real feeling of flying 4G inverted over a MiG-28.

Tom Cruise at his best as Maverik. Supersonic fun !

Prince of Perisa (English)

The movie keeps you engaged. The magical dagger which takes you through time to change events is a fantasy movie. A game lover of Prince of Persia, would get stung by the similarities to the background. Could have had some more imagination, but its still meets my approval.

The female lead is pretty and very explosive in her role. The Prince Dastan is ahem charming !!

Watch it if you want to see how a game story becomes a movie. You see mystical characters with american accent thats the only drawback. Watch Lawrence of Arabia and you see some real casting for a regional-period movie !

Clue (English)

A movie with 3 endings. A movie full of twist and turns. A sudden revelation now and then. There is a bunch of characters who are blackmailed. During the course of the movie a few people get murdered. The story seems to be taken from a book. The writer was full of surprise endings.

How did the murder of each person happen ? Is the plot that consumes the first and second half of the script. There are subsequently 3 possible endings that engages the viewer. Fascinating !! Creative !!

Star Trek (English)

Watched Star Trek of 2009 in the theatres. I recently picked up the DVD to relive the experience. It was worth it. I really liked the rock-n-roll music in the movie. Kirk as a maverick cadet at the Starfleet acadamy , neat script writing !!

JJ Abrams (director) has used an exceptional team to deliver Star Trek for a new generation. I come from the old generation of Star Trek fans. In fact I was a Star Trek fan before I'd seen Star wars, although Star wars was released long before the latter.

Every sundays, watching Star Trek episodes with William Shatner (Kirk) and Leonard Nimoy (Spock) used to be the highlight of the weekend. This is of course before Sherlock Homes came up. The new one, has sharp uniforms and the cast is top order. Loved Zachery as Spock the most.

Watch it if you are a science fiction fan or not !! you wont regret it.

The Kid (English)

Chaplin movie. Its a very simple story about an orphan kid. Chaplin acts as the surrogate father for most part of the movie. Its woven into a very emotional story about finding then loosing and then finding the kid.

Chaplin at his best. The story itself is very simple. Its a silent drama with a few comic moments. The Silent Era of Strong script based movies.

The Usual Suspects (English)

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Neatly constructed Screenplay. Loved the ensemble cast.
The story line is about an imaginary Gangster Kaiser Soze.

The flashback begins from a Police Line up consisting of a bunch of misfits. This is where you see some humour in the movie. El Benecio and Baldwin are too good here. Keep you laughing for a few minutes. El Benecio is supposed to be a Black-Chinese-Jew or something.

Kevin Spacy who is the narrator and the mastermind, turns out is ?? ... should see the movie. Its a movie about good criminals versus bad cops. The usual suspects is an unusual paradox !

Green Zone (English)

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Had to recommend this movie after discussing Syriana. Green Zone is a similar movie of control. The US have urged the world to attack Iraq and eliminate WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) which is but an illusion.

There is no WMD in Iraq. Parallely the US are restoring democracy by introducing a puppet as the President. Matt Daemon is the Chief Warrant Officer who is tasked with finding the locations of the WMDs. Every site that he is ordered to investigate turns out to be a dead-end. why is he given the wrong intel on every mission ?

The truth is slowly revealed of how there are no WMDs in Iraq. The real reason has been to setup a puppet government for Iraq using WMDs as camouflage.

The truth well told !

Syriana (English)

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You get to learn how the CIA is the puppet master of the middle east. In the words of one of the characters, Prince Nasir "The US does not want Iran to become democratic. They want to control the oil." The Prince can potentially become the Emir of Iran and then sell oil to China instead of US. He is a target to be killed.

The plot of the movie is to show the cause and effect of the Merger of 2 big Oil companies. The merger itself is not the issue. The main problem is once this US merged company gets oil from Iran, does the economy of Iran benefit. Not until the puppet master controls them. Iran is not allowed to prosper as long as they milked for Oil.

The CIA gets cheap Oil for US by controlling the Emir. The next Emir is neatly positioned by the agency using the strife between the princes and royalty of Iran.

The story is the star here. The heavy casting are a neatly woven ensemble that makes great story telling. Had to see it with subtitles to understand the big picture.

Dream Girls (English)

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An interesting musical about the dreams of 3 talented girls and their hopes to record hit songs. The lyrics and the music has captured the temperament of the 70s perfectly.

There are many twist and turns in music that leave you wanting more. I actually liked Eddie Murphy in his role of a R&B star. He keeps your attention with his antics.

The girls sang wonderfully especially the lead singer of the group - Effie White (Jennifer Hudson). The music composition for almost all the songs were fantastic.

Watch it ! you won't be musically disappointed.

Clockwise (English)

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A true british comedy. Very well structured. Its one of the movies where it ends like a huge snowball down a mountain. Thats right ! a big avalanche of comedies ...

I've laughed quite a bit through the movie and loved the characters eccentricities. One being his constant rehearsal of his speech. His thoughts are intertwined with the speech.

Which always begin with "This is a historical moment ... (referring to his appointment as the Chairperson of the Head Masters Conference) I have come a long way, (correcting his thoughts about the long journey to the Conference )no, I have to go a long way ..."

Its a british movie which I managed to get from the British Council Library.