Tuesday, May 09, 2006

The Bridges of Madison County

Bridges of Madison County

The movie was a “good one”. Dominated by Meryl streep. Didn't like Clint. He is better at directing than in acting. He should have offered the role to somebody else and stayed out of it. Robert Redford would have been perfect for the role. It is a shame that they considered him but didn't offer him. Meryl Streep ruined (in a good way) the movie by dominating it. Didn't like the story line. The "falling in love" part looked more in the lines of "she was sexually starved", or "seventh year itching (for her)", rather than "love". and His "love" for her looked in the lines of "manipulation" until he leaves her everything after his death. Probably that was the best during their time (what? Is 1995 considered as "old days" these days? ughh!!.. Awright, the movie was set in a older time), again considering their time, looking at it sympathetically, Meryl streep was good. (oops, its her again). Oh yes, Clint's Direction was damn good. Awestruck by his direction, the way he chose to express her first strike of dilamma.

Loved the house. Would do anything to get one like that. Shame it was burnt down.

Didn't like the bridges. Have seen much more dreamy and beautiful ones, which are better suitable for the movie.

The movie is “neither here nor there” type. It is a compromise between "realistic" movies and "dreamy, romantic" types. Didn't score (with me) in either field.

Surely it is a delight to watch Meryl Streep and Clint's direction (Clint Eastwood).


updated: It looked like as if they were going for a realistic type. rustic bridges, wild flowers, guy not bothered to tell her to wait, keeps on shooting, even when he sees a note, he didn't read it immediately as he was more concerned about the lighting.. she feels insecured just after sleeping together. also, it was clearly shown that she was sexually starved.. even her italian background works well with the "realistic" idea. the trivia says that, Bruce Beresford was chosen to direct the movie before Clint, and Bruce wanted to cast the heroine English, which would have suited if they wanted the movie a dreamy-romantic type. Italian accent goes well with the "realistic" feeling. After the "sleeping together part", she even explains that may be if they start living together probably they will lose what they think they have etc. etc.. fine. it was going good until they confuse themselves with "love of their lives" concept.. But, it was still ok, as it is all about "confusion", well, I thought. but, the movie demanded insisted and stamped on the concept that it is indeed "love of life". There were it confused me. What do they want us believe? a realistic movie with facts hitting your face? (i.e she is sexually starved and he was shallow and opportunistic) or "Love of life", falling in love at the first sight? Once you decide it is going to the later case, I am all for it, show us that they fell in love at first sight, it was all signs and what not.. I like Serendipity and Fools rush in and even Sleepless in Seatle for that. Whereas in bridges of Madison county, they are confused. I like the good girl for its right portrayal of reality hitting your face. it was all about seventh year itching and sex. when Jen agrees to have sex with bubba (Tim Blake Nelson) (the blackmailer), you just can't bear that, but it adds to the "hitting your face" factor. The movie was made in a such a way that you get the incredibly boring life Jen has been living. You feel bored. that is the idea of the movie. Bridges of Madison County was, as I have mentioned before, a compromise between the two and didn't score in either field. They were confused.



Once. Why not.


Romantic movies I like

(will add others later).

49 Comments:

Blogger Dadoji said...

Have you read the book?

I am tempted to write a strong strong rejoinder but I think I will let this pass. Have too many things to bother about.

Instead, I will recommend Cider House Rules and On Golden Pond.

12:21 AM  
Blogger Premalatha said...

Hi Dadoji,

I will have to edit the post to add more on why I think like that. :)

Please do write the rejoinder when you have time. anytime. no hurry. but would like to really really argue on that with you. :)

5:33 AM  
Blogger Premalatha said...

Dadoji, I have not read the book. I might try. I am too lazy these days. Got four books unfinished at home.

I will add the movies you have suggested to my list and will report back when I have seen them. :)

6:01 AM  
Blogger Dadoji said...

Okay, you got a deal. I will write a rejoinder sometime this weekend. But first I will read the update.

6:38 AM  
Blogger Dadoji said...

Okay, read the update. I am going to give you one last chance to read the book and redeem yourself. It was not at all about sex. Far from it.

- Demolition Man
>:)

6:40 AM  
Blogger Premalatha said...

evil, evil, truly evil.

:D

well, if the book was about more than sex, then the movie failed to convey that. huwzthat!
:)

8:36 AM  
Blogger Premalatha said...

OK,

it is about little more than sex. She was alone, has lost her interests/passions.. but she attributes these thing to her "not-good" husband. That is what is called seventh year itching. if she realises that that is how life goes.. after a certain age a child is no more a child and will have to accept the fact that he/she has to stop playing in the streets. move on. after few more years, a girl/boy is a man/woman and will have to move on. after marriage a father/mother will have a different role to play, and there will be some compromises we all will have to do. this is nobody's fault. it is just life. this is not because of lack of love for her. her newly found so called love of life would also have turned into another typical husband if she had chose to run away with him. this is what she herself realises when she is in a dilamma to run away with him. until that part the movie was going good.

Love is all about caring. Caring that the other person is happy. not about self-happiness. Love is about other person. not about self.

She was a one selfish woman. She came to america for "america". She was not in love with her husband in the first place. She was disappointed with her life because the dusty iowa was not what she imagined. housewife life was not what she imagined. If she was passionate about teaching, she would have stayed in Italy. Now she thinks that was her passion, because she is dissappointed in what she has got. that is all. She was a one big selfish woman.

huwztat!!

8:59 AM  
Blogger Premalatha said...

sudha,

After reading this post, your mind will be prejudistic and will be looking for his manipulative moves, how her starving is portrayed... :D

objective achieved. :D

5:28 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Interesting analysis! How about a comparison of "Mr. and Mrs. Iyer" to this movie?

11:54 AM  
Blogger Premalatha said...

Madura,

I am glad you found this post yourself. I was going to send it to you. :D

Will do Mr.& Mrs. Iyer as well. Wasn't it about two people travelling in a bus find each other interesting and decide to live together? I haven't seen it. But surely will add it to my list.

:)

7:56 AM  
Blogger Dadoji said...

Looks ter me that if I keep challenging your review and keep threatening to write a rejoinder you will keep reconsidering the movie and discover the finer details. :-P

The movie does not fail to convey what the story is all about. It is neither about selfishness nor about sex. It is all about art and music and passion and old souls and memories. And love! See the movie again and read carefully the note she writes to him inviting him for dinner.

I first read the book and then watched the movie. I, too, felt that Robert Redford would have been better. But one realised that while Robert Redford had the looks and the skills, he wasn't really what the original Robert Kincaid was like. "Hard". So, thinking back to the story I feel happy that Clint decided he was too greedy to let the role pass him by.

You might want to consider the possibility that she "cared" for her children and husband and, therefore, decided to not elope. If you want to see a selfish woman see the Scarlett O'Hara portrayed by Vivian Leigh in Gone With The Wind.

9:25 AM  
Blogger Premalatha said...

I am not against selfisheness. it is the right kind of emotion. but, one needs to accept that it is what it is. coating that using "love" is something I cannot accept. Admit it that she was selfish and live with it. that is what I am saying.

Sex is not wrong either, they admitted it until midway, then started confusing it with some thing called "love".

My point was, they were confused. they were not clear in what they wanted to say.

4:24 AM  
Blogger Dadoji said...

> am just piqued that u seemed to suggest

sudha, I haven't suggested that. Whether one considers those wrong or right is one's prerogative. For the record, I consider both right and wrong depending on circumstances. No black-and-white there for me.

I have clearly stated that those things are not the focus of *this* movie and mentioned another movie where selfishness is the focus. Do you want me to mention another good movie where sex is the focus - just for sake of completeness? An officer with a rose. There you go.

There was absolutely *nothing* that Francesca depended on her family for that Robert could not have given her. He was everything in her that was dormant for a long long time.

Yes, I have read GWTW and MOMC a number of times each. I like Scarlett a lot but I like Rhett even more. Shocking that Clark Gable was not given an Oscar.

> nenjam marapathillai
Sorry, you will have to translate that for me. Love may seek fulfillment but can yet be selfless. If you believe otherwise then you are missing out on a very tender aspect of love is all I can say. Moving on or not moving on is totally separate from selfless/selfish nature. Let me ask you, have you read the book or seen the movie? I recommend you do both - in any order - instead of speculating on what I am saying. :-)

premalatha,

There is no confusion. The whole story is about longing and art and passion and et al as I mentioned. Perhaps you need to watch is again and pay attention to the finer details such as the "contents" of the note she writes to him. I will write a review now for sure....question is when am I going to be able to do that.

8:49 AM  
Blogger Dadoji said...

sudha,

Overlooking does not mean it does not exist - as your original contention was. I can understand acknowledging and overlooking as opposed to denial as you suggested. There is a difference - BIG one.

Okay, here is some food for thought for both of you but mainly for premalatha. Explain this and we are through. If it was about sex and rush-of-the-moment fling then why did she keep thinking of him and go to the extent of having her ashes scattered where his were? I quote from the book (this is also implied in the movie if not quoted explicitly)

I' sure you found my burial request incomprehensible, thinking perhaps it was the product of a confused old woman. After reading the 1982 Seattle attorney's letter and my notebooks, you'll understand why I made the request.I gave my family my life, I gave Robert Kincaid what was left of me.

12:11 AM  
Blogger Dadoji said...

sudha,

You are again misreading what I said. I quote again:

Love may seek fulfillment but can yet be selfless. If you believe otherwise then you are missing out on a very tender aspect of love is all I can say.

So, while I agree that tender aspects != selfless love, my point was that selfless love = one of the tender aspects of love. Read my original comment again. And that is why I said that if you refuse to acknowledge this then *you* are missing out on tender aspect of love viz selfless love. Got it?

I will bring the book along on 20th if you would like a quick browse.

premalatha,

You have gone all quiet. Busy with the planning & preparations, huh?

11:25 PM  
Blogger Dadoji said...

sudha,

It is not a matter of what works for me. I am merely trying to prevent you from mis-interpreting my comments. Oh well; perhaps it is best that I stop for my attempts appear to be futile anyway in light of your self-confessed pre-existing prejudice.

You are recommending things to me that I am already well aware of. I have that book and the DVD. I have also read Oliver's Story.

Want another recommendation? This one is full of love and sex. Lots of both. Of moon and a story that has a hole in it. You can jump into that hole and come right back to the middle of the story. And a lovely song of the sun. It is a spanish film that I recently got to watch and maybe I will buy the DVD. Let me know.

Cheers!

12:50 AM  
Blogger Premalatha said...

me gone quiet for two reasons.

yes, planning and organisations.. lot to do, still.

still thinking howelse to contiue this arguement with you, without me going too cruel, (which I am quite capable of.. LOL).

Will certainly contiue though. may be during our party? I will try in my best Hindi too. :)

In the meantime, Sudha takes over. :)

4:32 AM  
Blogger Dadoji said...

> without me going too cruel

Bring it on!

> may be during our party?

Look, if you are going to bring whole UKMakkal into this to intimidate me then fuhgeddabaddit. >:)

> I will try in my best Hindi too

Uh-oh!
*thinks hard*
*thinks harder*
*gulp*
*runs for cover*

5:56 AM  
Blogger Premalatha said...

LOL.

Party is the main thing that is keeping me busy. will be back to fight with you.

won't say a word during the party. deal.

:)

aap kya jaanthei hai mere hindike baremein? mein bahuth achi hindi bolthi hoon. Dehradunvi, oh bhi. :)

7:29 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

quite a debate here! interesting indeed. dont want to interrupt your flow in anyway! But here is a follow up on the previous post. Yes Mr.&Mrs.Iyer is about two who meet in a bus. The movie starts out like a doordarshan serial, but definitely gets better. Quite a lot of resemblances to BoMC in the thematic lines, but more puritan analysis. Aparna Sen, gives you a woman, whose husband you never get to know, and the woman never remarks about her married life, is too busy living life, has plenty of prejudices that possibly could much run against the hero, and yet has a warm soul, lovely heart, that is able to observe a gentleness of a human, and the heart does beat a melody at the discovery of an interesting human and especially while receiving their appreciative attention. I thought that may clarify much of the premise that is being discussed here. Love sometimes happens. It is wonderful even if it is just a passing moment. We cherish it. Lust is just always there and gets into rhythm with love very rarely, (may be only once as theorized by many) beautifully! BoMC was just one such moment for both the man and the woman I thought! Aparna gives it a tighter experiment on the honest feelings of a female soul in Mr.&Mrs.Iyer story line.

5:03 PM  
Blogger Dadoji said...

sudha,

It is available with Blockbuster. Sex and Lucia.

madura,

Haven't seen that one yet but someday I will. That's one excellent post BTW.

12:42 AM  
Blogger Dadoji said...

oh BTW madura,

> Bridges of Madison County was only a very sentimentalized hollywood version of it, with all due respect to Meryl Streep. Sophia is too real. Meryl is too romantic.

Do you continue to hold on to this view?

Meryl is not half as romantic as some people in real life.

4:13 AM  
Blogger Premalatha said...

Madura, I liked Meryls' italian accent and her mannerisms, body language. wow.

I must see Mr.&Mrs. Iyer. Have added to my list.

Have you seen "Mrs. Henderson Presents"? I am going to write about it. Also there is another movie, "Meet Joe Black". I want to write separate posts. I have seen MJB several times. Still don't get bored with it.

regarding "the concept of Love", I was not going too detailed about it. I agree Love does happen during a passing moment, at times. It does not have to have started as love, I can even live with its progress from mere attraction, to need to selfishness and then to love. It happens as well. But that is not what I was talking about.

I was talking about the makers of the movie being confused in what they wanted to say. They started off with saying "its all happened because she was starving" and then suddenly they forgot and moved to "love". It was the story line I was talking about.

I must post on "Mrs. Henderson presents" and "Meet Joe Black" to finish this debate, (yes, you are right, its quite a debate, isn't it. Credit goes to Dadoji. :) )

5:34 AM  
Blogger Dadoji said...

latha,

What exactly was she starving of? Was she not starving of love? In that case, how is the progression in the story and the movie confused?

And first you say

> I can even live with its progress from mere attraction, to need to selfishness and then to love. It happens as well.

then you say

> They started off with saying "its all happened because she was starving" and then suddenly they forgot and moved to "love".

Now, I am confused by your confusion.

6:31 AM  
Blogger Premalatha said...

//>> They started off with saying "its all happened because she was starving" and then suddenly they forgot and moved to "love".

Now, I am confused by your confusion.//

They cannot jump. they have to show a justifiable gradual move. even if it is a jump, they should care to show it when exactly did this thing (love) happen?. they didnn't.

//>What exactly was she starving of?

She was starving of sex. it was too clearly shown to go unnoticed.

//>Now, I am confused by your confusion.

It was the movie makers and the characters in the movie who were confused.

6:51 AM  
Blogger Premalatha said...

correction to my last but one comment:

Love could happen during a passing moment, at times.

7:00 AM  
Blogger Dadoji said...

oh latha, oh latha, what am I going to do with you?

*shakes head*

You are now talking like my school headmistress who wanted me to deliver a 3 minute speech at the rate I would if I had 30 minutes.

Within the time span of 2 hours where they are trying to show what happened in 4 days, how gradual a change can a director possibly show?

> She was starving of sex.

You mean to tell me it was sex that caused her to:

1. Have the only affair of her life
2. Remember those 4 nights for the remaining 4 decades of her life
3. Write to her childeren in detail
4. Have her body cremated and ashes scattered instead of the usual burial

etc. etc.?

What was clearly shown was their making love - not sex.

Okay. That tells me I should disengage from this debate because you haven't answered the questions I asked and you haven't paid attention to her note either.

Cheers!

7:22 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi prems, yes mjb has some very interesting dialogues doesnt it? I dont remember the movie that well, but thought it had some delightful profound quotes. Havent seen 'Mrs.H presents' yet. Should see it then!
mjb reminded me of "city of angels" very simillar story, but no sharp dialogues, but a total double chocolate romantic cake! :) I loved Meg Ryan too for quite some time. Watched all her movies. Watched all of Meryl's too. Oddly enough they portray very different roles of womanhood. Meg was my sweet and Meryl was my spice, loved them both!
Dadoji,
Yes the shelf life of my own opinion is somewhere between 3 seconds to 3 months, especially when it is about life and its meaning! :) ... But my recorded opinions definitely reflect my growing up for me, sometimes we do grow up in 3 seconds after we express something! :) ... yes we do!
I re-read my whole strada again, and realized what I was suffering from then in 2005! Diaries are great reflections of our growing up. But sometimes I have been wiser as a teenager than as an adult! :) ... Meryl I guess I know only in movies! No clue about her real life. Life is a puzzle. But it is wonderful to learn it and look back and sometimes verify through a movie!!! :) Good movies give questions that lead us to the answers we always searched for in ourselves, I think! And our movie reviews tells how we look at life at that moment in our life! :) It can change, right? But the best of all is when discussing after a movie with a good friend, we learn newer perspectives and I absolutely enjoy that. It is easy to talk about a movie, than ask a question straight, sometimes. I love that! :)

7:26 AM  
Blogger Dadoji said...

madura,

I meant the respective characters and not the actresses in the real life. Otherwise, Sophia ....ooo la la...mamma mia!

Sorry but I am unable to decipher the answer from your answer. I appreciate the views though.

Meg is sweet but Meryl is more than spice. One of the *real* actresses. Just check her IMDB listing. But I digress.

7:44 AM  
Blogger Premalatha said...

Dadoji,

I am going to skip all your questions. I wish you could see how I am smiling right now. :)

anyway, yes, Meryl is a complete "actress".

@Madura
Yes, Meg is my sweet girl too.

I love "you've got mail". I love that movie for the portrayal of my kind of man than about Meg. It was Tom who stole the show for me. It was his charcter I love in that movie.

Balan refused to see that movie terming it as "Chick flick" !!!

MJB...mmm double chocolate indeed.
The coffee shop guy. :)
The Stiff Brad wasn't bad either. Loved Ants, loved the heroine, loved Dew, loved everyone in that movie. It was flawless one for me.
:)

8:23 AM  
Blogger Premalatha said...

@Madura,
Haven't seen city of Angels. Have added to the list too.

I totally agree with your (quoted below) every word.

//Yes the shelf life of my own opinion is somewhere between 3 seconds to 3 months, especially when it is about life and its meaning! :) ... But my recorded opinions definitely reflect my growing up for me, sometimes we do grow up in 3 seconds after we express something! :) ... yes we do!
I re-read my whole strada again, and realized what I was suffering from then in 2005! Diaries are great reflections of our growing up. ....///
// Life is a puzzle. But it is wonderful to learn it and look back and sometimes verify through a movie!!! :) Good movies give questions that lead us to the answers we always searched for in ourselves, I think! And our movie reviews tells how we look at life at that moment in our life! :) It can change, right? But the best of all is when discussing after a movie with a good friend, we learn newer perspectives and I absolutely enjoy that. It is easy to talk about a movie, than ask a question straight, sometimes. I love that! :)//

:)

8:34 AM  
Blogger Premalatha said...

Madura,

Meg's Kate and the Leopard! Loved that one too. :)
Meryl's Manchurian Candidate was excellent too. (not a romantic movie category).

Also Mrs. Henderson is not exactly a romantic movie, but there is that element there as well.

9:59 AM  
Blogger Dadoji said...

> Kate and the Leopard

Did the Leopard eat Kate? heh heh
It is Kate and Leopold. Decent movie but enjoyed it immensely because of Graeters Ice-cream that I had in my hands.

3:31 AM  
Blogger Premalatha said...

>Did the Leopard eat Kate?
>Leopold

ughhh...

:)

3:35 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey prems and dadoji, thank you for the very nice words. I went on thinking chocolate chocolate for the next two hours, drove around random streets, found prax mid-day, went hunting for chocolates together, and bought a pound of variety pack from a french store for $32 (never been so crazy) and ate it all in 24 hours (ofcourse with prax!). I come back and seeing an ice-cream hyperlink. hmmmm ... and ... aah life's little pleasures. chocolates. movies. friends. blogs. Its a wonderful life really!

12:59 PM  
Blogger Dadoji said...

She eats a pound of chocolates (okay, maybe 3/4th pound) in a day and just *tells* me about it. Bad bad bad.

So, I am going to go visit the Thornton's shop across the street and give their Indulgence Hamper a look-see. They have chocolates *and* ice-creams. All heavenly stuff.

So there!

The only problem is, every time I walk over to there I miss the Saint and the Little Devil. *sniff*

11:33 PM  
Blogger The Visitor said...

Loved the debate.

Reached here from Madura's blog.

See you all often. :)

4:04 AM  
Blogger The Visitor said...

How about reviews of Golden oldies -
My Fair Lady
Gandhi - as a historical

Please review keeping in mind the era they were made.

4:13 AM  
Blogger Premalatha said...

Hi visitor,

Welcome to my movie blog. I should have added some more reviews. Will try some this weekend.

I have seen Gandhi and loved it. Will see it again and review. Sure will check the year of making as well as the period they are referring to. I remember it was well made.

:)

4:25 AM  
Blogger The Visitor said...

Hello Latha, Sudha and Dadoji,

I saw a blog in which the blog-owner has listed her Top Romantic Movies. Can you have a look at the list and give your own opinions?

8:46 AM  
Blogger Premalatha said...

Hi Visitor,

Did went through the list quickly. and read just your comment. so, forgive me if I don't address all the points discussed there.

1)Titanic is not a romantic movie in my dictionary. did like Leo, and Kate, but no, the movie was not a romantic type in my dictionary. It was well made, and one of my favourite ones though.

2)DDLJ: the movie i regreted watching. waste of money and waste of time. the movie sucks in every aspect.

3)DTPH, liked just watching karishma dancing. that is all it was. and their idea of love and all in that movie, eww, ughh.

4) Pretty woman - Julia was a delight to watch. that is all.
Runaway bride - Julia again. Richard Gere was good too. movie had some aspects that made me thinking, but other than that, not a mushy-romantic type for me.

5) MPK - you must be joking.

6)YGM - oh yes. now we are talking.
SIS - yes again, but, not like YGM, but ok when you consider the time it was made and the trend of that time. Don't agree with their concept in SIS.

7)MEA - what is wrong with you?

8) Wedding planner - oh my gawd, what IS indeed wrong with you?

9)Bombay well, some scenes are romantic, yes that movie centres around love, but no, not a romantic movie.


10) did not see and don't intend to do either.

You have got mail is the only one that I would consider as romantic movie.
My suggestion and my idea of a romance in a movie is in "Meet Joe Black", although it is nothing to do with real life. But they say it loud and clear don't they. let me know what do you think.
Will post a list of movies i think are good, i promise, this weekend.

thanks for visiting my blog. i have few more blogs(!!). do spend/waste your time in my blogs.

http://premalathakombai.blogspot.com/
if you go there you can find other blogs linked as tabs there.

do come back when you have time.

2:07 AM  
Blogger Premalatha said...

hi visitor,

>Movie making is all about catering to our senses, visual, aural, physical, sensual etc. And scenes are planned such that these sensations are maximised to the viewers. So a ‘good movie’ is a movie which has a good collection of such scenes that appeal to the majority of the audience. And you seem to be a person who loves to be awash in these emotions


:)

2:11 AM  
Blogger The Visitor said...

Wow! That was a quickie review! To each her own, I guess.

MJB has an element of romance running through the entire movie, but Death is the main theme. The romance part is accentuated by the ethereal quality of the film. I liked it. (many reviews have trashed it!)

I found City of Angels also very good - another romantic movie with the ethereal quality.

The third movie (that I liked) which I might classify in the same genre is "What Dreams May Come". The frames and shots had a painting like backdrop, which created a dream-like effect.

What surprised me was that none of these movies were released in the movie halls in India, we got to see them only on the movie channels.

PS: I have seen premalathakombai blog - but haven't had the time to explore.

Kombai, situated between Devaram and Uthamapalayam, is famous for its breed of hounds. Right?

10:25 AM  
Blogger Premalatha said...

MJB has an element of romance running through the entire movie, but Death is the main theme.

True, but romance is what attracted me, romance is what that stayed in my memory. That coffee shop guy is my all time hero.

(other things that stayed in my memory are: English language - the way it was used in the film, Drew guy and his English, Marcia Harden's words to Anthony Hopkins
(Ants: did I let you feel that you are not loved?
Marcia: Dad, I felt cared. Everyone is allowed to have their favourites, you are allowed to have yours. All that matters is I felt cared)... and few more. :) )

The romance part is accentuated by the ethereal quality of the film. I liked it. (many reviews have trashed it!)

Glad to know you liked it. :)

I found City of Angels also very good - another romantic movie with the ethereal quality.

haven't seen, will try to watch. But, since I have stopped my account with online_DVD_rental_shop (cost cutting. :( Talk about the compromises we have to make in a married life!),my list has to wait until I start that again.

The third movie (that I liked) which I might classify in the same genre is "What Dreams May Come".

Will try as well.

The frames and shots had a painting like backdrop,

That reminds me of A walk in the clouds. :)

which created a dream-like effect.

AWIC too.

What surprised me was that none of these movies were released in the movie halls in India, we got to see them only on the movie channels.

They don't release good movies in india. :D. You get all crap movies like rambo and what not.
I like watching movies at home. I can pause, replay, have subtitle.. :)


PS: I have seen premalathakombai blog - but haven't had the time to explore.

Not attractive enough, hu? :(

Kombai, situated between Devaram and Uthamapalayam,

Spot on!.

is famous for its breed of hounds. Right?

Again spot on!.

:)

10:49 AM  
Blogger Premalatha said...

btw, did you get to explore this blog? it has some more posts on some other movies too. I won't call them reviews, but, some of them give you idea about the movie. "mrs. Henderson Presents", "murder in the first"..etc..

10:51 AM  
Blogger The Visitor said...

Not attractive enough, hu? :(

Definitely not true :)

Actually - i am new to this entire blogging stuff - and i'm hooked too! Too many choices, too many things to see, so i dont get to see anything fully. Do you know what happened to the hungry dog placed exactly in between 2 choices of the best food that it can imagine? It died of hunger, not being able to decide which to eat first. My situation is not unlike that :(
Will most certainly come back.

11:43 AM  
Blogger Premalatha said...

I meant to write "ha?" but typed "hu". sorry. :)

anyway, do waste your time in kombai. the old posts are better than the recent ones.

11:47 AM  
Blogger Dadoji said...

Okay, I am returning here after many days but I just had to see what became of these comments. Here is my opinion on those 10:

1. Titanic - Haven't seen it btu I guess I will like it in parts. Not worth the hoopla.

2. DDLJ - I loved it mostly. Grrreat songs.

3. DTPH - Loved the songs. Haven't seen the movie. Might find it good timepass.

4. PW, RB - PW is quite a movie. RB I liked her gay friend the most. Worth a watch.

5. MPK - Oh, I loved the movie absolutely. I still like it except that I like it in the context of age at which it is best appreciated. I watched it in middle of my 12th Std exams and I was totally in love and on fire then.

6. YGM, SiS - I love both of them. YGM is a much better made movie.

7. MeA - Haven't seen it but I will like it I think. DK, PK and Madhubala!

8. TWP - So so.

9. Bombay - Haven't seen it but I guess I will find it good. Good songs. Great storyline or so I hear.

10. Haven't seen this one.

12:46 AM  
Blogger Boston Bala said...

embuttu comment ;)

I had seen runaway bride long time back... will try to recollect, read some other reviews to replenish my posting :D

8:52 PM  

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