The Movie Recommendation Thread

[Razor]

Have you guys watched "The Gods must be crazy" I & II, from 1980 and 1989.
Pretty good movies. These are English movies of South African origin.

 

[Superdefender]

Have you guys watched "The Gods must be crazy" I & II, from 1980 and 1989.
Pretty good movies. These are English movies of South African origin.

Yeah, I have seen them.
Favourite scene - One man pushes his jeep and falls into muddy water repeatedly. Ha ha

 

[ashdoc]

Pinjra ( The cage ) Old marathi film re released in theaters today

The film deals with the age old problem of men getting seduced by dancing girls and ending up ruining their lives over wine and woman....

Sriram Lagu plays an idealistic school teacher who has vowed to keep his village free from alcohol and prostitutes , and with the help of the village headman has gone to great lengths to curb these vices . Lagu teaches the ideals of India's heroes down the ages to the people of the village and tries to bring literacy and education to this poor and backward part of India .

But trouble breaks out when dancing girl Sandhya comes with her troupe of enticing dancing girls to the village and the beauty of her troupe begins to attract the young men of the village . Lagu and the headman force the troupe out of the village , but the troupe parks itself outside the village boundary and begins it's show ; the seductive dances made with lascivious movements by the lovely girls makes the men forget the classes taught by Lagu and they all make a beeline to Sandhya's dances . This forces Sriram Lagu and the village headman to use strong arm tactics to kick out the show , literally destroying the equipment of the dancers in a bid to throw them out .

But Sandhya is made of a different mettle and she vows to trap Sriram Lagu in her charms and break his reputation . Lagu does succumb to her enticement and from thereon begins the path of his ruin....

The film shows the destruction of the name and persona of a good man , a man who has won the respect of his people . The journey of destruction leads from --1 ) getting ensnared by the woman to--2) getting embroiled in a case of murder to--3) running away from the police like a hunted animal along with the dance troupe to --4) getting humiliated by the members of the troupe to 5) hitting the bottle to forget the humiliation....

In the end the hero decides to go to the gallows for the murder charge ( of which he is innocent ) because he does not want to reveal who he really is---his appearance is so changed by his travails that he is not recognized in his own village . His prize for doing so---his good name in the village will not be tarnished and the statue they have built in his name will remain . Another consolation---the dancing girl Sandhya has realised her folly in destroying such a good man and has repented for her sins , falling in love with him along the way .

But it is too late to save him , and too late save her too....they are destined to meet in heaven , if there is such a place....

I had some problems with some parts of the film however . For one thing , if Sriram Lagu is so idealistic with such a strong stand against vices then how come falls victim to them relatively easily ?? The manner in which he gets involved in the murder charge is not fully convincing too . But the tragedy is convincing , for the simple reason that in the rural parts of the country it is all too familiar....

Music I did not like because I am not a fan of the music of songs on which dancing girls dance , it being appreciated by those who live in the rural parts of the country . The songs and dances are all the same---called lavani in my part of the country . But they are regarded as classics by those who understand them .

The film's message is to maintain family values and not go down the path of whoring....but it also brings out the neccessity of the dancing girls to earn money to run their families and their yearning to be treated as a profession like anything else . The film is truly tragic , and is regarded widely as a classic today .

Verdict---three stars .

 

[VaghaDeva]

http://mhwl-movie.com/
It's a damn shame that I can't watch this on the jewtube

 

[LordOfTheUnderworlds]

Somehow got this movie on my hard disk and turned out to be awesome movie. Watch it with subtitles before Salman Khan or Amir khan comes with stupid remake. 100 % guaranteed entertainment.

Jigarthanda (2014)

 

[ashdoc]

The man who captured Eichmann---

After the German defeat in world war 2 , many of Hitler's top brass ran away to south America . Both Josef Mengele ( who had committed horrible experiments on bodies of live jews ) and Adolf Eichmann ( who had helped in transportation of jews to death camps ) fled to Argentina , where the far right wing government offered them a new identity and a chance to live .

But the Israeli spy agency ( MOSSAD ) was on the lookout for them and not all of them were able to lead peaceful lives . This movie is about the capture of Adolf Eichmann by the MOSSAD in 1960 and his transportation to Israel to face trial . He was eventually executed for his crimes against humanity .

But as the movie shows , identifying Eichmann was not a easy thing as he had acquired a new identity . He was first suspected because the father of the woman his son was dating repelled him as the father of the woman had the serial number of a nazi death camp on his wrist ; the number being a sign that he was a jew . The father contacted the Israeli authorities and they were not sure because the father was blind . But eventually a team is sent to try identify Eichmann , led by MOSSAD agent Peter Malkin ( played by Arliss Howard ) . This team keeps a close watch on the activities of Eichmann and hits pay dirt---for the person they are watching celebrates his marriage anniversary on the same date as Eichmann's marriage anniversary , thus confirming his identity .

The capture of Eichmann is planned to be a relatively simple affair ; just overpower him while he is walking towards his home after alighting from a bus that he regularly alights from , and bundle him in a car and speed off....but the plan almost misfires as the target does not alight from the bus that night and heavy rain starts pouring . But the MOSSAD agents are nothing if not patient and wait till Eichmann alights from another bus later . Luckily by this time the rain has stopped . And the agents succeed before Eichmann's waiting wife can raise a hue and cry .

In the safe house where Eichmann is kept as a captive , the Israeli agents take turns to guard him . And they make him confess his real identity . In the beginning some kind of rapport develops between the captors and captured . But as they talk over food and wine Eichmann tries to deny his culpability in the holocaust . His rants touch a raw nerve and the agents guarding him are utterly repelled from the task of guarding him ; no one wants to give him company .

As arguments start between Eichmann and Peter Malkin , a powerful scene in which Peter goes away from the room to cry his heart out brings out the difference of the jewish experience from the life experience of normal people like us ; Peter cries because he has lost much of his family to the holocaust and hence can't bear Eichmann's rants , and similarly all the other members of the capturing team have lost their families . In effect , they are torn and uprooted people....not a single one of them has led a normal life of security and comfort like us....One wonders why the jews are such a hated people and why have so many atrocities been committed on them ?

Capturing Eichmann is one thing , but taking him out of Argentina is another....for Eichmann's son has contacted the Argentinian police and they are on the lookout for the Israelis ; the police has promised Eichmann's son that all exit points from Argentina are being watched and the Israelis won't be able to take Eichmann to Israel to stand trial .

So how do the Israelis manage take their prisoner out of Argentina to Israel ? Watch the movie for that....

Robert Duvall has put up a good performance as Eichmann and Arliss Howard is good as Peter Malkin . Towards the end the movie comes close to look like a thriller....but it being made for TV , it is hampered by it's low budget . Still it is an okay watch .

Verdict---Okay .
Two and a half stars .

 

[ashdoc]

The gift ( 2015 )

A couple ( played by Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall ) moves into Los Angeles from Chicago and they run into an old schoolmate ( played by Joel Edgerton ) of Jason , who begins to regularly drop in their house . Everytime he comes he comes with a gift . Soon his visits get creepier and the gifts become creepier too and the couple soon begins to feel uncomfortable with his visits .

But the really creepy experience is when the two are invited to his house ( I am not telling what is so creepy ) . Jason warns Joel not to ever visit them again . Jason is satisfied with this , but Rebecca is worried and keeps thinking about this whole thing again and again . She steals pills from her neighbour and begins to wonder if someone is constantly in her house watching her every move . Sick with worry , she faints for a prolonged period one day .

After this , the couple receive one last gift with a letter with from Joel in which the Joel says that he is willing to 'let bygones be bygones' . Soon Rebecca become pregnant and the couple forget the whole thing in their happiness , until Rebecca sees Joel watching her in a supermarket one day .

Intrigued by all the events , Rebecca begins an investigation into events of the past and soon secrets begin to tumble out . Rebecca has to soon confront facts about her husband that make her thoroughly uncomfortable about him .

So who is the hero and who is the villain of the story ? What are events of the past that Joel is raking up ? What does he want ?
Watch the movie for the answers....

Joel Edgerton pulls off the feat of looking menacing and a victim at the same time ; a man thoroughly wronged but also doing wrong villainous things....you don't know whether to sympathise with him or to be terrorised by him . For a long time the movie moves smoothly with small hints given of what is going to happen ; subtly the terror descends upon the couple and the audience . Everytime Rebecca is alone in the house is a nerve racking time for the audience ; you feel relived that nothing happens to her when her husband returns from work to give her company , but just as you begin to think nothing has happened to her suddenly your worst fears for her are realized at the climax .

Violence is largely underplayed in the film , but what happens in the climax is worse than violence . An atmosphere of fear is constantly kept in the film , but no garish sound effects or flamboyant visual effects are used . I was rooted to my seat throughout the movie watching experience .

Verdict---Good .
Three and a half stars .

 

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[Bharat Ek Khoj]

Have you guys watched "The Gods must be crazy" I & II, from 1980 and 1989.
Pretty good movies. These are English movies of South African origin.

This is the best movie I've ever seen. Highly recommended. There's also 3rd part, but not as good as 1st and 2nd.

 

[Razor]

This is the best movie I've ever seen. Highly recommended. There's also 3rd part, but not as good as 1st and 2nd.

If I remember right, the 3rd part is a chinese attempt at restarting the series.
Not associated with the directors and crew of the 1st and 2nd parts.

 

[ashdoc]

Ashdoc's movie review---Prahaar ( 1991 )

Nana Patekar is known to be one of the most eccentric persons in the film industry . But for this very reason when he makes a film it is truly from the heart---no commercial considerations hamper the making of the film . This film is an offshoot of the personality of Nana Patekar---it shows his idealism in it's full eccentric glory , and it also shows the reserves of violence that are within the depths of his crackpot persona .

He plays a an army officer ( Major Chauhan ) who trains some of the finest commandos for the Indian army . But his past and his life have been tainted by the memories of his illegitimate birth and the fact that his mother was later kidnapped by goons who sold her into a brothel . Thus he plays a person with a traumatic past which has left him emotionally and psychologically scarred . The injustice he suffered as an illegitimate child who had to bear the taunts that society throws at illegitimate children and the fact that his mother was forced into prostitution , makes him a person unwilling to ever bear any injustice again . He has joined the army to become an ace commando because it makes a person physically fit to fight against injustice , an injustice he has resolved never to suffer again .

And he forces the men who train under him to undergo a really gruelling training regimen . Soldiers fear to train under his command . In such an atmosphere comes to train commando Peter D'Souza ( Gautam Joglekar ) . Peter is an idealistic young man who has high dreams of fighting for his country and has joined the army in opposition to his fiancee's ( Madhuri Dixit ) and father's opposition .

The training of the commandos is really exhilarating and shows the regimen of the commandos with breathtaking detail . This part is really the high point of the movie . How boys who are initially scared of jumping from heights convert into real men who can climb high obstacles , kill snakes for food , can march for miles on end carrying huge luggage on the shoulders , can fire deadly weapons , and can undertake combat with their bare arms and legs---all this is superbly shown in the movie . The glory of army life and the way that Chauhan instils discipline into his men is something you watch with pride . There are plenty of lighthearted moments too in the training , which keep you entertained . At the end of the training Peter is awarded the best commando award .

But just as training is complete , Peter and Chauhan are selected to thwart a terrorist attack . They do so successfully , but in the fight Peter loses both his legs . He is honourably discharged . Shirley ( Madhuri Dixit ) still insists on marrying him inspite of his lost legs . Peter invites Chauhan to his wedding .

But when Chauhan comes to Bombay to attend the wedding , he finds that Peter has been murdered !! The murder was committed by goons who wanted 'protection money' to let Peter run his bakery , but which Peter refuses to give .

Chauhan tries to get witnesses to tell the police of the murder , but no one comes forward fearing the goons . When he fights the goons himself , common people throw stones on him because they fear that his activities will bring the goons' wrath on them !!

But Chauhan stays at the home of a widow ( Dimple Kapadia ) who helps him , and he sets about reforming the society around that part of Bombay . And that reforming is done in true Nana Patekar style---by dollops of extreme violence . He literally starts killing all the anti social elements in the area , including Peter's killers . However , given the vast number of anti social elements this is clearly a hopeless task....

Patekar has tried to bring out the necessity to fight the 'internal enemy'---the criminal mafia that erodes the inside of any nation . This he shows by showcasing the tragedy of Peter---a soldier who had fought the nation's external enemies and wanted a life of honour and dignity , but had to suffer a dog's death at the hands of the mafia .

In the end Chauhan is shown to be brought to court , where he is asked to be kept under the supervision of a psychiatrist---for the court feels that though he had good intentions , his methods were flawed and his ideas came from his unstable mind . He dreams of building a new society of courageous people who have the guts to stand up and fight for their rights .

The movie was acclaimed by the critics for its straight-from-the-heart performance by Nana , and for the real pain which he showed at the inability of ordinary people to stand up to the tyranny of criminals . But women from all walks of life panned the movie for it's showcasing of violence , and the brutal methods shown to cure the ills of society . To some people , the fact that the new society that Nana wanted to build was so pure that it consisted young people who were completely naked reeked of his real life madness . But the film will remembered for it's superb showcasing of army life and commando training , it's fine acting performances , great photography and technical perfection , and decent music .

However , the film remained destined to be hailed as a good film only by reviewers like myself....for it failed at the box office . Another irony is that it was funded by the mafia itself (

) , for the producer of the film ( Sudhakar Bokade ) was well connected with the mafia . It remains a matter of debate as to whether the movie can be classified as art or commercial , because it had elements of both .

Verdict---Great .
Four stars .

 

[Bharat Ek Khoj]

If I remember right, the 3rd part is a chinese attempt at restarting the series.
Not associated with the directors and crew of the 1st and 2nd parts.

Yeah the third part was about N!xau reaches china.

 

[Bharat Ek Khoj]

If you like mind boggling movies, watch Triangle (2009).
Warning : This movie can give you headache.

 

[thethinker]

Ashdoc's movie review---Prahaar ( 1991 )

Nana Patekar is known to be one of the most eccentric persons in the film industry . But for this very reason when he makes a film it is truly from the heart---no commercial considerations hamper the making of the film . This film is an offshoot of the personality of Nana Patekar---it shows his idealism in it's full eccentric glory , and it also shows the reserves of violence that are within the depths of his crackpot persona .

He plays a an army officer ( Major Chauhan ) who trains some of the finest commandos for the Indian army . But his past and his life have been tainted by the memories of his illegitimate birth and the fact that his mother was later kidnapped by goons who sold her into a brothel . Thus he plays a person with a traumatic past which has left him emotionally and psychologically scarred . The injustice he suffered as an illegitimate child who had to bear the taunts that society throws at illegitimate children and the fact that his mother was forced into prostitution , makes him a person unwilling to ever bear any injustice again . He has joined the army to become an ace commando because it makes a person physically fit to fight against injustice , an injustice he has resolved never to suffer again .

And he forces the men who train under him to undergo a really gruelling training regimen . Soldiers fear to train under his command . In such an atmosphere comes to train commando Peter D'Souza ( Gautam Joglekar ) . Peter is an idealistic young man who has high dreams of fighting for his country and has joined the army in opposition to his fiancee's ( Madhuri Dixit ) and father's opposition .

The training of the commandos is really exhilarating and shows the regimen of the commandos with breathtaking detail . This part is really the high point of the movie . How boys who are initially scared of jumping from heights convert into real men who can climb high obstacles , kill snakes for food , can march for miles on end carrying huge luggage on the shoulders , can fire deadly weapons , and can undertake combat with their bare arms and legs---all this is superbly shown in the movie . The glory of army life and the way that Chauhan instils discipline into his men is something you watch with pride . There are plenty of lighthearted moments too in the training , which keep you entertained . At the end of the training Peter is awarded the best commando award .

But just as training is complete , Peter and Chauhan are selected to thwart a terrorist attack . They do so successfully , but in the fight Peter loses both his legs . He is honourably discharged . Shirley ( Madhuri Dixit ) still insists on marrying him inspite of his lost legs . Peter invites Chauhan to his wedding .

But when Chauhan comes to Bombay to attend the wedding , he finds that Peter has been murdered !! The murder was committed by goons who wanted 'protection money' to let Peter run his bakery , but which Peter refuses to give .

Chauhan tries to get witnesses to tell the police of the murder , but no one comes forward fearing the goons . When he fights the goons himself , common people throw stones on him because they fear that his activities will bring the goons' wrath on them !!

But Chauhan stays at the home of a widow ( Dimple Kapadia ) who helps him , and he sets about reforming the society around that part of Bombay . And that reforming is done in true Nana Patekar style---by dollops of extreme violence . He literally starts killing all the anti social elements in the area , including Peter's killers . However , given the vast number of anti social elements this is clearly a hopeless task....

Patekar has tried to bring out the necessity to fight the 'internal enemy'---the criminal mafia that erodes the inside of any nation . This he shows by showcasing the tragedy of Peter---a soldier who had fought the nation's external enemies and wanted a life of honour and dignity , but had to suffer a dog's death at the hands of the mafia .

In the end Chauhan is shown to be brought to court , where he is asked to be kept under the supervision of a psychiatrist---for the court feels that though he had good intentions , his methods were flawed and his ideas came from his unstable mind . He dreams of building a new society of courageous people who have the guts to stand up and fight for their rights .

The movie was acclaimed by the critics for its straight-from-the-heart performance by Nana , and for the real pain which he showed at the inability of ordinary people to stand up to the tyranny of criminals . But women from all walks of life panned the movie for it's showcasing of violence , and the brutal methods shown to cure the ills of society . To some people , the fact that the new society that Nana wanted to build was so pure that it consisted young people who were completely naked reeked of his real life madness . But the film will remembered for it's superb showcasing of army life and commando training , it's fine acting performances , great photography and technical perfection , and decent music .

However , the film remained destined to be hailed as a good film only by reviewers like myself....for it failed at the box office . Another irony is that it was funded by the mafia itself ( View attachment 8394) , for the producer of the film ( Sudhakar Bokade ) was well connected with the mafia . It remains a matter of debate as to whether the movie can be classified as art or commercial , because it had elements of both .

Verdict---Great .
Four stars .

One interesting fact about Prahaar is that former COAS Gen VK Singh (then Colonel) had a cameo in it.


http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/When+the+army+chief+did+a+cameo+in+Bollywood/1/91040.html

 

[Tactical Frog]

a WTF movie from Sweden . I think these guys are crazy ! Or it is the Absolut Vodka. Gripen is not an option after watching this !

 

[OneGrimPilgrim]

@ashdoc - vishwanath 'nana' patekar had undergone actual training for the movie, even asking the ustads to slap him like other commandos/trainees go through.
Tapatalked!

 

[OneGrimPilgrim]

If you like mind boggling movies, watch Triangle (2009).
Warning : This movie can give you headache.

i have watched it 2-3 times, and can watch more.

 

[OneGrimPilgrim]

a WTF movie from Sweden . I think these guys are crazy ! Or it is the Absolut Vodka. Gripen is not an option after watching this !

i have just listened to kung fury neo-retro synthwave soundtracks. will watch the movie now.

 

[OneGrimPilgrim]

movies like 'the triangle' are called 'mindfuck' movies. there is one more such movie that i like - its 'K-PAX'. beautiful movie & theme soundtrack, very good performance by kevin spacey.
Tapatalked!

 

[Bharat Ek Khoj]

there is one more such movie that i like - its 'K-PAX'. beautiful movie & theme soundtrack

Thanx, I like such movies.
One more mind boggling time travel movie : Timecrimes (2007)
Hindi Time Travel Movie : Shree (2013)

Few interesting movies :
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
Exam (2009)
Time Lapse (2014) ( a hindi remake aa dekhe zara is already made)
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