Thursday 18 October 2012

Arnold the Oldie is still up for Terminator 5!

TERMINATING AGE: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger has revealed that he will be back in action for 'Terminator 5'.
The 65-year-old actor, who missed out on a role in the fourth film in 2009 because he was still governor of California, admitted that people are working on the movie's script.
"People are working on a script," the Daily Star quoted him as saying.
"It could happen within a year.
"I am absolutely up for it," he added.

Courtesy: The Times Of India

Argo Movie Review (English)

Story: CIA exfiltration specialist Tony Mendez comes up with a plan to extract six American diplomats from Iran at a time when the Iranian public's ire against their overthrown Shah and the US is at its most volatile. Does Mendez succeed in fooling the Iranians into letting them go?

ARGO MOVIE REVIEW



Cast: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Victor Garber, Kyle Chandler
Direction: Ben Affleck
Genre: Thriller
Duration: 2 hours

Movie Review: The film starts with a history lesson on the politics of the region to bring you up to speed on why Iran still hates the USA. According to them, the USA is the Great Shaitan for first installing the Shah and then offering him asylum after his ouster.

Set in the 1970s, Argo is based on the true story of the extraction of six diplomats from the Canadian ambassador's house, where they're hiding. As options are being considered, Mendez (Affleck) comes up with "the best bad option by far" - the one with the least diplomatic fallout. If it succeeds, everyone's a winner; if it fails, everyone dies.

 
Watch the Argo Official Trailer (HD)

The plan sounds deceptively simple. Make a fake movie, make Hollywood (and pretty much the rest of the world) believe that an award-winning director (Arkin) and make-up genius (Goodman) are attached to a sci-fi film called Argo, set in the Middle East. Create a media circus announcing the film and let the rest follow. Thereafter, Mendez enters the country on the ruse of location-scouting. He enters alone but has to leave with six other Americans posing as a Canadian crew. Easier said than done?

Affleck's film is being seen as a serious Oscar contender and with good reason. The film doesn't favour one side over the other. Also, the dramatisation is not without its light moments. You will sense a fine balance and an acute attention to detailing, something that's pivotal to a film of this genre. Watch out for certain powerful crowd scenes and set pieces that grab you with their sheer intensity and absolute terror. You will gasp in awe at the pains taken in casting actors who resembled the actual players of this story the closest, as they are featured during the end credits.

Tip-Off: You may not like this movie if you cannot stomach graphic scenes of violence, or if you are easily offended by explicit language.

Arnold the Oldie is still up for Terminator 5!

TERMINATING AGE: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger has revealed that he will be back in action for 'Terminator 5'.
The 65-year-old actor, who missed out on a role in the fourth film in 2009 because he was still governor of California, admitted that people are working on the movie's script.
"People are working on a script," the Daily Star quoted him as saying.
"It could happen within a year.
"I am absolutely up for it," he added.

Courtesy: The Times Of India

Argo Movie Review (English)

Story: CIA exfiltration specialist Tony Mendez comes up with a plan to extract six American diplomats from Iran at a time when the Iranian public's ire against their overthrown Shah and the US is at its most volatile. Does Mendez succeed in fooling the Iranians into letting them go?

ARGO MOVIE REVIEW



Cast: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Victor Garber, Kyle Chandler
Direction: Ben Affleck
Genre: Thriller
Duration: 2 hours

Movie Review: The film starts with a history lesson on the politics of the region to bring you up to speed on why Iran still hates the USA. According to them, the USA is the Great Shaitan for first installing the Shah and then offering him asylum after his ouster.

Set in the 1970s, Argo is based on the true story of the extraction of six diplomats from the Canadian ambassador's house, where they're hiding. As options are being considered, Mendez (Affleck) comes up with "the best bad option by far" - the one with the least diplomatic fallout. If it succeeds, everyone's a winner; if it fails, everyone dies.

 
Watch the Argo Official Trailer (HD)

The plan sounds deceptively simple. Make a fake movie, make Hollywood (and pretty much the rest of the world) believe that an award-winning director (Arkin) and make-up genius (Goodman) are attached to a sci-fi film called Argo, set in the Middle East. Create a media circus announcing the film and let the rest follow. Thereafter, Mendez enters the country on the ruse of location-scouting. He enters alone but has to leave with six other Americans posing as a Canadian crew. Easier said than done?

Affleck's film is being seen as a serious Oscar contender and with good reason. The film doesn't favour one side over the other. Also, the dramatisation is not without its light moments. You will sense a fine balance and an acute attention to detailing, something that's pivotal to a film of this genre. Watch out for certain powerful crowd scenes and set pieces that grab you with their sheer intensity and absolute terror. You will gasp in awe at the pains taken in casting actors who resembled the actual players of this story the closest, as they are featured during the end credits.

Tip-Off: You may not like this movie if you cannot stomach graphic scenes of violence, or if you are easily offended by explicit language.
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