Summer blockbuster time again...

[ravenus]

Because of the wealth of talent in India, they should make sci-fi/fantasy movies to match the US... And true to the authors expectation...

And do another epic, like the Mahabarat (sp?)..

Oh most Indian audiences do not have any taste for sci-fi...and in fact the bulk of them have little time for movies that don't spell out the most elementary of narratives with color-coded heroes and villains and no real concepts to speak of other than stupid love stories and revenge dramas or both mixed.

Being a fan of genres like horror and sci-fi in India make for a lot of pain because you have to literally struggle and scrounge for what people in the west just have to go down to the nearby store or order online for.

Ask knivesout and he shall bear out my statement.

But I would love to see a film version of the Mahabharat, which is true to the spirit of the work (I have not read the work in its orignal form of course, as an epic poem of more than 100,000 stanzas in the ancient Indian language of sanskrit, but in far more accessible if also more simplistic and prosaic narrative). It would have to be a multi-part movie of course since the story traverses multiple generations.

But sadly I can't think of any studio affluent and willing enough to put up the funds for a truly defining version of this grand epic, which IMO, far surpasses what little I read of LoTR.

 

[rune]

I'm looking forward to

Kingdom of Heaven
War of the Worlds

Personally I think they are both gonna be great

 

[rune]

Well summer is half way through, got to see the two I was looking forward to watching. Kingdom of Heaven was better than War of the Worlds

Now wondering what else is worth seeing. Anyone got any tips

 

[Winters_Sorrow]

As much as I'm fairly ambivalent vis a vi Ewan McGregor, The Island looks a really good action/sci-fi movie and is the only movie over the next month or two I'm mildly excited about. The Fantastic Four movie & Charlie & the Chocolate Factory look OK but I'm putting my hopes (rightly or wrongly!) on The Island which I shall be watching this weekend.

 

[Hypes]

KoH was kind of duddish, and WoW was far better than I had expected.

The Island seems to be getting rave reviews (taking into consideration it's a Bay movie).

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Yea, the trailer for The Island was really promising until they said 'by the producer of Pearl Harbour and Armageddon'. You'd think that would be the sort of thing they;d want to hush up to have any hopes of selling the movie.


War of the Worlds was a reasonably absorbing watch, as was Fantastic Four, even if it was kinda silly.

 

[rune]

As much as I'm fairly ambivalent vis a vi Ewan McGregor, The Island looks a really good action/sci-fi movie and is the only movie over the next month or two I'm mildly excited about. The Fantastic Four movie & Charlie & the Chocolate Factory look OK but I'm putting my hopes (rightly or wrongly!) on The Island which I shall be watching this weekend.

I've not heard much about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I know Depp's in it, and that seems hopeful. But not sure I'm a big enough fan of the story to want to see the movie.

 

[Culhwch]

I'm looking forward to The Brothers Grimm, directed by the quite decent Terry Gilliam and starring Matt Damon, Heath Ledger and Monica Bellucci (which is never a bad thing). It's a dark little spin on the Grimm brothers, trailer looks promising. Anyone seen it yet? Not quite sure when it's due....

 

[don sky]

Watched KoH & was a bit disappointed! Lacked a certain oomph to be a true epic movie! However, Star Wars 3 was totally awesome and War of the worlds looks good. Also checked out Sin City and it was awesome.