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Fargo (1996)
Coen Brothers .. overrated as per usual
It seems like the Coen brothers have some uncle up in the Oscar "distributing" jury who always comes up to them and says "Listen, we have a couple of Oscars lying around to give up in next week's ceremony so why don't the two of you make a movie & we'll give them to you"
Come to think of it Al Pacino didn't get an Oscar for his role in The Godfather, Morgan Freeman didn't get it for Shawshank Redemption, Robert De Niro for Taxi Driver, Jack Nicholson for A Few Good Men & Frances McDormand got on Oscar for this movie for saying "Yah" a zillion times(in a very irritating & intolerable way). I honestly don't get what all the hype is about.
Coming back to the topic, this movie very much like Coen Brother's other "masterpieces"** Burn After Reading & No Country For Old Men, is pointless, boring and extremely overrated. It is an average movie with a week story line, irritating acting with an annoying & excessive use of the word "Yah".
** I would like to make an appeal to other reviewers to stop calling every other movie a "masterpiece".
If you are about to watch this movie i would seriously suggest that you do yourself a big favor & for a change not go with what the majority views say & watch something else. And if you have already watched the movie well then "Yah" welcome to the club...
Peace !!!
The Mist (2007)
Pathetic, pointless & waste of time !!!
This is the first time EVER i am reviewing anything and this is the movie that has made me do it.
I had high hopes from this movie as it comes from such a wonderful director but i failed to understand what Mr. Frank Darabont was thinking when he made this movie, this movie is very much like "The Happening" (which goes without saying was another terrible movie from an esteemed director, M. Night Shyamalan) only worse.
There are so many irritating characters with irritating acting (e.g. Marcia Gay Harden, Andre Braugher, William Sadler & the list goes on & on), the whole acting & the story is very predictable and average, the plot is weak & monotonous, unnecessarily slow & you end thanking God when the movie finishes. It's one of those bizarre movies which you wished you hadn't watched.
Now, I can't compare it with the novel it is based on as i have never read a novel in my entire life but i do know as a fact that Stephen King is an excellent writer & Frank Darabont is an excellent director. The formula of combining these two has worked perfectly well in the past two instances in the shape of The Shawshank Redemption & The Green Mile but when it comes to the "The Mist" it has been a total disaster.
Fellas' regardless of all the wonderful ratings & the good comments of this movie i have given it 2/10 as it fails to meet even half of what was expected from it and i'd seriously and honestly suggest that you do not waste time on this. Peace !!!