I saw this movie last weekend. Got time to blog only now. No points for guessing why, I was busy. (Interrogations not encouraged :) )
For people who have seen the 1995 hitmovie "Jumanji"..., well.., there is nothin much for them to see in this one. Yes, zathura and jumaji have many strikingly similar and few subtle differences.
The movie starts of with two brothers playing the game of zathura .. A snake & ladder game in the sci fi world, so u have silthering automated rockets with animals for the coins and a casino style box with a push button for a die. A brother and sister replaced by two brothers. Also an under utilized ,rather unutilized hot girl. She was the only girl in the movie, hence the credit.
The brothers as usual start the game, and in the first go itself they land in a METEOR SHOWER. Yes,How cool is that :) . Their house gets transported to space and aliens start attacking them. Add to it a corrupted robot. The resulting ambush and the escapism cooked with some brother sentiment toppings is Zathura for you, served Cold. Every scene reminds you of jumanji.
The movie is meant for children, so i cant justify my claim that it was crap. Yet, when we still like Jumanji after this many years, i wasn't even able to watch zathura the first time fully. The children starring in the film, Danny and Walter (character names), themselves justify this insipidness with their acting. However all was not lost for me that weekend. I compenstated this by watching 3 other movies :). Crash was among them, will blog on it soon. Just one line tho, Crash is the kind of movie which you need sit alone in front of a PC with your headphones turned on, have a pack of fries in one hand with Coke can in the other and see. Albeit, i did not do that :(. A serious movie that demands your complete attention.
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Zathura - Caution Advised
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The quality of the movie (colours, effects etc..) itself looks very bad. I didn't even dare to view this.
And Crash is a wonderful movie deserving an oscar. I've blogged about it. Do have a look.
A movie buff in making huh?
@caffeinism : I first read it as movie b(L)uff :)
@shobana : Crash is one of the movies I liked the most in the recent times... and it makes your heart go heavy like few other movies ever did to me... It really crashed into my list of top 10 movies of all time... Many people mentioned, it stole the Best picture Oscar from "Brokeback Mountain". I disagree strongly... Even though BBM was a good movie, i would put it in the same class as Crash...
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