tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216891.post547461822648095508..comments2023-03-24T00:56:57.873-07:00Comments on LaserLady: more thoughts while watching YaadeinCindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18190111448235050421noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216891.post-17215960407092852312008-01-31T22:27:00.000-07:002008-01-31T22:27:00.000-07:00I don't think boring is exactly the right adjectiv...I don't think boring is exactly the right adjective. Dissatisfying, I'd say. The movie sets up lots of expectations, but everything just kind of fizzles out. It's like the crocodile scene -- they set it up so you think the crocodile is actually going to pose some sort of threat, and then it just wanders off in a really anticlimactic way. Another good example is the scene near the end where Ronit's uncle has him locked up in the house to force him to marry the girl he doesn't want to marry. Ronit punches out the goons his uncle hired to keep him there, grabs a car, and kidnaps the girl he's in love with. You think the movie's finally going somewhere, but then all they do is ride a boat up and down the Thames and sing about how they love each other. Really? That was your plan? And then two minutes after they land, Ronit has a conversation with his mom and goes back to the house. So you've really got to wonder what the point of that whole escape sequence was.<BR/><BR/>I think a major part of the problem is that the movie can't decide what it's about. If you asked me to describe the overarching plotline in K3G, I'd say it's about a family that's been broken up and needs to come back together again. If you asked me to describe what Yaadein's about, I'd have to say something like, "Well, there's a man, and his wife dies, and he loves Coke and his three daughters, and they move to India, and two of the daughters get married, and one of them has problems in her marriage, and the dad unwittingly arranges for the guy his third daughter really loves to marry some other girl instead, and his daughter pretends not to love the guy because she doesn't want to hurt her dad, and the guy escapes from his evil uncle but doesn't do anything about it, and then the guy apparently decides that he'll only marry the girl he loves if the shareholders of his uncle's company tell him that love is more important than money, and then the other girl turns out not to be evil after all because she doesn't insist on marrying the guy who just told the whole world that he wouldn't marry her if it weren't for money and duress, and then the daughter won't marry the guy because his family doesn't respect her, and then the family decides that they do respect her, and then the movie ends." There's no unifying theme or plotline that I can discern. Well, there is this idea they talk about in the very beginning and at the very end about dads being friends with their daughters, but I can't tell whether the movie thinks that this is the good or bad idea. I thought I figured it out at one point in the film, but then the movie kept changing directions. It's almost like the screenplay was written piece by piece by about 50 different people (or perhaps trained monkeys) and each person only got to see the scene directly preceding the scene he or she was in charge of writing. Each scene seems to fit more or less with the one before it, but as a whole it just doesn't flow.Cindyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18190111448235050421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216891.post-51982584756889541532008-01-31T11:33:00.000-07:002008-01-31T11:33:00.000-07:00So, the 100 Hour Board says to stay away from this...So, the 100 Hour Board says to stay away from this movie, since it's a total snooze. Would you agree with them, or would you say, perhaps, that it's cheesy in the extreme, but not bad all in all?rosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02278574945042185559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216891.post-33415283589210286432008-01-27T17:12:00.000-07:002008-01-27T17:12:00.000-07:00The movie isn't unmitigatedly bad. There are a fe...The movie isn't unmitigatedly bad. There are a few cute moments, and some of the songs are rather fun. It's mostly just in the costuming and special effects and dialog and plot that the movie really goes wrong. <BR/><BR/>And if you love Coca Cola, maybe you'll enjoy seeing references to Coke inserted into every other scene. "Oh, the mom is dying, and she wants to pass on her Coke keychain to her husband. That's so sweet."Cindyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18190111448235050421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216891.post-85480094577673326802008-01-24T17:35:00.000-07:002008-01-24T17:35:00.000-07:00I agree, chatalita.I agree, chatalita.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216891.post-64596987842774965332008-01-24T17:17:00.000-07:002008-01-24T17:17:00.000-07:00My favorite line from this:maybe she woke up, saw ...My favorite line from this:<BR/><BR/>maybe she woke up, saw that the man was doing all the work, and didn't see any point in letting him know that she was functioning again. I dig that.<BR/><BR/>So funny Cindy.Chantalitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16284496665459707896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216891.post-31991697835767534992008-01-22T17:21:00.000-07:002008-01-22T17:21:00.000-07:00So...you're thinkin' I shouldn't put this one in m...So...you're thinkin' I shouldn't put this one in my netflix queue?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com