I saw two movies yesterday one Bollywood; Wake Up Sid; and the other Hollywood; Inglourious Basterds. So this topic just came to my mind and I thought I’ll write something on this. Let me be very clear I’m no authority on films and neither is this a film review, I’m a regular movie buff, who likes to watch good cinema.
What I want to write about today is how useful or for that matter how useless is it to read a movie review before watching it.
Till now I have been reading movie reviews in Times Of India, Rediff, IBNlive before going for a movie. Recently I read a movie review in TOI on the movie Wanted starring Salman Khan, as per the movie the movie was a very good action movie and it rated the movie 4/5. Here’s the review, after reading this review I went to see the movie hoping to see a good movie if not a brilliant movie. The 3 hours in the theater was sheer torture. One the plot was predictable from the first scene, their was nothing to appreciate in the acting or the treatment of the movie by the director, it was a nonsense movie from the beginning to the end.
This week the first movie I saw was Wake Up Sid, what I can say about Wake Up Sid, is that it was a average movie. Why I’m saying this is because the plot was again all too predictable. Yes the movie I must say has nicely made and also the actors acted well, but how much of the same stuff can you take? Same rich spoilt brat meets career oriented middle class girl, falls in love, then transforms from spoilt to being responsible in life. Maybe, I’m getting too old and have seen too much of Bollywood movies. Maybe I should take a break and stop watching Bollywood for a while. Both Rediff (Sukanya Verma) and IBNlive (Rajeev Masand) rated the movie 3/5 (Good).
The second movie I saw was Inglourious Basterds, directed by Quentin Tarantino, which was the main draw of the movie besides that I love war movies. Now the making of the movie was good again as was expected from Tarantino, but I must say that he played too much with fact and fantasy in this movie. I’m not saying that making a fantasy movie is not good, by all means we love Si-Fi and other Hollywood stuff like Matrix. But I think when you are taking a historical subject like the World War II which is still so very fresh in peoples minds you should not play so much with facts, as one cannot change the history books with a movie, as it hurts peoples sentiments as well. Also I don’t understand why there need to be eight Inglourious Basterds, because they hardly ever spoke and just blindly followed whatever Brad Pitt’s character Aldo said and that was to smash or break some heads, instead he could have made Aldo himself do all the action. So it would have been a one man army destroy the Nazis all alone fantasy movie, great 
. So based on all these thing if this film has to be rated it should not be rated above average, whereas the Indian flim critics have heaped praises galore for the movie
So now coming to the question why do we need these reviews by so called critics?
We need the critics maybe to watch movies like Ram Gopal Verma’s Aag or Do Not Disturb and for once tell the truth that these are horrific movies, thus saving us some Asprin. Hat off to them to sit through these movies to write a review after that.
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