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Life Of Pi

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Yann Martel's book a few years ago got extremely good reviews because of this unique story of a boy and tigers journey through the sea and how they not only learn to communicate with each other, during the journey strike a relationship with each other and fight the various difficulties to stay alive. The story was not just thrilling but also highly emotional. When 'Ang Lee' decided to recreate this beautiful story into a film the whole world waited with lot of curiosity as 'Ang Lee' is a master in graphics and in his last movie he did tell his story well too.... Quite predictably the theater was packed as the film has been one of those movies which did not need to do much marketing to draw audiences into theater... The first few scenes as the film starts and representation of the 'Pondicherry Zoo' where our main character 'Pi' i.e. Piscine Patel lived had been breathtaking specially the intro scenes....I would say the screen was just magical...

Skyfall Review

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Skyfall has been an awaited movie by all James Bond fans....And here it is with all fanfare and getting all required attention....Possibly just like people await for 'Apple Products' quite similarly they await for the next bond movie....You don't need to market it , people find it when its releasing and when you go to the multiplex you will find people flocking to the theaters...But like all products even a movies business depends a lot on its 'WOM'.... So here we were in an already crowded theater waiting for our turn to be entertained by Bond.....As the theater goes dark and bond makes an entry the first 10 minutes were just superb with a chase sequence on motorcycle which was outstanding....We were convinced that the movie is going to be awesome....Finally the chase comes to an end and the movie starts....Rest 2 hours were complete opposite as opposed to the starting 10 minutes.....What was most surprising is the script which was highly predictable and had n...