Comments | appaji: Afraid of home?

appaji

Afraid of home?

Aug 24, 2005 03:33

This Sunday, I saw Steven Spielberg's The Terminal. I wouldn't say this should be counted among Spielberg's brillant movies (well, it is certainly better than War of the Worlds anyway), but it is a nice movie with plenty of feel good factor to it. One scene that I particularly liked (which is why I typed it all), goes like this:

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rileen August 23 2005, 22:06:10 UTC

:-)

Many people hated that movie, but i quite enjoyed it.

appaji August 23 2005, 22:18:34 UTC

A lot of people may not have _liked_ it a lot, but I am not too sure if they would have reasons to _hate_ it. I found the movie nice and simple. It was funny at times, and the performances were good (Tom Hanks, Stanley Tucci and Pallana Kumar did a great job).

rileen August 23 2005, 22:23:16 UTC

Well, people are different - i recollect Sampada recording some strong criticism, for instance.

appaji August 23 2005, 22:27:47 UTC

Opinions! We all have different ones, and the reasons for holding them, too :)

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sajith August 24 2005, 06:33:33 UTC

I liked it. Give me Tom Hanks anyday!

appaji August 24 2005, 20:50:13 UTC

I read this comment and I was wondering how A Beautiful Mind would have been if Tom Hanks played John Nash instead of Russel Crowe! ;)

meghadutam August 24 2005, 07:48:34 UTC

I thought the movie was brilliant.. made me think a lot of abt borders, identities et al... You do know.. it's based loosely on a true story..

Ensoi!

appaji August 24 2005, 20:54:21 UTC

Junta told me that the movie was based on a real story, but I was too lazy to read about that ;-)

Tyanks for the link. I also read the wikipedia article on Merhan Karimi Nasseri after that. I noticed that the guardian films page was linked from there as well.

mannu August 24 2005, 14:14:36 UTC

I too saw the movie just this month. I didn't know it was a Spielberg movie, I picked up the DVD only because it has Tom Hanks on it. :) But I liked the movie a lot. I can see the movie again only for that Gupta character. :D

appaji August 24 2005, 20:57:25 UTC

I've been wanting to watch this movie since a long time. The other day I went to the video store, asked for a lot of movies that the chap did not have or he already let out and picked this one finally. No regrets.

I agree that Gupta was amazing in the movie. He is one of the three best characters in the movie, IMO.

notanangel78 August 25 2005, 01:06:05 UTC

haha!!this portion was funny. the film isn't Tom Hanks' best, but it was entertaining. He is a very good actor isn't he?

appaji August 25 2005, 19:30:00 UTC

> funny

Indeed, at the end of the conversation he says he is scared of ghosts / sharks, and the expressions on Dixon's face. Cracked me up.

> He is a very good actor isn't he?

You bet :)