Recently Watched Movies…

Seen a lot of movies lately and realized that it takes a lot of time to write individual reviews of it. I put up my ratings and short review at Facebook-Flixter, and thought that it would be a good idea to put it here every now and then :) Here are the short reviews of … Read more

The Sixth Sense – ScreenPlay Review

The Sixth Sense is a 1999 Oscar Nominated Thriller written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. The movie struck gold in the box office and is till date one of the best thrillers ever made!

The screenplay of the movie (available here) echoes its class as a top notch thriller. It has the right ingredients of a thriller… the perfect pace, the duality of writing and many other factors. By “duality of writing” I mean the ability of writing something that could mean a plethora of different things based on context of the viewer. In this case its mostly got to do with the perfect balance of what if the viewer knows the ending or not.

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The Big Bang Theory…

Started watching the series Big Bang Theory and its pretty good… Saw the ads a while ago in a movie theater(!) and a few days back a colleague gave me a few episodes. Some of the theoretical physics is just too good and aptly put in context. The comic timing of the actors is one … Read more