The King's Speech : Set in the early part of the 20th century, this movie is the story of King George VI of Britain and his incredible feat coping with his stammer with the help Lionel Logue, an unconventional 'speech therapist'.
It is not easy to live with a stammer that too if you are a king and the whole world wants to hear your words for inspiration.
This movie has all the necessary ingredients for a good Drama movie. Excellent performance by Colin Firth as King George V1 (who won an Oscar for the role) and Geoffrey Rush as Lionel Logue. A must watch from the list of movies released last year.The Black Swan : Nina Sayers has been selected as the perfect one to play the lead role (Odette) inthe Swan Lake ballet . But as she works hard for that, something else happens. She gets consumed by the
character of the play and ends up becoming like Odile , the Black Swan.
One might find the story of the movie to be pretty boring. Yet this movie is not about the story. Its more about the acting itself and that makes this movie stand apart. I didn't know that ballet dancing is so exhausting and a highly competitive profession.Natalie Portman got a well deserved Oscar for playing as the obsessive ballet dancer in the move.
Kung Fu Panda 2 : After stealing our hearts becoming the 'Dragon Warrior' our favorite Panda is back. This time he is on a quest to find 'inner peace' and in that search, he learns about his childhood and his birth parents too.Of course there is also the saving the world from bad guys part.
Just like the previous movie, there are lot of good quotes in this movie too. Here is a sample one:
[after Po has defeated all the cannon balls thrown at him and destroyed Shen's ships]
Shen: How did you...how did you do it?
Po: You know, you just keep your elbows up and keep the shoulders loose.
Shen: Not that! How did you find peace? I took away your parents. Everything! I...I scarred you for life.
Po: See, that's the thing, Shen. Scars heal.
Shen: No, they don't. Wounds heal.
Po: Oh, yeah. What do scars do? They fade I guess.
Shen: I don't care what scars do.
Po: You should, Shen. You've gotta let go of that stuff from the past, cause it just doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is what you choose to be now.
Here is a list of some old movies that I loved watching this year.
Fargo: I am a big fan of movies by the Coen brothers. Their movies never disappoint me. Their movies have this really gruesome and cold blooded murders that sticks on to your mind. Fargo is an old one by the Coen brothers that I always wanted to see.
Jerry hires two henchmen to kidnap his wife so that he could get some money from his father in law.It would be a simple drama for few days that would coerce his father in law to shell out some money from his huge assets. But his plan falls apart and in the event it unleashes a string of bloody murders. This is a pretty violent movie. Watch this if you like movies like PulpFiction, Reservoir Dogs or NCOM .
Apart from these movies, there are some more movies Pi ,The Fighter and Star Trek: FirstContact that I enjoyed watching.
