Monday 27 November 2017

FIVE FLAVOURS FILM FESTIVAL

BAAHUBALI MARATHON

BAAHUBALI: THE BEGINNING
BAAHUBALI 2: THE CONCLUSION

Recommended. The highest grossing Indian production ever. Followed by a launch of a training application helping you get Baahubali's muscles or, for lazy ones, an app letting you attach moustache and muscles to your photo. The movies contain: heroes flying in suspended motion, battle elephants, queens and kings (in that order), Tollywood songs, glamorous palaces and a spectacular mountain with waterfall slopes. Each part has some innocent humour early on before it turns bloody and full of glory. Power struggle amidst oriental opulence and music you hear in your head on the way home. It has a Dolby Atmos version provided the distributor and the properly equipped cinema decide to make use of it.

At the end of the 5.5 hour long marathon people were applauding the films clapping their hands and a guy shouted: "Encore! Encore!"

NIGHT FILM MARATHON - MARATHON OF SUPERHEROES WITH LEAGUE

Because of the "Baahubali" marathon, I had to skip re-watching "Batman v Superman". I also decided to leave "Justice League" for Imax. So I saw only:

WONDER WOMAN

Watchable the second time round. I caught some jokes I missed the first time, e.g. " We have to get you back to school before another teacher resigns" but the ones I liked before were less funny now. The main lessons from the movie are: you have to believe in yourself and men are unnecessary for pleasure.

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