A weekend of movies

I had got a few movies to watch over the long weekend. Let me talk about the ones I watched.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

This one's very slick, funny and has Downey Jr. (Harry Lockhart) and Val Kilmer (Perry Van Shrike). Its about being at the wrong place at the wrong time with a few twists and turns. In a nutshell, Downey Jr. is a thief who while escaping from the police ends up at a casting session and gets selected to be an actor. At a party he meets a blonde whom he quite likes and by another few scenes we find out that she's his high school friend who's a struggling actress now. And for the record he's always been her 'friend' while she's gone ahead and shagged everyone including his best friend. Then we meet Kilmer who is a private eye who is supposed to train Downey Jr. During the training they witness a murder and the film takes off. From then till the end its all 'masala' - witty dialogues and sequences which would put Bollywood to shame. But its all good with some popcorn and friends. Quite entertaining.

Few quotes:
Perry Van Shrike: Look up idiot in the dictionary. You know what you'll find?
Harry Lockhart: A picture of me?
Perry Van Shrike: No! The definition of idiot. Which you fucking are!

B-Movie Actress: So what do you do?
Harry Lockhart: I'm retired, I invented dice. What do you do?

MatchPoint

Woody Allen movies are ones which you either love or hate. This one's the former. Jonathon Rhys Meyers (Chris Wilton) and Scarlett Johansson (Nola Rice) are quite superb in this movie. Tennis pro Chris Wilton takes a job as a tennis instructor and hits it off immediately with one of his students, wealthy young Tom Hewett (Matthew Goode). Tom introduces Chris to his family and Chris falls quickly into a romance with Tom's sister Chloe (Emily Mortimer). But despite the growing certainty that Chris and Chloe will marry, and the enormous professional and financial advantages that come Chris's way through his relationship with the delighted Hewitt family, Chris becomes increasingly intrigued and eventually romantically involved with Tom's fiancée, Nola Rice, a struggling American actress. Their passionate trysts leave Chris in danger of losing the wealth and position he has now come to enjoy. The only solution to the dilemma seems unthinkable...the end is quite a see-saw one, with Allen struggling like the audience to figure out which would be the ideal one. What I liked most is how he's threaded the concept of luck in the movie. Specially the first scene and the last one. About how a tennis ball can hit the net and go either way - you might win or you might lose. Everything!

Will post about more soon. And yes, if you haven't watching Coupling, you should do that as soon as possible. Its like the British version of Sex and the City. Just more funny if you like British humour. Had me in splits.