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Generic action thriller. The thought behind the story is good but it's explored on a very surface level. Writing that's supposed to feel intelligent doesn't feel like it's intelligent.

The protagonist barely runs into any problems on his journey, the one time he does it's so easily overthrown. A major twist for a supporting character lands very bland. Jokes were okay, we have a few sexual jokes which I didn't mind but then one of them made me raise my eye brows, especially since this is supposed to be a "family friendly" movie. VFX ge jaasthi dhud kharch maadi pls 😭😭🙏🙏.

Cinematography is pretty good, I wondered if this extremely smooth and light color palette would work and it did work. Music was okay, one standout but everything else was just fine.

Matthe villain antha bandre jaasthi buildup kottu last alli hero hatra tuss pataki aadre movie nodidhu waste ansuthe, please give this hero more troubles in his life. Police aagidhaga yenu madlilla antha heludru. Retire aagi vigilante aadru nu jaasthi yenu maadilla antha ansthu. 🤷

Story rant ahead (MILD SPOILERS FROM HERE):

So, loose maada's character is supposed to be this heinous, brutal, unrelenting, genocide committing psycho of a character. He shows up only after the interval, and honestly for the first part of this movie there's no villain at all, they just go on killing criminals with ease. But, this main villain is shown to be very brutal and during the last fight sequence he gets beaten up by Vijay SO EASILY. I mean yalla hype kotidhu waste aythu. Also the climax fight is VERY WEAK, it looks like your average fight scene from a mass movie and such a simple almost no friction figh scene is the climax of this movie 🙏. Barthane vadithane hogthane.

Don't even get me started about their family, bari shoki family erodhu. Ede family including heroine movie alli irilla andre movie yenu change aagthirlilla. There's literally no point of Shivarajkumar character's family to exist other than to call Shivarajkumar "Amma na ganda" or for the comedic bits, they carry to inherent value or threat to him. Sumne heroine idale. Adru mele item song bere, completely unnecessary.

I watched this FDFS and the cast and crew of the movie were present there. Coming to the movie, it's genuinely something new. We all know found footage horror tries to play itself like it really happened. But "Video" spends a lot of time making it look real, a majority of the first half in showing how the group got to the horrible situation, how the dynamic between people of the group (Tharle Gang) is, the history of the "place" where they go. It's all very fleshed out. The sound design is incredible and the acting is also pretty good. Makeup and costume designing is also well done. The editing is also well done, they hold shots beyond the usual cut time and it makes you feel like you're anticipating something but nothing happens which is a great anxiety building technique. Also the horror elements are well blended with the group's dynamics, many of the times what happens to them is directly a fault of a person or multiple people within the group.

Coming to the negatives, I feel like they've reused an editing style (cutting to black during an intense moment) over and over again which makes it feel a little repetitive. It works for the few first bots they use but then its magic disappears. And another gripe I have with many other horror movies returns here, jumpscares. Especially during the first half sudden normal movements like moving a camera fast, turning the camera on, the lights turning off due to battery shortage, all of these sudden moments are edited with loud music to create a jumpscare which in my opinion is not a horror building element and doesn't add to the movie's atmosphere or story. It's just a jerk and it's over within half a second, which is just weak horror.

Overall it's good, worth watching in theaters. 3.5/5.

We had some issues with the voice recordings, hence the sudden quality change and distortion. Pls forgive us 🙏🙏

An ode to Namma Bengaluru

Hello everyone, a few days ago we started an online film club where we discussed movies throughout the world. For now, we're mostly a small group and want to add a few others into the club.

We usually discuss films by a "bingo card" system where a person randomly generates a number and then they'll have to choose a movie(s) according to the theme on the bingo card that corresponds with their number.

The group is formed on WhatsApp and we primarily communicate through whatsapp. So if y'all wanna join let me know!

I feel like these are the only two production houses that actually help small artists get recognised. Especially PRK with French Biryani and Kavaludaari, and recently with all their short films. Daali pictures has their own team they like to use for feature length films but their youtube channel is basically a goldmine for kannada short films, they've helped many artists get the recognition they deserve. I don't see any other big time actors doing this even though many of them talk about wanting young talent in the industry. Are there any others that are doing this?

I went to watch Karavali today as a last minute decision, mostly because I was bored. Ended up paying 300+ for the ticket and it was not worth it.

I'll start with the positives since the negatives are quite a lot. The film has some really creative camera work initially, they've clearly tried to give the film some stylistic weight. Also the editing is also pretty good here and there which compliments the camera work. Creative transitions, aesthetic colors, decent CGI, the cinematography and visual aesthetics department have done well. The actors for the most part have done a good job.

But that's about all the positives this movie has. First of all there's some sort of love interest and love story they've added that adds like absolutely NOTHING to the story. The heroine does absolutely nothing to contribute to the narrative. And of course they have a song about this absolutely unesscessary love interest. Oh coming to the songs, I genuinely feel like the writer probably couldn't think of dialogues to write, to compensate for that they added a song and a montage sequence to fast forward events in the film. It's very hard to sit through if the film starts to feel like a pseudo musical. And this happens wayy to many times, every time something happens in the film there's a song for it.

The action sequences are okay for the most part, nothing different. It's your usual slow mo montage sequence. I also think that Raj B Shetty's character is severely underutilized, he's supposed to be this sort of Main anchor for the events that take place in the film. Yet the film does not spend enough time developing the character, you get a song for him and then a fight scene and a few shots of him screaming and talking wisdom, that's it. You don't remotely feel connected to him. The main character honestly feels nothing special (even though they try their best to make him look like a super special character).

The storytelling/writing is very scattered, most crucial events happen when someone's asleep and then you'll hear someone else suddenly start crying loudly and then the main supporting character runs to the place of the event and starts crying, this structure is repeated like thrice or twice in the film and it feels very lack luster. The scene before the interval is trying to tell you something but you never understand it because of the way it's been edited to look like this montage between three different places and two different timelines, it cuts between these places extremely fast almost like a tiktok edit and it makes NO SENSE.

The score for the movie is decent, nothing too good or too bad, definitely not memorable.

Landlord was better than this.

This movie was actually a breath of fresh air. Adee longu macchu bittu yeno hosathara maadidare.

It isn't perfect of course, some of the story during the middle act kinda goes everywhere and nowhere at the same time. But I still enjoyed watching this, The performances of the actors were actually pretty good especially the actress for Jessi (she looked absolutely terrifying). The cinematography was also very good, all the shots look very cinematic and pleasing. The music and songs were also pretty good.

I feel like the story could've gone better if they had handled the jealousy stuff with a bit more nuance and there's some tonal contrast here and there that kinda breaks immersion. But all over it was a solid watch!

If y'all haven't watched it, you should definitely give it a try!

Anything that I should add to this?

I really liked the KGF 2 trailer, the movie wasn't all that good for me but the trailer was really engaging and very well cut. A very close second is the trailer for ASN , that was also pretty good but I don't really like long trailers so ASN fell short over there.

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What are your favourite kannada movie trailers?

These are some of the posters from the recent movies that were released (or are going to be released).

When I see any of these posters the first thing that comes to my mind is "cheap and low quality".

It's grainy, very generic, does not have a direction, and does not maintain a theme. Utthara is the only one that's slightly better everything else is just bad.

This doesn't only apply for these movies, alot of these smaller movies have very bad designs.

The only exception recently was mango paccha , that movie had some great posters.