WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT TRULY MIND-BOGGLING SPECIAL EFFECTS

...you're talking about the Indian film industry.

(Via Mr. James Lileks)

Comments

[Juggler of Geese]

My god, that was a bad movie.

[Lairbo]

When they were looking for a new James Bond did they even look at this guy's audition tape?

Is the character's name Apu Bauer?

[Annie Where-but-here]

That's 3 minutes and 47 seconds of my life I'll never get back. I'll bet it's better if you watch it when your eyes are dilated.

[Clark Kent]

"The Adventure of Saddam Hussein Across the 8th Dimension"

Coming soon to a theater near you....

[Cheryl Howard]

Now all it needs is Paris Hilton....

[Siouxie]

WOW!! I LOVE the swordplay! So Uma Thurman like!

George Lucas must have been involved...

[Juggler of Geese]

I loved the way they crashes a twin engine plane and fell out of a single engine cesna. then later jumped out of a business jet. Three planes, one crash.

[Juggler of Geese]

that would be Crashed.

[Juggler of Geese]

I think the most frightening part was that I really paid enough attention to notice those details. I need to get a life.

[will]

I have got to see that movie. The guy with the sword made Dirty Harry look like a pansy. Awesome.

[Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa]

I was on the edge of my seat! ;-)

(The truly astounding part was that, at no point, did they break into song.)

Lileks web site is so fun.

[KOW]

That was so bad it aspires to be cheese.

[Annie Where-but-here]

That was one train wreck of a movie.

[ScottMGS]

I thought only evil overlords monologued after catching and killing his opponent.

In another Bulletin (etc.), we got it all wrong. It's not Fed-X that's hanging with Paris - Twit-X got to her first!

[jon]

If this is the extended version, I wonder how badly the short version sucked?
If they cut the earlier scenes, how would we have any idea what was going on?

[ScottMGS]

... and before killing...

[ScottMGS]

Jon, I'm thinking shorter is better in this case.

[Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa]

Also, did the guy fall out the train window and back onto his motorcycle?

[Siouxie]

Scott, this is one time that I, as a woman of the female kind, would agree. THIS time only. ;)

[pogo]

I always have to wonder, since we're just killin' the goons anyway, why do they holster the sidearms and grab the sword to do it with.

[Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa]

I think the Matrix guy was Elvis. (From his I- don't-want-to-just-be-a-pretty-boy phase.)

[Annie Where-but-here]

"Schmucks on a Plane."

[Annie Where-but-here]

That bad guy with the gun & hostage was a tad limp-wristed.

[Clean Hands]

I was just shocked that the sword guy didn't stab anyone in the thigh.

Give him a bad brush cut and take away his razor for a couple of days, and he's a dead ringer for Jack Bauer.

[Clean Hands]

Oh, fooey, I see that Lairbo had the same idea all the way back up there in comment #2.

[CJrun]

Disclaimer:

No cows were to be hurt during the making of this very fine moovie.

[ScottMGS]

Siouxie, I'm sure you're right! Wouldn't want to deprive anybody (unless it's bad movies).

[Annie Where-but-here]

Sheesh - where's Gandhi when you need him?

[Siouxie *Two thumbs Way UP gouging eyeballs*]

This movie is a shoo-in for the "Award for Best Foreign Action Film With a Bad Plot and Horrible Special FX That Doesn't Have Paris Hilton as a Leading Lady".

[Schadeboy]

This movie sucks toe shmegma.

But, the fact remains that I still have no way of creating a film with effects such as these. It's kind of like when Ferris Beuller was commenting to Cameron about Cameron's car. He said it was a piece of crap, but Ferris didn't even have a car, so he had no choice but to admire Cameron's.

[Leetie]

This is still my favorite Indian film clip of all time.

(bbescuela found it FIRST!)

[CJrun]

*snorks* @ Ghandi.

BTW, I hope others checked out the Lileks link and especially that they scrolled all the way down to the 'bugger' link. What a hoot!

[Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa]

*snork* @ Leetie's link

[mudstuffin]

leetie, what the hell did i just watch?

[Leetie]

Since Wikipedia knows everything... linky

You may also enjoy the "slapping scene."

Scroll to the bottom of the article.

[Siouxie]

was that a midget or a real kid?? yikes lol

[Cheryl Howard]

And who made the little kid inhale helium?

[Hammond Rye]

The only thing missing from that movie was a Barry Manilow number.

[Siouxie]

Barry does Bollywood??

[Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa]

♪♫Everybody was Thavakalai fighting....♪♫

(re: leetie's wikipedia link)

[casey]

OMG, does little superstar have a um, uh, gosh, I dont know how to be PC about this so I'll just come out and say it....does little superstar have something wrong with his eyes or am I sitting too close to my monitor?

[Siouxie]

he went to Dave's eye doc, casey...nuff said ;)

[Edgar Greenberg]

I'm confuzzled. Why would you shoot the wheels offn of an airplane that's landing? What's the point? So it runs you over as it skids to a stop?

Well nothing else made sense either.

[OtheU(manity)]

I'm wonderin' how they got James Brown to be so short in Leetie's link ...

[OtheU(manity)]

... and ...

Bugger is FUNNY!

[kj]

It's easy to see why the guy couldn't be killed--he's Bernie from Weekend at Bernie's! He's already dead!