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Couldn't be any better

The Best? Better than Shawshank? The Debate continues....

some stories never get old

the final scene
It Happened One Night(1934)

Ye raat bheegi bheegi
Chori Chori(1956)


Dil hai ke maanta nahi
Dil Hai Ke Maanta Nahi(1991)

Never has been a story told thrice in 3 different generations, among 3 different kind of social perspectives and with 3 of the best heroes of their times. And everytime, it has been loved even though each scene was ditto and the dialogues were near same. But the original remains original, you have got to see Clark Gable to believe it (its available on youtube too).

some fantastic dialogues (picked up from imdb)-
Alexander Andrews: Oh, er, do you mind if I ask you a question, frankly? Do you love my daughter?
Peter Warne: Any guy that'd fall in love with your daughter ought to have his head examined.
Alexander Andrews: Now that's an evasion!
Peter Warne: She picked herself a perfect running mate - King Westley - the pill of the century! What she needs is a guy that'd take a sock at her once a day, whether it's coming to her or not. If you had half the brains you're supposed to have, you'd done it yourself, long ago.
Alexander Andrews: Do you love her?
Peter Warne: A normal human being couldn't live under the same roof with her without going nutty! She's my idea of nothing!
Alexander Andrews: I asked you a simple question! Do you love her?
Peter Warne: YES! But don't hold that against me, I'm a little screwy myself!

beowulf

'Best 3-D magic yet on screens' is what it is being called. I do not know about 3-D but I expected at least 70% of that magic to show on plain screens. Ok, if that is too ambitious, may be 50%? I thought going on 'bhedchaal' is something that Bollywood is best in but I was wrong, if a movie like 300 made a mark, it is only too predictable that visual splendors would be churned out in abundance. Remove Jolie's scenes and you will not find a single alteration in viewers' expressions.
Pardon me but those animations are so overly done that you are left feeling like watching a stupid video game on big screens. 300 was 'okay' and Beowulf is a sheer disgust. I dont see anything intelligent about the execution. Characters made from real people are then rendered digitally to look animated! - the result is what you call soul-less, dead, hideous and pale figures. If it wasn't for the interesting story of the original poem, I would have left after the excruciating first hour of the movie. Reading the poem or the story itself is a far better way of knowing 'Beowulf' than watching Robert Zemeckis' direction. Don't spoil your weekend.