Movie #3100 "3 Idiots" (Amazon Prime) A guest at our place showed me a list of 100 best films, which this particular critic on -line decided upon, and he wondered what I thought of the list ---Well, it had "Citizen Kane" so I knew the critic had been schooled, but there were a lot of films that I disagreed with, which I think showed that he hadn't seen a lot of the "good" movies, in my opinion, because he would prefer a newer version most of the time. However, on that list was the film "INTOUCHABLES" (not un, but IN) which is a french foreign film that deserves to be right up there as one of the funniest films I have ever seen, and so the worthiness of the list got more credibility. I put comments next to each film , and noticed I hadn't seen three of the movies on the list, so I wrote those down and decided to see them --- One was "Snatch" which I just blogged about --- another was "American Psycho" which I'm not sure I will ever see, not because I think it is bad, but because I think it would be upsetting to watch for me (that's one of the reasons I could never be paid for being a critic --- can't watch horror films! My stomach won't let me) and the third was this one --- I had never ever heard of it, so I was very eager to see it. And I'm glad I did because it was very funny in an "out there" type of way. First, I need to say it is very Bollywood, so if you don't like people breaking into song and dance once in a while, this isn't for you, but the subject matter is very universal. It is about three college students who, because of their strict family upbringings, HAVE to become engineers --- it's the only job that is valued in their family, even though one dreams of being a photographer and the other a writer --- the third one wants to be an engineer, but not for the money but for the pleasure of thinking --- and he is definitely a free thinker, and it is what gets him in a war with one professor in particular --- and that one is terribly important to his advancement in his career. It is lots of fun to watch, and I'd give it 4.5 (.5 because it runs kind of long) , and say that I am glad it made this critic's list --- to represent an often under-appreciated genre of films --- bollywood!
"3 IDIOTS" Amazon 2009 PG-13 2 hours and 50 mins
Two friends are searching for their long lost companion. They revisit their college days and recall the memories of their friend who inspired them to think differently, even as the rest of the world called them "idiots".
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
Writers: Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Actors: Aamir Khan , Madhavan, Mona Singh
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