Watched Monsoon Wedding (Criterion) a couple of days ago. Captures the elements of marriage chaos to the parents and all around.

Very interesting watch. Mira Nair is pretty good at weaving a tale. Yes there is the songs, but in all Indian weddings there are actual singing and dancing (North India). She works the characters pretty well, and brings the tale of a traditional India moving into Modern India. Not sure if non Indians will actually see what's being potrayed, but still there is a lot of stuff to take out of it. Those of us who are parents have girls to give away as a bride one day can reflect upon the dads feelings. She tackles a lot of issues, that are new to India (in 2001) like, love before marriage, how the society deals with the western influence, parents choices for their kids and childrens loyalty.

PQ - This is interesting. Criterion did a fabulous job in this restoration as this was initially captured in 16mm and then blown up to 35mm. Grain haters beware....Stay away, but this is how it was shot, also to give the gritty feel of India and its streets.

AQ - Very good 3 channel, the surrounds are sparsely used, but subtle when needed.

I would give it a 2 thumbs up. However, I dare not recommend this to all those who have wrote to hate Bollywood song and dance. Although, in this case it is not a normal Bollywood, there are song and dance but it is at a wedding and it is a real reflection of actual weddings.

I'm taking a wild guess that spoken language in the film probably English? Hindi here and there i pressume?. Monsoon Wedding has also :-

Won

    * British Independent Film Award for Best Foreign Language Film
    * Canberra International Film Festival - Audience Award (Mira Nair)
    * Independent Spirit Awards - Producers Award (Caroline Baron)
    * Venice Film Festival - Golden Lion (Mira Nair)
    * Venice Film Festival - Laterna Magica Prize (Mira Nair)

Nominated

    * BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film (Caroline Baron, Mira Nair)
    * Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film
    * Chlotrudis Award for Best Cast
    * Chlotrudis Award for Best Director (Mira Nair)
    * European Film Award for Best Non-European Film (Mira Nair)
    * Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
    * Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Foreign Language Film
    * Satellite Award for Best Foreign Language Film

IIANM One of them was region locked....

Blu-ray.com stated [Region Free].

Ah, something changed then. Predator standalone is region locked, they must have re-released like X-Men.

Watched Monsoon Wedding (Criterion) a couple of days ago. Captures the elements of marriage chaos to the parents and all around.

Very interesting watch. Mira Nair is pretty good at weaving a tale. Yes there is the songs, but in all Indian weddings there are actual singing and dancing (North India). She works the characters pretty well, and brings the tale of a traditional India moving into Modern India. Not sure if non Indians will actually see what's being potrayed, but still there is a lot of stuff to take out of it. Those of us who are parents have girls to give away as a bride one day can reflect upon the dads feelings. She tackles a lot of issues, that are new to India (in 2001) like, love before marriage, how the society deals with the western influence, parents choices for their kids and childrens loyalty.

PQ - This is interesting. Criterion did a fabulous job in this restoration as this was initially captured in 16mm and then blown up to 35mm. Grain haters beware....Stay away, but this is how it was shot, also to give the gritty feel of India and its streets.

AQ - Very good 3 channel, the surrounds are sparsely used, but subtle when needed.

I would give it a 2 thumbs up. However, I dare not recommend this to all those who have wrote to hate Bollywood song and dance. Although, in this case it is not a normal Bollywood, there are song and dance but it is at a wedding and it is a real reflection of actual weddings.

I'm new to Amazon. If you know how do i acctually read the region info in Amazon?. I hardly see it stated for some blu-ray titles.

AMZ's discs info is really bad.. totally unreliable.. I guess its cut n paste frm SD info.. they stil use AC3 in odo in sum cases..

Better to rely on independent rvwrs..

just finish watch fellowship of the ring..

excellent...
PQ not that bad as the review say..still acceptable..

AQ is excellent...no complain about it... nice ambient sound from LR..surround also not bad... the best part is the bass is damn good.. expecially when frodo wear the ring, it could tear your house apart.. there are few more scene that have good bass too.. i like it most when they in mine of moria...the best part of all in the movie...

later on will continue with the two towers

I'm new to Amazon. If you know how do i acctually read the region info in Amazon?. I hardly see it stated for some blu-ray titles.

just finish watch the two towers..

this one PQ much more better than fellowship of the ring 

AQ excellent also excellent as the first one... bass also boom boom pow... especially on helm deep..when the orcs blow the wall into pieces...    the best part is when the horn in helm deep blown... whole room shake shake... this seldom happen to my peasant setup.. surround also not bad...

cant wait to see the last episode 

Some said in original script, there is only two episodes. But their extend to 3 episodes by remove some of the story in episode 1 and 3 to episode 2 (two towers).  Episode 2 is the worst among 3 episodes.  I don't know how true is this statement. 

there is 3 book of lotr..how can only 3 episode?
i think episode 2 is the best among all..
1st is the most boring one... 

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The 1st one i heard the PQ is very bad. Is that true ?

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