ARGO, **** YOURSELF!

-

Argo,  **** yourself!  I tried to count how many times Ben Affleck and his Fake Studio Six buddies will say this punch line in the movie Argo. As usual, I failed, I lost the count. Based on real events, famously referred to as “The Canadian Caper” Argo is the directorial outing of Ben Affleck, after The Town. Produced by himself and George Clooney, Argo tries to depict the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis and succeeds in doing so to a great extend, rebuilding the movie from available photos and one would presume, with countless interviews with the hostages and John Mendez, the CIA ex-filtration operative who tried to get them out.

 Ben Affleck plays the harried John Mendez, estranged from his wife and his “buddy man” with great élan, the rest of the crew carries out their part to perfection. One would say that the filming of the events that happened in 1979 in a seemingly innocuous manner, though with certain amount of uncertainties, as too dramatic. Everything happens just in time, and certainly the runway chase of the Swiss air plane to the end could have been avoided. Argo had everything in it to be a good movie without the suspense hammering your heart and yet the film carries of itself very well, reaches in crescendo toward the end as a true Hollywood movie should be, and halts with a pinch of history as the credits comes up.

Argo would have been a real treat if it was more of Le Carre than a Robert Ludlum.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

BELLY-CAUSE! NOT BELLICOSE

-
Being in a continuous state of restlessness and an ever growing conscientiousness - both mentally and physically - of my tummy, has prompted me to give a job in the early morning for my legs. Burn some calories and to show some long lost love for the body. When you hear something like this  pompous, don’t be mistaken, I am not aiming for a flat and hard tummy with six neat packs across, rather I should be happy with a  waistline that will permit my much loved wardrobes to get to their destination up to the belly button. A kilometer in the first day left me short of breath, a set of ten push-ups the next day left me devastated. What I could not achieve by flexing my muscles and shedding sweat, I decided to get done by controlling my diet potpourri. Plans were laid, every contingency thought about - lots of fruits and fluids, go easy on carbohydrates, starch and sugar. But as with every well laid plan, these also went deep down the drain, I kept on adding more and m...
Read more

ALPHA - TRAILING

-
You might call this extravagant - to see two posts in space of one hour - forgive  me, its the excitement of having a new blog. Akin to a potter, who moulds his pots and wares with utmost care, like the mother whose heart fills with inexpressible joy to see her offspring grow up - I feel content to watch the blog evolve. It might stumble, fall. But in the end, it will get up and walk. Please keep visiting this space in the cyber jungle for my views and updates on travel, music, movies, politics, geography, medieval history, painting, reading and aeromodelling.
Read more
-
Image
MY FIRST MODEL AIRCRAFT F lying the Beech Craft baron, Lear Jet or the Bombardier CRJ700 was not enough for me, I decided to get into the building a flying machine. Though I use the demo version of a popular flight simulator for my flying lessons, there are skeptics – of course mislead, misinformed and narrow minded – who insists that anything you play on a computer needs to be a video game. I have time and again explained the nuances involved in flying an aircraft, most importantly a jet in the class of CRJ700, to these terrestrials, but in all counts have miserably failed. I took videos of difficult landings, take offs, stall-spins, and acrobatics I performed to convince these bipeds. But alas! Their adamant stand of the simulator being just another video game always prevailed. This was when I decided seriously to get into aero modeling business, though I would admit that the thought has always been there, in the back of my mind, waiting for a trigger. As the ...
Read more