Emperor Lonestar

Emperor Lonestar

Favorite films

  • Man of Steel
  • Apocalypse Now
  • Whiplash
  • Ben-Hur

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  • Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India

    ★★★★½

  • Dev.D

    ★★★★

  • Interstellar

    ★★★★★

  • Ok Jaanu

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  • Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India

    Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India

    ★★★★½

    There is no cricket match here. This is total all out war for lives and honour. The only people playing a cricket match here are the 8 British soldiers and maybe Willis and Yardley. The stakes do not get higher than this. This decides if the province gets to prosper or die of starvation eventually. The honour of the British empire at its peak rests upon it. The twisted sense of English derring do of an English man and the…

  • Dev.D

    Dev.D

    ★★★★

    Dev is the villain of the story. Paro is a normal person, Chanda is a victim and whatever decisions they take make perfect sense. Not Dev though, he is a piece of shit. Doesn't think twice before fucking up his childhood love, makes out with a random woman without any provocation and doubts Paro's fidelity even when he is no different from her.

    While the authors elevate the original story by giving Chanda a backstory and making Dev the main…

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  • Man of Steel

    Man of Steel

    ★★★★★

    I think about this film a lot.

    I think about the small things like Amy Adams being pretty with her blue eyes, the little jokes about Lois asking covert Clarke to be careful with her heavy bags or Superman saying it won't go downhill after the first kiss because it's applicable to humans only, the beautiful suit, the gorgeously flowing cape, the ridiculous level of attention to detail, the audio-visual experience and so on.

    I think about the big things,…

  • Girls Lost

    Girls Lost

    ★★

    It's an okay film, nothing exceptional in it. Oddly enough some parts of the film could easily be interpret as anti-trans; the protagonist engages in criminal and questionable activities when in the male body while successfully creates better social life and overcomes fears when in the female body (which apparently the protagonist doesn't like). That made me interpret this film as warning for drug abuse changing you in irreversible ways. I am not completely dumping the trans analogy which was…

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