Kabluey - Best Movie of 2008
This offbeat small-budget-movie from 2008 was probably the best I’ve seen in that year. And it was the year of “Dark Knight”, “Wall-E”, “Benjamin Button” and “Hellboy II”, which I still like!
But those are movies about robots, superheroes or even crime fighting devils. Poor Salman, who has to work as a corporate mascot, is a real human being instead. As much as I hate to admit it, but I can relate to that a lot better.
“Kabluey” was written, produced, directed and played by Scott Prendergast. It is sad, sometimes dark but always funny. The anthem for modern alienation! My movie of the month January 2011 – in retrospect.
Visit the site of Mr. Prendergast’s company here, look at Kabluey’s homepage here, check out Rotten Tomatoes’ review (83%!) here or buy the movie at Amazon here
Filed under: Dance in India. With Superman.
I hope you are as fascinated by modern Asian popculture as I am these days. I’ve seen the modern Indian superhero-movie Krrish recently and I liked it.
Bollywood has outgrown cheesy and camp ripoffs of Western movies for a long time now but this is exactly where Krrish was nurtured. (Yes, action scenes and CG-FX are not state of the art in ‘Krrish’ – but who cares for those. I like singing and dancing in a superhero movie! A polka-dancing Hugh Jackman would have changed ‘Wolverine’ into a modern classic.)
So enjoy the movie-clip above and dance merrily with the Indian superman and… …Spiderwoman?
After that you may even buy Krrish here
Big Man Japan
“Big Man Japan” is a parody on the whole Japanese megamonster-movie-mayhem and on superheroes in general. Daisato is the son of a famous superhero and like him he can mutate to a giant, when electrically charged. (Don’t try at home, kids!)
But the job of the skyscraper-sized-monster killer is not as popular as it was in the Golden Age of Godzilla, as this mockumentary proofs.
It’s very funny and bizarre and out on DVD since May, you can order it via Amazon here.
