movies :-)

I am watching lots of movies nowadays..saw kingdom of heaven a week back. Nice movie and well made. That is the only factor that distinguished it from troy.. ( Troy relied heavily on achillis and hector for the success of the movie. though i was pretty impressed with the role played by hector) KOH has a good story and Orlando Bloom looks gullible enuf to endear the audience towards him. However the movie misses a charater like russel crowe who took gladiator to great heights. hence i will be surprised if KOH gets any oscars for acting.The actress who played Isabel was beautiful but wooden and in one scene she did get out some guffaws from the audience when she asked bloom whether he didnt know the reason why she was in his room late at night when she was honourable married to another guy:-)
The king of jerusalem played by Norton and Salah-ud-din played by some one else were roles well etched out and scott gave these characters a lot of respect. Infact the best lines in the movie were given to the king of jerusalem. If he had lived he wud have changed history from what I heard of him.
I also saw Cleopatra that weekend making it a weekend of period movies for me. Cleopatra was a good infact great classic..the chemistry between liz taylor and richard burton was sizzling and timothy dalton also played the part of caesar really well.words fail me when i try to talk abt liz taylor's performance as the protagonist. this is a film worth watching just for her..She is a woman with all her failings and reminds one of Scarlett O'hara in gone with the wind. An irrepresible woman she wanted everything in life and died a sad woman.
another thing i noticed about the movie was that caesar was shown as a great king and general and a person capable of decision making and leading his men to victory while marc antony( the right hand man of caesar) was a capable general who was good at leading an army but not good at decision making. He had to be told by Cleopatra what should be done and not using his brains whether it was right or wrong. he later proved to be a simpleton and forced into a battle with Rome unwillingly.He gives a lot of food for thought for wannabe managers. Every person is capable of some tasks and does them well. however if he is good at one thing he might not be equally good at all things. An efficient person may not be an equally good at innovativeness. For a manager it is imperative to find out what are the things he is good at and try them only. Its not that he shouldnt try his hand at other skills but if it hurts the organisation then he should refrain. while delegating work to others he shud find out what the person is good at instead of assigning tasks in an arbit manner and thus decreasing efficiency. enuf funde for today:-)
I watched the matrix series again to try to interpret what the movie is trying to portray. Somehow watching the movies one feels that it is sending out a message about karma and the purpose of life and the need of "choice" which distinguishes us from robots.
well more on that later:-)