TICKET OF THE WEEK: BRAD PITT vs. BEN AFLECK

This week is really exciting as tow big stars come together for a clash at the Indian box office. Two weeks earlier it was Robert Downey Jr. vs. Nicholas Cage, in a battle that Downey seems to have won quite convincingly. This week it gets bigger with new poster boy of ‘pure’ cinema Ben Afleck and old faithful Brad Pitt fighting it out. The good thins is both their movies carry excellent pre-release and overseas reports, and neither of them is a routine action plot with the hero firing at aliens or terrorists.

                            

Gone Girl:

Ben Afleck is back in the big time after a couple of years. After Argo, great things are being expected of him every time he does anything on the screen, and Gone Girl seems to be one that has the potential of living up to all those expectations. Billed as a thriller, it shows the character of Ben Afleck being framed for the murder of his wife. Sounds like a very interesting premise and for those who have seen Argo and know the promise that Ben Afleck holds as a cinematic brain, then you surely wouldn’t miss this one.

Fury:

Brad Pitt on screen is always an exciting prospect, and when it is in the action/drama category, it is bound to be almost irresistible. Pitt’s last outing was World War Z which didn’t quite satisfy everyone. This time, he drops the Z and goes back to a real world war and explores the minds of soldiers marching to the warfront. Any movie based on a World War will have interesting, gripping and often touching stories to tell. It is indeed a wonder that more than 60 years after these dark times ended, the stories about them, of the people who fought and died iijn them, and of the families that suffered in silence, are yet not fully told. It shows us that humanity itself was greatly challenged when the whole world went to war without knowing what or whom they were fighting. The movie has some well known faces besides Brad Pitt and is surely something you got to catch on the big screen.