Stranger Things 3 (2019)Created by The Duffer BrothersI finished watching Season 3 of "Stranger Things" some days ago, like the second season, this is titled "Stranger Things 3", meaning it's more like a movie sequel than a TV show's season. The eight episodes moved by very quickly, and I thought the pacing in this season was better than in the second. This time around, we find the characters in July 1985, the Starcourt Mall is a location important to the story, there is a new monster in town, with a connection to the Upside Down.I love "Stranger Things" for its 1980s nostalgia, its superb ensemble cast of fantastic young actors, its great blend of the kids movie and the more R-rated horror elements, and its characters, engaging story and action. "Stranger Things 3" is more action and horror oriented, particularly, a Cronenberg or Carpenter's "The Thing"-esque body horror. Although the two are different, I was reminded of the monster in @neillblomkamp's "Zygote" short film also. As usual, the production values are top-notch, the cinematography and visual effects are great, and the music is excellent. I liked the new characters introduced in this season too. This is obviously a must-watch for fans of the show, and I look forward to what they will do with the fourth season (which is likely to be the final or penultimate season). I drew Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin (one of my favourite characters in the show), from a scene in the last episode, which I really liked! I don't want to spoil it so I'm not giving any more details here. The drawing was done with two multi colour ballpoint pens on A6 Brustro sketchbook and scanned. The scene has a reference to the 1984 movie "The Neverending Story", swipe to see a version of the drawing with the song lyrics (I was listening to this song while drawing this). #dailymoviesketch #strangerthings #strangerthings3 #dustybun#457 / 20-Jul-19
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A slightly different sketch for today! This is the “Me and the Boys” meme which is based on a screenshot from the 1967 “Spider-Man” animated show. It features the villains Rhino, Vulture, Electro and Green Goblin. The original screenshot from the show didn't have the Rhino character, that was Photoshopped in for the meme. Drawn with @ns1pen on A6 Brustro sketchbook and scanned.#DailyMovieSketch#spiderman #ballpointpen #meme #memes #meandtheboys #meandtheboysmemes#456 / 15-Jul-19
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Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)Directed by Jon WattsI watched “Spider-Man: Far From Home” in 3D on Sunday night and really enjoyed it! Picking up where “Avengers: Endgame” left off, we find Peter Parker (Tom Holland) being pressured to take on the mantle of the next Iron Man, something that he is not ready for, and he just wants to enjoy his Euro class trip with his friends. A threat emerges in the form of creatures called the Elementals though, apparently from a different world, and Mysterio a.k.a. Quentin Beck (Jake Gyllenhaal) offers to help Nick Fury fight them, and they rope in Peter on this, with the Avengers not being available. I thought the movie was an improvement over “Spider-Man: Homecoming”. The action scenes, visuals, pacing are all better in my opinion. It also felt better connected to the overall Infinity Saga / MCU. Tom Holland as always is fantastic in the role, and Jake Gyllenhaal was terrific too. All actors seemed to be having a grand time here. The movie was a lot of fun and definitely recommended. Watch for the WTF-inducing mid credits scene and a “fun but means something for Phase 4” post credits scene!I did a couple of one inch square sketches — one showing Spidey in his “Night Monkey” costume, and one of Mysterio. Both were done with 0.5 mm 2B pencil on A6 Brustro sketchbook and scanned.I'm posting both with the same write up. #dailymoviesketch #spiderman #spidermanfarfromhome #tomholland #jakegyllenhaal #mysterio #petertingle #pencil #karthikabhiram#455 / 8-Jul-19
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Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)Directed by Jon WattsI watched “Spider-Man: Far From Home” in 3D on Sunday night and really enjoyed it! Picking up where “Avengers: Endgame” left off, we find Peter Parker (Tom Holland) being pressured to take on the mantle of the next Iron Man, something that he is not ready for, and he just wants to enjoy his Euro class trip with his friends. A threat emerges in the form of creatures called the Elementals though, apparently from a different world, and Mysterio a.k.a. Quentin Beck (Jake Gyllenhaal) offers to help Nick Fury fight them, and they rope in Peter on this, with the Avengers not being available. I thought the movie was an improvement over “Spider-Man: Homecoming”. The action scenes, visuals, pacing are all better in my opinion. It also felt better connected to the overall Infinity Saga / MCU. Tom Holland as always is fantastic in the role, and Jake Gyllenhaal was terrific too. All actors seemed to be having a grand time here. The movie was a lot of fun and definitely recommended. Watch for the WTF-inducing mid credits scene and a “fun but means something for Phase 4” post credits scene!I did a couple of one inch square sketches — one showing Spidey in his “Night Monkey” costume, and one of Mysterio. Both were done with 0.5 mm 2B pencil on A6 Brustro sketchbook and scanned.I'm posting both with the same write up. #dailymoviesketch #spiderman #spidermanfarfromhome #tomholland #jakegyllenhaal #mysterio #petertingle #pencil #karthikabhiram#454 / 8-Jul-19
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Kabir Singh (2019)Directed by Sandeep Reddy VangaThe 2017 movie "Arjun Reddy" starring Vijay Deverakonda in the title role was a huge hit and received praise, and now we have a Hindi remake, from the same writer-director.Kabir Singh (Shahid Kapoor) is a brilliant surgeon, who is angry and possessive — he falls in love with Preeti (Kiara Advani) in their college days. We are shown this in flashbacks, and at the start of the movie we're made aware that the relationship has failed and Kabir is caught in a spiral of alcohol and drug abuse. The story is not so much the highlight here, rather, it's the character and how the story is told. In my sketch and review of the original, I said that drama is not the genre of movie that I like typically, but I liked "Arjun Reddy" and thought it was a well made and well acted movie. This is a scene for scene remake and I liked it as well. A film like this is made or broken by its lead actor's performance, and I thought Shahid did a great job here.I've been seeing some hate dished at the movie because of its portrayal of the lead character and of glorifying toxic masculinity. Of course everyone is entitled to their opinion — mine is that a movie should be judged on its filmmaking merits (all of which are good here), and not on its subject matter. Filmmakers should have the freedom to write and portray characters in the way that they want. I liked the movie and I think it's well worth watching, even at almost three hours long it kept one interested. However if I had to compare this and the original one I'd have to say I liked the original better.I drew Shahid Kapoor as Kabir from the movie, the drawing was done with @ns1pen on A6 Brustro sketchbook and scanned.#DailyMovieSketch #karthikabhiram #kabirsingh#shahidkapoor #arjunreddy#453 / 1-Jul-19
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Black Mirror: "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too" (2019)Directed by Anne SewitskyA couple of weeks back I watched the three episodes of Season 5 of "Black Mirror". The first two were good but I didn't think they were as good as some of the best episodes of the show. The third episode though, was in my opinion the strongest in the season, and was a good true "Black Mirror" episode. It stars Miley Cyrus as singer Ashley O, who is idolised by many including Rachel (Angourie Rice). There's even a doll version of her, called Ashley Too, which becomes Rachel's companion. The storyline then takes some darkly funny and twisted turns.It's very well made and acted, and the songs of Ashley O are all versions of songs by a band that I like a lot — I didn't know till I watched the episode so it came as a surprise to me, so I won't reveal it here either. I thought the episode was very cleverly done as a whole and I enjoyed it.I drew the Ashley Too doll, it was done with Bic multi colour ballpoint pen and Gelly Roll pen on A6 Brustro sketchbook and scanned.#dailymoviesketch #blackmirror #netflix #mileycyrus #ballpointpen #sketch #ink #penandink#452 / 30-Jun-19
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[Drawing of @taapsee from @ashwin.saravanan's "Game Over"] Game Over (2019)Directed by Ashwin SaravananWatched this on Friday after hearing good things about it and it was very good! The movie has video game designer Swapna (Taapsee Pannu) confined at home after being raped a year ago, so traumatized by the incident that she has panic attacks in the dark. This being the setting, the film also introduces a plotline about women being killed in gruesome ways (beheaded and being set on fire). Won't get into further details but this is an original mix of different genres, the home invasion thriller and slasher being prime influences.I loved the movie. The opening titles sequence, the music, sound design, acting, and direction were all very good. The sound design and Ron Yohann's music were particularly effective here and contributed to the intensity of the movie! I watched it in AMB Cinemas in the hall that had Dolby Atmos setup, and I really enjoyed this aspect of the film. It's a taut thriller, very well crafted. Highly recommended!I watched the movie in Telugu, the Tamil version was not playing here. The Hindi version apparently has Anurag Kashyap's name associated with it as "Presented by" though it's not present in the version I saw.Surprisingly, the movie is rated U/A (our PG-13 equivalent) though it could have been an A rated movie easily, had they gone a little stronger with the violence.I drew Taapsee from the movie as Swapna, the drawing was done with @ns1pen and Gelly Roll pen on A6 Brustro sketchbook and scanned.#dailymoviesketch #gameover#451 / 25-Jun-19
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X-Men: Dark Phoenix a.k.a. Dark Phoenix (2019)Directed by Simon KinbergI watched this movie some days back, and then had some work related travel and got busy, so couldn't complete this sketch earlier. The movie is set in 1992, and opens with the X-Men saving a group of astronauts from a malfunctioning shuttle, caused by what looks like a solar flare. This energy is semi-sentient apparently and attaches itself to Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), who absorbs it. When she come back she feels good, but this power enhances her abilities, and she is soon pursued by a race of aliens led by Jessica Chastain, who apparently want this power for themselves.The first half was pretty engaging but after the entire movie was over I felt it was just underwhelming. The acting is good but the characters and events just felt underdeveloped and small in scale. Hans Zimmer's music was nice and added some weight to the proceedings but I felt even he wasn't on his A game here, with some of the music cues sounding similar to what he's already done in his previous scores. The film suffers as a result of the reshoots and changes made in post production, with Jessica's character and the aliens just showing up without any proper introduction. There's only one major setpiece in the third act, where we see the X-Men working together.Overall I didn't dislike the movie, I just felt it was disappointing. The next day, I watched "Godzilla: King of the Monsters", here called "Godzilla II: King of the Monsters", and compared to that I actually liked this one better. "Godzilla" had visual effects that were nice to look at but the characters and the story were even less developed than here, and many times I felt characters and dialogue were just there to give exposition. None of the human or monster characters got enough development, and I just wasn't interested in what was going on. The on screen title for this movie is "X-Men: Dark Phoenix" as is the title on the poster here in India, whereas in the US I guess it's just called "Dark Phoenix". I drew Sophie Turner as Jean Grey with the Phoenix force, the drawing was done with @ns1pen on A6 Brustro sketchbook and scanned.#450 / 23-Jun-19
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WIP drawing of Sophie Turner from "X-Men: Dark Phoenix". I watched this on Monday, and I watched "Godzilla II: King of the Monsters" on Tuesday. "Dark Phoenix" was the better of the two in my opinion. Both films though, suffered from having underdeveloped characters and story, and as a result, were disappointing. I'm busy with work till the next few days so I'll probably be able to complete this and post it only on Sunday. The notes written on the previous page are for the Photography Basics Session that I conducted earlier in the month. @ns1pen #ns1pen #google #pixel2xl #teampixel #karthikabhiram #DailyMovieSketch #darkphoenix #xmen #xmendarkphoenix #sansastark #sophieturner #jeangrey
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Brightburn (2019)Directed by David YaroveskyI saw the trailer for this James Gunn produced superhero horror movie and wanted to see it, as it looked very interesting. The movie takes the Superman origin story and turns it creepy.The movie opens with a spacecraft crash landing on the Breyer farm in the small town of Brightburn, Kansas. Like Kal El landing on Earth, the ship has a small baby in it, adopted by parents who cannot conceive, and they raise the boy as their own, never revealing to him his origin. At the age of 12, the boy Brandon begins exhibiting powers and things take a horrific turn. At only a little above 90 min long the movie is entertaining and interesting. It does set up a lot of story threads though and feels more like the first part in a longer story. Maybe not as satisfyingly resolved as I'd have liked. But I liked the movie overall, it did have some interesting ideas and has some gore and violence. Jackson Dunn gives a creepy performance as Brandon Breyer. I drew Brandon with his mask from the movie. The drawing was done with Bic multi colour ballpoint pen — the same brand that Brandon is shown using — on A6 Brustro sketchbook and scanned.Brandon uses the 1.0 mm 4 colour ballpoint pen (the one that's white and blue in colour, and whose ink colours are black, blue, red and green). I used the one with the 0.7 mm point size. The blue of his shirt was with 1.0 mm pen of a different set of colours.@brightburnmovie @brustro @creativehandsartmaterials#DailyMovieSketch #brightburn #ballpointpen #inksketch #bic #pen#449 / 30-May-19
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