By Robert Emslie
That guy that cut you off on the freeway this morning? You just honked at him didn’t you? Maybe you gave him the finger. If only you were Enthiran – the Indian robot – then you’d be able to respond to asshattical driving affronts with the proper level of retribution. The lesson begins after the jump.
[youtube width=”640″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yBnl_krN_U[/youtube]
The Tamil sci-fi film Enthiran is not your typical Bollywood fare, but damn, this is like the Matrix after somebody’s blown Terminator Crystal Meth up its ass. The rest of the montage demonstrates how to deal with process servers, in-laws, and other unwanted interlopers to your property. This is probably NSFW due to the strong likelihood of you dropping an audible WTF?, so be forewarned.
Greg Kachadurian
Michael Bay is scribbling notes at a furious pace. Personally I'd rather sit on a tack than be exposed to such derivative fare. Gads.
Uwe Bollywood
I need to see this in it's entirety, Not later. Now.
I am completely with you. I think it's disrespectful to the mind that created this to demand a reasonable suspension of disbelief.
So there's a bunch of bad robots, possibly with one lead bad robot, then one good guy who looks like the bad robots? I can buy that.
Where I lose my suspension of disbelief is with the cobra formation. On what planet does a computer with seemingly unlimited intelligence select "COBRA" as the most efficient method of attack? you've gone from the omni-kill sphere to a form where all but 2 of your clones can actually attack. 99.5% of your dudes are just dead weight.
Aside from that one bit, the rest is awesome.
NETFLIX!
Wesley Snipes is out? Man, looks like prison was hard on him.
I thought this is what Lawrence Fishburn was doing after CSI.
It's as if a train filled with clowns hit a train filled with toxic waste. It's a horrible sight but after a while your inner devilish self just starts laughing uncontrollably. Then you wonder why everyone around you is looking at you then you realize that wasn't your inner devilish self, that you your outer masochist.
I had sort of the same reaction that you describe when watching Driven.
Forget the Spanish Inquisition, the frack was that?
So this is what happens when you smoke curry.
I checked, Netflix does not have this, the English name is "The Robot". But I did learn that this is a Kollywood movie instead of a Bollywood movie. I guess Kollywood is over the top cheesy action flicks vs. Bollywood over the top cheesy romantic musicals. Apparently they are in different languages too: Kollywood = Tamil Bollywood = Hindi
I don't know about you, but my loony bun is fine, Benny Lava.
…aaand that's gonna be stuck in my head for the rest of the afternoon.
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>poof?<
WTF? Why would the Indians use Hyundais as cop cars?
Because they are better and faster than Tatas. Hyundais aren't uncommon as cop cars in the rest of the world.
( I was actually meaning it to be funny in an offbeat sort of way. In other words, of all the odd crap going on all I noted was the make of car.)
Sorry, I've been hanging out over at Jalopnik lately. That would be a serious question at redacted.
Hardigree wrote about this on that other site last October. Feels like longer since I stopped checking in there though.
According to the IMDb, it's called "Endhiran":
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1305797/combined
Actually played as a first-run movie at one theater here in K.C. last fall. Couldn't convince my wife to go see it.