The Matrix

It's 2011 and I'm watching a movie that was released in 1999. This movie is still cool.
"C'mon - Stop trying to hit me and hit me!"
"Everybody falls the first time."
Some of the dialogues are embedded.
In 1999, the world did not have Google. Internet was a novelty. America was free of terrorism. India was still a 'bad-land'. People didn't care about China.
The Wachowski brothers decided to market the idea of the world being a dream in which we are stuck. This idea may have influenced people the world over. This movie, I want to believe, somehow made people become independent.. in their thoughts and actions.
The movie - Cool. That's it. Stunningly intelligent in the nuances planted at certain junctures. Great effects, fantastic direction, crisp, great story and rather excellent acting by Laurence Fishburne and Keanu Reeves.
I wonder if it will retain its coolness 20 years from now :)

The best quote of all : "There is no spoon."

Lakshya

Another grossly under-rated movie. This movie did not do well commercially but was outstanding because of Farhhan Akhtar's vision combined with his ability to portray that vision. I loved the way he took his time with the movie and tried his best not to succumb to commercial demands. I must also add that he did a fantastic job with Hritik Roshan. Hritik's acting in Koi Mil Gaya was appreciated but I found it too 'in my face' and he was still Hritik Roshan.
In Lakshya, Hritik as a college kid was the perfect confused college kid, Hritik as a new entrant in the army seemed correctly raw, Hritik leading his team for the final fight was the focused leader. It's only in the dance scenes that I saw Hritik Roshan and not the character.

Farhan made the Indo-Pak 'battle' classy and slightly believable and not as commercial and dramatic as Border, but therein lie the pitfalls of such a movie: The masses don't really like such movies.

Scene: An hour or so before the end, Hritik rushes to the opening of a bunker while bellowing the movie battle cry "Dhavaa" and gunning the infiltrator down :D

People forget what the movie was meant to be about: Lakshya, loosely translated to 'Goal'.
I loved Hritik's transformation from a chilled out and carefree / careless college kid to a kid trying to prove himself by joining the army to a young man in Kashmir to the man hoisting the flag at the disputed mountain peak.

Snatch

Weird accents, intelligent humour, classy cinematography, great editing, semi-convoluted plot.
"You should never underestimate the reliability of stupidity."
An intelligently made movie that stands out. It's as though the ingredients of the movie can be isolated and appreciated, but the movie in its entirety is also awesome.

There is a smart narration that goes on through the narration.
Silly sound effects and flash-back snapshots.
The piker accent.
One liners such as, "In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary, come again?"
Brutal scenes (kind of).
Memorable characters such as Mickey, Boris the Bullet Dodger, Franky Four Fingers, Turkish, Bullet Tooth Tony, Brick Top (Sometimes, the names are more memorable than the characters).
A fitting soundtrack.
And for once, no actor stood out; the movie was bigger than any particular character.

"Speak English to me Tony, I thought this country spun the fuckin' language and so far nobody seems to speak it!"