Transformers

No! not this one.

This is what am talking about. Transformers - the movie. If you were like me - fed on a diet of American and Japanese animation shows as a kid, you'll love this. It has my childhood hero Optimus Prime so the movie could not have gone wrong.

As this is the first movie in the series, it is a bit descriptive at times, so that folks not familiar with the original series can catch up. But even that story telling part - how Megatron destroyed Cybertron and fled to Earth to crash is enjoyable too. Even those who don't give a rat's ass to the original series will enjoy the amazing CGI - the most detailed thing ever attempted.

I must admit, I felt like a 10 year old boy in a toy shop. I sat transfixed in front of the screen. It was like watching Transformers for the first time - over awed with with it all. The transforming into cars and trucks and planes and helicopters. The Autobots and Decepticons outdoing each other with transformations. The matrix, the cube, bumblebee ... Everything came rushing back to me.

Can't wait for the sequels. Can't wait for the Autobots kicking some Decepticons' ass.

भेजा Fry

भेजा Fry

There are lot of times when you go for a movie just to vie away your time. Deciding to watch Bheja Fry was one of those. Rediff review was for this movie, the only reason I wanted to watch it was that I like movies without the obligatory song and dance sequences.

The movie is a riot. One of the better comedies made in Indian cinema for a long long time. No slapstick, no innuendos, no nothing - pure comedic talent. I'd be disappointed if Vinay Pathak does not win an award for his role. His portrayal of an easily excitable singing idiot is perfect. He delivers every line, every scene with the exact timing and honesty as only a few can. This guy along with Ranvir Shorey are a class apart. Lesser comedians (nah, not actors) like Rajpal Yadav and Johnny lever look like Ramlila clowns compared.

The movie is about an upper class music producer (Rajat Kapoor) and an idiot (Vinay Pathak) who he brings along for a dinner game where the guy who brings the most idiotic talent wins.

Rajat Kapoor underplays his character pretty well. Vinay slips into the character very comfortable and is adorable and irritating at the same time.


Must watch. One movie I'll rewatch again (already did). A cult movie waiting to happen.


p.s. I don't give a damn if it is remake of some obscure French movie, I don't get the French anyways.

Nirvastra

निर्वस्त्र

thats what "निशब्द" should be called in the first half. The poor old (young) lady is only geiven one piece of clothing to wear to cover herself. Lecherous old Amitabh bachchan falls for the nymphet.

Summary -
Old man falls for his daughters best friend ("Jia". J for friends. As she acted quite over friendly, I'll call her J) who comes to his place to spend the holidays. Poor thing forgets to bring her clothes and senses. She bathes with a hose pipe in the middle of the lawn. With a hose pipe. now, I've seen dogs bathing with a hose pipe, even some bovine creatures. Not women, not women with little clothing on.

Our old man is a photographer (would you believe it?), snaps some photographs of the lady bathing. Blah blah blah. Predictably, they fall in love. Family finds out. Amitabh freaks out. J walks out. So does the audience, even before J does.

"can somebody please turn off the movie screen?"

watched a couple of movies last week. the second movie was a bit of surprise 'coz I didn't think I'll be able to survive the first one. lets begin.


1. Movie - Fanaa
Slogan - Destroyed in movie halls

Summary - "Terrorist falls for a visually impaired girl. Gets toasted by the visually impaired girl."

English is a very inexpressive language. It can not convey the pain of wave of emotions that hit me when I remember my very uncomfortable 3 hours watching this movie.

Aamir ("Rihaan") is tourist guide in Delhi, now I have been to places and I have seen guides, Aamir did not look, act or sound like a guide. infact, he could be mistaken for a road side romeo - complete with trite shayaris and over the top hamming. The way the guy tries to grab the poor blind girl in every other frame looks like an eve-teasing FIR waiting to happen. But, our poor blind girl is more than happy to encourage his acts.
To cut the crap, Aamir woos the girl, gets her, does her, dumps her. Kajol (who we all know is the most fertile actress ever - remember "Dil kya kare"?) gets pregnant before Aamir dumps her.
It turns out Aamir is actually a terrorist working for an outfit called IKF - Incredibly Kontrived Force। IKF fights both India and Pakistan (hey, we wanna make money there too); is controlled by a guy called "Nana Jaan" and has a single soldier in its army. The soldier ofcourse is Aamir (whose name unbelievingly actually is "Rihaan", talk about going under-cover).

Slept after that.


p.s. this post was in draft for way too long, so gave it some breathing space.

Poseidumb

Poseidon - n. greek mythology God of the sea

- n. movie about a namesake ship which (sigh) sank

Watched 'Poseidon' yesterday. Even the god of the sea could not save the movie from sinking.

Let me summarise the movie -

" A ship sinks. Some people survive."

That's it. I just saved u a chhota gandhi and couple of hours of pain. So, what are you doing reading this stupid blog? Go spend it on something better.

For those who have nothing better to do, read on -

Hmm, the movie is about a ship named poseidon (yes, I've already said that. But, hell, its all there is to it). Okay, so this ship is huge and by huge I mean really huge. yes, much much bigger than Rakhi Sawant's 'you know what'. So, this ship is in the sea with all these passengers, doing what big ships do.

It's new year time. Item number by Fergi (Black Eyed Peas). Everyones happy dancing. The moment you see all this hoopla, you know somethings gotta give, this baby's gonna sink and you know how.

Enter a big wall of water. Bam! ship starts sinking. And with that, the movie. Some people try to escape. Some don't make it, some do. As usual as soon as these 6 ppl leave the ship, it drowns. Phew! just in the nick of time.

The movie is as engaging and thrilling as watching your grandma knit (yeah, some ppl may find watching their grandma knit entertaining. I would recommend them the movie).
All said, if you have some money spare in your pocket and don't know how to spend it - courier it to me. I'll be more than happy to invest it in a malty beverage made by fermenting cereal.

Bottom-line:
Titaninc # 1047 other rescue drama movies = Poseidon

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