Comic Con!

Was giving it a royal ignore this year because you could take only that much from those batcrazy Twilight fans & the franchise. But the mother of all announcements albeit a slip-up has all but made up for all the pretty boring thing that's been happening over there.

The "Batman 3" Announcement Slips Out at Comic Con.

It was never a question of whether the 3'rd film would be made but it was more of like when it's going to be made and now thanks to commissioner gordon now we know that it'll be starting next year. Yeah baby! 2012 summer can't come any sooner.

Terminator: Salvation

The trailer of Public Enemies was the best part of the movie and boy am I excited about this movie. With Johnny depp & Christian Bale in it and Michael Mann at the helm you can be sure of getting your moneys worth at least from one movie this summer. Get down to the movies near you on july 1'st because this is going to be the movie of the summer, and the feeling only gets stronger with the initial reviews being promising.

Anyway what is with this summer and big name movies? Al most every movie is turning out to be crap. It is as if everyone in hollywood has suddenly had a brain freeze.

It's really disappointing, specially after a great summer last year where finally the movie makers seem to have found the fine balance between the substance and wow factor. You had great movies like Ironman, Wall-E & The Dark Knight last year while this year you are stuck with Terminator Salvation, Transformers 2 & Ice Age 3 with only the exception being UP, again it's from Pixar and that had to be good. The point being that this summer has been really bad, one of the worst movies wise.

I wanted to write about Terminator Salvation but seriously there is nothing much to write about the movie other than mindless action sequences that never seem to end and to make things worse, one of the worst background scores that I've come across in such an iconic movie for a long time.

It's really not worth watching even on a DVD, better still get the T2:Judgment day and watch it all over again if you feel nostalgic about the series.

Academy has gone bonkers!!

Academy Awards to expand to TEN Best Picture nominees!!

Seriously man al ready the thing is such a drag and with two fold increase it'll only increase the run-time. You gotta love the buffons who come up with these crazy ideas. Still wonder what good is it if the old foggies who cast the vote won't give the mainstream movies their due?

Holy Shit

I've seen it all now, Stupid Ben Stillers crappy movie getting more numbers than T:Salvation? Oh! come on America! Are you becoming that stoopid? For heavens sake it's Terminator series. Mind boggling really. Screw you American Public, you've lost it completely.

P.S: North Korea Announces 2nd Test of Nuclear Device. And looks like this time it is the real deal. Serves you right biatches.

Have Tarantino and his 'Inglourious Basterds' got what it takes?

Heck yeah! And Roger Ebert thinks so too...

August 21'st it is then.


P.S: The Weinsteins were once kids here without a ticket. "We were hanging around the stage door, hoping to get in and make our way around to the front," Harvey told me. "An official festival limo pulled up, and Clint Eastwood got out. We probably looked needy. He sized us up, held open the door, and let us in. To this day, we both make it a point to let someone into the Palais."

Maybe I'll be the lucky one in 2015.

Tis' should be interesting

Another mockumentary which will be pretty in-accurate and over-hyped is on the way folks.

Michael Moore's movie about the economic crisis will unspool during the fall.

Terminator: Salvation

A movie review by James Berardinelli.

3 stars, not bad I should say and more often than not berardinelli gets it right for these kind of movies. Now waiting for Eberts' review. Keeping my fingers crossed for more than any other movie, this deserves to be this years blockbuster, i.e. before Avatar hits the screens.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Watch the trailer over here.

It's bigger, meaner and badder and that's basically what makes me scared, with Michael bay at the helm you wouldn't expect otherwise but that's the whole point. Hoping that this movie, if not better will be on par with the first transformers.

Knowing

Sometimes you read a book or a movie which complete shakes up your belief system and then starts’ the struggle to come to terms with the fact that something which you have believed all your adult life might not be sound, after all. Given a chance, I don’t lose an opportunity to ridicule all those creationists and the same goes the case with those who believe in intelligent design. I being a firm believer in the theory of evolution couldn’t imagine or dream of questioning this theory, ever. Now for the past 24 hours I’ve been wondering whether there is actually some invisible force out there guiding the mankind or which can predict what might happen in the future?

Actually do I believe if things happening all around us are some random sequences of events or if there is a method to this madness? Till yesterday for me, they were all random events with no relation to each other and only by coincidence did some of them fit together but now wonder if they are all a part of big plan, whose plan? I don’t know.

Saw knowing yesterday and this movie in normal times shouldn’t have made any sense to me but the circumstances and the way the movies’ plot is built up makes it very believable that an Omnipotent force or entity does really exist. If this is the case then from here where do we go, will the world end? Basically every religion talks about the end of days, then what? What was the whole purpose of who ever that invisible force is, in creating this world when in the end it’s getting destroyed? Or like in the movie will a select few get to start all over again in some other distant earth like celestial body. But that doesn’t answer the question of why go through the pain of creating something which you know that come the time, will be annihilated.

Coming to the movie, the premise is pretty formulaic once the initial 20-30 minutes is done. Who else but Nicolas cage can make a pretty watchable movie into a boring one with his come-what-may-look like a douche or a guy on the verge of puking his guts out. Seriously, why do they even bother having this guy in movies? Haven’t they learnt their lesson from all those great movies ending up mediocre with his association. There is nothing much to write about other aspects of the movie other than it being your usual end of days movie, where everyone actually dies in the end.

I don’t think there is some invisible force out there playing the puppet master with us but it doesn’t hurt to think that there is one. At least that way you will be in peace with yourself knowing that there is some one out there who knows what he is doing but then if in the end, everything is destroyed what was the whole purpose of letting this go on for such a long time? If you can predict when the world ends, then why wait for it till the last moment and why pick only a handful of people to start it all over again? Why not just transfer instead of starting all over? At least with transferring you have the liberty of watching life go on from where you left, instead of watching the whole thing play out all over again.

You can catch the movie once the DVD is out but don’t expect much from it. It’s one of those movies which makes you think but at the end of the day leaves you with more questions than answers. Well that’s life I guess everyday you end with the questions of yesterday unanswered but still keep going in the hope of finding the answers tomorrow.

Sucks for the Haters

Freida Pinto will follow up her performance in the Oscar-winning "Slumdog Millionaire" with a role in Woody Allen's latest project.

I don't see why people are after her acting skills. She has not gone around claiming that there are lot of hollywood projects in the pipeline waiting for her green signal or even that she is the most sought after 'desi' chica! She even enrolled herself in an acting course, which shows that she is willing to learn unlike others. You go girl!!

Padma Shrimati

Abhi is the real Padma Shri, I'm his shrimati: Ash

As usual, rest of the interview is also in the same vein, cute lil romantic musings. Saif-Kareena have started it and these two are hell bent on taking this to a new level altogether. Some how these sort of things work only if there is a large market out there for tabloids but in India this is not the case like say in US or UK. Or maybe this is a precursor of things to come in India, a new age of stupidity and idiocracy of tabloid stars might be starting and I'm bang in the middle of it without even realizing this fact or am I in a denial mode?

P.S: Seriously does Padma sri or Padma bushan or 101 other Padma awards even mean anything to the awardees, public or the government? If they don't, why waste precious tax payers money which could be put to better use. If they do, then give to people who really deserve them, lest they mock at the awards like this. But on second thoughts do people who really deserve these kind of awards require or ask for this kind of recognition? That again brings us back to the point that these awards are nothing but a huge wastage of time & resources of the government.

P.P.S:

Celebrated journalist P. Sainath of "Every body loves a good draught" fame has refused a Padma Sri.

In his own inimitable style he said “Journalism should not be judged by government and journalists should not accept awards from governments they are covering or writing about.” Sainath compared it to “The external auditor of a company taking an award from the company he is auditing or scrutinizing.”

Watchmen

Don't even bother watching it on a rainy day, doing nothing is better than watching this crap because this will bore you even more. Leaving aside the fact that I watched it on a not so good print, still you need to wonder what Zack Synder of the infamous 300 trying to prove? That he can make a more visually appealing movie than his previous one or that people will come out in droves to watch this crap on the back of it's Graphic novel??

Only person who comes out of this with his reputation intact is Alan Moore, and that he did by not having anything to do with this project. This puts a lot of things into perspective as to why so many directors have backed off from going ahead with this movie. Sure it took a long time in making but may be it would have been better if it was never made into a motion picture.

Ah! one more childhood memory spoilt, don't know why I even bother getting excited about these adaptions even after some many screwups. I guess some blame even lies in me and from now on, no more getting swayed by the hype and getting all worked up like the loser fanboys. That means Terminator Salvation is just another movie coming to the theaters this summer.

Chandni Chowk to China

Movie is pathetic. Already had a headache from the morning, it got worse by the end of first half and by the end of the movie, it's surprising that my head didn't explode. It's either a satarical movie or a full fledged family drama, don't know why Warner bros even bothered to make this movie. Now, ok you've made a movie but why hype such a stupid movie, maybe it works in US but over here in India; take my word if the movie doesn't reach the expectations of the filmgoer, there would not be many takers for the movie from the second day itself.

You can avoid this movie like the plague.

Welcome back

Guy Ritchie, after the hideous Swept away & Revolver, I was worried that you were gone for good but you're back in your elements with RocknRolla. Though the movie is not upto the standards of Snatch or LSASTB, it packs those stylish frames, gangsters, drugs, monies & undercurrent of humor which were associated with the movies you made in pre-madonna days. Good to see that you went back to your style and may you continue to do so with the upcoming Sherlock holmes. Is it a coincidence or what that you got back all that creativity after splitting up with the material girl.

Go for the movie and don't expect it to blow you away like LSASTB, but it does have all those ingredients that we expect of a Guy Ritchies' movie.

Slumdog Millionaire

Once in a life time, no sir! good movie, even that I doubt. Good time pass flick as good as any bollywood one.

Danny Boyle

Slumdog Millionaire, is getting rave reviews from everyone, am happy that Danny is getting his due. Have been watching his movies from a long time and was waiting for his follow up to the brilliant Trainspotting.

At a level am even happy that a movie set in India, is getting a positive buzz for all the right reasons. Can't wait to catch this cinema in theaters or on the intrawebs, depending on whichever happens first.

P.S: Roger Ebert gave a **** rating.

Well...

Spielberg and Smith plot Oldboy remake.

What or where is the need to remake this movie?

Another sign that both of them are completely exhausted of ideas and may well be the end of their hold at BO.

TDK script

Searched for it all over the place, finally found it. Will read it and then blog about what changes they made while shooting the movie. Probably this is the first time I'll be reading a script after having watched the movie, kudos to the security in the sets of TDK that one didn't surface on the intranets before the movie released or maybe I was too lazy to search. whatever can't wait to read it proly will do it by next weekend.

P.S: I know that the harcover was out long time back but people who know me well, will vouch for fact that, the whole concept of time is obsolete for me.

Reality bites

Abhi-shake things that his Drona is better made than Hrithik's krrish but still can't understand why it bombed at BO. Maybe Abhi-shake it's got something to do with you not being in the same league as Hrithik, you think otherwise then may Amar Singh save you.

Body of lies

Body of Lies is an adult thriller with such a high narrative density that even a brief trip to the restroom may result in key plot points being lost. The film is the antithesis of a slick, superficial feature like Eagle Eye. It both demands and rewards thought.

@#$^& Man I gotta wait another week to watch this movie in India. Caprio's Career is finally back on track. Russell Crowe can't do anything wrong and when it's a Ridley Scott movie, even the better.



P.S: D.J Caruso take a cue and stop fucking up Hitchcock's work and come up with something original, ya I know criticizing is easy but as is coming up with something original and someone has to do it, so why not that be you and prove your critics wrong.