Sunday, August 14, 2011

Final Destination 5

Should you watch this movie? Answer to your question is in the following simple algorithm.
1. Have you watched any of the FD series movies?
2. If yes, move on. If no, do you like movies with senseless killing? If no quit. If yes, move on.
3.  If you have watched any of the FD series movies and have liked them, then move on, else quit.
4. If you don't mind some gore that too in 3D, go for the movie. Else watch it on your TV screen.


Ok, so now moving to the movie. Its nothing new. Its like the previous 4. One accident, some survivors and their fate and their death. The thing that was different in this movie?

1. The 3D effects..they were awesome. I mean yes, they were gory details..but 3D effects were nice :)
2. The end. The connection with the first part..loved it.

Go check out FD5.Enjoy!

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Chala Musaddi Office Office

 Yes, we all have seen the TV series office office and Mr. Musaddi Lal. This movie has the same characters, the same corrupt people in the hospital, in the corporator's office, at the samshan bhumi, at ganga dham, at the pension office. In short everywhere.
At the time when India struggles to get the Jan Lokpal Bill to pass, this movie shows how a common man can fight against corruption. You do not need a law to fight against corruption. To fight corruption all you need to do is, FIGHT corruption.

Sure, all I said is true and its not as easy to do as it is to write or enact. This is precisely what I feel went wrong with this movie. Everything here is too easy.

In the movie, Musaddi Lal loses his wife owing to a corrupt doctor. He then decides to take his wife's ashes to the char dham where he meets corrupt ticket collectors and panditjis. Meanwhile the pension officers come to verify if Musaddi Lal is alive, since he hasn't collected his cheque since 3 months. Since they find his house locked, they declare him dead. The fight then begins when he starts a battle wherein he has to prove that he is alive so that he gets the pension he rightfully deserves.
He fights among the people and takes the matter to court, where luckily he finds a judge who is not corrupt. If everyone everywhere is corrupt, how is the judge not corrupt?
So, you know that this is a movie and it will have a happy ending. So that's it. He wins.

It sure does inspire you for a while. It tells you to act against corruption by not being a part of it. Don't bribe anyone to get your work done and that is how you fight corruption. If everyone follows this, you have passed the Jan Lokpal Bill.

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Cowboys and Aliens


The story:
The Aliens had just finished making their spaceship that can cross planetary boundaries. They were distressed because they were under the burden of huge loans. So when they heard about cowboys and the goldrush, they set out immediately putting in huge amount of fuel and reaching the planet Earth.

They planted their spaceship in a far away desert and made that their watch tower as well. Aliens went out at night killing people and stealing gold from them. They brought back the gold and melted it to take it away with them. They also brought back humans and operated on them to study their weaknesses. In the act they killed the humans completely. (yup death is their weakness!).
One such thievery got them in contact with Daniel Craig. They brought him in the operation theatre too with his beau but killed his beau which enraged Daniel and he picked up the alien's hand destruction machine and walked out. (Wonder how intelligent the aliens were. A machine they designed works so well for humans too! Amazing!).
As if this was not enough, they then introduce the cowboy feuds and silly rich spoilt son of Harrison Ford who gets caught by the aliens. Now Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig set out to destroy the aliens. One dame also follows in pursuit who is an alien from some other planet (Whoa! so its alien vs alien right?)
Finally after too much hoo haa they discover the alien tower and blow up a portion of it with small bombs.(Wonder how the ship crossing planetary boundaries is so strong eh?) This makes the aliens really angry and they come out in broad daylight and the war starts. People fight valiantly and there are emotional scenes when Harrison Fords adopted son dies (Ok. So this was an emotional drama all this while?)
Then Daniel and the other alien dame go inside the tower to rescue their people. After doing so, the alien dame feels to destroy the tower she will have to sacrifice herself. Which she does. When the aliens start moving to go back to their planet, she uses their own device (remember Daniel Craig had one?) against them and blows it all over the place.

Happy Ending!

Story via Mohsin