He's Just Not That Into You -- Good For One Time

I have been been a Drew Barrymore fan and not just as an actor but also as a producer.

Ginnifer Goodwin - Justin long Scarlett Johansson - Bradley Cooper - Jennifer Connelly Ben Affleck - Jennifer Aniston


Donnie Darko is one of my fav. So was expecting a good movie from her again. Also the movie has a good if not great cast especially the female cast, very attractive. I have seen Scarlett Johansson's 3 movie and last one was "Vicky, christina barcelona" , good movie to watch. So to make it short, i wanted to see the movie as soon as i saw the trailors of this movie.

I waited for the DVD to be released and then rented and watched it.

The good things about this movie is obviously the story and how well the all the different stories are been weaved into one big one. I loved Scarlett in the movie, also Justin long and Ginnifer Goodwin. Also i loved the characters, probably i won't remember the name of the actor who played the character but i'll remember the characters for long time like Gigi, Bradley Cooper to mention. Also I liked the love stories which were the part of this movie. My fav was Scarlett Johansson - Bradley Cooper - Jennifer Connelly. I liked Drew also and the comparision she makes between what the mess online dating system is and how convenient the offline dating is? One more good thing about the movie is that the screen space was distributed very intelligently. The character i wanted to watch were given much space or time on the screen.


One bad thing you can say about the movie is that, we have seen a lot of date movies. I Know the stories can be very different but still it gives you a De ja Vu kind of feeling.

6/10 Stars

Paying Guest -- Return me my 2 hrs

Heard a lot about this movie such as its being made on a very popular play. A play which was a housefull whenever performed at any city. Also was expecting a lot from the cast of the movie especially people like Shreyas Talpade and Neha Dhupia who have been some of my fav in last couple of years. Also the other cast was same whom you will always see in a multi starer moive like Riya sen, Celina jaitly, Javed jaffery, Ashish chaudary etc.

One of the major reason why this was a hit as a play was the script but the same was opposite in the movie. There were comic scenes but they felt more like being imposed. They didn't made me laugh. Sometimes the comedy was irritating. Also don't think the actors were able to much because the script didn't gave them a chance. Celina and Riya were at their same......as they do usually.

Didn't find anything positive about the movie. So won't really suggest you watch this movie. Even then you want to dare, then check out for Shreyas and Javed especially when they play the wife.


2/10 Stars

Service Industry

Being in the service industry is as much frustrating as it is interesting.

Interesting thing – you will get to meet totally different personalities every time and frustrating part – you will get to meet totally different personalities every time.

There are so many different personalities to keep up with that it just freaks at least me out. Also, then to keep up to different people does make this job more and more interesting. Every day, you wake saying “what kind of people I will meet today?” The only difference can be the expression. Would suggest everybody to add the smile when you the above bolded line.

Only one person can change your day

The comment that I got once for my work from a client was “You calm people down, its obvious you may get a lot people who unnecessarily freak out on you like me, however you were so good that you calm be down and that’s not enough, you go an extra mile and resolved issue for me.”

Here is one instance when one person made my day. I won’t praise myself, but I do get to here there kind of praises.

So that was the good part. Now for the bad one, once I had a not so good day at work. There was a particular caller who irritated me as much as I think I did to her and the best part, the next day she comes again. She lands on me again. I was so frustrated that on a call which stretched over 2 hours I didn’t even talk to her for 10 minutes. That lady flushed that whole weekend.

“So the moral of the story is that if you are in service industry, be as flexible as you can be if even that doesn’t help then leave it.”

Grapevine

First thing first what this “Grapevine” word means. Grapevine means “Gossip spread by spoken communication”. Well to be more precise Grapevine will be the gossip spread in a more formal environment especially the work place.

Why am I writing about it today?

Well, now even I am a part of a corporate. At my work place, we too have these grapevine’s. However, the thing which irritates me the most is, now a day, its more of gossip here. People interfering in other people’s personal life. Now, people making assumptions about someone and then imposing their thoughts about someone on others too, then the other person already has an image of the person without knowing the person.

Really hate this grapevine.

Gifts || Presents

I don’t like giving it out neither to take it from someone. I always thought that gifts should be price less, however never seen it. I don’t exactly know about this. If I go and try buying a gift then, i try to not think about the money I’ll be spending to get that perfect thing for someone I like. However, it’s never easy.

Now I am so irritated by this whole thing is that I try to not do it or to defend myself by saying buying “Gifts” is too girly to me. As no longer I try to buy gifts, so now I also won’t accept it from any one.

This is one of the worst thought and since the day it came to my mind, seriously unable to loose it.

You tell me do you think of the price tag when you buy gift? Also, if the person is someone you are seeing, then will you try to spend more on it?

National Lampoons Pledge This Naughty Version -- Pathetic

This is one of those movies whom you regret watching. You would get the feeling of been doing some s**t thing instead of watching the movie. Well some one has said “Smart people are those who learn from there own mistakes but smarter are those who learn from other mistakes too”. After watching this movie I felt so stupid because people told me to not watch this movie cause they knew this will be a total time waste but no I had something different in mind. I do not regret my decision of watching this movie because I learnt a couple of important things about the movie. First, never watch a movie if PARIS HILTON is in cast. Second thing, now I know how bad a movie can be.

This is my second Paris Hilton movie and I’m swearing will never watch a Paris Hilton movie again. When you watch this movie then you’ll know why more than 75% of the movie Paris Hilton has done are in the IMDB worst 100.

There is nothing I would refer or recommend anyone to watch for and would obviously say to not go for the movie even for free.

2/10 Stars

National Lampoons Barely Legal – Enjoyed

I was lucky that I saw the second part the NATIONAL LAMPOONS series first. This is was much more entertaining than the first one. If I’d have seen the first part before this one then for sure I would have never seen this movie. This is much more entertaining and funny. Although the story was like a few other movies I have already seen. But the good part was that these people this time were successful to make a better comedy from the same subject which has been used by other people a couple of times before. I have seen a couple of movies with almost the same story but I think this was the better one of the other movies.

The good part about the movie was good characters and equally good casting. All the different character were so good that they almost give the feel of the real high school students not like the earlier edition where all of them were looking way more older than the age shown on screen.

This movie is one time watchable. No need to carry your head to the theater.

5/10 Stars

Vicky Christina Barcelona – I Liked It

Well not many people who I know liked it but I liked this movie. Yes, one of the major advantages the movie had was a good and attractive cast with Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem. Patricia Clarkson was a relatively new to me but she left a really good impression.


The story revolves around two friends with two really different personality’s altogether. One of the things I like about the movie was the opening song, did not exactly get the song but it really felt good to hear the song (Barcelona).


It’s a bit difficult to write about the movie without letting something out about the movie. Two friends who are so much different than each other but both fall in love with the same person in totally different ways. Where for Christina (Scarlett) it was a love in first sight but for Vicky (Patricia), she fell in love with Javier after she got to know about him. Penelope playing Javier’s ex-wife who are still in love but there love is really something strange. They love each other so much but they still can not live each other because they two are also so different. Well, I think I’m confusing a lot now so I leave it here. Movie is watchable. So you can give it chance.


The movie also recently got the Grammy award for the best musical movie.


7\10 Stars.

The Accidental Husband – More Of Accidental Movie

Just saw the movie for a change thinking of watching something different because there was no such kind of movie released in a long time. This movie looked very stereo type even in the promos. Movie was so predictable, if you have seen the promos or heard about the movie earlier than the day you go watch the movie, you can actually guess the whole story line. Don’t know why somebody would like to make such a stereotyped movie especially at this era where people are experimenting with so many different subjects.

There was nothing about the movie which I would like to praise by which I mean I did not like any thing about the movie. The comedy felt missing in the movie. Screenplay felt as if seen it many times before.

For casting, I can say if there is nothing in the story then no big actors can make a movie work. I’m not an Uma Thurman fan and this movie proves why. But Colin Firth is one the people I like to see in a movie but even he was not that impressing and for which you can easily blame the storyline. I wanted to see more of him but he was kind of missing in the whole movie. Jeff Dean Morgan was good but still there was nothing in the movie to be praised about.

3\10 Stars

Slumdog Millionaire – Millionaire Becomes Billionaire

This is an amazingly thrilling story or rather a love story. Yes, this movie is one of the best of 2008. I loved this weekend because I saw two of the best movies of the last year. Both defining a really different genre of the movie making. Slumdog Millionaire is a such a good movie that you will not be able to leave your seat through out the movie. It is the second movie of the year which made me firmly sitting on the seat even in the intermission; obviously the other movie was “The Dark Knight”. I was so eager to watch what will happen next? For this the maximum credit goes to the screenplay of the movie which is just extraordinary, may be the best of the year. I would keep it over the “The Dark Knight”.

This movie swept 4 Grammy including the best screenplay and best original music. Being a Grammy award winner now I do see this movie a strong contender for the Academy awards too.

Slumdog Millionaire has many of amazing things in its favor which makes it a better movie than others. The first thing which comes in my about this movie after watching it was the amazing screenplay and direction. Second thing, the movie is an out n out commercial movie. By commercial movie I meant, it is not one of those parallel or independent movie which has a lot of drama etc. Third major point, the brilliant performances by the whole cast especially the child actors. They were awesome, my apologies that do not have their names with me but standing applause for them from me.
A.R. Rahman has already been known all over the world for his music but I’m sure Grammy for this movie will increase his popularity also earning recognition and respect for Indian movie industry all over the world.

The only issue with the movie is that it is been released in Indian theaters late. But the movie is still a treat. I have booked in advance for the movie; if you have not then you will not be getting for atleast first 3-4 days.

Strongly recommended.

9\10 Stars