Tuesday, June 06, 2006

To hell with this town...

I think cute guys are the biggest weakness for girls....n Orlando Bloom was mine when i picked up this DVD from the stand !! my simple logic was how can a movie be that bad if in lieu of it I would have 123 min to oogle at him...yes i rented Elizabethtown; with a smile on my face appreciating myself for the logic i hv applied..."You hv nothing to loose rashmee...!!" i thought...

These 123min turned out b the biggest torture of this season...

I would say its one of the movies scripted when th director(or who ever scripts movies) was sitting on the toilet seat...nothing s coming out, life s all blocked, so let this story come out...it stinks big time!!
The story is about this guy..drew(my sweetheart orlando bloom) who is a big designer n came up with some shoe design which had major investment on it and which turns out to be a fiasco..th company loses 1 billion dollar and he loses his job, reputation, GF and his dad(no his dad's death s not related to th shoe)

He goes to this town where his dad was staying..Elizabethtown....to cremate him(in his blue suit...sum crap link)...n pay attention to the word cremate becoz later in th movie ur patience is tested in sum scenes where they r deciding over cremation n burial...i mean outrageous...!!

He meets this talkative air-hostess(kristen dunst)..i m sure sh wud b shabbiest looking air-hostess in american airways(thats where she works)...who is line-marofying him(atleast i felt so ;-))...th conversation they hv s utter crap..n by that time I realized that my "logic" was utter crap too !!

sum reference to highway 60B..the town ppl...orlando screeching...an irritating kid, his dad in coffin...hotel room...sum marriage....Orlando's mom(u cant imagine Susan saradon doing all this)...everything is s painfully memorable...

he meets the air-hostess again...she s phsyco..has an imaginary BF...Ben...

In between story is all hush...hush...plz bear with me...remembering them is painful...

In the end he takes up this drive from this town to California(72 hrs if i remember correctly)...this phsyco girl gives her map for that..sum scrap book with illustrations on towns n places he will c...even cds for the mood n place he s in...its kind of sweet tht she made that book...bt still imagining her sitting n making that...ekks...

I was so wondering...how can they waste a talent like Orlando Bloom...how can Cameron Crowe, who made good movies like Jerry Maguire make a crap like this...this director has this habit of taking things too far...even in movie Jerry Maguire the scene where the player asks.."show me the money..." gets on to ur nerves...i think he needs to eat properly n stay away from spending so much time on toilet seats...

The things i liked in the movie...
# Orlando Bloom...my sweetheart.. :)
# Tap Dance by Susan Saradon
# songs in the CD given by Kirsten to th guy..they r beautiful !!

PLEDGE: I will not go for cute looking guys...ekks..i think its too much a pledge...i would never watch a movie just by seeing the face of the cute hero on th cover...

Thursday, June 01, 2006

Da Vinci Code...

I am quiet amzed when i read articles covering news like authorities in India saw Da Vinci code themselves along with religious heads to confirm if it can be released in India...

Today I read newz stating that 'Pak likely to officially ban 'The Da Vinci Code'...following is an excerpt from the report:
"We condemn it and demand of the Pakistan government to ban its screening," said Julius Salik, a leading Christian leader and former minister in the cabinet of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
He also criticised Western countries and the US for "allowing people to insult religious sentiments" of all faiths, referring to the publication of blasphemous sketches of the Holy Prophet Mohammed by the Western media."

Now i had mixed feelings when i read this...

firstly, i was shocked...what possible harm can a piece of fiction can do on religious feelings.

secondly, i was wondering, how can a handful of ppl b so sure that it is gonna hurt religious sentiments of ppl in pakistan!!

thirdly, i was thinking are people in west 'less' christian than christians in Pakistan. Do western ppl tk fun in rediculing their own religion. Or may b that a person born in south asian lands, belonging to any religion(muslim, christian or hindu) is more devoted to his/her religion...strange!!

lastly, i was appreciating pakistani politicians for bringing the context of Prophet in the whole senario...heights of diverting thngs and drawing conclusions. Why do they think in the first place that their religion s so prone to insult...anything and everything insults religion...i firmly believe that if ur faith in sumthing is strong nothing can move u...now i dont want to conclude anything...

Then I literally brushed away all these thoughts...thinking thoughts like these have to come from countries like pakistan n others, after all what do they knw, how wud they hv the faintest idea that there exists a thing called..."Freedom of expression..."