I couldnt decide on a single program to watch, and I turned off the TV and blogged instead. So did I have a fun weekend watching TV? No. Comcast also has a super cool on-demand promotion where you can watch hundreds of movies with the click of a button, with rewind and fastforward features available. I spent an agonizing 30 minutes a few nights back desperately trying to figure out the childproof bottle cap with no success. The result? Tylenol has desgined a cough medicine bottle soooo safe, even adults cannot open it. Packaging technology has evolved to create safe medicine bottles that children cannot accidentally open. There are atleast a 100 medicines easily available for different combinations of cold-cough-headache. With all these big advances and changes, are we really happier? Consider advances in the field of medicine and packaging technology. Which brings me to my next subject - Frustration. Simple huh? Its no longer magical, and if google takes more than a second to return search results, I am already pounding my fists with frustration. Its simply a computer with a browser in which you type If there is any topic in the world, chances are some person in some corner of the planet has already thought about it and also posted something online, and google fetches it for you. It didnt take long for the "magic" machine to evolve. What seemed like magic even 10 years back is reality now, to a point where we take it for granted.Įxample? When I was a little kid, I always dreamed of a magic machine - You could feed any question into it, and it would give you the answer instantaneously and I could magically learn about everything in the world. Even seven or eight years back, none of us could have imagined the speed with which technology would evolve. Peter Jackson - have you ever seen a person with the job title Editor?Ģ005 is drawing to a close, and I cannot believe how time flies. Only thing, before leaving, meditate for a few minutes, chant the word patience to yourself 20 times, take your friends along and sit in a secluded corner of the theater so that you can chat with them and play games on your cell phone to tide you through the boring scenes. The final verdict - do watch the movie in the theater for sure. Both scenes have been brilliantly taken, and remind you that no amount of dvds or ondemand movies can ever replace the big screen. I waited eagerly to watch the movie for two big scenes - the final one where King kong climbs the empire state building and wrestles helicopters, and the one where king kong battles dinosaurs. Angry monkey plays with pretty blond girl and glances soulfully at her. Angry monkey eats bamboo and looks like a sad hermit (not easy to sympathize with him though). Angry monkey kills people (not with his hands but pushes them off bridges into ravines and other heights). A whole load of chills and thrills later, the monkey finally makes his grand entry.Īnd then the movie begins running in an endless loop - Angry monkey, yells at everyone, thumps his chest. Depression era New York is captured brilliantly, and Naomi Watts luminously fills the screen (she is stunningly beautiful). Thats actually good for the movie, because the first hour is well taken. Over 60 minutes into the movie, theres still no monkey. King Kong falls into the latter category. However, there is a difference between a movie being long because there is a genuine storyline, and a movie being long because the director is totally obsessed with the cinematic world that he has created and cannot distance himself enough from the movie to spare his audiences. I like long movies (i watched the uncut version of hum apke hain kaun atleast 50 times). The truth is the movie is looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong. Sorry, I know every other review says its the greatest movie ever made.
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