Movies That I Watched Recently

Although during the last month, I was not writing about my usual misadventures with life, that does not mean that I was not suffering the various tragedies of life that so predictably come by my way. Yes, that means that I watched several movies during this period.

One of the movies that I watched was “Sex And The City”. This was the most mind-numbingly boring movies I’ve seen recently. For those of you that have not watched it, its a 2-and-a-half-hour long parade of 4 old aunties wearing really weird clothes (with bird feathers in their hats and stuff like that), moaning and groaning about their lives. In short, its a standard soap opera.

But that didn’t seem to stop the hundreds of people (me and the wife included) that showed up at the theatre. At first, I was shocked that so many people would want to watch pointless stories that don’t go anywhere, but then carefully observing the crowd solved the mystery a bit. I realized I could classify the crowd that had come to watch “Sex And The City” into three broad groups. The first group consisted of gangs of college girls, at who the movie was obviously targeted, and they predictable “ooooohhh”ed and “aaahhhh”ed throughout the movie. The second category were bored husbands/boyfriends that had been forced into the movie theatre, while their significant others were desperately hoping that their hubbies/boyfriends would learn how to treat a woman and how to buy presents etc… from the unrealistic depection of men from the movie. I mean, in the movie this dude buys his girlfriend a huge house just like that, and another dude buys his girlfriend a huge diamond. Now seriously, who does that in real life?

Anyway, the third category of people were the most disappointed. These were the middle aged “gentlemen” who knew nothing of the movie beforehand and had shown up at the theatre hoping this would be some sort of a soft-porn movie. Their day must have been especially ruined.

I also went and saw “Sarkar Raj”. Do any of you have Ram Gopal Verma’s email ID? I want to mail him and tell him that “color” cinemas have been invented about 50 years ago, and that he can now stop shooting movies in black-and-white. Seriously, this whole movie is black-and-white, and all the dialogs are in whispers. And by God, what a horrible ending he’s come up with. *Spoilers Ahead*. So, at the end of the movie, Aaishwariya Rai’s character  becomes the next don. But that scene is so horribly shown, that I couldn’t stop laughing. Now, what dialog would you expect from a new Don? “Kill him” or maybe even “Don’t call me babe!” or something like that. But do you know what Aaishwariya Rai says? She says “Chaai Le Ke aana?” That sounds more like she’s landed the job of a head-waitress in a beedi-chaai shop instead of being the next don! Absurd.

The one good movie I watched (yes, that’s very rare) during the last month was Iron Man. It’s a silly, comic-book-super-hero movie, but it keeps you entertained. But I might be biased in my reviews, because I’m a huge comic book fan, especially superheros. My idea of an intelligent conversation is discussing who would win in a fight between spiderman and batman. (More interesting than global warming, definitely). And oh, if you go and watch this movie, stay until the end of the credits. Something very interesting happens