Four Christmases

This is something I watched on Christmas eve(xactly one month after its release).Not the kinda movie you can watch as a family(nothing like the Grinch / Santa Clause / the like..)...Still I liked the core message of the movie : Christmas is a time to be with the family
Plot revolves around reese and vaugh who are the living together kinda family and the movie is the events happening on one day - Christmas, and how they learn about each other and their families and how their 3 year relationship takes a turn !
Four Christmases - worth 3 stars from my lounger !
You can watch the trailer here
Merry Christmas to all of you !!

Number 23

Another thriller movie day today.. I must say the movie opening is great...with all those groovy numbers and alphabets...And the flick is worth watching once or maybe twice to review all thats said at the end...A fast and sublime thriller,with an incredible storyline(an amazing feat by the writers- cooking up everything to somehow end up with the number 23) and not to mention the script !Story is: man(Jim Carrey) gets obsessed with a book reflects his life soo much - all events in the book match with real life incidents - he realizes that the book actually is the literary confession of a killer under the name Fingerlings- sets out to find who he is -his hunch turns out to be wrong! - the Book has the final chapter '23' missing,which is kinda like the missing link in the story - Watch the movie to find out the rest :P

So the killer turns out to be ?????? The movies worth a watch,i.e., if you have absolutely no great job to do and want some psychopath ,serial killer mind baffling story :D !

The end is no happy ending.But I absolutely love the way the script made up for that.... "Maybe its not the happiest of endings ..but its the right one.Some day I'll be off the parole and then we can go on living our lives..its only a matter of time....of course time is just a counting system,numbers with meaning attached to them(clock shown in film 2:15 [clock hands on 2 and 3 get it :P])......Isn't it?"

3.89 stars to it from my lounger for this movie with a twist thats totally jawdropping!

The Butterfly Effect

The Butterfly Effect(nice title huh?) is one super cool,never seen before,heard before kinda movie.. Its about this guy who has this supernatural syndrome(who wouldn't call it supernatural if you could re-write your destiny) which makes him to go back and forth in time and take the different crossings on the road of life.(Reminds me of one South Indian movie 12B,in which Shyam takes 2 crossings in his life..but thats just a movie portraying his life if he had chosen option1 and his life as in option 2) But in this story the guy having this memory problem (that causes him black outs) tries to rewrite his fate by going back to childhood and doing a particular something ;) differently each time.This trial and error algorithm goes on and on.. and what happens in the end is really dramatic !

Its definitely one of a kind thriller and deserves a 4star thumbs up from my lounger !

Camp Rock

Camp Rock - a Disney Channel original is kinda like HSM(High School Musical) Recycled.. The story basically revolves around this girl called Mitchie who wants to fit it 'for once' in the popular crowd..and does so by fabricating some story! Normal teen stuff ,right?
Camp Rock is this musical camp where she learns the lesson of her life.Mitchie is the cook's daughter, who helps in the kitchen(cos thats the only way she could afford the camp) Will the secret be out .(D'oh..thats wat always happens in such kinda flicks).Her original composition is heard by the teen pop star at camp() and he is in search of the girl with the voice(sounds sooo cinderella -like !!) Plenty of things happen at camp...wrong accusations,mishaps cos of wrong choice of friends,yielding to peer pressure,trust broken,offended relationships....She gets this super amazing friend,Caitlyn(my favourite character in the movie) and they rock the final Jam ,the musical contest.(even tho' they are held back for wrong reasons,they find a way to get to it)If you are a teen and haven't watched this,I suggest you do so !
P.S: The soundtracks in the movie are simply great..I loved the camp rock theme,Here I am (tat Peggy sings), and the duet........ 'This is real,This is me' track ..It is simply amazing!! I'm hooked on to this awesome song ,for now!
After watching so much horror ,the movie was a welcome break!
The Jonas Brothers star in this movie too :)

4 stars to it from my lounger !!
(3 for the movie, 5 for the music,so on an average 4 for the flick !I am good @ math )
Shall post the dnld links for the OST asap.

Silent Hill

I totally didn't expect Silent Hill to be half this gross..Well this horror movie is set in a creepy town called Silent Hill...Those of you who have laid their hands on the game will find the movie incredible and awesome and the like...But for the remaining sailing with me..you'll find enough horror in this flick ! That for sure , comes packed with some gross encounters ,like I said.
Routed from sleepwalking problems, Rose Da Silva decides to take her daughter Sharon to the town she talks about in her sleep, Silent Hill, to face her nightmares, where Sharon goes missing and Rose must fight the power of the town to get her back.
One word to describe this movie would be: Women in action (oh btw,thats 3 words )Its girl guts in action over there ,with more than a touch of darkness and a tint of (what do u call it...[thinkin] ) maternal emotions !
Unlike Shutter (refer previous post) the end was sort of abrupt...If it weren't for the rolling credits,I wouldn't have known the 2 hour torment of grossness and darkness had come to an end..I was half expecting that this movie had a sequel..to my disappointment,it doesn't !! Although the game has some 6 parts (I think)
Makes a good watch if u r in for a long movie of the horror genre !
3 stars to it from my lounger

Shutter

I watched Shutter today noon.. Didn't wanna watch it @ night time in case I get scared.Still...my philosophical system doesn't allow me to watch movies in daylight a environment..So I made the necessary arrangements and found the cosy spot to lounge on.. and within 5 minutes,I figured out this was gonna be just another illogical movie(I don't believe in ghosts,even better ... spirits captured in photographs.. But that actually is enough to scare anyone outta their wits!)
So basically..its about this couple on their honeymoon..followed everywhere by the spirit of a girl,who ruins their wedding life.. And how and why it happens is the plot.At some point you get the feeling the movie's gonna be over..but then you kinda figure out there's more to come..the flashbacks are the final piece of the movie.....The ending part of the movie is the best ! There are a few twists and turns in the same,which all blend together perfectly..
There are some parts borrowed from Ring (Hey,this is also a Japanese movie),but who cares as long as its good,people will buy it!!
Bottom line: Shutter - Not even a shudder !!

3 stars to it from my lounger !

Music seasons

"Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes." - Bill Cosby

There's something we all like , and that something's appeal may or may not be lasting....Well I'm not gonna talk about some random something.. My somethings' appeals usually last long...cos in the first place if I like something , I become a diehard fan of that something !

LL I can talk in circles....!!

Well any ways what I was gonna say was this:

I have been listening to music ever since I turned a teen... And my very first love was punk.... I loved everything about punk rock...the attitude..the looks.. the feel...the music..juz about everything on the list !! That was the time I loved Avril Lavigne's music!! There was greenday and there was good charlotte and that was Season 1 ! People around me (family ofcourse :D) told me its a bad idea to listen to demoralizing profane music.It all depends on the way you see it.. I saw it as pure music :The punk - the profanity !!! :D

Then I started listening to rap.It didn't replace my 1st love i'd say! Akon lallygagged during that season.. :D There was Timbaland,Timberlake and there was usher and that was Season 2 !

The succeeding season saw me obsessed with Blues,classics,R&B,pop,hiphop ... the rediscovery of abba ( my childhood fav band) .. then Enrique Iglesias (swooooooon) Gosh... his music is indescribable.....just the tone of his voice fixates the listeners.!!there was Rihanna ,nelly furtado and there was hilary duff,Lindsay Lohan ..So that was Season 3 !

So much for classifications.. there could have been more seasons intermediately....My memory s the size of a peanut!!!! :P So this is the season I'm in now...

Probably Season 4 :

I love listening to OSTs.... The wake of this season was because of the Braveheart movie theme (Celtic Bagpipes) that sopped me up :D !!! So these days I'm collecting movie themes and the like.... Yea and one more thing.. This season also features Gracy listening to Mozart and Beethoven ! So thats basically all of relaxers without the lyrics .The music is simpleeee awesome... You can literally loose yourself in music of this kind!No doubt about that !!!!

Any must-hear music tracks or the like.. Do post it here ! Looking forward to listening to it !!

Ring 1 & 2

Ring is gonna be my first horror movie review.Not that I call it horror,millions of other people call it so ! However.... the movie's fantastic and the normal harpers of horror may think its slow,but I loved the slowness and mystery of it..

This is about a video tape that has some weird images on it... And after you see it, the telephone rings. A voice on the other end whispers "You saw it." Then you die in seven days.Rachel's investigation tries to find logical, rational explanations for the tape, the myth, and her own increasingly bizarre experiences. But every time she tries for the rational, she gets the irrational and terrifying.Creepy ..illogical .. just the way some horror flicks are...but in the end its plays on most people's worst fears providing your worst fears don't involve aliens or men with knives for hands, all of them should grip you for for long after you've finished watching.
For a fact, the ending was not to my liking; and though the intent was to leave the door open for the continuation of the series, it could have been handled better.

Ring2 sees the resurrection of Samara (the girl behind all the horror) .Rachel must investigate the little girl's past if she wants to save her son.There's a softness behind all horror flicks..i feel,and the one behind this one is what happens if you don't give a child enough attention.

Overall its a good watch and i give it 3 stars
Maybe watching the movie in a slumber party with a gang of people could be the primary reason for me not getting scared at all...but believe me it could scare the daylights outta you,if you watch it alone in the freaky hours of night with your speakers at 100%.