Its already the end of first half of my vacation. And spent it shopping for sometime and most of it with the idiot box. Might sound boring but am happy about it though. :)
Imagine your office giving all the employees a mandatory week holiday and you dunno what to do with it because its just an odd timing. :) Its too hot to just go to any place at random and to add to it, you need good company to go along. Twisted luck or what?! :D
Anyways, been watching movies and had to blog about some of them...
1. Enough
A movie in the lines of "Provoked" or "While you were sleeping" starring Jennifer Lopez. It was quite good coz it obviously did scare me with its eerie background score and mediocre acting by J Lo.
2. The Jane Austen book club
My favorite of all. Story about 5 women and a guy who form the book club. They decide to read Jane Austen's novels and discuss them one by one every month. And in the course of reading the books, the movie describes how they relate it to the events that happen in their lives and grow as individuals with each other's help and the influence of the book. I loved the sensitive Grigg who goes out of his way and agrees to read Jane Austen's books coz he wanted to impress the pretty Jocelyn. The act of impressing is done so casually that you really would not think its the main reason for him to do it. Slowly, he makes her read his fav. sci-fi books after much persuasion and confrontation. And he is actually right in what he is doing. Quite the "Rehna Tu" song character. Jocelyn, on the other hand, pulls him into the club only coz she wants to set him up for her frnd Sylvia who is undergoing a tough time coz of the separation from her husband Danny. Danny dumps her for some pretty lass in his office after a marriage of 20 years. Then gets back to her - "Mitr" kind of ending. :) Their daughter turns out to be a lesbian and is such a tomboy with all those parachuting and trekking stunts. Perfectly normal reaction from parents though. :) And then there is this almost French teacher who was almost going to wreck her marriage by involving herself in an affair with her dashing student. In the last minute, she comes bk home and persuades her "baseball" obsessed husband to read "Persuasion" where the novel is about two people who were in love and then fall out of love and then decide to work on getting back. :) Last but not the least, the lady who starts the club finds her "Darcy" after six failed marriages. The movie ends on a very nice note with the men (Danny and baseball guy) reading Jane Austen's novels, French teacher getting pregnant, Jocelyn happily married to Grigg and all happy families.
3. Bandidas
A nice action-comedy flick starring my fav. hot women Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz. Wonder how they managed to act together but they did a very fine job. :) One of my wishes come true to see em act together - after all, such stunning Non-American women with real talent.
4. The Score
Robert De Niro and Edward Norton planning a heist of some French time sceptre. Slow-paced but pretty interesting to watch with all their detailed discussions on hacking the security system and planning. I like both the actors. :)
5. Nandha
Watched it until my favorite song came in that movie. Laila and Surya have done such good acting. So did Rajkiran and woman playing Surya's mom. The reason why Surya gets into violence is not so justified but real gud acting, dialogues and music.
6. King of California
Michael Douglas, an eccentric who has deep faith in some old treasure hunt story (which happens to be in the pits of a mall like Walmart) and how his daughter teams up with him despite their differences. Nice screenplay which engages you in his hunt and his daughter's narrative and perfect ending.
Been really glad that I saw these movies. Lazed at home and it seemed as if I was so bored by the minute but time is flying for sure. :) Other than that, my thoughts kept wandering on relationships that are not obviously justified but still happen and I ran into an collegemate's blog who is going through the same in his life. Felt so eery but so normal too. Its bloody heart-rending but truly practical too. Only made me realize life is very strange and how people just live through it with such romances and heart-breaks.
