Twilight’s contentious “Edward vs. Jacob” debate was finally settled at the close of 2009‘s New Moon, the second episode of Stephenie Meyers’ supernatural teen harlequin saga, when plaintive emo hottie Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) definitively rejected the advances of Taylor Lautner’s musclebound man-wolf in favor of Robert Pattinson’s brooding vampire.
Or so we thought. Twilight’s fateful love triangle is revived in earnest by Eclipse, part three of the series, and this time the implications are serious -- relatively speaking, of course. Taking over the helm from New Moon director Chris Weitz is David Slade (30 Days of Night, Hard Candy), who adds a hefty dose of action to Twilight’s trademark mix of soaring romance and manic melodrama, making Eclipse the first film in the saga in which -- get this -- something actually happens.
Indeed, action is a primary theme of Eclipse. Like most high school seniors, Bella wants some; her pasty paramour Edward Cullen, however, remains stubbornly chaste, and not just because the briefest exposure to his unbridled vampire lust would almost certainly kill his all-too-human sweetheart. You see, chivalrous Edward hails “from a different era,” one in which the institution of marriage meant everything and a man took care to mount a proper courtship before marrying a girl nearly a century his junior. (He’s 109 years old.) He asks her to marry him; she agrees, but only if he’ll turn her into a vampire first; he hesitates, pondering the unalterable consequences; the matter is tabled and heavy petting resumes. (This exchange is repeated, ad nauseam, throughout the remainder of the film.)
The constant fawning and unwavering devotion from impossibly beautiful Edward aren’t enough to sate Bella’s thirst -- she needs validation like a vampire needs blood -- and so she uses the flimsiest of pretexts to re-insert herself into the life of Jacob Black, the sensitive werewolf she previously shunned, who dutifully plies her with his own declarations of undying love. (Jacob, to his credit, has developed enough game since we last saw him to qualify as a serious contender for Bella’s affections, and is no longer the devoted doormat we saw in New Moon. He’s still a tool, though.) Game on.
But Edward and Jacob aren’t the only ones with designs on Bella. (Seriously, are there no other hot emo chicks in the greater Pacific Northwest?) A ginger-haired menace (Bryce Dallas Howard) has emerged, one that will require Edward’s vampire clan and Jacob’s wolfpack tribe, longtime enemies forever on the verge of a climactic battle (in which Bella will serve as the jeans-and-hoodie-clad Helen of Troy, no doubt) to put aside their differences and unite against a common enemy. In order to ensure Bella’s safety, Edward and Jacob must form an uneasy tag-team (no, not that kind of tag team, much as it would likely better serve to resolve matters) to keep Bella safe from harm.
With its amped-up action, sharpened wit, and darker, horror flick-inspired atmospherics, Eclipse boasts the broadest appeal of all the Twilight films thus far. But that doesn’t mean it’s good. Director Slade’s grasp of plot development borders on amateurish in this film; Eclipse often feels less like a movie than a weighty discourse on the pros and cons of vampiredom, laid out in lengthy, exhaustingly repetitive chunks of exposition and awkward, campy flashbacks, as just about every character in the film, including Edward, attempts to dissuade Bella from joining the ranks of the bloodsuckers.
But alas, no force, no matter how utterly rational its arguments, will keep Bella from her destiny. Which, obviously, is Edward. Or is it? Eclipse goes to great pains to invent ways to perpetuate the film’s romantic rivalry, inserting scenes like the one in which Bella, on the verge of freezing to death in a tent high up in the mountains, is saved when Jacob arrives to heroically spoon her body temperature back to its proper level. (Eclipse is being hyped as the first “guy-friendly” Twilight flick, but no film which includes a climactic spooning scene can rightly claim such a distinction.) Edward, meanwhile, with his poor vampire circulation, is powerless to help.
Who will win in the end? Will it be abs over eyes? Obviously, it will take two more movies (at least!) to solve this kind of wrenching dilemma.
THIS IS THE PLACE WHERE YOU CAN ENJOY AND LEARN..... Review Of Films By Rubaid Ashfaq
Friday, July 30, 2010
"Eclipse" review
Twilight’s contentious “Edward vs. Jacob” debate was finally settled at the close of 2009‘s New Moon, the second episode of Stephenie Meyers’ supernatural teen harlequin saga, when plaintive emo hottie Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) definitively rejected the advances of Taylor Lautner’s musclebound man-wolf in favor of Robert Pattinson’s brooding vampire.
Or so we thought. Twilight’s fateful love triangle is revived in earnest by Eclipse, part three of the series, and this time the implications are serious -- relatively speaking, of course. Taking over the helm from New Moon director Chris Weitz is David Slade (30 Days of Night, Hard Candy), who adds a hefty dose of action to Twilight’s trademark mix of soaring romance and manic melodrama, making Eclipse the first film in the saga in which -- get this -- something actually happens.
Indeed, action is a primary theme of Eclipse. Like most high school seniors, Bella wants some; her pasty paramour Edward Cullen, however, remains stubbornly chaste, and not just because the briefest exposure to his unbridled vampire lust would almost certainly kill his all-too-human sweetheart. You see, chivalrous Edward hails “from a different era,” one in which the institution of marriage meant everything and a man took care to mount a proper courtship before marrying a girl nearly a century his junior. (He’s 109 years old.) He asks her to marry him; she agrees, but only if he’ll turn her into a vampire first; he hesitates, pondering the unalterable consequences; the matter is tabled and heavy petting resumes. (This exchange is repeated, ad nauseam, throughout the remainder of the film.)
The constant fawning and unwavering devotion from impossibly beautiful Edward aren’t enough to sate Bella’s thirst -- she needs validation like a vampire needs blood -- and so she uses the flimsiest of pretexts to re-insert herself into the life of Jacob Black, the sensitive werewolf she previously shunned, who dutifully plies her with his own declarations of undying love. (Jacob, to his credit, has developed enough game since we last saw him to qualify as a serious contender for Bella’s affections, and is no longer the devoted doormat we saw in New Moon. He’s still a tool, though.) Game on.
But Edward and Jacob aren’t the only ones with designs on Bella. (Seriously, are there no other hot emo chicks in the greater Pacific Northwest?) A ginger-haired menace (Bryce Dallas Howard) has emerged, one that will require Edward’s vampire clan and Jacob’s wolfpack tribe, longtime enemies forever on the verge of a climactic battle (in which Bella will serve as the jeans-and-hoodie-clad Helen of Troy, no doubt) to put aside their differences and unite against a common enemy. In order to ensure Bella’s safety, Edward and Jacob must form an uneasy tag-team (no, not that kind of tag team, much as it would likely better serve to resolve matters) to keep Bella safe from harm.
With its amped-up action, sharpened wit, and darker, horror flick-inspired atmospherics, Eclipse boasts the broadest appeal of all the Twilight films thus far. But that doesn’t mean it’s good. Director Slade’s grasp of plot development borders on amateurish in this film; Eclipse often feels less like a movie than a weighty discourse on the pros and cons of vampiredom, laid out in lengthy, exhaustingly repetitive chunks of exposition and awkward, campy flashbacks, as just about every character in the film, including Edward, attempts to dissuade Bella from joining the ranks of the bloodsuckers.
But alas, no force, no matter how utterly rational its arguments, will keep Bella from her destiny. Which, obviously, is Edward. Or is it? Eclipse goes to great pains to invent ways to perpetuate the film’s romantic rivalry, inserting scenes like the one in which Bella, on the verge of freezing to death in a tent high up in the mountains, is saved when Jacob arrives to heroically spoon her body temperature back to its proper level. (Eclipse is being hyped as the first “guy-friendly” Twilight flick, but no film which includes a climactic spooning scene can rightly claim such a distinction.) Edward, meanwhile, with his poor vampire circulation, is powerless to help.
Who will win in the end? Will it be abs over eyes? Obviously, it will take two more movies (at least!) to solve this kind of wrenching dilemma.
Or so we thought. Twilight’s fateful love triangle is revived in earnest by Eclipse, part three of the series, and this time the implications are serious -- relatively speaking, of course. Taking over the helm from New Moon director Chris Weitz is David Slade (30 Days of Night, Hard Candy), who adds a hefty dose of action to Twilight’s trademark mix of soaring romance and manic melodrama, making Eclipse the first film in the saga in which -- get this -- something actually happens.
Indeed, action is a primary theme of Eclipse. Like most high school seniors, Bella wants some; her pasty paramour Edward Cullen, however, remains stubbornly chaste, and not just because the briefest exposure to his unbridled vampire lust would almost certainly kill his all-too-human sweetheart. You see, chivalrous Edward hails “from a different era,” one in which the institution of marriage meant everything and a man took care to mount a proper courtship before marrying a girl nearly a century his junior. (He’s 109 years old.) He asks her to marry him; she agrees, but only if he’ll turn her into a vampire first; he hesitates, pondering the unalterable consequences; the matter is tabled and heavy petting resumes. (This exchange is repeated, ad nauseam, throughout the remainder of the film.)
The constant fawning and unwavering devotion from impossibly beautiful Edward aren’t enough to sate Bella’s thirst -- she needs validation like a vampire needs blood -- and so she uses the flimsiest of pretexts to re-insert herself into the life of Jacob Black, the sensitive werewolf she previously shunned, who dutifully plies her with his own declarations of undying love. (Jacob, to his credit, has developed enough game since we last saw him to qualify as a serious contender for Bella’s affections, and is no longer the devoted doormat we saw in New Moon. He’s still a tool, though.) Game on.
But Edward and Jacob aren’t the only ones with designs on Bella. (Seriously, are there no other hot emo chicks in the greater Pacific Northwest?) A ginger-haired menace (Bryce Dallas Howard) has emerged, one that will require Edward’s vampire clan and Jacob’s wolfpack tribe, longtime enemies forever on the verge of a climactic battle (in which Bella will serve as the jeans-and-hoodie-clad Helen of Troy, no doubt) to put aside their differences and unite against a common enemy. In order to ensure Bella’s safety, Edward and Jacob must form an uneasy tag-team (no, not that kind of tag team, much as it would likely better serve to resolve matters) to keep Bella safe from harm.
With its amped-up action, sharpened wit, and darker, horror flick-inspired atmospherics, Eclipse boasts the broadest appeal of all the Twilight films thus far. But that doesn’t mean it’s good. Director Slade’s grasp of plot development borders on amateurish in this film; Eclipse often feels less like a movie than a weighty discourse on the pros and cons of vampiredom, laid out in lengthy, exhaustingly repetitive chunks of exposition and awkward, campy flashbacks, as just about every character in the film, including Edward, attempts to dissuade Bella from joining the ranks of the bloodsuckers.
But alas, no force, no matter how utterly rational its arguments, will keep Bella from her destiny. Which, obviously, is Edward. Or is it? Eclipse goes to great pains to invent ways to perpetuate the film’s romantic rivalry, inserting scenes like the one in which Bella, on the verge of freezing to death in a tent high up in the mountains, is saved when Jacob arrives to heroically spoon her body temperature back to its proper level. (Eclipse is being hyped as the first “guy-friendly” Twilight flick, but no film which includes a climactic spooning scene can rightly claim such a distinction.) Edward, meanwhile, with his poor vampire circulation, is powerless to help.
Who will win in the end? Will it be abs over eyes? Obviously, it will take two more movies (at least!) to solve this kind of wrenching dilemma.
Friday, July 23, 2010
wow movement (a man is flying a plane while he is sleeping) by Sir Rubaid Ashfaq
Flying Blind?
Ever find yourself flying blind?
Ever find yourself believing you can do something in your heart though you've never actually had the opportunity to do it?
Ever been given a "challenge" at work and diving headlong into it, figuring it out along the way?
We have all been there. Sometimes we have "crashed and burned" and sometimes we have soared with eagles. Ever sat back and thought about the difference?
Typically the difference is your "instruments." The fellow above had an altitude indicator, an attitude indicator, and airspeed indicator, and a compass.
The most important of those instrument is the compass. In our day to day lives, our compass is what truly sets us up for success. It's not so much the clock, or how fast or efficient we are. It's the compass, our sense of direction and knowing that we are on the right heading that allows us to achieve great things.
Stay true to your compass. Let it be your guide. Trust it.
And believe you can.
Ever find yourself flying blind?
Ever find yourself believing you can do something in your heart though you've never actually had the opportunity to do it?
Ever been given a "challenge" at work and diving headlong into it, figuring it out along the way?
We have all been there. Sometimes we have "crashed and burned" and sometimes we have soared with eagles. Ever sat back and thought about the difference?
Typically the difference is your "instruments." The fellow above had an altitude indicator, an attitude indicator, and airspeed indicator, and a compass.
The most important of those instrument is the compass. In our day to day lives, our compass is what truly sets us up for success. It's not so much the clock, or how fast or efficient we are. It's the compass, our sense of direction and knowing that we are on the right heading that allows us to achieve great things.
Stay true to your compass. Let it be your guide. Trust it.
And believe you can.
review of khatta meetha by SIR Rubaid Ashfaq
Cast – Akshay Kumar, Trisha, Rajpal Yadav, Urvashi Sharma, Manoj Joshi, Milind Gunaji and Makrand Deshpande. Director – Priyadarshan.
Here is my review of the movie Khatta Meetha. The movie is about a contractor Sachin Tichkule played by Akshay Kumar who is based in his home-town of Satara district where his family is staying in a royal ancestor house. Sachin has three sisters of whom two have got married his brother in laws Manoj Joshi and Milind Gunaji, who are working in Municipality as approving Engineer and Contractor respectively . Third sister is Anjali played by Urvashi Sharma, a college going girl. The movie starts with Sachin Tichkule struggling to get a decent contract. He is overburdened with debt. He is a not so good son. He is a not so good contractor. But still he believes he can be a good contractor one day………
One night the bridge constructed by two in-laws of Sachin breaks down and around 65 people are dead. For which they try hard getting out with help of politician, trapping Tinu Anand as guilty and thereby closing the case. Here Sachin is trying hard to get his due of work-done for constructing the roads and files a case on Municipal Corporation for the claim. Enter Gehna Ganphule played by Trisha. She is a new Municipal Corporation and she values the integrity, Gandhiness, honesty and etc. A sudden flashback and we come to know that she was girlfriend of Akshay during his college days. They have a tussle and both moves on with life. Meanwhile Anjali – Sachin’s younger sister is being forced to marry to one of a corrupt politician’s brother, who is related to Anjali’s in-law brothers contracts. One night (again) she is found dead. After which Sachin decides to uncover all the villains of this movie with the help of, of course Gehna and Makrand Deshpande who had lost his dear ones in that accident.
Further, not discussing anything about the story I would like to set the record straight here about the movie itself. We have seen this Akki + Priyadarshan + Rajpal Yadav combination’s so called comedy for N number of times and add one more to it !!! It is not about common man as have been publicized. It is again a try hard comedy. It tries very hard but unfortunately not succeeding. The usual Akshay Kumar dialogs with usual Rajpal Yadav trying be a freak and in process being beaten by Akshay here and there, time and again. Johny Lever has a small cameo where he successfully manages to bring out some laughter. There is one incident of a road-roller and that one incident has been stretched to 45 minutes!!!!
The biggest disappointment comes from the Director itself. Priyadarshan has been serving the same food over and over and over again. The story writing is confused. Screenplay is shoddy. The dialogs are below par. Music disappoints with Preetam giving only one good song in “Aila re aila”. Not much to add in music department.
If we talk about performance, Akshay again tries his best to cover up the deficits of his director with his spontaneous performance. He does his usual bit with good effect. Urvashi Sharma has played her part very well. Manoj Joshi continuous his loud acting, where he left from De Dana Dan. Rajpal Yadav has done decent job. Milind Gunaji, Tinu Anand and Makrand Deshpand are wasted. Want to add something about Trisha in her debut Bollywood movie. She tries her best to spoil further the flow of movie with her under-trained acting skills, yap you read it right. Her role is thankfully not much which at best can be called as “extended guest appearance”.
Had only if the director would have thought that audience are nowadays not keeping their mind at home when going to a cinema hall. Had only if the director thought that the audiences are not dumb as his movie. Had only director thought an actor cannot all the time save his movies. Had only director gave a thought ………
Verdict – 2 stars out of 5 for Akshay Kumar carrying on the load and Twinkle Khannas concept, with very poor execution
Here is my review of the movie Khatta Meetha. The movie is about a contractor Sachin Tichkule played by Akshay Kumar who is based in his home-town of Satara district where his family is staying in a royal ancestor house. Sachin has three sisters of whom two have got married his brother in laws Manoj Joshi and Milind Gunaji, who are working in Municipality as approving Engineer and Contractor respectively . Third sister is Anjali played by Urvashi Sharma, a college going girl. The movie starts with Sachin Tichkule struggling to get a decent contract. He is overburdened with debt. He is a not so good son. He is a not so good contractor. But still he believes he can be a good contractor one day………
One night the bridge constructed by two in-laws of Sachin breaks down and around 65 people are dead. For which they try hard getting out with help of politician, trapping Tinu Anand as guilty and thereby closing the case. Here Sachin is trying hard to get his due of work-done for constructing the roads and files a case on Municipal Corporation for the claim. Enter Gehna Ganphule played by Trisha. She is a new Municipal Corporation and she values the integrity, Gandhiness, honesty and etc. A sudden flashback and we come to know that she was girlfriend of Akshay during his college days. They have a tussle and both moves on with life. Meanwhile Anjali – Sachin’s younger sister is being forced to marry to one of a corrupt politician’s brother, who is related to Anjali’s in-law brothers contracts. One night (again) she is found dead. After which Sachin decides to uncover all the villains of this movie with the help of, of course Gehna and Makrand Deshpande who had lost his dear ones in that accident.
Further, not discussing anything about the story I would like to set the record straight here about the movie itself. We have seen this Akki + Priyadarshan + Rajpal Yadav combination’s so called comedy for N number of times and add one more to it !!! It is not about common man as have been publicized. It is again a try hard comedy. It tries very hard but unfortunately not succeeding. The usual Akshay Kumar dialogs with usual Rajpal Yadav trying be a freak and in process being beaten by Akshay here and there, time and again. Johny Lever has a small cameo where he successfully manages to bring out some laughter. There is one incident of a road-roller and that one incident has been stretched to 45 minutes!!!!
The biggest disappointment comes from the Director itself. Priyadarshan has been serving the same food over and over and over again. The story writing is confused. Screenplay is shoddy. The dialogs are below par. Music disappoints with Preetam giving only one good song in “Aila re aila”. Not much to add in music department.
If we talk about performance, Akshay again tries his best to cover up the deficits of his director with his spontaneous performance. He does his usual bit with good effect. Urvashi Sharma has played her part very well. Manoj Joshi continuous his loud acting, where he left from De Dana Dan. Rajpal Yadav has done decent job. Milind Gunaji, Tinu Anand and Makrand Deshpand are wasted. Want to add something about Trisha in her debut Bollywood movie. She tries her best to spoil further the flow of movie with her under-trained acting skills, yap you read it right. Her role is thankfully not much which at best can be called as “extended guest appearance”.
Had only if the director would have thought that audience are nowadays not keeping their mind at home when going to a cinema hall. Had only if the director thought that the audiences are not dumb as his movie. Had only director thought an actor cannot all the time save his movies. Had only director gave a thought ………
Verdict – 2 stars out of 5 for Akshay Kumar carrying on the load and Twinkle Khannas concept, with very poor execution
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