... that I wasted watcing "Avatar". I have to wonder, if there are that many people stuck at approximately 2 years old, that such a simplistic, boring and painfully cliched, derived, and downright stupid story would become the box office sensation of the year... or possibly the decade. The movie is the big screen equivalent of The Real Housewives of Wherever... a pretty surface hiding the fact that the inside has neither mind nor heart.
Look, I'm not railing against the special effects. They were, without doubt gorgeous (and yes, I saw it in 3D, so I got the full effect of it). But it was like a lot of embellishment to make up for the meagre plot. Disney did a better job with "Pocohontas"... and to compare this with any Disney movie, is to deal Disney a serious insult. Man meets "native" woman... falls in love, defeats villains, saves the world, gets the girl. Ta-da!
Nothing against simple stories. Sometimes they can be exquisite. Take any Pixar movie; ostensibly made for children, they are far more intelligent, still working off simple plots, they manage to be incredibly original- and the special effects are actually used to illustrate new ideas.
As for "Pandora", I'd argue that all their effects could have been amalgamated from a few episodes of "Earth"... the jellyfish, the rainforests, even the neon plants... so much for an alien world- looks amazingly like ours.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Back to the Stoneage...
Beacause that's what life without electricity is.
The power went off at around 3 pm yesterday evening thanks the the giant storm that decided to hit the Pennsylvania-New Jersey area. So, there we were, no light, no heat, no internet, no food (no microwave), no WATER!
One game of SCRABBLE later, we couldn't take it any more. The toilets were unusable thanks to the lack of power (because you need the motor to get water...) and we headed off for a movie "Athithi tum kab Jaoge", a slapstick, light mostly forgettable, but bearable comedy.
... we got back home around 9. Still no power. So candle-light dinner. Sweet and fun on any other night.... not on this one. And no heat. So bundled up in comforters, we went off to sleep. Praying desperately that the power would be back the next morning. When I woke up, it still wasn't. Much lying about and hoping for just a minute more brought no salvation, so up I (reluctantly got). And shivered as I emerged out of the cocoon of comforters into the open.
And just as I made plans to head to Starbucks for Breakfast and the Bathroom (I swear, as long as they have free toilets I will never say a bad word about Starbucks again... if only they bring back free wireless.. I would become their lifelong devotee.), the power returned!
And there this saga ends. And so to move on to todays chores and ponder on how on earth people lived before electricity.
The power went off at around 3 pm yesterday evening thanks the the giant storm that decided to hit the Pennsylvania-New Jersey area. So, there we were, no light, no heat, no internet, no food (no microwave), no WATER!
One game of SCRABBLE later, we couldn't take it any more. The toilets were unusable thanks to the lack of power (because you need the motor to get water...) and we headed off for a movie "Athithi tum kab Jaoge", a slapstick, light mostly forgettable, but bearable comedy.
... we got back home around 9. Still no power. So candle-light dinner. Sweet and fun on any other night.... not on this one. And no heat. So bundled up in comforters, we went off to sleep. Praying desperately that the power would be back the next morning. When I woke up, it still wasn't. Much lying about and hoping for just a minute more brought no salvation, so up I (reluctantly got). And shivered as I emerged out of the cocoon of comforters into the open.
And just as I made plans to head to Starbucks for Breakfast and the Bathroom (I swear, as long as they have free toilets I will never say a bad word about Starbucks again... if only they bring back free wireless.. I would become their lifelong devotee.), the power returned!
And there this saga ends. And so to move on to todays chores and ponder on how on earth people lived before electricity.
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