One word - Agonizing!!!

4 hours of agonizing torture!

This is the kind of movie that leaves a bitter taste in your mouth and ruins the rest of the day and you wonder why you are feeling so bad!

The reasons are plenty once you think about it.

1. The movie takes a serious topic and deals with it very non-seriously.
2. It tries to justify an adulterous relationship.
3. It is very degrading towards women and is filled with sexual innuendos and too many references towards a woman’s butt. What is that all about?
4. It is all about Sex.
5. It is about someone’s twisted view of relationships and how they should work.

At the start I thought this was going to be a very different movie … one which might for the first time be about the emotional bond between a man and a woman. Proved wrong!

The relationships are completely unbelievable. You see Abhishek, a good looking, rich guy who dotes on his wife. She doesn’t even make any effort in the marriage. She rejects him most of the time or was it always, tells him he is a kid and basically treats him like crap. Shouldn’t he be the one having the affair?

Then she meets Shahrukh who is a bitter man. He treats his own kid like crap … the poor thing is scared of him. Not only that, he tells his kid … I’ll cut you into pieces and make a juice out of you and drink it! Err … who talks to their kid like that?

There doesn’t seem to be much of an emotional bond between Shahrukh and Rani. However, a commentary in the background supplies you with the information that Shahrukh feels completely different when he is with her and she makes him smile once again. However, that is not very apparent in the movie since he treats her very rudely most of the time and is very degrading towards her.

Examples: The scene where he tells everyone that he is having an affair with Rani as a joke without any regard for her feelings or reputation. The scene right after that where when she asks him if he will leave his wife and kid for her, he says no. And then the scene where he treats her very degradingly asking her if she had slept with her husband. Huh!

And then the film claims that she loves Shahrukh with a zillion insecurities and who treats her like crap, over Abhishek who is crazy about her. Why? Are you trying to give the message that this is how you should treat women?

And what was the making out scene in the furniture store all about? How corny can you get? Not to mention the whip scene … though hilarious … if you think about it also gives out really crappy signals. Instead of taking her to a sexy lingerie store, he takes her to a weird store, tells her ‘I like cheap’, shows her his butt and gets her that short dress with a whip and a blindfold. Which by the way she wears all the way back to her place? You mean she was going all over New York in that outfit?? Doesn’t it make more sense to come home and change in your own house?

I can understand a movie saying people develop feelings, there is no stopping that. However actions do not happen by themselves. And in this movie they didn’t even happen in a fit of passion and at the spot. In fact the movie very painstakingly shows that Rani and Shahrukh go to this motel and get a room on purpose. It was a conscious decision with enough time in between for them to come to their senses. Now that cannot be forgiven. It is not act of passion or love. It is an act of betrayal!

The movie tries to justify this act throughout. At one point we have an argument between Preity and Shahrukh’s mom. Preity says: ‘There should be limits to everything.’ To which her MIL replies: ‘If you put too many limits then there are chances of them being broken.’ Huh! So what they are trying to say is that since limits can be broken, lets not bother having them. Yep … lets do away with all the rules in the world so none can be broken. What an intelligent solution!!

At another point Amitabh tells Rani that its not her faullt because both love and death come uninvited. Errr love may come uninvited but sex most definitely doesn’t. So lets please stop justifying that.

Not to mention that Rani says: ‘Mafi to ghaltiyon ki mangi jaat hai. Khud Garzi ki kiya saza hai” (You ask forgiveness for your faults. But what is the penalty for selfishness). In other words she is saying she was only selfish but she didn’t do anything wrong?? So there is nothing wrong with betraying someone’s trust … someone who loves you like crazy? There is nothing wrong with breaking someone’s heart? It’s selfish but not wrong? Interesting!

If Rani and Shahrukh were such soulmates as the film claims (although I think the only mating was done in the motel) and if both of them were miserable in their married lives then why couldn’t they leave their spouses and be with each other? Oh wait they were trying not to hurt them, right!? Right!

So this is just a sample of what this film is all about.

Another great review about this movie is at:
Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind
It really puts the movie in perspective

I was looking forward to this movie a lot. Although I enjoyed it just because it was a Superman movie, there was something lacking and very wrong with it.

1. The story should have taken off where Superman 4 left off not 2. In this Lois Lane is neither married to Superman nor does she know of his true identity.

2. If you look at Superman’s personality over the past 4 movies, he is so in love with Lois Lane that he gives up his powers for her in Part 4. However, in this he leaves her without saying goodbye and disappears for 5 years to find the remnants of his lost world. He is the sweet guy who spends half his salary on his old mother and here he leaves her without a worry as to what will happen to her? Are we really talking abut Superman here? If I want a reality show I will watch one. When I watch Superman I want to see fantasy … a world saved by a hero and a woman he loves so much that he will give up everything for her (and this definitely does not include leaving her for 5 years).

**Major Spoilers Ahead**
Some things that either did not make sense or I just did not like:

*The plane scene was great. However, it takes great effort and time on Superman’s part to stop the plane. In comparison, he effortlessly lifts a mountain load of ‘Green Meteorite’, which is the only material capable of killing him and should have taken away his powers, and throws it out in the universe in much less time. All I can say is Huh!!

*A tidal wave hits Metropolis! Since we are talking about a tidal wave, I wondered how even Superman can stop the destruction from taking place and be in a 100 places at one time. But he sweeps down, saves a couple of people, blows out one fire and saves the globe from falling on top of his boss’ head. And that was the extent of the trouble caused by a full fledged tidal wave which was supposed to kill millions.

*I would have liked to see more of the little kid and his super powers. The piano scene left something to be desired - you wanted more. And I would have liked to see him getting introduced to his father when he was awake.

*The ending was way too abrupt and unsatisfactory. You are left wondering if Lois is still with that nice guy or have they separated. And the ending just leaves a sour taste in your mouth because you just expected more out of it.
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I did expect more from this movie which didn’t get delivered. I wish they had continued after the 4th part and not come up with this dumb idea of having Superman return after 5 years.

Starring: Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock

This a cute, romantic story that follows the lives of two individuals who fall in love over time or rather despite time. The story revolves around them communicating with letters and then realizing that they actually live two years apart.

If you are a sci fi buff or like your movies to make sense, forget about logic … this movie is not about that. Otherwise you will find a dozen things that do not make sense. For example: If an x event inspired a y event which led to a z event, then if you take out the x then how do y and z still happen LOL!

Watch the movie…let its emotions sweep you away and don’t think too much and you will fall in love with it. That is the way to watch any romantic movie.

Starring: Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston

A break-up with this movie is what I suggest! Its endless moments of bickering and pointless arguing that does not make sense. And errr was this by any chance supposed to be a comedy?? Personally I don’t see the comedy in two people endlessly arguing about God knows what. There is just too much negativity in this movie and it refuses to redeem itself … although you are hoping that may be now .. may be now…

****BIG Spoilers Ahead****
Considering that Jeniffer Aniston keeps telling the guy that he does not care enuff for her, never spends time in doing the things that she loves to do blah blah, it still comes as a surprise to him when she tells him in the end that that makes her feel unappreciated. Errrr…

Then one day she is completely sure she does not want to let him go and cries her heart out when he stands her up. However, the next day when he makes a romantic dinner for her and tells her his true feelings for her (namely. he loves her and can’t live without her), all she can come up with is I have nothing left in my heart for you. Hmmmm …really….is that all it takes? One night of crying to get over someone? WOW! Gals you really need to learn from this one.

So out she walks on the sweetest thing the guy, she was dying to stay with, has ever done for her. And you are sitting there wondering what the heck was this movie about and why did I ever spend over one and a half hour of my life on it. So the point was…?