The vampire-human conundrum

Enough's been said about the weird yet wildly popular Twilight. The world seems to be divided into two types of people: Those who talk about Twilight and those who don't give a damn. Guess which one I fit into. Ha ha.

I'm not going to bore everyone by summarizing Twilight. I'll just get to the point. As much as I like Stephanie Meyer's style of writing, the movie just refuses to cut it. Let's face it, the vampire theme is frankly, being abused. You want a good vampire movie? Watch Underworld. And Rob Pattinson? No offense to the dude, but he looks like Kate Beckinsale can kick his butt on a bad hair day. The term bad hair day takes on a whole new meaning with Edward Cullen's ice cream cone head.



Now that New Moon is out, I will not lie to you guys. I'm definitely watching it, if only for the Volturi scenes where Pattinson gets his butt kicked. Romance always has its allure but like all vampire-human romances (Blood Ties, True Blood...I won't include Underworld because not only did it decently refuse to let Kate be excessively romantic but also turned that Michael character into a hybrid)the whole plot just gets too mind numbingly mushy for a rational mind at times. If they start quoting poetry, I'm so out of there.

About True Blood, don't watch it unless you have nothing better to do. Blood Ties actually has a plot and everything(albeit a much used crime detective angle, but hey it's better than no plot at all). I'd still tell you to go watch Criminal Minds instead, if you're into that though.





In conclusion, Twilight's more of an accidental success spurred on by adolescent, teenage girls who just don't know what a good movie is. Romance is all very well but let's not lose our taste over it.

P.S: I watched most of them anyway. So never mind.

Beam us up, Scotty

It’s the end of a dark era…er, semester. It seems like an age has passed by already. The fourth semester takes the award for being the most interminably annoying semester so far. Whether it was the PQT professor or the visual programming lab…there was always something to feel crappy about everyday. I’ve never consigned an entire semester to the devil before but I do so now with great pleasure. Goodbye and good riddance.

There are so many things I want to write about that it’s impossible to put it in one entry. First things first. Star trek is hands down the best movie I have seen in a long time. Zachary Quinto is a worthy successor of Leonard Nimoy as Spock and Chris Pine was amazing as Captain Kirk. The visual effects were stunning and the whole movie is worth it just to say the famous lines, ‘Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the USS Enterprise…’at the end in unison with the movie.

Also the Vulcan greeting is quickly gaining vogue among my friends as the hottest way to annoy each other. Only we substitute ‘Live long and prosper’ with ‘Die baby, die!’

Of course, there were the usual moments of hilarity like when I, the klutz that I am, spilt coke on my seat and had to mop it up with tissues and sit on one side of it for the rest of the time when Kirk was hanging off the edge of precipices. He seemed to do that a lot in this movie whether it was when he trashed his mother’s car, battled a Romulan on a signal jamming station above Vulcan or on the Romulan mining vessel from the future.

This one is a real fall-off-the-edge-of-your-seat kind of movie if you’re familiar with the television series. I grew up watching Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Kathryn Janeway steer their respective spaceships through alien assaults, time reversals and black hole threats in unknown quadrants of the universe while the crew attempted to have something approaching a social life so I felt like a kid on Christmas morning confronted with Santa himself.

If you’re even remotely interested in sci-fi I guarantee you will love this movie. If you’re not, it’s about time you boldly went where you haven’t gone before and head to the nearest theatre, ASAP.

Meanderings of an idle mind - not all who wander are lost

I am so jobless and yet, so busy. Anyway, I'm jobless enough to write another blog entry so bear with me.

Okay, first things first. Creamy Inn is really good. I went there with a friend a couple of days ago. That's my pista delight and her strawberry crush up there. Looks good eh? The prices are quite reasonable too. As a college kid who is almost always broke I feel this is a very important requirement. Then we went to Sree Mithai right after that and had Dahi Vada. The place is really crowded in the evenings. We had to wait for about fifteen minutes before they got us what we wanted. I felt the wait was worth it though.


I went to my college yesterday to get my records signed by the HOD but since she derives great pleasure from being such a pain in the wrong place (as a friend of mine puts it), we were unceremoniously kicked out of college with nothing to show for it. What a total waste of four perfectly good hours. Anyway I made up for all that lost time by watching two movies (which I've already watched more than once) back to back after I got back home.

Mansfield Park:

This is one of the few movies which I enjoyed better than the book. It's got all the usual elements which make Jane Austen so popular and I believe it's one of the best love stories I've ever read.
The story is about Fanny Price who goes through everything impoverished relatives living with their more affluent relations as little more than domestic help go through and yet has the strength of character to refuse an apparently reformed rake in favour of her less charming and less wealthy cousin who has an infinitely better character. I love the way that the movie manages to avoid making Fanny look strait-laced and how Edmund isn't portrayed as boring and prosy just because he wants to be a clergyman.

Moral: Beware of reformed rakes. Regency authors tend to romanticize the spoiled rich guy who falls in love and changes his lifestyle for his true love. So not happening in real life. That's why it's called romantic fiction people.
Now that we've cleared up that little misconception, I must admit I have a thing going for the rakes…but strictly within the covers of Georgette Heyer's brilliantly witty novels.

The Patriot:

It's set in the period of the civil war in America. Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger are two of the main reasons this movie is so amazing. The little things like the Cherokee tomahawk and the Great Danes just add character to an already excellent story. Some say it's too violent (yeah, if you're still into PG movies) and it's definitely too dramatic. What else do you need when you're watching a movie? It makes you laugh, cry, think and love Mel Gibson. Perfect.

Moral: Er...freedom? Passion? Sacrifice? The indomitable spirit of freedom fighters? Take your pick.

My dad's on the road to recovery. If you call recovery walking around and telling people he's perfectly alright with my mom cutting in and saying he's not.
I haven't had time to touch my books yet. It's funny how that happens when you have time for everything else right?
I have a line up of movies I need to watch, books I simply must read, stuff I have to put down on paper and a room which is begging to be cleaned. And I love doing all this stuff. Yes, even cleaning my room because it gives me great job satisfaction. There’s this feeling of accomplishment when it is devoid of junk (stuff I throw out) and when I know exactly where all my stuff (junk I keep) is, a happy state of affairs which will last for a week at the most.

I tell you, this is the life. If you’re one of those busy, dynamic types take a minute to stop and ponder.
No, I don’t care what you ponder. Ponder the origin of mankind, ponder about God, ponder yesterday’s episode of ‘The big bang theory’, ponder why the lady next to you seems to have marinated herself in cheap perfume, ponder the uselessness of it all, ponder if your great grand daddy is still inhabiting the hallway on the second floor. By the end of it, I swear, the world will never seem the same again. And you might actually like it.