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Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, a review by Tom

Title: Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
Year: 1998
Director: Karan Johar
Rating: FSK-6
Length: 177 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35
Audio: German: Dolby Digital Stereo, Hindi: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: German

Stars:
Shahrukh Khan
Kajol
Rani Mukherji
Farida Jalal
Reema

Plot:
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (Something is Happening) is a story of 2 best friends at college. Rahul (Shahrukh Khan) and tomboy Anjali (Kajol).

Unknown to Rahul, Anjali has fallen in love with him - When Rahul confesses that he is in love with Tina (Rani Mukherji), Anjali is heartbroken and decides to leave the college so that Rahul and Tina can get together.

Now, nine years have passed and Rahul is a single parent after Tina's demise.

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai is a story of best friends.... Now they are falling in love.

Awards:

Filmfare Awards	1999	Won	Best Actor Award	Shahrukh Khan
Filmfare Awards	1999	Won	Best Actress Award	Kajol
Filmfare Awards	1999	Won	Best Art Direction Award	Sharmishta Roy
Filmfare Awards	1999	Won	Best Director Award	Karan Johar
Filmfare Awards	1999	Won	Best Movie Award
Filmfare Awards	1999	Nominated	Best Music Director Award	Jatin Lalit
Filmfare Awards	1999	Won	Best Screenplay Award	Karan Johar
Filmfare Awards	1999	Won	Best Supporting Actor Award	Salman Khan
Filmfare Awards	1999	Won	Best Supporting Actress Award	Rani Mukerji

Extras:
Scene Access

An OK film, but so far the weakest Shahrukh Khan movie that I have watched. I liked the second half better than the first half. I didn't like Shahrukh Khan's character in the flashback in the first half of the movie, which plays in the college years of the main characters. I think it is not really obvious why both women fell for him. In the present time, he plays his usual likable guy persona as I know him from the other movies. Kajol did a good portraying both the tomboyish Anjali and later on the more feminine Anjali.
This movie is from the same director as Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham and the three main stars of this movie all appeared in that one also.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on July 14th, 2009)

Galaxy Quest, a review by Tom

Title: Galaxy Quest
Year: 1999
Director: Dean Parisot
Rating: PG
Length: 102 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Other: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Subtitles: English

Stars:
Tim Allen
Sigourney Weaver
Alan Rickman
Tony Shalhoub
Sam Rockwell

Plot:Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beamed up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director and no clue, the actors must turn in the perfomances of their lives in this hilarious adventure Jeffrey Lyons (NBC-TV) calls "The funniest, wittiest comedy of the year."

Awards:

Blockbuster Entertainment Awards	2000	Nominated	Favorite Actor - Comedy	Tim Allen
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards	2000	Nominated	Favorite Actress - Comedy	Sigourney Weaver
Casting Society of America Awards	2000	Nominated		Debra Zane
Hugo Award	2000	Won	Dramatic Presentation
Saturn	1999	Won	Best Actor	Tim Allen
Saturn	1999	Nominated	Best Actress	Sigourney Weaver
Saturn	1999	Nominated	Best Costumes	Albert Wolsky
Saturn	1999	Nominated	Best Director	Dean Parisot
Saturn	1999	Nominated	Best Makeup	Stan Winston, Hallie D'Amore, Ve Neill
Saturn	1999	Nominated	Best Music	David Newman
Saturn	1999	Nominated	Best Performance by a Younger Actor	Justin Long
Saturn	1999	Nominated	Best Science Fiction Film
Saturn	1999	Nominated	Best Special Effects	Stan Winston, Bill George, Kim Bromley, Robert Stadd
Saturn	1999	Nominated	Best Supporting Actor	Alan Rickman
Teen Choice Awards	2000	Nominated	Film - Choice Comedy

Extras:
Closed Captioned
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes
Production Notes
Scene Access
Thermian Language Audio Track
Trailers

This is a great sci-fi comedy parodying Star Trek and its fandom in a loving way. I loved this movie since I first saw it in the cinema. It was one of the first Region 1 DVDs I have bought since the German DVD was delayed at the time and I couldn't wait to see it again.
Tim Allen is a great Shatner parody. Enrico Colantoni (Veronica Mars' Keith Mars) will always be Mathesar for me. Tony Shalhoub, besides his role as "Monk", I always remember as Tech Sgt. Kwan.
I recognized another familiar face this time around: Dwight Schrute from "The Office" is one of the Thermians in the beginning of the movie.

Rating:

(From Tom's Alphabet Marathon Reviews on July 4th, 2010)

The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

What's the show about?
At some point in the future the computer system Skynet will become self-aware and start a nuclear assault on mankind. Only a few people survive this holocaust and fight against Skynet and its machines (e.g. the Terminators). The leader of that resistance is John Connor. But that is then, this is now. Now John Connor is a teenage boy who tries to survive attacks before the war has even started. At his side fight his mother, Sarah, and the reprogrammed Terminator called Cameron and together they try to destroy Skynet before it's activated.

What happened before?
The series takes place two years after the second movie and ignores the third one. It also shifts the time-table forward, making Terminator 2: Judgement Day take place in 1997.

"Pilot"
It's 1999 and Sarah and John Connor have once again moved to a new town. They live under the alias "Reese" but that's a fatal mistake since that's the name of John's birth-father and the Terminator called Cromartie finds them this way. Luckily for John one of his new classmates, a beautiful young girl named Cameron is also a machine and he protects him. But they have to flee and it's not a matter of where but of when. Cameron initiates a time travel and they find themselves in the year 2007, four years before Judgement Day.

My Opinion
I began to watch this show open-minded. I was never too invested in the Terminator saga, so a series that ignored a movie was not a problem for me. And I also liked all the major actors from both seasons (after which it was cancelled). But there were some plot issues I couldn't cope with. There was no time travel logic at all - i.e. even less than in the movies. People and Terminators travelled from the future whenever they wanted, no biggie. Still, at some point I seem to have accepted this because I didn't notice it that much in the second season. But the second season had this unsatisfactory three-dots-arc I didn't care for and in the end the only thing that wanted to make me watch a third season was the cliffhanger. But that's not enough.

(From The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon on September 16th, 2009)