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Love Story 2050, a review by Tom

Love Story 2050 (2008/United Kingdom) IMDb | Wikipedia Adlabs (United Kingdom) Director: Harry Baweja Writing: Mayur Puri (Screenwriter), Harry Baweja (Screenwriter), Rowena Baweja (Screenwriter), Harry Baweja (Story By) Length: 171 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35 Audio: Hindi: Dolby Digital 5.1, Hindi: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: Arabic, Dutch, English, French, Spanish

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Stars:
Priyanka Chopra
Harman Baweja
Boman Irani
Archana Puran Singh
Dalip Tahil

Plot:
It's a story about Karan (Harman Baweja) a young boy who lives life off the rules and Sana (Priyanka Chopra), a young petite, shy girl who lives life by the rules. Karan's uncle Dr. Yatinder Khanna (Boman Irani), a whacky scientist has been working on the Time Machine for years, which one day finally works! Sana expresses her wish to travel time to Mumbai in the year 2050.

What they see in the future is a spectacular city with flying cars, 200 storey buildings, robots and sky rails that have changed the very face of Mumbai and the world! The two kids, Sana's brother and sister who have also traveled with them find the new world fascinating.

Through a series of twist and turns, the time traveler Karan finds himself separating from his love. QT, a friendly femme robot and BOO, a small robotic teddy bear play their distinct roles in bringing the love story of Karan and Sana together but soon they find themselves under the threat of the demigod of the future, Dr. Hoshi.

Will Karan be able to overcome the threat of Dr. Hoshi and win his love and travel back in time?

Awards:
Won:

Filmfare Awards (2009)

Best Special Effects Award

Extras:

• Bonus Trailers
• Featurettes
• Music Videos
• Scene Access

I have stumbled across this movie multiple times. Either because I was looking for Bollywood time-travel movies, or because I was looking up DVD releases with Priyanka Chopra. At first glance this always stood out as a movie which could be fun. But every time I looked up reviews and they were mostly bad, I decided against buying it (it even rates below 3.0 on IMDb).
But after recently watching "Pyaar Impossible!" and really enjoying it, I was in the mood for another Priyanka Chopra movie and I finally took the chance. Sadly I must agree that this movie really isn't any good. It has fairly good production values (which surprised me for Bollywood's first futuristic movie), but the screenplay was really weak. Even Priyanka Chopra couldn't save it for me. She didn't seem to be really into the role. I have seen her bring in wonderful performances (mainly in "Pyaar Impossible!" and "What's Your Raashee?"), so I know she can do better. The male star is a newcomer. The director's son. He very much looks like Hrithik Roshan and sounds awfully close to him. Hrithik Roshan also got his start in a movie shot by his father. So both have these things in common, but while Hrithik Roshan really has a lot of talent, Harman Baweja comes across like a ripoff. What I first didn't notice was, that Harman Baweja was also the star in "What's Your Raashee?" (which was released later). In that movie he was better and didn't come across like doing a Hrithik Roshan impression.
So in short: The movie looks good. Art direction is good. Production design is good. Screenplay is terrible. Good direction is missing. Acting ranges from bad to slightly above average.

Rating:

(From Tom's Time-Travel Movie Reviews on April 14th, 2011)

Speed, a review by DJ Doena

Director: Jan de Bont

Keanu Reeves    ...    Officer Jack Traven
Dennis Hopper   ...    Howard Payne
Sandra Bullock   ...    Annie Porter
Joe Morton   ...    Capt. McMahon
Jeff Daniels   ...    Det. Harold 'Harry' Temple
Alan Ruck   ...    Stephens

Synopsis: Jack and Harry work with the L.A. Police Bomb Squad and they just managed to save 13 people from a rigged elevator. They believe the bomber to be dead until he calls again. Now he has mined the bus 2525 which will explode as soon as it drives faster than 50 miles per hour and then falls under that speed limit. While Harry tries to find the bomber, Jack tries to rescue the passengers - among them Annie Porter, who drives the bus.

My Opinion: A cool piece of action cinema with a lot of car stunts (and a flying bus!). It's watch-worthy based alone on the sheer amount of things, cars, planes and subways that get destroyed over the course of this movie.

(From DJ Doena's movie watchings 2010 on January 30th, 2010)

"Stargate SG-1" Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

Synopsis: SG-1 is in hell. Their plan to escape didn't work after Apophis had unexpectedly risen from the dead. And he needs a dead pledge to prevent Sokar from executing him. But the Tok'ra have also a plan B: They intend to blow up Ne'tu.

My Opinion: Cool continuation. Apophis managed to save his skin again. I also liked the hallucination sequences due to the "Blood of Sokar".

Synopsis: After SG-1 returns from a mission something strange happens: Teal'c awakes in the infirmary and overhears a conversation between General Hammond and an unknown alien. There are two possibilities: Either the base has been overtaken or they have been exposed to a dangerous chemical that causes hallucinations.

My Opinion: When I watched the episode for the first time, until a certain point it was unclear to me which one is the truth, especially with the argument between Jack and Maybourne. What I like about such disguise devices is that they can actually change the size and form of a person.

Synopsis: Klorel crashes with a Deathglider on the Tollan homeworld. For a short moment, Skaara is in control of his body and he asks the Tollans for help. They agree to hear both sides.

My Opinion: A great episode. I love episodes with court hearings, especially when you could agree with both sides. I also liked the split where Daniel argues with logic and Jack with his heart. I thought this episode stands in one row with Star Trek TNG's The Measure of a Man. Regrettably we haven't seen Omac (Enigma) again.

Synopsis: SG-1 can't remember being on a planet for 15 hours. But then they find a microscopic device implanted into their brains. It generates an audio-visual hologram that only SG-1 can see and hear: Urgo.

My Opinion: Dom DeLuise (Cannonball Run, father of Peter DeLuise) is too funny as Urgo. I had a really good laugh, it was a great fun episode.

(From "Stargate SG-1" Marathon on March 17th, 2008)