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Mohabbatein, a review by Tom

Title: Mohabbatein
Year: 2000
Director: Aditya Chopra
Rating: FSK-6
Length: 206 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35
Audio: German: Dolby Digital Stereo, Hindi: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: German

Stars:
Amitabh Bachchan
Shahrukh Khan
Uday Chopra
Shamita Shetty
Jugal Hansraj

Plot:
Raj Aryan (SHAHRUKH KHAN, FilmFare Award Winner) who stands for love, he would go to any lengeths for it and Narayan Shankar (AMITABH BACHCHAN, National Award Winne, Voted The Millennium Star in the BBC Polls) who stands for discipline and fear, he believes that love leads to pain and weakness. It is also the story of 3 young men and women who have to learn to follow their hearts against many odds and it is the outcome of their love stories that will decide what will finally triumph...Love or Fear.

Awards:

Filmfare Awards	2001	Nominated	Best Actor Award	Shahrukh Khan
Filmfare Awards	2001	Nominated	Best Director Award	Aditya Chopra
Filmfare Awards	2001	Nominated	Best Movie Award
Filmfare Awards	2001	Nominated	Best Music Director Award	Jatin-Lalit
Filmfare Awards	2001	Nominated	Best Supporting Actor Award	Shahrukh Khan
Filmfare Awards	2001	Won	Best Supporting Actor Award	Amitabh Bachchan
Filmfare Awards	2001	Nominated	Best Supporting Actress Award	Aishwarya Rai
Filmfare Awards	2001	Won	Critics Award for Best Performance	Shahrukh Khan
IIFA Awards	2001	Won	Best Supporting Actor	Amitabh Bachchan

Extras:
Scene Access

This one has been a bit of a drag to get through. The three love stories for the young characters lag a little more depth. Too many love stories in one movie which should have focused more on a single one. And it didn't help that the young actors were not actually all that good.
Also I think it would have benefited the movie, if they would have shown more flashbacks to the beginning of the relationship of Shahrukh Khan's and Aishwarya Rai's characters instead of having him constantly dance with her spirit. That approach worked well in Veer-Zara and Ghanjini, and would probably also have worked here.
Also the turn of Amithabh Bachchan character from love-hating to encouraging love was too sudden. The whole movie he was shown as unwavering. But one speech close to the end of the movie later and suddenly he changes his complete mind on the matter.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on August 9th, 2009)

Black Dog, a review by addicted2dvd

Black Dog
Patrick Swayze, Randy Travis and Meat Loaf team up to deliver explosive nonstop high-speed action in this adrenaline-pumping highway road war. A 40-ton truck is a lethal weapon and veteran driver Jack Crews (Swayze) knows how to use it. Desperate for cash, he's got one last delivery to make. The trip's barely begun when he and his partner Earl (Travis) discover they've been set up and are being chased by Red (Meat Loaf), a relentless fanatic who's as deadly as he is greedy. Now, with his family, his life and his freedom on the line, Jack's going to buckle up, put the pedal down and show Red and the Feds a thing or two about road rage. After being double-crossed and rudely underestimated, Jack and Earl shift gears, becoming a two-man wrecking crew, trucking down the highway blazing a trail of diesel-powered destruction.

My Thoughts:
I bought this movie several years ago... and only watched it once. I am not sure why since I remember I enjoyed it at the time. And I remembered right... I did enjoy it. I have seen better... but this is a good way to waste an hour and a half. I mean you have the big rigs speeding down the road playing bumper cars... regular car chases... gun fights as well as a couple fist fights thrown in for good measures. Randy Travis' character didn't cut it for me... but I did like the character of Sonny Played by Gabriel Casseus. I like the legend of the Black Dog they talk about on here. It is the first I ever heard of it and see no mention of such a urban legend online from my short search so I imagine it is one the writers made up for this movie. But it was pretty cool.



(From What Movies I Been Watching on July 19th, 2009)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Happy Days: Season One (1974/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Paramount Home Entertainment (United States) Length: 409 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 1 Subtitles:

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Plot:
Poodle skirts... jukeboxes... cars with soaring tail fins... and rockin' and rollin' all week long.
Those Happy Days are here again, on this three-disc, must-have DVD set! Join one of America's best-loved TV families - the Cunninghams - in the premiere season of this top-rated television series. Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard), "Potsie" Weber (Anson Williams), Ralph Malph (Donny Most) and "The Fonz" (Henry Winkler) head a brilliant comedic cast in this nostalgic, smash-hit TV sitcom. Arnold's Drive-In is their local hangout and meeting place, and lots of hilarious, memorable and classic adventures are the result. Take a trip back to a simpler time and relive all the fun, music and laughs of those good ol' Happy Days - with this complete first season DVD collection.

Happy Days
1.01 All the Way
Writer: Garry Marshall (Original Characters By), Rob Reiner (Writer), Philip Mishkin (Writer), Garry Marshall (Writer)
Director: Mel Ferber
Cast: Ron Howard (Richie Cunningham), Marion Ross (Marion Cunningham), Anson Williams (Potsie Weber), Tom Bosley (Howard Cunningham), Henry Winkler (Fonzie), Donny Most (Ralph), Gavan O'Herlihy (Chuck), Erin Moran (Joanie), Kathy O'Dare (Mary Lou), Danny Jacobson (Pat), Richard D. Hurst (Cook)

I caught a few episodes on TV in the early nighties or so. I picked up the first season when it came out but I never got past the first disc watching it. It isn't bad, but it didn't really keep me interested.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on July 5th, 2011)