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Kal Ho Naa Ho, a review by dfmorgan

Kal Ho Naa Ho

Year: 2003
Director: Nikhil Advani
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Preity Zinta

Overview: For Naina Catherine Kapur (Preity Zinta), life is cold, grey and dull - as it has been ever since a family tragedy shook her world.

Between the constant bickering in her half punjabi half Catholic household, her grandmother's temper, looking after her little sister and brother and helping her mother (Jaya Bachchan) deal with the family's financial troubles - Naina has no time for things like parties, fun or herself... she's twenty-three, going on fifty. she is serious. She is boring.

Enter Aman Mathur (Shah Rukh Khan). like a whiff of fresh air, he moves into their tiny indian neighborhood to take it over. Helping others to resolve their problems, face life's little challenges - Aman has all the answers. Much to Naina's irritation, he insists on interferring in her life too...

Aman pushes Naina into doing things she would never dream of doing. He nags her till she learns to smile. He conspires with friend Rohit (Saif Ali Khan), an eligible Manhattan bachelor to help find her happiness.

Kal Ho Naa Ho is the story of Aman, Rohit and Naina's journey together - how  they discover themselves, find the courage to love and come together to celebrate life.

Watched: 26th Feb. 2011
My Thoughts: Yet again another wonderful recommendation. This must be the one weepy to rule all other weepies. The first half of the film builds the characters and their dynamics leading to a little weepy session before the intermission. Then the second half is powerful with many weepy hits all through it leading to its conclusion and small postscript set 20 years later. Overall this is not just a weepy though, this film has a very strong multi-threaded story being told with some unexpected reveals.

My Rating: A marvellous 4

p.s. I loved the Bollywoodized interpretation of Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman".





(From Dave's DVD/Blu-ray Reviews on February 27th, 2011)

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, a review by RossRoy

Original Title: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Year: 2008 Country: United States Director: Rating: PG Length: 122 Min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, French: Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

What they say
'STEVEN SPIELBERG' and 'GEORGE LUCAS' bring you the greatest adventurer of all time in a film packed with "sensational, awe-inspiring spectacles" (Roger Ebert, 'CHICAGO SUN-TIMES'). 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' finds Indy (Harrison Ford) trying to outrace a brilliant and beautiful agent (Cate Blanchett) for the mystical, all-powerful Crystal Skull of Akator in a quest that is filled with "spectacular fun" (Claudia Puig, 'USA TODAY'). Teaming up with a rebellious young biker (Shia LaBeouf) and his spirited original love Marion (Karen Allen), Indy takes you on an action-packed adventure in the exciting tradition of the classic 'Indiana Jones' movies!

My Thoughts
Indy's back! That's all I can think of after seeing the movie. It's all there: the impossible situations where Indy gets out with an ever more improbable solution, the bar fights, the car chases, the mythos surrounding it all. This is a fine Indiana Jones. It's got really beautiful set pieces. Some great tongue in cheek humour (even acknowledging Indy age!), the one-liners are there too.

There's iconic images that stick to my mind after seeing this movie.

I love the Indy reveal at the beginning, where the camera points to his shadow and he puts on his hat and takes his iconic pose with the Indy March lightly creeping into the music.

I also love, for some reason, the image of Indy looking towards the mushroom cloud of the nuclear test bomb.

I loved Cate Blanchett in the role. There's a closeup shot of her face holding a sword to Indy's throat that I can't get enough of. Her's blue eyes contrasting with her dark hair gets to me every time (same reason I love Rena Sofer so much. I don't why, but I have a thing for women with light blue eyes but dark hair. Even if it's not their natural color).

This fourth Indy accomplishes very well what it set out to do: Give a popcorn flick - Indy style!




(From RossRoy's Random Viewings on March 8th, 2009)

The Flash Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

Guest Stars:
Michael Nader as Nicholas Pike
Richard Belzer as Joe Kline
Vito D'Ambrosio as Bellows
Mike Genovese as Lt. Warren Garfield
Biff Manard as Murphy
Robert O'Reilly as Victor Kelso

My Thoughts:
This has always been one of my favorite episodes. I like the storyline. I liked Julio knowing Barry is The Flash (in the future). I always hoped it would turn that way for the series... but the show didn't last long enough to see that happen (if I remember right). And I also liked having a bit of an update on the pilot episode.

My Rating:

(From The Flash Marathon on April 25th, 2010)