If tomorrow never comes...or some crap.
Disclaimer : Payne cannot review movies. The reason being that every movie he sees has him completely immersed no matter how crappy the storyline, how shitty the acting, how faecal-matter-ish the script, however bad the direction. 10 minutes after the credits have rolled past him, as he watches teary-eyed...he realises "wtf did i jus see??!". Ofcourse, this realisation does not in anyway change his opinion of the movie.
Why this all of a sudden? I'm just done watchin Kal Ho Na Ho. Now, the first half flies by in a colorful blur of a wide spectrum of winter wear , loud songs and Shah Rukh antics and by the time you know it Preity as fallen in love with him and so has Saif Ali fallen in love with her. How this happened, when this happened, WHY it happened is not clearly depicted nor is it given the time to be depicted. When Preity starts to bawl, I'm left wondering "WHHYY!", where was the chemistry? where were the powerful dialogues? where were the "look-me-in-the-eye-and-make-me-cry" scenes?! Saif a.k.a Rohit meanwhile has turned from useless casanova to faithful lover in the blink of an eye. At this point, any sane-minded individual with half the mental acumen that I pride myself to possess would have turned away and decided to chuck the movie (that individual would be my sister and yes she does have half my acumen). But this is me, Payne, remember?
Well, Hello Wisconsin! I make meself cozy and start to understand the intricacies of the wafer-thin characters in front of me...obviously I can totally identify with them and by now I have started to fall in love with all of 'em (acumen notwithstanding). SRK cries, PZ cries, SAK cries, everyone cries, everything actually does set itself into place though somewhere in the dark corners of my cranium there is a small voice shrieking "when the f_kk did they fall in love??!". I shut out that voice and decide to take in the Great Indian Cinematic Melodrama unfolding on me 20" TV. Ofcourse, there are a lot of useless comic reliefs thrown in...but not long enough for me to lose my goal >> To get Immersed. Back to the movie, SRK cries, PZ cries, SAK cries, rest of cast cries, I shout out "akka..sasthunaadu vaadu", SRK dies, I cries. I lost my acumen of verbal usage somewhere in that line, don't ask me where, I'm crying remember? :(
Credits roll by. Another faltoo movie watched by Payne and another 3 hrs gone by. On another front, the year's coming to an end been one helluva an year...not so many downs as ups. Still a lot to do...but all of this in another post.
signing out.
A visibly confused Payne as to what just happened in dat goddam movie.
Payne
Current Mood: Happy
Current Music: Rabbi - Bulla Ki Jaana...gotta hand it 2 d guy..hes made the word legal now..on Primetime TV!
27 Dec 2004, 4:07am
SRK, all he does is "cries."
Make sure you catch "Musafir" the movie, I thought it was fabulous!
27 Dec 2004, 9:54am
only an idiot will not like the movie... o' i am talking to one. sorry, uh... sob sob!
27 Dec 2004, 11:00am
BAKWAS......
27 Dec 2004, 1:21pm
you *actually* watched that movie :O :O
27 Dec 2004, 2:45pm
How can one not like this movie?? buzz off u wannabees... Go watch crappy Hollywood movies only... and detest anything Indian...
Such Wannabe dudes you people are... yuck...
PS: payne anno congrats for the calls... :)
27 Dec 2004, 4:57pm
This is your life and its ending one minute at a time.
27 Dec 2004, 6:38pm
Disclaimer: Payne cannot review movies. But he still does the cannot part of it sooo nicely, cutely, sweetly. Can't help but love the guy. >:D
27 Dec 2004, 6:39pm
Disclaimer: Payne cannot review movies. But he still does the cannot part of it sooo nicely, cutely, sweetly. Can't help but love the guy. >:D
27 Dec 2004, 6:39pm
Disclaimer: Payne cannot review movies. But he still does the cannot part of it sooo nicely, cutely, sweetly. Can't help but love the guy.
(yes, I'm feeling happy. and silly :p )
p.s. Sister has acumen. Much much acumen. More acumen.
pps. there's something very wrong happening with the comments.
27 Dec 2004, 6:52pm
1) The music is not loud ..kuch to hua hai is nowhere close to being loud. 2)What kind of reasons are you lookin for ?? Wasnt that the whole point of the movie ..He liked her but couldnt tell her ..couldnt afford to tell her ..and therefore couldnt afford to get her to like/tell him either ..3) Saif liked her ..i think that was made pretty obvious ..if you didnt see that then well ..GO WATCH THE MOVIE AGAIN :-| .4)She didnt love Saif ..didnt she like kinda mention that in the beginning,middle and end of the movie ??!! ..if you didnt get that then well ..GO WATCH THE MOVIE AGAIN !! 4) So in conclusion , all id like to say is ..well ..GO WATCH THE MOVIE AGAIN !!!! ...:-) .:-p ..>:D
27 Dec 2004, 7:24pm
@Jaan : arre..junta said Musafir was bad..n i find Sameera Reddy to man-ish..more like Sameer..:-S n yes, SRK does cry. but he's a cool actor.. :-"
@Richa : who said i did not like the movie...i totally loved it n was immersed in it towards d movie...but AFTER its done..BOOM > it sucks. :|
@******* : *******
@Scorpion : I did. I watch a LOT of movies..all on the telly.. :D
@Johnny: Dude..I ain't against indian movies as a whole! i mean i LOVVE DDLJ, DCH, Andaz Apna Apna, Lagaan, HDDCS...but look at this..the director kinda lost his way..he got it back towards the end..but *sigh*...n don't even get me started abt shitty hollywood movies..:p n btw..THAANKS!
@Aran : Something is definitely wrong with the comments. :| n no sistah not hav acumen. n no i'm NOT cute. :D
@hs : Sure, I shall GO WATCH THE MOVIE AGAIN!! but only wid u... :D >:D
27 Dec 2004, 11:36pm
Congrats dude!!!!!!
27 Dec 2004, 11:39pm
for the calls i.e. ahem.
28 Dec 2004, 4:28am
Of course you're cute. And I'm sad. Those two statemtns are unrelated.
28 Dec 2004, 6:51pm
Nabzz...Congrats totally accepted n all dat..wht else wud i have thot they were for? :D o:-) aap ka kya hua jii?
Aran. You be happy. Please. N u make related statements please. I ain't cute. I'm da Payne!! waaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!! somebody PLZ consider me non-cute!! :|
28 Dec 2004, 7:54pm
oiyee ! ok me thinks you are non-cute ..okay ?! happy ?! :-)
29 Dec 2004, 1:01am
totally yappy! :D :D
29 Dec 2004, 1:01am
totally yappy! :D :D
29 Dec 2004, 6:45am
I know Musafir got bad reviews but I am an Anil K fan, kya karoon? I grew up with Mr. India and all...Like the story and characters: watch it!
29 Dec 2004, 3:47pm
I'm humbled by your interest in what I write and thank you for all the kind words. If you are really interested then there is google of course to find me ;) And why pass each other by on the street and just smile? We could meet up..I'd love to meet you!