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Favorite decade for music: 1980s
Favorite sitcoms: Seinfeld, Frasier, King of Queens, All in the Family, Mr. Bean, Keeping Up Appearances
Favorite drama shows: Law and Order (and respective spin-offs)
Favorite Reality Show: The Apprentice
Favorite cartoons: Bugs Bunny, Simpsons, South Park
Favorite movies by deacade-
1970s: Animal House, Rocky, The Jerk, Sleeper, Annie Hall, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
1980s: Back to the Future 1 & 2, Trading Places, Coming to America, The Secret of My Success
1990s: South Park Movie
2000: Meet the Parents
Reviews
Så var det jul igjen (2023)
A few modern Christmas favorite for me
As an Indian American, I decided to watch this, since there aren't essentially any other Christmas movies with an Indian protagonist. Although I'm not married or in a relationship right now, I found it to be a very relatable movie. I have ended up watching the movie over 50 times already. I've never been to Norway, and this movie makes me want to visit. It was fun to watch some of the possible Norwegian Christmas customs. (I have traveled next door to Sweden, another Scandinavian nation, and I found the people to be so nice.) The airport scene at the end is a great nod to Love Actually, another modern Christmas classic that I love. Overall I found that it was like watching a modern day Christmas version of "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner."
I know a lot of people are bashing the movie, but I found nothing wrong with the movie. Overall I found that it was like watching a modern day Christmas version of "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner."
French in Action (1987)
Closed Captioning would be useful on such a show
I used to dabble with French when I was a kid, and I do have an interest in foreign languages. I used to love to watch this show.
However what happened later on was I took Latin (dead lagnuage) in high school and then German (a spoken language) in college.
I made an easy adjustment to German, and my instructors think I am one of the best. In fact one of them wrote me a reference letter. The only negative thing they was my listening comprehension needed some work. I noticed that part of the problem was the fact that if I heard a new word, I needed to see the word written out once so I could have it photgraphically imprinted in my head. I have seen a German language show with the similar method as this show, but it had closed captioning, so I had no trouble learning new words and understanding what they were saying.
Mississippi Masala (1991)
A true depiction of Indians in America.
This movie showed one thing that is totally true about many Indians in America (I don't know about England). Many Indians who immigrate to this country start acting and behaving like they are white. Sometimes they forget that they are not even white (I am guilty of that sometimes too, probably even more because I grew up here). Denzel Washington points that out to Roshan Seth very well in this movie. "You are no more than a few shades from my complexion." And then Jammu point out to Anil how he has started to act American (probably means white American), and Anil says, "So what? I'm living in America! You don't like it? Go back to India!"
Overall, it's a really good movie. I like it even more than "Monsoon Wedding," and I feel this movie was very underrated. My seventh grade teacher recommended this movie a long time ago (actually a few mos. after I saw it myself.) I myself have been recommending it to some of my non-Indian college friends who have seen Monsoon Wedding.
Ittefaq (1969)
Major reason i loved this movie
I loved this movie...there were no songs, so you could just focus on the plot. Who needs song anyway, especially when they are not used in context of the plot and waste 1/3 of the movie time? It's a mystery about who killed who. Dilip Rai (Rajesh Khanna) has been accused of his wife's murder, when all he did was throw her across a room. So he flees into the home of Rekha, who has a secret of her own, she with the help of a corrupt cop has killed her husband Jagmohan. Now she has plans to set up an alibi and tried to pin the murder on Dilip. Will Dilip be able to prove his innocence for both murders? I cannot emphasize it enough, I loved the fact that this movie had no songs. This makes the suspense even greater.
Trishul (1978)
The translation is horrible on the DVD(message to non-Hindi speakers)
I don't speak or understand Hindi (though I'm contemplating teaching myself), so I was glad to know that the the DVD came with English subtitles. However, when I watched the DVD, I realized that the translation was so sloppy. The subtitles do not read complete sentences. Further more, there is a huge period in the movie, where there are no subtitles at all!!! I thought that I'd have to call up one of my cousins to listen and translate the movie for me.
I had not seen such sloppy translation since I watched an old video of Marlene Dietirch's "The Blue Angel/Der Blaue Engel". Only in that case I was learning German, so I was not so annoyed.
However, the movie shows how versatile Sanjeev Kumar was as an actor. First you see him playing a jolly, romantic, caring man. He even wanted to help Shanti after learning about her preganancy. Then when he gets older, we see him playing a temperamental jerk, and the contrast is shown so well. The movie showed that he was good at playing both good people and villains.
I thought the ending was beautiful. Although Raj dies, we realize that he is still a good person, who decided to take a bullet for Vijay and die so that he will not ruin the developing relation between Vijay and his half-siblings. It was sweet at the end, when Vijay renames his company Shanti Raj Constructions...sign that he eventually forgave Raj.
Switch (1991)
awesome movie
It was a cool movie. A man has to get a woman to like him as a person. To make sure he does not cheat the devil tell the gods to make him a woman, so that the sex part does not get in the way. The movie shows that the attitudes of both women and men stink when it somes to sex. As Frasier Crane put it, sex is what men want. Women use sex to get what they want. JoBeth Williams for example has just as bad an attitude about sex as Steve/Amanda. When she is walking down the street in a fur coat, one would-be animal activist cries "Do you know how many animals were killed to make that coat?" and JoBeth replies, "Do you know how many rich men I had to f**k to get this coat?" Women use sex also to their advantage.
Steve/Amanda was not really a bad person. When he died the first time, the Gods told him that he had already earned enough credits to get into heaven. Only he had to find a woman who truly liked him as a person. I think the Gods knew Steve was trying, and they gave her a true test by not only making her pregnant, but having one of Jim's X-chromosome sperm cells fertilize the egg. The gods were trying to show steve that, forget the adult women. He could be a good parental figure to a young girl. Finally when the baby was born, she took an instant liking to Steve, and he died again (i.e. got accepted to heaven).
I may be just speculating, but when JoBeth, other two killers, Tea Leoni, etc die, they will be burning in hell right away. I wish they wrote a sequel where Steve/Amanda came back...but it'd be too much like Chances Are.
Garfield: The Movie (2004)
Don't Waste your Money on this film
Everything about this movie is so not like the cartoon. Liz actually has immediate feelings for Jon? Give me a break. Jon is a person who has trouble with women. Like Frasier Crane said about himself in terms of love and relationships, "Cupid and his arrow has declared Jon an endangered species."
Liz is supposed have more of a wry, sarcastic attitude...like Janeane Garofolo.
Garfield...His lips are not supposed to move when he talks. Also, he seems friendlier with Nermal, although he still take advantage of him. How come he did not threaten to send him to Abu Dhabi? And how come nermal does not declare himself the world's cutest kitty cat? And how come his voice is not at least effeminate? And why does not he wake up Garfield in such a way that Garfield goes flying to the ceiling (i.e. "HEY GARFIELD!!!").
Also, when Garfield eats in the movie, he does not open his mouth as wide as an LP record before shoving the food in his mouth.
Odie...he does not drool. At least he still chases his own tail.
Arleen should have been CGI, since she is lavender in the cartoon.
And Floyd the mouse...why the hell is he named Louis in the movie???
The Paper Chase (1973)
Best Close up of Life in Academia
This movei shows how hard people really work everyday in college or postgraduate school to make something of themselves. I went to University of Michigan, and I saw how hard people were really working to make the grade. Watching the film made me rememeber a lot of the stress I went through, even rememebring times I wanted to leave, because I had trouble with the exams or having arrogant jackass profs. I'm now in graduate school here at Rochester, and I am trying very hard to make the grade and establish myself as a chemist. I may not have gone to Harvard, but what you see in the paper chase, you can see at most renowned academic institutions.
Watching Paper Chase now reminds me of how hard i need to work to succeed in grad school...and also how getting a girlfriend can wait.