Woah ! Headrush ...

Phew ...
Finally ... some time to get back to blogging ...

The past few days had been over the head ... hectic ...
Race against time and all the yada yada ... to complete this CD Magazine that our college is coming out with ...
Shouldnt be counting the chickens before they hatch ... but have finished about 80 - 90% of the stuff ... demo-ed it to the teachers and a selected few friends and the reviews have been pretty good ... and best of all ... no changes whatsoever ...
The most difficult part about any project ( esp graphics designing ) is to get everybody to be happy ...

Also, was busy with this Inter Collegiate event, which, I am happy to announce went off much more smoothly than I had expected ...
So much, that our delighted H-O-D complied with our request and declared Monday to be a Holiday for the entire Comp Dept.
Woohoo :)

Today, caught the morning show of 'The Aviator' at INOX ...
This is the first movie in which ... I have felt nothing about the movie ... during the entire course of the film and even afterwards ...
Maybe it was the front - row seats that we ended up in ... or the very rare Housefull at INOX ... I don't know ...
But the movie just started, got over and I was there ... three hours later ... and felt nothing.

I will have to agree that the movie is awesome-ly made ... and that Caprio didnt even let me feel for one moment, that he was acting ...
The USA of 1930 - 1950 has been recreated nicely ... with all the aristocricies and the likes ... but the movie doesn't tell much about Howard Hughes, other than his strong liking for making expensive movies and planes.

"A Beautiful Mind", according to me, was a much better biography by far ... and was more satisfying ...

The Aviator just covers some 20 years of Howard Hughes' life ( from his twenties to his fourties ) which leaves us with no head or tail ... really ...
Its just a sequence of events one after the other ...

But at the same time, I must admit, that there isn't one boring moment during the entire three hours and I never felt the movie dragging ...

The movie has got a very impressive cast with Kate Blanchett and Kate Beckinsale and lots of other stars who have done justice to their character ...

I especially like Kate Blanchett's portrayal of Katharine Hepburn.

Ending this, want to make a strong protest against the cutting of film done at theatre - level ... where all these theatres cut around 10 - 20 minutes from each movie just so that they can get an extra show in ...
Damn SOBs ...

Anyways ... we were totally lost in seeing Beckinsale's character ... as she just appears abruptly out of no where in the film ... no introduction ... nothing ...
This, I feel was definitely cut in addition to 3 dialogues which were very very visible cut in the course of the film ...