Sunday, June 22, 2008

Indiana Jones in new avatar !!

Once was the president of USA. Then was a great father..Then was a heart throb. Now its the turn of professor...err..Adventurer...Wondering what or whom was I talking about? Its none other than Harrison Ford. And the movie which I saw today was Indiana Jones and the kingdom of great skull!!

The movie was set in a tome which is trademark of Spielberg. Who would do screenplay and directions of 50's set in 2008 better than him? This guy has a real talent and is true to be in the bigger league of directors..

I don't remember at what age I saw the last version of the film. Either the story I could recollect. But this ver was real example of tech and history meeting ends.

The story goes this way..Ford was a professor Mr. Jones but the real name was Professor. Henry. He was captured KGB(No wonder russians were at cold war with US in 50s) psychiatric doctor villain played by Kate blanchett. I don't put my money on the role of blanchett playing negative role. But she did justice to it. positive roles is the best for her. They captured jones and wanted to know the secret of the corpse inside box which was stored for years in a military godown. I had my laugh when it was shown that the 'crystal skull' had huge 'magnetic powers'. What int he hell would make a crystal skull to have such powers? ..Hollywood is the place where creativity in nonsense rules More than the reality in acceptance. But we still watch them for the urge to know how well they go 'out of the ordinary'.

Ok..coming back to movie,they wanted ford to lead them to the place of 'city of gold'. Is it a reality that "ELDORADO' exists? It doesn't matter to me whether its there or not but I liked the disney ver of "Road to eldorado". To my view ANIMATION STILL RULES!! As usual ford escapes and runs. Then how would the movie lasts 1hr and 45 mts? He meets his son (which he doesn't know) in the run. they team up and stumble on the idea of legend of city of gold. they unravel the riddle with ease (ford is a hero man!!)..He utters some dialogues saying "God can only read from top as they are above all of us!!! (I can recollect the translated ver of it from Indian Tamil superstar Rajnikanth) they travel to peru and again meet the villain. He meets his pal who had become nut and meets his wife!! (what a scenario). They all go to the city of gold to return the skull..The logic being whoever returns the skull will attain all the powers. Hence all wanted to have it. Great racing scenes, fighting in age old jeeps with modern weapons(whats happening) Tribes arrive and they escape..One thing i found baffled is flesh eating ants move away from so called 'magnetic skull' but eat the villains!!

The most interesting is the climax which really amazed me!! I think Spielberg got spoiled by Night J who gives surprises in the end..

Iam not going to give away the climax..Its left to stakeholders to watch the "legend in technology" movie and 'understand it'!!

Ferrari 1-2..Rules magny cours!!

Destiny has the final say in all life moments..But luck had a laugh at it at magny cours!! Who would have thought mclaren get penalty for both cars? Lewis was down 10 places and Heiki was down the grid!!

Great qualifying by both ferrari stalwarts!! Kimi was especially too good but Felipe was not left out either!!! Scarlets rules magny cours for years together!! Schumacher was the king winning it in 3 continuous occasions. Other team to win at this circuit was Williams and Renault!!

The race day was no different at circuit which is play ground for scarlet. Kimi and felipe started in style!! 2 horses were galloping without any trouble till 35 laps. Mclaren fans had heart attack and scarlets were relishing when drive through penalty was imposed on lewis for missing a kerb. To my view it was little harsh but rules are rules right!!

Kimi fans( including me who is die hard) had troublesome moments when his horse was slowing with exhaust pipe loosened risking the engine itself.Engineers could not do anything during 2nd pits. As destiny has it, kimi was able to get great lead time and could afford to gallop slowly with felipe racing ahead to numero uno.

Felipe raced to his 8th podium and kimi could able to finish 2nd. The good thing is that lewis couldn't able to get any points and robert had less points to him. Lastly, trulli for toyota had a dream race to hold robert and heiki for a well fought 3rd place which was really great driving for the veteran who is driving the slow car and holding much faster car behind.

It was a great race for Scarlets and happy moments for "anything would do for scuderia" fans like me!!!

Friday, June 20, 2008

Deutscher into last 4 !!!

Commitment!! Determination !! Teamwork!!! And of course Luck was with Germany to steer them into the Last 4 of EURO 2K8....

They were favorites at the start of the innings..Started in style against Poland..But mistakes happened against the match with croatia.. Mistakes happen in life and people go heavenly when they learn from mistakes..Germans did the same and came back with 1-0 against Austria.

Last 8 match with portugal was the best one. It was high voltage match and was in fast forward mode with 3 goals for germany and 1 for portugal in first half. It was oscillating one and portugese came back again. It was anxious and heart stopping moments for german fans. But they held ports till 90th minute.

Now into last 4 and have to compete with best team, its a real challenge and live up to betting odds.

It will be celebrations on german soil and for me in India if they go into finals!!!

Praying and Hoping to see deutscher in the FINALS!!

Monday, June 16, 2008