The Journey to Death..

I have heard a lot of people say these words

‘Everyone is going to die. It is the end to the journey called life. But the end does not matter, it is the journey that matters’

Now, I find this whole statement every weird.

What historical event would you attend if you were able to time travel?

Ages since I last blogged.. but this topic forced me to.

If I get a chance to time travel I would want to visit the time when Vincent Van Gogh cut off his ear and handed over to the prostitute.

Reason: I want to see the look on the face of the prostitute when one of her clients cuts off his ear and hands it over wrapped in a newspaper to keep it safe. Would be some sight.

or maybe I want to be on Mary Celeste to see what actually happens that makes the entire crew go missing.

Black Swan

Directed By: Darren Aronofsky

Story By: Andres Heinz

Cast: Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey

Nina Sayers is a talented ballet dancer with a reputed company. She is trying for the role of the Swan Queen – a role vacated by the outgoing Beth. While auditioning for the role, she is disturbed by the newcomer Lily and almost loses the role. She goes to Thomas to convince him but he tells her that the role has already been offered to Veronica. He tries to take advantage of her but she bites him ultimately ending up getting the role.

United – if it didn’t make you cry, you don’t love Manchester United

Anything related to Manchester United is bound to create an interest in me and if it is something related to the crash of Munich, you bet I am interested. United is a television series on that crash which was aired by BBC.

United is the story of 1957/58 Manchester United team and focuses primarily on Sir Bobby Charlton and assistant coach Jimmy Murphy. Sir Bobby is trying to breakthrough into the United team which is full of players of the highest caliber. He constantly keeps asking Jimmy about his chances to play in the first team. When he is finally given a chance, he is delighted.

Kung Fu Panda 2

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Directed By: Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Story By: Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger

Cast: Jack Black, Angelina Jolie

After the success of Kung Fu Panda, there was no way I was going to miss it. And that decision is purely based on the Po character – Panda basically since he is just so damn cute.

Po is living his life as the Dragon Warrior and continuing his training with Master Shifu. But his training is interrupted by an attack of Wolves on the village. Po and other try to fight them but Po loses focus when he sees a symbol on one of the wolves which reminds him of memories of his mother. Po asks his father about his mother but all the goose could tell him is that he found Po in a crate and took care of his ever since.

Thor

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Directed By: Kenneth Branagh

Story By: J. Michael Straczynski and Mark Protosevich

Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins, Stellan Skarsgård

I always have this confusion whether to consider Thor a superhero or a God – more because I never believed in God. But does it matter? I guess not.

Thor is the son of Odin who is the king of Asgard. Odin defeated the Frost Giants of Jotunheim to prevent them from conquering Earth (which supposedly is one of the realms). Odin takes away their power source and keeps it inside Asgard guarded. As Odin is growing old, he expects one of his sons -Thor or Loki – to take over from him as the king of Asgard. When Frost Giants try to steal their power source back, Thor travels to Jotunheim to confront them against his father;s wishes. As a result, Odin strips him of his powers and exiles him back to Earth along with his hammer which is now protected with a spell as to only the worthy would be able to hold it.

Tanu Weds Manu

Directed By: Anand L. Rai

Written By: Himanshu Sharma

Cast: R. Madhavan, Kangana Ranaut, Jimmy Shergill

I like Kangana Ranuat. I liked her in many movies but even then there was nothign about this movie that made me want to watch it. The only reason I watched this movie was because it was avaialble for free on Dish TV and I did not have much to do on one of those days.

The movie is about a doctor, Manu who has returned from somewhere outside India (I think London) and coz of his parents is going around seeing girls for marriage. He lands up at Tanu’s house and falls in love with her on first sight. Tanu incidentaly doesn’t even see Manu since she is totally knocked out due to her Vodka shots. The marriage is finalized and both parties decide to go to Vaishno Devi before the two get engaged. On the train Tanu shows her true self asking Manu to refuse the marriage since she has a boyfriend and she wants to marry him.

The Social Network

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Directed by: David Fincher

Screenplay: AaronSorkin

Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake

Anything related to Facebook is going to spike up interest and if its a movie related to Facebook, all the more reason to watch it. Social Network is the story of Facebook – how it was created, who all created it, who were the friends, who were the enemies and what was the cost involved and not just in monetary terms.

Mark Zuckerburg is a Harvard University student who just got dumped by Erica Albright. Mark gets drunk and writes a damaging blog entry about her and gets an idea about a website which would rate attractiveness of females among compared to each other. He creates a site called FaceMash using his friend Eduardo’s algorithm which ranks chess players. The website gets so many hits that it brings down the Harvard network and Mark receives 6 months of academic probation as a result.

Never ever write Manchester United off

That is a big statement to make. Very big. But this statement cannot be made for any other team in the premier league but Manchester United. The game against Bolton proved it once again. Down to 10 men. Not playing the best game of football. Probably deserved to be behind. 1 point would have been good enough from the game based on performance. But we got 3 points. We got the win. The determination and the will to win tells you what Manchester United are made of.

Manchester United 2-1 Marseille

0-0 result from the away leg is always a tough score line to take home considering that a scored draw can throw you out of the competition. And as is the case with Manchester United, there is always that belief that we can get the job done. And the same happened against Marseille, we did the job with a 2-1 victory to take us through to the next round of the Champions League. Let us look at some of the talking points from the game: