Sunil Bhanot

Mr. & Mrs. Smith, you can watch it once in the theatre, but you can also opt watching it just on DVD. The first hour and fifteen minutes of the movie were good. I think they should have ended it right there. The next 30 mins was a DRAG. Angelina Jolie is HOT, period. Brad Pitt has done a decent job.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith are inividual contract killers, but they don’t know about each other’s profession. Their married life is dragging now, but things pick up when they both get the same assignment. Now its Mr. Smith against Mrs. Smith. Its like a husband-wife domestic fight, only more violent. With Guns and Gadgets. The Guns and Gadgets really got me. Great action. As the movie proceeds the plot just twists even more and the consequences force the Smiths to work together. But will they be able to do that. I don’t wanna give it away, watch it to know more.
One observation though. Somehow I felt they always ended up showing the wife being more smart than the husband. Arggghhh.
Anyways decent movie, good for a one time watch.

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Saturday afternoon, I came back home from the bank around 1.30pm, fixed myself a cold glass of mango juice and switched on my laptop to get some work done. I went online to check Russell Peter’s show timings and ticket costs on ticketmaster.com. Its summer, we normally never need the AC, but since I was working on a Saturday I rewarded myself with some cool breeze from my AC. Hunger struck me all of a sudden. I got up to get myself some lunch and remembered I had some fried rice and spring roll from the previous night. I love that combination. So I kept it in the microwave to heat it for a minute. Meanwhile I switched on the TV and watched some documentary while waiting for the food to get heated. Then I realized I had to check directions to an address in Long Beach “Light House” cafe. So not caring about the documentary and the food being heated I rushed to my room from the hall and opened the IE Browser to go to http://maps.yahoo.com . It opened. Then when I put in the address and clicked ‘Next’, it said “page cannot be found”. OK. So I went back and tried it again. Again the same thing. WTF Mate. Then I looked down to the right side bottom of my screen, “Trying to acquire IP address”.Hmm…
So I Repaired my Wireless Connection by clicking REPAIR option in the menu for the WireLess Network Connection (thats what usually solves it). No effect. Same problem. Network connection dropped and came back in second, only to drop the next second. Now I tried to guess that the problem might be with the router. That is usually the second Plan Of Action, if your wireless keeps dropping on you. So I restarted my cable modem and restarted my router (this is also called POWERCYCLING). No change to status of the error. Same thing again. Hmm.. now I dont really have much faith left in my 2 year old Toshiba laptop after it already visited the Repair shop twice, (once for the hard disk and once for the LCD screen). I was starting to think it had developed a liking for the people there and wanted to keep visiting them, not realizing that her visit there was getting expensive for me. So I doubted my laptop’s wireless card’s integrity. And so I tried to connect to my neighbour’s wireless (evil thing to do), but I just wanted to be sure that it wasnt my laptop again. Voila…it connected. Thank God and it didn’t drop. But I couldn’t go to any sites, signal was too low, so I still wasn’t convinced that my laptop’s wireless card was doing fine. So I started up my Dell laptop. Hmm…Hmm…Hmm… WTF Mate. Same problem. Did this one want to visit the service station too. No that can’t be, it was too new to be TRUE. Then I went to my room mate’s laptop, it worked FINE. Maybe a superior Model than mine.
My food was long heated up and my microwave kept crying all this time with a BEEP, “PLEASE TAKE OUT URE FOOD - I HEATED IT DAMN IT”.
I then went to the router configuration from my room mate’s laptop, http://192.168.1.1….tried a couple of password combinations, as we had changed it so many times that I didn’t remember which one it was. Everything looked fine there. I was getting really frustrated, so I called my room mate, told him the problem and tried to blame him for any uninformed changes he had made and so my laptop wasn’t working. He said he hadn’t changed a thing.
And so I got even more nervous about my laptop. I can’t afford another service center trip for my laptop. It would be the third in 5 months. My other electronic devices would feel neglected and WHAT IF THEY START MALFUNCTIONING TOO JUST TO GET MY ATTENTION.
I did the following steps 17 times approximately:
dim counter : counter = 0
Do While NOT (Wireless Connection is Stable)
1. Renenable Wireless Card.
2. Restart Machine.
3. PowerCycle Cable Modem and Router.
counter = counter + 1
Loop
Final Result : No Change.
Oh and by the way all this while the microwave still kept yelling !
Doing all this on a summer afternoon one would imagine the amount I must be sweating. But to my surprise as much as yours I wasn’t.
Why cos the AC was on Dummy ! Pay attention to the details in the blog. Pay attention to….
Hmm…so what was so different since morning that screwed my wireless, couldn’t be the router and I could’t have two deffected machines sitting together, too much for the Laws of Probability to handle. Think… Think… and now it is kind of getting cold, must turn off the AC, the AC……..THE AC.
Thats it thats whats different……….THE AC - SWITCH OFF.
That was INDEED it.
ALAS - My Wireless Internet Connection worked. Finally some peace of mind!!
Moral of the above story : THE AC WAS INTERFERING WITH MY WIRELESS CONNECTION.
I Just Had To BLOG THIS.
Now to stop my microwave from beeping and to go and eat some lunch.

Fantastic start to what I expect would be another great series. And why not, after all its “BatMan Begins”.
For the first time it felt that Batman is really human. He wasn’t just born a super hero. He transformed into one. Christian Bale has done a great job potraying himself as both Batman and Bruce Wayne.
He has been well supported by Michael Caine (Alfred) and Katie Holmes (his childhood friend in the movie).
So it all starts with Bruce trying to run away from his fear of Bats and the murder of his parents. He ends up in a jail in an Asian country. There he is picked up by an extremists group that is trying to destroy Gothom and put an end to all the crime there. They train Bruce for combat and help him overcome his fears. But Bruce soon realizes that these people just want to destroy Gothom and not the crime in there. What happens after that is a transformation of an ordinary man to BatMan. Will Bruce save Gothom or will he join the extremists to destroy it.
Watch it to find out more.
Towards the end there have been clear indications that there is more to follow this movie as a part of the series; OR was this a prequel to the previous BatMan movies just to complete the series, like Star Wars or the Hannibal series? Its kind of becoming a trend now, isn’t it. Well we’ll never know till they decide to remake the previous Batman movies again or they DON’T.
I’ll be waiting eagerly for them if they do come out…cos I think they will be as good as this one was.
My 10/10 for this one.
Don’t miss it!!

It is the story of James J. Braddock. He earned his nick, the Cinderella Man, because of his fairytale like rise from a poor local fighter to the heavyweight boxing champion of the world. Russell Crowe plays the role of the boxer, James, and Renée Zellweger his wife. This story is from the period of ‘The Great Depression’ that hit America in the early 30’s.
It is the story of this boxing legend, of how he fights back after being down and out for a long time, but he never gives up only so his family can survive. One of the best comeback stories in the history of Boxing.
This is going to be one of my favorite movies, hats of to the wonderful direction by Ron Howard, and fantastic acting by Russell Crowe and Renée Zellweger.
Something pretty close to Beautiful Mind. Great movie to catch in the theatres.
You can read more about Jimmy at : http://www.jamesjbraddock.com/

All you ‘convicts’ who love FootBall….this is the movie you MUST watch. I saw this on a weekday to refresh myself during the week and boy it did a great job.
Its about this X-QuarterBack (Adam Sandler) who has been expelled from NFL for throwing away a game. He is now with his girlfriend (Courtney Cox - Monica from Friends) who treats him like she owns him. Sandler gets arrested for DUI, wrecking his girlfriend’s car after getting all drunk and is taken to a prison in Texas where he has to prepare a football team of convicts to play the guards.
A challenge for him to get the convicts to play, he gives them a motivation…they get to beat up and get back at the guards during the game. The toughest convicts team up for one objective - BEAT UP THE GUARDS. I couldn’t believe the size of some of them, they were huge. He prepares the team for the game along with Chris Rock and Burt Reynolds. Chris Rock is hilarious. Will the team beat the guards or will they be let down by Adam Sandler who threw away a game for his team 7 years ago.
To find out what happens Go Watch . . . THE LONGEST YARD.

Funny and light animated entertainment. Its about these animals in the NY zoo who have never seen the outside world and when they do they realize how tough it is out there. The movie has a Zebra (v.o. Chris Rock), a Lion, a Hippo, a Giraffe and last but not the least the evil penguins. The Zebra is very enthusiastic about seeing the world, the lion is happy where he is as he is the most popular in that zoo and the giraffe(v.o. David Schwimmer - Ross from Friends) is a health freak. The best line in the movie that I really liked was when this squirrel (who claims himself to be the king of a small group of animals) tries to be cool and says, “See You Later Crocodile” instead of “See You Later Aligator”.
I came across families in the theatre who had already seen the movie 2 or 3 times. That was a bit annoying because the kids would repeat the dialogues, some of them would laugh before the funny scenes making the scenes no longer funny….and some of the mom’s were equal to the task.
But as a whole its a good family movie. Go Watch It.
….”I Like To Move It Move It….I Like To Move It Move It….I Like To Move It Move It….I Like To…Move It” — You’ll know what I am talking about once you see the movie.