These Days... 12-Dec-2007

Nothing much these days... watched Dus Kahaniyaan yesterday! utter crap movie! don't waste ur time and money... yaar free me bhi mat dekhna! the only good thing abt the movie was that it ended in 2 hour.

Heroes season 2 was ended with just 11 episodes! watched back 2 back all episodes last weekend! its good, but too short for a season! they planned for 23 - 24 episodes, but due to writer's guild strike, they had to finish it half-way. the story was well planned and moving in good pace, but in episode 8 only it started shaping. too bad they had to end it in 11 only. hopefully the strike will finish and they can start volume 3 post winter.

Well, i did saw Rush Hour 3 on DVD couple of days back, and frankly, didn't like it much. it was ok to watch just for the hack of Jacky and Chris, but story and presentation lacks gripping. its Terminator 3 of the Rush Hour series.

Talking abt T3, i just heard that they are producing a TV series on T3 named The Sarah Connors Chronicles. its premiering in Jan 2008, lets see how it is. for a Sci-Fi fan like me, its good news, after Heroes, there are more.

Thats all abt these days, and yeah yesterday there was a shootout in one of the local school here. Now India is at par with US in at least one thing - shootout at school! my deepest sympathy with parents of all three kids, the one who died and the two who were involved. but i believe parents are responsible for this in many ways! i hv two kids, one boy of 9 yrs and one girl of 7 yrs. still they only watch cartoons or kids movie. i never let them see any serial or movies not meant for kids. but its sad that we don't hv such discipline in all the homes. parents watch crap on tv and let kids watch that along too. the violence we see on movies or news channels, is not appropriate for kids, but we let them watch, and see how they learn. kids are very fast learner, they learn a lot from watch tv, specially meaningless action movies and Wrestling where fight or bullet is the only way to settle score.

whatever has already been done can not be undone, so we can only offer our sympathy with the parents, but all other parents should take notice and start taking precautions abt this.

well, thats it for now..

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