Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

 I like the old Godzilla and King Kong movies for the VFX and SFX they used to have. When I collected DVDs I bought them to enjoy those effects on my Home Theater. However after some point of time we now have so many Godzilla, Kong movies it is not easy to distinguish one from the other. Same is the case with Marvel and DC movies as well.

My son is a fan of the Gen Z Kong, Godzilla movies and he can differentiate which scene is from which movie. To treat him with the experience of watching his heroes on big screen watched the latest movie on big screen in 3D.

The movie has a pretty straight forward story which we have seen in Tamil cinema since the days of MGR.

There is a bad monkey like Nambiar who tortures other monkeys and Kong comes to their rescue. There are even characters like Nagesh or Suruli both in animal and human characters. Top this story with some hollow earth scientific jargons and you have the movie ready.

I used to own a 3D TV with 3D blurays and used to analyse how good the 3D effect was in those movies. I didn't find the 3D to be very good in this movie except for some long shot scenes. Otherwise movie almost looks like a 2D movie.

Visually though the movie looks great. I realised it only after the movie was over. Not even once we think that these are not real monkeys or animals. We start to think they are real like human actors. That is the success of the VFX team.

All creatures keep growling at the drop of the hat. So be prepared for that.

A Simple Plan and Just Mercy

 

Past Lives

 

Men, Women & Children

 When we watch movies made across the world one thing that we realize is human emotions remains the same. We are flawed people always looking for ways to be better. We keep failing but we don't stop. Some do stop but they are exceptions.

Up in the Air by Jason Reitman is a movie which we can watch again and again. It captured the human emotions beautifully we can relate to all the characters. Now on the same lines Men, Women & Children is a movie based on realism where we see people who are trying to better but we fail for various reasons.

The intentions are good but the way it is expressed most of the time is not right and it causes so much pain. 

To escape from reality people try various avenues but none can give permanent peace of mind. We realize that only after the mistake. But important point is we realize. Does it mean we won't commit the mistake again? No we repeat the same mistakes. But the good part is always screaming within our head.

Sometimes the unanswered prayers or things we didn't get to buy or do are blessings in disguise.

MicroSD not detected

 I was playing using and all of a sudden the phone stopped detecting the music stored within the microsd card. Upon checking further the phone totally stopped recognizing the sd card altogether. The main problem in such situations is we do not know what we had stored in that card and what we are going to miss. This has happened a lot with portable hard disks and this was my first with a sd card.

I switched the card to another phone and even there the card was recognized. I tried another card in my phone and it got detected. When I tried the card using an adaptor in a PC it got detected.

Now without knowing what is causing the issue, I was confused about buying a new card. What if that card is also not detected?

Still I thought since it is anyway recognizing the other card, I went ahead and enquired the cost of a new microSD card with higher storage capacity. I noticed there is atleast 100 to 150 rs difference between what is shown online and a shop, that too the shop was considered to sell for cheap prices.

I came back and then did some search and since it was getting detected in PC, thought of formatting the card as suggested by few.

I unchecked the quick format option and it took almost 30 mins for a 64GB card to be formatted. I backed up the content before formatting.

After formatting inserted the card into mobile and "Voila ! It worked !!"

I still do not know what caused the problem but formatting fixed it.

Fireproof 2008

 I actually loved this movie. Everything was perfect. Yes there is religion in it and it plays an important part. It might put off some people but even if you keep that aside it makes a good movie. It was pleasant to see friendly supporting people all around. The movies also shows people who gossip/cheat so it does cover both sides of the coin but it does it nicely. The movie also shows it is not easy and we need to put in the effort to be good and there will be lot of things which will takes back to our old life. If we persevere that's when we see there is whole new life out there.

The world has always been selling there is nothing wrong in being promiscuous, lusting on something and it has materialized life. We are o used to that and feel everything is ok and nothing is wrong. But material things never brings happiness and sometimes it might be too late before we realize it.

We need more such movies which are pleasant to watch.

Gallipoli

 For the first 30 to 45 minutes I was wondering if I am watching the movie which I actually read about. Because the first half of the movie is not about war. You see the harsh and beautiful Australian outback and an athlete. Mel Gibson is introduced only after few minutes into the film and Mark Lee plays a more prominent role than Gibson.

The last 15 to 20 minutes the movie gets serious and we can actually feel the tension of war. The ending will definitely get through us. Many movies have captured the futility of war. Whoever wins humanity loses. It definitely gets to us when we think about so many innocent young men have lost their lives in the name of war which is more of ego battle between leaders. Even The Bible is full of wars.

It is proven again and again war will not solve problems but still we resort to war. While we as human have  lot of other challenges in front of us we ignore all that and choose to fight with each other.

The movie only stresses that point and it does that beautifully.