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Weather had been freezing-ly mean.
No anticipated movies out anytime soon.
I don’t have the slightest sense of urgency for my projects.

Anyway, caught these 2 earlier last week.

I went in expecting pretty much from ‘Paranormal Activity’ since the movie received extremely well reviews and recognition. No doubt there were a few scenes which got me covering my eyes and the friend next to me to “Aiyo!!!” loudly in the almost empty theatre, but have to say, it was definitely an over-hyped horror film. Acting/Plot wasn’t that bad but neither was it good. They said “Nightmares are guaranteed.” but I’m hardly even affected. One good thing I’ve learned from Paranormal? Don’t be so egoistic.

Another movie I was looking forward to. Since it was director Roland Emmerich’s last catastrophe film, and about the ‘rumored’ 2012, I kinda expect the best actors for the roles, mind blowing CGI, intense, dramatic, over-the-top, ultimate destruction…but I felt the delivery was extremely unconvincing. It was just plain screaming, stretched-scared facial expressions, loud voices and some tears. This is the “one-man-hero” kind of movie where the lead actor miraculously escaped death not once, not twice, not thrice, lost count!, in every possible disastrous scene, making it look predictable. Wasted precious minutes showing two absurd people who had just lost their fathers, falling in love with each other, exchanging cheesy goofy flirting lines. Not impactful for the end-of-the-world movie!

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