Movies I Hunt For.

Movies are for me the most efficient way of conveying a story to a living being provided the language isn’t an issue. There are people who prefer books but that’s only because they are confused by what is more complete (a book) and what is more conceivable (an audio-visual presentation: MOVIES).

Now coming to the point of this little piece of text- Movies that I hunt for. The title has been fixed keeping a lot of things in mind. I mean it could have been “Movies I like/love/enjoy” etc. But that would have been delusional following the fact that I am capable of liking/loving/enjoying a good movie and that a good movie is not bound by a genre. For instance I am shaken by a film with horror (Sinister). I am compelled to watch a movie of seductive nature (Wild Things). I eagerly await any element of surprise in a story (Da Vinci Code). I envy beauty turned into promising romance (The Notebook). I wish a heroic touch to all my real life endeavors (All Super Hero stuff but particularly Batman). But these are movies that I see either due to recommendations or just for the sake of watching one. I most definitely not hunt for these in people’s hard drives and computers.

A young boy/man who is not typically attractive or doesn’t put up that sort of an image. Someone who is passionate about unpopular things or is constrained by discipline and complexes of increasing complexities. Someone you might say is not mainstream hero material. My perfect movie features that sort of a guy. If you’d have paid little attention, you should’ve guessed it. I want myself to be the guy (not entirely what I want though).

Now this hero of ours needs a life. I like all the odds stacked against him. And between his struggles to fight them all, someone needs to observe his goodness and ability to stay immune from things. This someone needs to fall quickly and firmly for our hero without him even trying (I know I am reaching). And hopefully this someone be of opposite gender and optimally be stunning! This little romance sequence hits me the most for reasons that I don’t like to admit or share.

A comical touch to proceedings is welcomed. A light toned movie where nothing of great importance such as the whole universe or even worse- someone’s life is at stake (watch Bad Words and you’ll know what I mean). I am not fan of the hero being victorious at everything he tries. More insult he has to face, more I am with him taking a pledge to someday show the world what we are made of. And finally, sacrificing for others fills me with a satisfaction.

Don’t think I want all this for myself. I am too self-conscious for it. This is just all I want in a movie.

Dan in real life: the movie I enjoyed the most so far in my short and ignorant life.

  

The Big Bang Theory VS How I Met Your Mother

TBBT and HIMYM are two such shows which entertain the audience in a way that they start feeling special about their own lives.

What I mean to say is that when we watch these shows, we somehow manage to relate ourselves or otherwise dream of being a part of the lives of the characters of the show. I am not saying that characters in these shows have an ideal life. What I meant is that these shows work around groups of friends. And that is universally appealing to all.

I am going to compare these shows from my point of view but I've got to admit that there is a hell of a lot of similarities between the two, the biggest similarity being the core of both the shows- A small little social group bound strongly together.

In TBBT, we have a group of braniacs and a glamorous waitress, living their lives as they want to and hence producing hillarious situations. While in HIMYM, we have a perfectly normal group of people with no one being a genius- having very complex or unfortunate love lives (except for one couple). As mentioned above- TBBT creates comedy out of the uniqueness of lives that the main characters live. HIMYM on the other side builds up multidimensional emotional relationships between the characters through an immensly long storyline which in general is comical and hilarious but is balanced by little emotional touches here and there.

The story of HIMYM is nested around, while TBBT has a much more free strategy. The funny thing is that although HIMYM focusses on its story more that TBBT and that HIMYM has more episodes than TBBT, yet TBBT has come further ahead in the lives of it characters.

This only proves one point that irrespective of how enteraining HIMYM is, its storyline is ellaborated way too much and hence it has diluted the quality of the show to a considerable extent.

On the other hand despite TBBT being more funny and smart than HIMYM, it has not developed a deep enough emotional connection between the characters and the highly loyal fans of the show.

Despite pointing out the little pieces of weaknesses in both of the show it is important for me to say that both these shows are great and does what they are made to do very well, which is to cheer the audiences up and make their real lives a little more lively and enjoyble by entertaining them through cycles of emotions, romance, comedy and most importantly FRIENDSHIP.

Time for the verdict- Unlike many other great entities on the television, these two shows provide quality as well as quantity. But TBBT for me is better for being slimmer and smarter than HIMYM.

Whats Next for the Undertaker

The Undertaker- The dead man is in a true sense, the most grandest property that the WWE has today. He may not be active any more but still every WWE fan dreams of the lights going off and that signature music playing marking the presence of the most intimidating but yet loved character of the wrestling fraternity.

From the last 3-4 years, the Undertaker has only made appearances around Wrestle-mania to protecting his streak of being undefeated in every wrestle-mania he has been in. This year also, chances are very high that the Undertaker will give, which is likely to be his last performance for the WWE at Wrestle-mania 30 .

Obviously the occasion is grand so must be the opponent for the undertaker. Here the WWE can take two paths. One, they can have the same old concept of the Undertaker defeating yet another bad guy, who otherwise is unbeatable. To fulfill this path , there is only one option- Brock Lesner.

Or they can try and give a big send off for the Undertaker by letting him face the top superstar in the company- John Cena.

Both the scenarios are equally great. But for obvious reasons, a Lesner match will be more electrifying than a Cena match.

So there are very high chances of us seeing the Undertaker facing off against the beast Brock Lesner & more importantly Beating him (or maybe loosing?)

Sherlock vs Breaking Bad

Comparing Breaking Bad and Sherlock is far more difficult than comparing the lead characters of the two great shows. Sherlock Holmes of Sherlock is cleverer, smarter and simply put better than Walter White of Breaking Bad. But as I said, comparing the two shows is harder than comparing these two characters. This could only mean one thing that when you compare the rest part of these shows, the competition is really tough. Even one sided.

Breaking Bad

Sherlock

I've watched both of these shows completely. While Breaking Bad is clinically addictive, Sherlock is insanely awesome. It is absolutely right to say that Breaking Bad is way closer to reality than Sherlock, but why be close to reality when it is just a television show. The flow of story in Breaking Bad is better than Sherlock, Sherlock's stories does not need to connect with each other in continuity while Breaking Bad offers a flawless portrayal of person turning really-really bad. Sherlock focuses on its characters and the story revolves around them as the show takes many twists and turns making the hero win in all cases. On the other hand, the story of Breaking Bad governs the fate of the likability and importance of the characters. The hero of the show isn't always the one with which the audiences are. As is the name of the show, the lead character Walter White, turns really BAD, and by bad I mean you will hate what he does as the story opens up. Sherlock Holmes on the other hand being all bad ass and everything, is loved continuously and admired immensely by the audience.  

In short, Breaking Bad is like the main course of food which is complete and satisfying and Sherlock is like the desert in the end of a meal that leaves you shocked and thrilled. Breaking Bad being the main course generally goes with its considerable effect and yet unnoticed but the desert- Sherlock, gives you the time of your life and appeals you see it again and again as you are never quite satisfied.

My verdict- Breaking Bad is basically better than Sherlock because it doesn't uses the liberty of being a fiction by laughing at the face of reality and brings more to the table. In any case both shows are great .

How did Moriarity faked his death

For two years, those who were Sherlock-ed spent their most valuable time and filled up most of the memory space of their non existent and yet most desired mind palaces with theories of how Sherlock survived the fall. The makers of the show have done the most brutal things by not revealing how it was done but further depicting that something even more difficult and closer to the impossible happened at that same roof top . 

Jim Moriarty, the consulting criminal who shot his head off in front of Sherlock, returns. He is alive, going by the fact that nothing could be more awesome than him being alive. 

We thought for more than two years that Sherlock have beaten Moriarty, Hell he even beat death. But only to know that beating death is easier than beating Moriarty. We were forced to believe that neither of these two beautiful characters could bear an unfinished melody and hence were ready to kill themselves just to solve their final problem, but they were as they always have been, one step ahead of the audiences. 

Both of them must have figured out all the possible out comes that could transpire on the roof top of the hospital and had plans covering each aspect. But both of them underestimated (intentionally or unintentionally) each other and ignored the probability of the other one guessing their plan and arranging a defense for it. What I mean to say is that when Moriarty shot himself in the head, he must have thought that he leaves Sherlock with no choice but to commit suicide . But he didn't anticipated that Sherlock might also have imagined this scenario and must have had some counter for this too. The same thing goes with Sherlock, he also didn't anticipated that Moriarty can also fake his death and come back later on to finish the game. In any case, one has to admit that Moriarty's fake of death is better than Sherlock's. 

So now let me discus my theory of  " how he survived ?" 

Just to remind you all that throughout the episode, the Reinchenbach fall, people who shaked Sherlock's hands got shot . 

Remember those assassins who had to keep Sherlock alive so that they can get the computer code from him? Whenever any one of them saved Sherlock and shaked his hands they were shot. The same thing happened to Moriarty, In the last scenes he shakes Sherlock's hands and he is shot (by himself apparently). But this is what got me thinking, that all those assassins were instructed by Moriarty and obviously one of the instruction by Jim was to shoot anyone who comes near Sherlock (shakes his hands). So the important thing to note is that who ever shaked Sherlock' hands, was shot by someone else. What if we apply the same thing to Moriarty, what if his shaking hand with Sherlock was a signal for someone in the back building (or one of many snipers in the surrounding buildings) to shoot Moriarty in the back of his head with a fake bullet with a capsule containing blood. So what I am saying is that Moriarty's gun was empty it only made a sound and some one else shoot in the back of his head with a blood capsule and he fell down. We never knew whether there was any exit wound in the back of Moriarty's head. We just saw blood under it. On the other hand Sherlock didn't had the time to check as his friends were to die if he didn't jump at the earliest . 

Summing it up, Moriarty shaking hands with Sherlock and putting a gun in his mouth was a signal for his own sniper to shoot him with a fake bullet with a blood capsule in it, Moriarty's gun was empty and it only made the sound. He lied down with blood under his head but not any gun wound as there wasn't a real bullet. Hence he survived .