Have you ever questioned yourself? Have you ever questioned what you know, what you believed in? Have you ever doubted your history? Have you ever been curious about your very existence? Have you ever wondered over the myths? What if they are not just myths? What if the myths are real and what’s real is based on myths? Have you ever thought that what you consider as facts are nothing but manipulations? Ever questioned your religion? Watch this movie and you will question everything.

I don’t review Indian movies but this one is worth it. It’s quickly climbing up my list of all time favorite Indian movies.

What was shown in this film has shaken me to the core. I couldn’t sleep all night after watching it. Am I too sensitive? Maybe I am. I watch movies with great concentration and try to absorb as much as possible. That’s probably another core ingredient of mine. Can’t help it.

So is that really the solution to the problems that our country is facing today? Is our system corrupted or the people, or both? The system is improving. It has become better in recent years. But the problems still remain. So it’s got to be the people who are running the system. So, what should be done? Replace them, no, kill them! Kill them and then what? They will be replaced by another equally corrupted. How many will you kill? Something else has to be done. And that something else is only possible when we, the youth of this country take active part in it. Instead of moving abroad, or pursuing high profile executive jobs, we should join the police, civil services, government organizations and every place that is believed to be corrupted. And then set an example for everyone else. Give this stalled vehicle, our country, a big push in the right direction. It will take an entire generation for this country to be a decent place to live, where things are easy to do, where it’s not a hassle to do small things like getting your passport renewed, or opening a bank account. A generation has to sacrifice its luxuries to ensure a better and easier life for future generations. A generation has to come forward and replace the currently incapable.

Now the question is, are we, including myself, ready to sacrifice? Are we willing to give up our cushy jobs and work as civil servants for the rest of our lives? Can we do that so that the people in this country could live a better life? Or are we only concerned about making our life better? Do we only care about ourselves? Does it matter to us if people around us are in trouble, their life has become a joke because of this corruption? Am I happy as long as I am not facing any problems surviving here? Do I care about the rest?

We need to ask ourselves these questions, and come up with an answer. Or maybe I shouldn’t watch such movies. Or maybe I should treat them as just movies and shouldn’t think too much about it.

This is got to be the best movie I have seen this year.

It’s really strange how people from different walks of life and different backgrounds come together and then move on to their separate ways. It’s really funny how their paths intersect each other.

Whenever I am traveling by bus, I always wonder about the person sitting next to me. I wonder where he is from, what he does for living, how his day has been, what his destination is going to be, and things like that. And for a short period of time we are traveling together and soon we will part to go our seperate ways. See how two life paths intersected each other. What if the person sitting next to me is a dangerous criminal. What if he is the most intelligent person on earth. I might never know, but I keep thinking about it until I reach my destination and move on with my life. I have always been fascinated by the way we come across different people every day. I used to imagine how people going through their daily routine would come across each other and then carry on with their lives, never to meet again. And I saw a movie about it and I have been deeply touched. This movie is a must watch for anyone who likes to ponder over seemingly insignificant things.

If you like tennis, and if you believe that one person can inspire you so much that it can change the course of your life, that one person can redefine your destiny, then you must watch this movie. You will not be disappointed, trust me. Forget about acting, forget about the goofs, forget everything else. Just watch it.

I have great respect for Spielberg, and for Tom Cruise. Spielberg movies usually go underrated. AI is an excellent movie but didn’t get good reviews. Similarly, I didn’t get good reviews for War of the Worlds as well, but I thought it would be a good movie; common people just don’t have the vision to understand such movies. Hence I decided to watch the movie. Well, for the first time, I was kind of disappointed.

The movie had excellent special effects. It’s one of the best Spielberg movies in the fields of cinematography and sound effects. But it lacked a plot. It lacked a theme. It lacked logic. And it lacked an ending. Lesson learnt, you cannot make a great movie just by overloading it with special effects and sounds, and ignoring the story. Sure, it was adapted from HG Wells novel, but Spielberg left too many questions unanswered. I am sure the novel would be much better.

One of the biggest goofs of the movie was that when the aliens started killing people, a man was recording the scene with his video camera. Now, how did the camera survive the electromagnetic pulse that rendered all the electronic items unusable, including cell phones, watches, even vehicles. There were other many minor mistakes in the movie that I wasn’t expecting to be so obvious.

The ending was abrupt. Five minutes ago aliens were invading the planet and all of a sudden they are dead. How did all the machines die all of a sudden? Was it the bacteria? If aliens had been observing the earth and its atmosphere for thousands of years weren’t they aware of the bacteria and other diseases that were common on earth? I thought aliens were more intelligent and technologically advanced than humans.

There are some movies that inspire you. Movies that motivate you, charge you up and fill up a new energy in you, making you able to achieve something that you’ve wanted to do for a long time, something that is too important to you, and it doesn’t matter how insignificant that something is to the rest of the world. It is important to you and that’s all that matters.

There are some movies that teach you to smile even through the roughest of times and toughest of circumstances. Not only it shall pass easily and swiftly but it would end up being a memorable experience for you. You will look back to it and smile. You will cherish that time for the rest of your life. You will be a symbol of motivation for everyone else. You will only make friends in the course of your life.

The Terminal is one such movie. There are plenty of lessons behind it’s humor. There is lot to be learned from someone as simple as Viktor Navorski. And no one else could have done it better than Tom Hanks. It’s sad that it turned out to be another under rated movie. But that’s how Steven Spielberg’s movies are. Most people just don’t understand the point. They just want to be entertained and nothing more. They don’t want to be inspired. They don’t want to be motivated. So movies like The Terminal and Minority Report don’t get good reviews by the viewers. The fact is that Spielberg makes more than just a movie that you watch in a theatre, chew pop-corn, spend a couple of hours and then forget about it. No, you got it wrong. His movies are not for average viewers. It takes more than that to actually understand his movies. Pick any movie that he directed. You will see a lesson in each one of them. Every single one.

I never skip a Steven Spielberg movie and I’ve never regretted. Same goes for Tom Hanks.

The Matrix trilogy is my favorite trilogy, and The Matrix, first part, is one of my top five all time favorite movies. But I never got a chance to watch the animatrix, and now I am wondering what took me so long.

Before starting the film, I had high expectations about it, keeping the original movie in mind. And man did it exceed my expectations! It was mind blowing indeed. The quality of animation puts pixar to shame, and I have great respect for pixar, but these japansese studios are far ahead of the game.

I always believed the perspective shown in the matrix movies was lacking, though brilliant, it seemed incomplete, as if something was missing. I had some answered questions, some concerns, few anxieties. animatrix took care of most of them. and gave birth to some more. I love movies that tease my brain and give me a new dimension of thinking, movies like the devil’s advocate, being john malkovich, artificial intelligence, are all in my top ten favorite movies because of that, and animatrix is quickly climbing up in the list. I am afraid it might become my most favorite animated movie. Pixar’s Monster’s Inc. currently holds that spot, but not for long. Watch out mike wazowski, let me watch the animatrix few more times and you will have to settle for number two.

so here is what I thought after watching it.

are human beings really on their way to self destruction?

will the human race not reach its end by fighting each other but by fighting the machines?

Will they really make the artificial intelligence so advance that some day machines will have a will of their own?

although it seems too far fetched, but who knows somebody might come up with a new algorithm to let a machine emotionaly express itself?

what if somehow robots learnt to protect themselves under any circumstances? would they hasitate murdering a human?

what if robots started to communicate with each other, which is conceivable, considering the current progress in wifi.

what if they come up with their own encryption algorithm, unbreakable by humans, and use that to talk to each other? if we made machines smart enough to write programs, why wouldnt they be able to write encryption?

I know AI is not advanced enough right now to let the computer make its own decisions, but the concepts of learning machines and self programming computers are not too new.

If we ended up making too many robots to be able to monitor all of them, if we ended up making more robots than human population, then who would be able to stop them if they riot against their creators?

if we give the next generation bombers enough intelligence to figure out its target without human help, would we able to stop it from targeting back at us?

what if the most powerful computer assumes the role of the leader of artificial intelligent world, and form its own government? will we negotiate? or would we start a war?

i just had mental orgasm.

if you were more than entertainted by the matrix trilogy, and if it provoked your thoughts at all, then you must watch the animatrix, and let me know how you felt about it.