Fantastic 4 - Fantastic nonsense

The fantastic four of us watched the "Fantastic Four - Rise of the Silver Surfer" at Sathyam yesterday.

The movie was seriously utter nonsense. The scientific jargon thrown at us were practically bordering on absurdity. And then the bloody Indian movie sentimental formula that was made to form the crux of the climax was ridiculous.

Imagine an entity in space coming from some galaxy far far away. The sole purpose of it is to consume matter and energy for its own existence. Such an entity sends out a Silver Surfer who on seeing Jessica Alba (who by the way has managed to look bad in the movie) starts getting a change of heart and when it finally sees her dead (killed by a harpoon none the less and that too while trying to save the surfer), restores life back to her and then goes back to its own planet and destroys it.

What the hell? How many bollywood movies did the "brains" behind the movie watch? Why is Hollywood starting to get all too senti with these sci-fin and superhero movies?

If this is the kind of $hit these guys are gonna roll out, I'd rather watch the emotional drama churned out in millions by the local movie industry. At least, there's no science to worry about in these.

On a related note, Nilu practically raped me throughout the evening. The fundamental theme being that I had no moral right to advise him about things like he not having a driver's license and yet driving a two-wheeler or he watching pirated movie cds or jumping signals etc. All because I bought tickets for Sivaji at a premium. Well, he did have a point I guess. But the continuous rubbing it in for like 2 or more hours, didn't obviously go well with me and I took it out on a two-wheeler idiot who crossed my lane when I was trying to go right. Since there was a mini traffic jam he stopped to my left. I lowered the side window and asked him the traditional Chennai question of whether he had informed his people at home about his "departure". I went further and equated him to a body part which is basically like the gate through which trash is taken out of a house. Actually, were it not for Madhu's presence in the car, I would have gone further to question his parentage with a prefix about the process that lead to his parentage being questioned.

Raghu at least stopped doing his 'ching-chak' to Nilu after that, though Nilu did stop after a few minutes.

And at the start of the article, I said the fantastic 4 of us. That was Nilu's theory. He equated Raghu to the elasto man since he has the capability to stretch his imagination and also he is like an all-rounder. Then Madhu is like invisible when compared to the rest of us in terms of weight. And it does help that the real life couple also match up to these characters who get married in this movie. Then I am supposed to be the guy who creates fire coz I am like the angry young man. And Nilu is of course the hulk-like guy.

We went to City Center for dinner. :)