Top five all time Tom hanks movies

Tom hanks is one of the most versatile and greatest actor till date, not only has he been nominated maximum times for Academy Awards, this guy has a phenomenal choice when it comes to making movie.
1. Forrest Gump


This one surpasses genres, you wouldn't have seen anything quite like it. A dork, a beautiful person and served best with situational comedy. There's nothing in this movie that's missing.
2. Philadelphia
 

Denzel Washington with Tom hanks, two very competent actors, this movie was destined for Oscars. Not only did it raise issue like HIV, the vulnerability with which the movie sways the audience, is commendable.
3. Saving Private Ryan

My all time favorite war movie, (corny ones like Pearl harbor don't really stand a chance in front of this). This would definitely change something withing you.
4. Castaway
 
 The name suggests it all, based on a true story, the movie is enthralling, and has what i can say one of the most romantic moment ever.
5. Road to perdition
 
A side of Tom Hanks that wasn't discovered before.

For light comedies or easy screenplays there are movies like Catch me if you can, You have got mail, A league of their own and the one that paved the platform for his stardom 'Big'

CLARK KENT OR SUPERMAN?

Both look same, and a woman in love with any, should have figured it all out. Lets assume for a second, superman changes face, not just putting on old shady geek glasses, the one i so hate! If you saw the first installment of the movie, Clark and Lois had connection much before the Mighty Superman landed on the 'heartwagon'. Just when superman arrives, saves our lady, swept her off, its turns into one big Superman love story. If poor Clark Kent would have been some real earthly person, it would have been shattering! 

Superman is exactly the camouflage we woman fantasize about, our deep down desire to be rescued. Its a whole lot of crap, and i may now enter into the arena of what critics call 'Destructive Feminism'. When single, we exactly have the idea of how our guy should be, Great sense of humor, Gentleman, Personality .....

I have had the pleasure of meeting some really wild and simple girls over the years. Though both belong to the opposite end of the life's philosophy, with guys its just the same, a deep seeded urge to be rescued and protected. (Pampering is cooler though!)

Why really wasn't Lois in love with simple Clark? He helped her, probably would have been there and most of all in her eyes was a normal earthly guy. 

Superman though was always out of reach. So let's just say it, We like to mess our life up by wanting something that we might never receive, and even if we do, a lot of our much useful time and youth is wasted on it! 

Carrie Bradshaw is so fixated and into taming Mr Big (Sex and the city), Felicity (J.J Abraham's show) followed a guy, changed the course of her life only to discover he was cheating on her all the while.

All these wonderful women, (FICTION i know ) would have made a great deal out of life, only love or let's just say vision of love wasn't such a spoiler. 

Identity Dilemmas

I never thought I would be giving this any thought, as far as religious issues go, I am happy to call myself Atheist. May be that might be a strong word, let's say not buying into the whole bending over tradition thing. Spirituality is way different.

There are approximate 270 religious groups in the world, not only is being born into one of them is random, every main element of your life is just random, for instance your gender (X or Y chromosome), The country you are born to, your immediate family, all random. 

Now consider other event in your life, your career choice, kinda chosen for you (scope, parents, society, money). Meeting someone you might assume for soul-mate, (Facebook, college, fixed arrange marriage, pub, disc, common friends, crush, railway stations, air-ports, anywhere else possibly.) In short a random event that entirely depends on your luck, you hit it off with a wrong person, too bad, bad luck, good person, great luck! In short random!   

If everything that actually matters in life is just series of random events, where we contribute hardly or just get lucky?

A goofy painter after several years turn into a monster we know as HITLER, another painter just dies starved. 

The important question is Does it matter who we are? or our life is governed by Where we were?

and that is random, because all meetings are not planned.

Life is just about showing up?

I am definitely on the verge identity crisis, any optimistic approach, do share!

The Oscar Fever!

The Academy Awards are just few hours away, and i am as enthralled and as excited as if i'll get to see them right from the location!
The Red Carpet, The Winning Moments and Definitely the results! There's so much to wait for! Here's a look back to the amazing Oscar moments!


And the Oscar goes to TOM HANKS for Philadelphia!
His speech, better then any actor who has ever won!
"Here's What I know............................the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels,we know their names,their number are thousands, for each one of the red ribbons, we wear here tonight. They finally rest in warm embrace of the gracious creator of us all. The healing Embrace that cools their fever, that clears their skin, and allow their eyes to see the simple self-evident common sense truth, that is , they manifest by the benevolent creator of us all, it was written down on paper by wise men, tolerant men, in the city of Philadelphia 200 years ago.
God bless you all, God has mercy on us all, and God bless America!"
Was their any better way to raise voice for HIV?

MATT DAMON AND BEN AFFLECK For 'Good will hunting'


Two best friends write a script, make a movie and win Oscar for it! What a story! If you haven't seen this movie, Dude you are missing something great!
Brighter note, look at their face when they win Oscar, too young, too scared, too excited. Everything raw and natural.
Jodie Foster For 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Her speech was 'I would like to dedicate this award to all of the Women who came before me, who never had the chance i have had. The survivors and the Pioneers and the outcasts, My blood and My tradition.'


Al Pacino For 'Scent of a woman'
This is one hell of a movie, and definitely Al Pacino could have lost, Denzel Washington was in the category too. He was so stumbled and bamboozled, one of my favorite Oscar moment!


Jack Nicholson For 'One flew over the Cuckoo's nest'
'i guess this proves there are as many nuts in academy as anywhere else!'
Need i say more?

Romance for realists!

These two terms seems never to overlap, one can either be romantic (Dreamer, wisher and sometimes delusional) or Realist (Rational, Practical and sometimes Skeptic). As the recent member of the latter brigade i totally understand one cannot enjoy cheesy movies served daily, but there are certain movies that can please anybody!
Before Sunrise
Ethan hawke has never been more amazing and surreal! Imagine to bump into someone with whom conversation never ends, like an easy flow. When you watch this one you won't find figments of unbelievable imposed romance.Two people meet and they talk about everything, beliefs, politics, their life, hope and aspirations. The backdrop of Vienna is spectacular.
This is one of the very few movie with 100% rotten tomatoes rating! my top favorite, i can watch it a million times...


Steal a pencil for me
Love story is best when its real! This is breath-taking documentary of holocaust surviver.Real people narrate it making you believe in healing powers of love.
 
    

Calm waters

I have been hydrophobic for as long as I remember,

Wondering how I stayed nine month inside mother’s womb!

If to learn to swim meant life,

Death martyred me,

Stubborn escapist or coward,

These bitter potions had nil effect!

So was the attempt to throw me deep,

For I would run, cry, barge out,

“Water would engulf me,

Shrink my very existence”

Saving myself from arms and hands,

Urging me to give in,

To trust and believe,

I wouldn’t, I couldn’t!

One day out of the blue,

I was desperately alone,

Without judging eyes,

Or overdose of inspiration,

Or some lame adaptation of practicality,

So I extended my foot into the water,

Held myself for the moment,

Fear didn’t surpass,

It never occurred,

Sliding inside the waters,

Floated above,

Letting it go,

Loose and slow,

Life is so much better without audience,

Calm waters!

Can't handle the fame?

Whenever a woman with a reasonably better persona then most men in her industry dies, there seems to be this constant wave of smirks and frown, most Male chauvinist pig reporters blabber 'she couldn't handle her fame!',
from Marilyn to now Whitney Houston, at least The New York Times columnist (however great they may have been!) must refrain their trashy opinion to themselves.
Female celebrities are subjected to such a higher degree of scrutiny, like every pair of shoes they put on to every outing they make, they ought make a public statement statement out of it.
Loyal fans mourned Whitney, but the merciless jabs about her drug abuse couldn't be paused in pretext of her death. Is it really the drug that drove her away or fame? The amount of pressure of being an Artist, a wife, a role-model, a Diva!
While male celebrities scuttle around fathering child all over the world, When any member among these dies,
'Its Tragedy!'
Screw the testosterone driven columnist!