Unplanned Day Off

I applied for urgent leave for today because my dad was unwell and I wanted to accompany him to the doctor's. (On a side note: GPs would've been useless if not for the fact that they dispense the necessary medical certificates required for medical leave.)

Well, the doctor's only took a few hours in the morning so I had the rest of the day sorta free. Spent most of it working on gamifying my online workshop, which was tough because I lacked the coding know-how and am using an idiot-proof web-hhosting service (i.e. just a lot of moving widgets around and WYSIWYG).

In the background though, as I was creating my workshop, I played two of the three DVDs I borrowed from work — Transcendence and Gravity.

Okay, I'll cop to not paying too much attention to Transcendence but, fuck, if my work was more interesting than your movie, you have a problem.

Transcendence was ... dumb. Sorry. Even Johnny Depp couldn't save this movie's sorry ass. It serves me right for not reading the 'Critical reception' on the movie's Wikipedia page before borrowing the DVD.

Gravity was, of course, waaaaayyy better. It was so good that it made me feel uneasily claustrophobic while simultaneously agoraphobic. Drifting in space into certain death is actually on my list of ways in which I hope not to die.

Having not read the synopsis before borrowing the DVD, I was disappointed that it wasn't as science fiction-y as I thought it would be. I found it a straight-up drama of one woman's journey into hope and a second go at living.

Followed the two English movies with Hindi ones — Hasee Toh Phasee and Krazzy 4.

Oh wow was I ever conflicted by Hasee's opening titles. The opening hums of 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai' made me assume it was gonna be a shit film (because KJo and Dharma Productions), but then it was followed by ... Phantom Films which, in my books, produces great films.

What was I supposed to think?!

I actually have watched part of Hasee before but not its beginning. As it turned out, I did like the movie. Siddharth Malhotra was better in this than he was in SOTY and Ek Villain. Also, he played his character in such a way that really complemented Pari's character. Great chemistry, these two!

Krazzy, I'd thought, would be on par with Sunday — if not worse.

But NO. (Thank you Goddess!) Krazzy was so much better than I'd expected! Irrfan in a comic role — this fact alone would've made the movie FUCKING AWESOME.

Arshad Warsi also seems to share good chemistry with Irrfan so fingers crossed they collaborate in more projects.

Closing titles hinted at a sequel which I can't wait to watch if that project is a-go. What would it be called though — Krazzy 4x2?? LOL.