Crysis Preview

Just look at the trailer! This is why I upgraded my PC and this is why I might upgrade to Vista.

Ocean's 13

This movie franchise desperately needs a prequel, even if it is just to reduce the number of characters (Ocean's 2 would be a fine start). I did think this movie was better than Ocean's 12 though, at least the time line moved properly, the villain was better and the heist was actually done at the end. The downside was that it all looked too easy, even the hiccups in the plan did not raise any doubt whatsoever that the plan would be a complete success.
Overall I think its still fun to watch and hope that the next movie is a prequel.

Fantastic Four 2

Where was Galactus? I really feel shortchanged after the movie portrayed Galactus as a giant black cloud. The movie first seems like a marriage video and then a family squabble reality show. The Silver Surfer had hardly any screen time and the climax was very disappointing. Most of the time its Fantastic Four vs. Dr. Doom on the surfboard with the Silver Surfer's rebellion against Galactus coming as a footnote near the end.
I hope that this movie makes enough money for the studio to authorizes a Silver Surfer spin-off movie. Then we can expect a good movie without any marriages and family arguments to spoil the story.

Pirates of the Caribbean 3

Again I had to watch this movie dubbed in Hindi since there were no English shows available. I admit that the movie would definitely have been better in English but still not good enough to compare with the first one (or even the second, yes its that bad). The movie suffers from most ailments associated with sequels - too many characters and hardly any plot. It seems like they script writers wrote up a bunch of scenes for the characters and strung them together with a climax that feels too long and a little over the top.
The best we can hope for is that this was the last movie for this franchise.

Spider Man 3

Well I must start with saying that I saw this one dubbed in Hindi since the English shows were during the afternoon. That said I don't think I would have liked this movie anyway.
The movie feels like a love story instead of an action movie, in fact there are too many similarities with our typical Bollywood love stories. The villain who repents at the end, the guy who lets success gets to his head, the girlfriend who feels ignored and the friend who gives up his life to save the hero.
The first Green Goblin vs. Spidey fight was pretty good but the action went downhill from there. Sandman and Venom were under utilized in my opinion and the movie could have done with more scenes with them rather than Mary Jane and Aunt Mae. Overall the script tried to please both action and romance fans but managed to disappoint both.

My New PC

Well it took a long long time but finally I was able to assemble a gaming PC.
CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo 6420
MB - Asus P5B
RAM - 2GB Kingston DDR2-667
GPU - eVGA 8800GTS 640MB
HDD - Seagate 250GB SATA-II with 8MB Buffer
Keyboard - iBall Compact
Cabinet - Zebronics Peace
SMPS - NavTech 550W Power Supply

Pepsi

Shot of some diet pepsi cans.
I posted this from my K790 to try out its photo blogging feature.
P.S. - My online photo gallery is now at Flickr.