SlipStream movie review

Anthony Hopkin's SlipStream movie is a pile of garbage thrown at the audience. Basically the movie is a practical joke and it works out pretty well. The fans will like it no wonder, "Anthony Hopkins this and that, Omg, its Anthony Hopkins!", and for the ones who didn't like it, the fans will start booing on them on not getting it. So for the movie maker, its a win win situation. Why do I care? Well, people pay (money/time) to see movies, thats why.

The thing is that the movie's concept is not bad but its done before. Well yeah, time traveling is done before too, but they use time traveling to tell stories. Here, the concept is the story, and it is a highly narrow class, and thats why it feels like a copy paste of the originals.

Basically the movie shows a story writer, working on a murder crap with a stressed brain, and he starts seeing his characters in his life etc. !!!SPOILERS! Basically he is dreaming the whole thing possibly at his last moments or at the moments of his brain's maximum stress (Well both are true, since there are 2 endings, one more ending after the credits). !SPOILERS!!!

The concept is good, but if from the starting of the movie, you sense the concept, the movie becomes meaningless (cause theres no story) and you seem tortured throughout the movie. If you don't know what is really happening, then that is even worse, since you will feel a kick in the nut when the movie ends. !!!SPOILERS! All of the movie's random segments just wants to tell you that its a dream and thats why its random, thus dont stress on trying to connect the loose threads of the story. !SPOILERS!!!

One movie which I know, uses the same concept, "STAY", but it is so beautifully done that whether you know whats happening or you come to know in the end, its awesome in both ways! !!!SPOILERS! The characters were so well woven in the dream of the protagonist and they were really likable. You feel for all the characters, you remember all the characters. And when the world is shown outside the guy's dream, you can connect all the roles of the characters in the real world with the dream world... and thus understand why such events in the dream. It is so wonderfully connected. !SPOILERS!!!

'Stay' kept a suspense which was really not needed, but still that worked out great. Suspense movies are not re-watchable since thats what really is in the movie.... but for Stay, it turned out opposite! It had to be watched at least 2 times in my opinion (Because of the suspense, a viewer can forget the events in context of what really is happening and thus may need to recall them). Aaah, some of you smart heads will not agree on watching it twice, but sorry, I am a normal person and have a normal brain.

Back to slipstream; The characters are random, the movie doesn't let you get attached to the characters, there are tons of them, and it really doesn't want to. The events don't make sense and guess what... the movie doesn't want you to either. What the movie really wants, is for you to get the overall picture... !!!SPOILERS! and what is that overall picture? He is seeing a dream. Wow so original! my ass.

Why the hell would I see 1.5 hours of random stuff just to understand that its a dream (and thats why random and senseless things are happening) ? At least do something creative in those 1.5 hours. Some senseless things are entertaining (action, high school rip-offs, special effects, super-powers), but no, this movie contained pure random garbage! !SPOILERS!!!

The worst part is the way the movies gets rated after this. Stay was awesome! and its a 7 on imdb I guess (which is fine with me, 7's not bad, there may be glitches in various aspects which only the mighty respectful movie experts can understand), but SlipStream (since made by Anthony Hopkins) is 8! Good work people, keep recommending garbage! I am really starting to think I should see Hindi movies, they are getting better.

To the fans: Anthony Hopkins is a good guy, he (is not Hannibal Lector and thus) wont kill you if you rate his movie bad. He probably will work hard and will thank you later for being honest. Be a fan but never put the fanship before your judgment.

Review: Felicity 2008, IIIT Hyderabad

Felicity is the cultural annual festival of IIIT hyderabad. Threads, the technical festival, runs along with it. This year's celebration was fantastic backed up by quite sincere hard work. I was not there in most places, but whatever I saw I enjoyed. I wish to review it, there will be some honest opinions... good and bad, please dont hate me :)

Day 1: Though events were on full heat in other areas, e.g. Kalakshetra, Zombie Zone, etc etc. Day 1 had a dry stage for the most of it. Indian Ocean's performance was fun but running a little boring. Didn't attend War of DJs, because of boredom, I hope it was good.

Day 2: Seeing that along with Indian Ocean on day1, Sledge is also coming along on day 2, the current 3rd years proved that they have taken felicity to a next level. You got Sledge and AWESOME bands from all over Hyderabad for a rock competition. OMG!!! Fking awesome.

IIIT Band: A nice start, Female vocalist did well (for Cranberries' song), she could have sung more songs, some Evanasense may be? Male singers need to work hard (Insomnia used to choose songs with less vocal input so that the good Guitar talent shines, pretty clever). Blood Brother's was quite nicely sung, good work. Our Malaysian FESs did good job too, nice.

Mosh Pit issues: I dont really know what happened when moshing started over (I am guilty that I started it) while Sledge's performance, but I guess the organizers took the matter a bit too serious. Dont get me wrong, but the guys were doing the moshing in a controlled way, in the middle, a circular pit, exactly the way it should be done. It was violent, yes, but thats the way it is (I was not a part of it later coz those dude were too big to mosh with, I was just in the perimeter). No one was getting hurt in the surrounding, just visually scared I guess. Anyway, alls well that ends well. The rock night was amazing.

Day 3: The western dances were nice as always. Best part was that most things were not that late as I expected seeing all previous felicities. Contribution from college CBIT, Vasvi and Osmania University was nil which is not good (notified by Parry), they have been an important crowd previously, dont know why they didn't show up this time. ICFAI and NIFT people as always were a good part in the celebration.

Day 3 nite: Mr. and Miss felicity was enjoying, the audience was great (hehe, I was a part of it of cors). The participants on the male side were weak I would say, confidence seemed less from their side although final judging was perfect. The female's were much more better in terms of right attitude and confidence. The results of Miss felicity seemed odd, which doesn't matter though, since for the audience the good organization was more important.

Om Shanti Om: The closing dance by the famous faces was nicely done. It was a highly intelligent work done by the Choreographer. The way people were emerging on stage matched the way its in the movie. The similarity excites the crowd a lot. Nice work.

Overall this year's celebration was wonderful and faithfully well executed. It was clearly visible that the organization was good. Decorating the campus was a clever idea, truly, it brought out people living under rocks. Some newspaper coverage would have been nice. Food and stuff was ok, there was nothing wrong, costs were not proposterous. Website design, a killer video and forum's idea was good.

Nicely done ug3. Bravo.