where: BRENDEN CONCORD 14 in Concord, CA
when: Thursday, December 24th, 2009
show: 4:30 p.m.
costs: $7.50 Ticket + $8.00 Kids Pack ( w/ Diet Pepsi ) + $13.65 dinner at Buffet City in Concord ( + $2.35 Tip ) + $4.00 Bridge Toll = $35.00 ( Boy! am I glad I didn't take anyone with me. )
auditorium: 3
seat: 4th row, 10th column
synopsis: Two friends, along with a rival, embark on an emergency road trip to find a long-lost third friend, ten years after they left college.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Airport medical emergency; 2.) Imperial College of Engineering ( ICE ); 3.) Rancho ( Aamir Khan ); 4.) The bet; 5.) Fate sealed; 6.) Underwear initiation; 7.) Life begins with murder; 8.) The pen; 9.) Definition of machine; 10.) Aal iz well; 11.) Joy; 12.) Mental pressure; 13.) The letter; 14.) Desperate for free food; 15.) Power nap; 16.) Exam trick; 17.) The speech; 18.) The challenge; 19.) The watch demonstration; 20.) Emergency; 21.) Zoobi Doobi; 22.) Late papers; 23.) Exceeding expectations; 24.) Rancho?; 25.) The urn; 26.) Chhote; 27.) Ladakh; 28.) Humiliation; 29.) Fear & pretense; 30.) Pia's ( Kareena Kapoor ) room; 31.) Induction motor; 32.) Rusticated; 33.) Father & son talk; 34.) No yes, man; 35.) Feel naked; 36.) Refusal; 37.) U-turn; 38.) Wedding elopement; 39.) Red seal envelope; 40.) Suicide note; 41.) Downpour; 42.) Emergency delivery; 43.) Grandson; 44.) Extraordinary student; 45.) The school; 46.) Declaration of defeat; and 47.) Wangdu.
audience reaction: The audience loved this Hindi ( w/ English subtitle ) comedy movie.
recommendation: Go see this movie if you're into comedy films. You won't be disappointed.
spoiler alert! I missed some of the jokes and funny scenes because I was busy scribbling down notes. Rancho never taught his two friends how to prepare for exams; instead, he filled their heads with doubts and made them the laughing-stock of the whole school.
fyi: I haven't been to this particular theatre in over a year. I came here on opening day years ago because they had a Spice Girls tribute band as an opening act to draw-in the crowd. But I arrived too late and missed the act. Had I been there in time to see the show, I think that I would have drooled. Down, boy! Behave ( pant, pant, pant ). And I cannot even remember what movie I went to see that day, for the life of me.
If I were a music agent, I'd form a female band of Real Spice Girls from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. I don't know if you've seen beautiful girls from the Indian subcontinent, but I have. And they've got some really hot ones! And with all that Yoga that they do, you know they're very flexible! Kama Sutra Nirvana, mama--Hey! this is a good name for a female band, come to think of it.
This movie is not reviewed on Fandango.com or Hollywood.com so, on a hunch, I googled Bollywood.com. And there it is! Talk about resourceful.
I thought that this movie is an Hindi remake of The Three Stooges. But it isn't. It's about two college students befriending a free-spirited, iconoclastic genius, so much so that their academic resolve suffers for it ( hence, the moniker ) as they rediscover who they actually are and what they are meant to be in life.
I didn't know that someone came up with the same electrocution method which I was certain that I was the only one bedeviled enough to concoct back in 1980, but never actually executed ( it's a long story in two parts ).
I didn't know, too, that India ranks number one in suicides. I always thought that Japan was the suicide capital of the world.
I fell in love with the setting for the ending scene--such a beautiful scenery. Postcard perfect!
word of advice: "Chase excellence; success will follow you, pants down." ( Rancho )
tidbits: I decided on the Kid's Pack ( Popcorn, M&M Candy and drink ) because the theatre was promoting the chipmunks movie with collector cups: One had an Alvin figure on the lid while another one had a Brittany figure on it. I opted for the "Alvin" one--for now.
I asked the concessions clerk, Boris, if he knew what the movie was about. He told me that he didn't. I said that I was curious about it because I review movies on line; and I gave him one of my movie review cards. He told me to let him know what I thought about the movie. After the movie, I went up to him and told him that I liked it.
On my way home, I had a craving for Indian food so I swung by the Indian buffet restaurant, Namaste. But they don't have buffet dinner from Monday through Thursday. I decided to pig-out at Buffet City, instead ( where a young patroness complemented me on my Santa hat--I must be getting really fat [ she's getting a lump of coal tonight ] ). Maybe tomorrow, after watching the Sherlock Holmes movie, I'll swing by the Indian buffet restaurant, Stara, here in Vallejo to satisfy my craving.
