QUESTIONS UNANSWERED IN RICK AND MORTY

Rick and Morty is a really complicated show. And I mean REALLY complicated. The more you watch it the more you get confused. And it’s just season 3. How much more crazy will this get??

1)      Are we following C-137 Rick and Morty?

In the episode where Rick and Morty go to Jerryboree Inc. and sign him in the Jerry care is where things start to get messy. By the end of it we see a Rick and Morty claiming a Jerry before going home from another Rick and Morty, and they swap the Jerry. Before leaving the number on the ticket is something else written on it than it was when they arrived. Either we’ve been following a different Rick and Morty, or the wrong Jerry came into the house. Not only that but, another episode has Mr. Poopybutthole as a part of their family. And that is the only episode we ever see Mr. Poopybutthole. Not only that but there is a constant back and forth of how Rick abandons dimensions like the one filled with Kronenbergs, the one where he dies and then replaces himself there. The whole show is getting crazier and crazier by the second. And at this point we might be lost as to which Rick and Morty we’re following.

2)      Is Rick and Morty still stuck in a simulation?

It is quite possible that Rick and Morty are stuck in the simulation they were in the episode 4 of season 1 where aliens trap Rick, Morty and Jerry (accidentally) in a simulation to get some concentrated dark matter. We see that Rick and Mort never really die or nothing really happens to them when Rick pretends to make concentrated dark matter but it ends up being just an explosive to destroy them. If that is the case, then it’s highly bizarre that they went through all this trouble just to get some concentrated dark matter’s formula on their hands. If this theory checks out, then there’s a possibility that we’ve been watching a simulation of the Zigerion all this time. 

3)      Is Beth real?

By the end of season 3, the creators of this episode keep everyone wonder whether Beth took up Rick’s offer of leaving and doing what she needed to so she could be at peace while Rick could clone her body, memories and her way of living and no one would even notice. There are two possibilities to this. 1. That she really did leave and that is why clone Beth is so happy and loving and carefree towards her children after all of this happens. And 2. That she never really left but the idea that she could be free or at least have the option of doing this and it sets her mind at peace. She might just have had a change of heart and let all of this be. Or did she?

4)      Who is Evil Morty?

Evil Morty is pretty popular among the Citadel and as well as fans of the show. However there is a theory that C-137 Rick abandoned his grandson and he turned out to be Evil Morty as a phase of revenge towards him. There is a lot of absurdity towards who Evil Morty is since he has no background and his Rick is just a robot controlled by him. Rick has changed dimension many many times without any problems. And it is very visible of how he treats Morty. So there is a possibility these two will meet in the future and kill each other eventually.

I don’t know about you but I’m very excited to see how all of this unveils as the writers of this series are very careful with their writing and do not let a single frame go meaningless. The internet has many theories to these questions but only time will tell.

NOW YOU SEE ME 2 (2016)

This is an American film of the year 2016, directed by Jon M.chu and written by Ed Solomon. This film had a wide variety of cast which made the film very pleasing to watch. This movie is a sequel of “now you see me” released in 2013. This movie earned a total of $334 million worldwide.

The plot of the movie revolves around four horsemen and their leader. The leader actually wanted to take revenge for his father’s death; he was of the view that his father was murder while performing the magic trick. In order to take revenge of his father he got the commission in FBI but later he got to know that it was his misconception and it was his father’s mistake and as a result, his father died.

The four horsemen took instructions from The Eye which is a secret society of magicians but later on, they got to know that there were certain bad elements of the society behind the eyes. The four horsemen along with their leader made a plan to expose them who actually wanted to spy on every computer on the earth with a chip. The eye in the whole scenario means looking at everybody from a hidden eye. In the end, they executed them with the whole team.

All the tricks performed are deconstructed in great detail, as if the audience would not miss any of their cleverness and what it signifies. The characters are very much related by their accomplishment of human stunts, yes there were some special efforts were made to make the scenes more appealing but that's fine otherwise it would look like a cartoon. At certain points, the movie scenes were very starched and making the movie boring but they have included certain twists at that points, due to which audience did not mind.

The plot also consists of a series of games which are commonly used in magic tricks such as card manipulation, hypnotism, illusions, and a great deal of technology and escape tricks.

All of this leads to a computer circuit known as "the stick," which can de-encrypt any system into which it's plugged. Since the magicians are all performers and love to perform in front of a huge audience, they reveal this big thing in front of a giant cheering audience of charismas eve. There was the minimal level of adult content language wise which is pretty much acceptable.

Group leader J. Daniel Atlas had skills of both illusions and card tricks, hypnotist was Merritt McKinney and the sleight-of-hand artist was Jack Wilder and a fast-talking illusionist Lula. All of them with different skills made a very unique group of magicians.

It’s a very good movie for entertainment and one must watch it. It contains a very good moral that group is better than individuals because nobody had similar skills everybody requires each other to complete a task. Other then this it’s being told that the leader is always the one who leads from the front and would help his team no matter what.

Zero (2018 Film)

‘Zero’ is an upcoming Indian movie scheduled to be released on 21 December 2018. The movie is directed by Anand L Rai, produced by Gauri Khan and written by Himanshu Sharma. There are three lead roles played by the famous King Khan, ‘Shahrukh Khan’ the biggest star of Bollywood along with the most famous and beautiful co-actresses Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma. The trailer of this movie was released on the 53rd birthday of SRK i.e. 2nd November 2018 which became a double celebration for his die-hard fans.

‘Zero’ is the much-awaited film of this year and, also one of the highest budget films of Bollywood. This upcoming film is going to be a blockbuster as SRK is back with something interesting this time as his last movie did not do well. However, the trailer has been released a couple of weeks ago, so it will be too early to comment about the movie, but I am sure this will be one of the finest movies in the history of Bollywood. The movie seems to be full of entertainment with comedy and romance. The trailer reveals excitement through the dwarf role played by SRK. We will see the journey of a dwarf man and his fortune after meeting Katrina and Anushka.

The whole story revolves around Bauua Singh (Shahrukh Khan), a vertically challenged man. He found a companion Afia Bhinder played by Anushka Sharma, a NASA scientist suffering from the neurological disorder. Later, a leading female superstar Babita played by Katrina Kaif also gets close to him. This love triangle takes them far off cities. Here, the suspense begins! What will happen next?

In my opinion, Bauua a dwarf wanted to become famous through marrying a rich and famous girl. First, he had crush on a girl named Afia whose picture was in a magazine and she was a famous scientist and he wanted to get her at any cost. When he finally met her, he got to know that her crush was physically disabled and can’t walk even could not talk properly. He decided to leave her and carry on his mission of becoming famous and rich. Later, he had another crush on an actress known as Babita (the most famous barbie girl of Bollywood Katrina Kaif). Then he was after her. I think both girls would reject him because of his attitude and nature which would be the turning point in his life. As nobody would like to spend her life with a greedy man.

The movie has not been released yet, but we can already see a lot of appreciation from the audience as well as other Bollywood celebrities. It is hard to believe but the trailer is still trending in more than 15 countries. People are waiting anxiously for this movie. This movie will last longer and will definitely break all the records. I recommend everyone to watch first-day first show of this movie.

SPIDER-MAN MOVIES: A RETROSPECTIVE (PART 2)

5. The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

When I first heard back in 2010 that they were rebooting the Spider-Man film franchise into a new series with Andrew Garfield (The Social Network) playing the titular hero, I was...skeptical to say the least. Me and a lot of people worldwide were gonna have trouble forgetting the Raimi directed films (the last of which came out just 3 years before this announcement). Despite that; I was willing to give this film a shot. It had a few things going for it:

Andrew Garfield had proved himself to be a talented actor as evidenced by his performance in The Social Network (2010). The guy they hired to replace Raimi; Marc Webb had recently directed 500 Days Of Summer which is one of the romcoms that I actually loved. Although I found it odd they chose a romance director helm a Spider-Man movie, I was at ease with it. Considering that Sam Raimi mainly did horror comedies before making a Spidey film. Plus the idea of them keeping Peter in high school and actually exploring what life is like for him there was something I did want to see in the movies since it's why I loved Ultimate Spider-Man, which is my favorite Spidey comic series to this day.

Despite all that...they messed it up anyway. It's a pretty mediocre film and an even worse Spidey adaptation. The first problem is that the film doesn't offer much that's new. Despite the film being marketed as "the untold story", it's the same old shlock. We get to see Peter in high school, crushing on the girl, getting bitten by the spider, the argument with Uncle Ben which ens with Ben lecturing him on responsibility, Peter letting a burglar escape with some line about how it's not his problem, Ben getting shot, the manhunt for the killer, Spider-Man fighting a green villain who was actually a scientist with a personal connection to Peter, etc. It's the exact same stuff and it feels like the film is just going through the motions with all of it. As a result; nothing feels genuine and I feel like I'm watching some Sony executive checking off his list of thing to include in a Spider-Man movie. Peter's parents could've been the only new thing the film offers and that's a subplot the film hardly ever focuses on.

Familiarity is far from being the only issue with the storytelling in this film. The tone is extremely inconsistent. This was a problem that was much worse in the sequel but it's still pretty bad here too. The film can't decide whether it's trying to be grounded or cartoony. Scenes of completely different tone follow one another in such a weird way that I kept wondering if they cut something. Here's an example:

Peter's uncle is dead and Pete feels responsible. We get a sad scene of him mourning and then a darker scene of him getting into a fight with the guy he assumes is the killer. Then a really "awe inspiring" montage of him on a manhunt as Spidey that's full of humor. Then a COMPLETELY 'humorous' scene of him messing with a car thief. Followed immediately by an intense confrontation with May about his injuries. Like..what. None of these transitions happen smoothly. It's like I'm watching 3 different films. Why can't things progress smoothly in this film? Oh and I use the term 'humorous' lightly because...it's really not funny. A lot of these subplots don't even go anywhere. The thing with the killer is dropped completely. Peter's parents stop being relevant the second he becomes Spidey and that plot doesn't even give us any new information. Peter had parents who vanished and that's it. We'll let you know how it goes in the sequel. UNTOLD STORY.  

The acting is...eh. I wasn't too big on Andrew Garfield's performance as Spidey. I don't know whether to attribute that to the directing or the writing but he didn't do a good job. He didn't embody the pushover everyman that Peter Parker was during high school so I honestly don't get why he's playing the outcast in this film. Nothing about him is dorky. To quote honest trailers: He's an "athletic, intelligent,  rebellious, attractive, well dressed, likable teenage....loser" Even the guys behind the movie couldn't make it work so in the first 3 mins of us meeting Peter; they have him screw up talking to a girl, get beat up and get his camera kicked. Just throwing it all in 3 damn minutes. Everyone else was...serviceable. Dennis Leary as George Stacy was probably my favorite in the film.

The villain was so forgettable. The reason that Doctor Connors is such a compelling villain in the comics is because his motivation for turning himself into the Lizard was his family. His desire to be a complete man for his wife and a father his son could look up to. The film cuts out his family from the story entirely and that makes his motivation weaker. Although Rhys Ifans gave a pretty good performance, the writing was generic and forgettable. His design looked like a goomba from that really old terrible Super Mario Bros movie.

There are good things about the film too. I found the romantic chemistry between the two leads to be very engaging. A lot of that can attributed to the director having done a romance movie before so he can do scenes of two people talking like that really well. The Peter and Gwen scenes were by far the highlight of this film and I think both Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone did a great job during those. This is helped by them dating in real life at the time.

The score by the late James Horner doesn't hold a candle to the extremely memorable Danny Elfman theme from the previous films but it's still pretty good. The vfx looked pretty great for the most part and the film has my absolute favorite Stan Lee cameo (which is the only moment in the film made me laugh btw).

But all of those good things are bogged down by 2 hours of them completely missing the point to Spider-Man. That's the biggest problem with the film. It's made by a bunch of people who don't understand the character. They made Peter into an unlikable character who gives away his secret identity to a girl he's had less then 3 mins of screentime with up to that point, he's verbally abusive to Aunt May for no reason, he breaks a dead man's promise at the end of the film, and he's a jerk to the police. Having Spider-Man learn responsibility because Captain Stacy lectured him on the fact that he's not helping people, instead of them having Ben's death be the cause was just dumb. It belittles the impact that death should have on Peter's character. The film even ends with him doing something really selfish and then cuts to the epic triumphant final web swing that the other Spider-Man movies have done. The difference is that those films did it when Peter moved FORWARD in some way.

Overall it's not a god awful movie but it's pretty bland by offering the same old stuff we've seen before and it misses the mark on who Spider-Man is. The only real reason this film even happened was so that Sony could keep the rights to the character away from Marvel. I doubt there was any real artistic motive in mind when producing these two films. This rebooted franchise didn't hold a candle to the original Spider-Man trilogy and I can understand completely why it failed after two films and Marvel got the rights back to the character.

I'm being very generous in giving this film a 5/10. I'm glad I'm done talking about these two films so I can get to the Spidey movies that are actually interesting.

TO BE CONTINUED

TOP 5 TOXIC COUPLES ON TV

From time to time we’ve seen amazing couples on T.V. that we idolized. Even though it all seemed dreamy and unrealistic we still smiled insanely when they did something cute and often complained to our significant other to be like them. Some of the most adorable couples that shared perfect chemistry were Lily and Marshall from How I Met Your Mother, Cory and Topanga from Boy Meets World, Leslie Knope and Ben Wyatt from Parks and Recreation, Amy and Jake from Brooklyn-99 and many many more.

But there were a few T.V. couples that were presented as ‘cute’ but are actually weirdly insane and obsessive when you think about it.

1. Rachel Green and Ross Geller from F.R.I.E.N.D.S

The top of this list makes Rachel and Ross from FRIENDS. Why? They seem adorable at first but when you think about it there were a lot of things you can learn of what not to do when in a relationship. And rule number 1 is to not be so obsessive about someone that it ruins your entire life. Ross was highly possessive and jealous of Rachel's friendship with one of her colleagues that it turned him into someone else. But even before their relationship started, he was obsessed with her. Maybe the fact that he thought he was out of her league was what attracted him even more to the idea of being with her. Their constant quelling during the entire season of who did what to who and Rachel's fear of losing him to another woman even after their breakup managed to get Ross another divorce. So much so that they kept breaking up and making up for 10 whole seasons. Constantly sabotaging each others relationships and then trying to be the better person by not admitting they are in love. By the end of it they have a kid, live together and pretend to be married (even when they do end getting married while drunk and then getting a divorce before all this, mind you) but don’t stay with each other as a couple. But then Rachel gets a highly amazing job in Paris and THAT’S when Ross realizes he needs her back. Jeez. This is not cute. And under no circumstance is it heal

2. Beth and Jerry from Rick and Morty

 

Now I know Rick and Morty is an animated show. But it doesn’t rule out the fact that cartoons can’t have unhealthy relationships. Beth and Jerry is the most toxic relationship I have ever seen on TV. There is an entire episode dedicated to them, of when they go to see an intergalactic couple therapist who makes them create a monster of each other, so that they can sort out their problems. Upon using the machine they come to the conclusion that Jerry see’s Beth as a horrible scorpion monster thing and Beth see’s Jerry as self-pitying and weak, which visually becomes a slug. Those two monsters, when kept under observation, become co-dependent and destroy the entire place and kill most of the staff. The therapist, upon witnessing such a chaotic event, realizes that their problematic couple issues are co-dependent of each other  which makes their relation so toxic that Beth can easily manipulate Jerry and Jerry, having a low IQ can use the ‘self-pity’ card when in trouble with Beth. The only reason why they’re together is because of the kids. 

      3. Mr and Mrs Ari Gold from Entourage

Ari Gold and his wife were apparently high school sweethearts who got married. But you see that she’s constantly… and I mean CONSTANTLY… complaining about him and his attitude and how he never seems to have time for her. Their marriage turns into such a big mess that by the end of the seasons they have to go to a marriage therapist. They, of course, have moments of endearment but it always seems as though there’s not much chemistry left between the two and they don’t like where they are. She eventually leaves him and starts to see other people and he, to make her upset, tries to do the same. That sort of marriage leaves nothing but regrets and creates mental hindrances to stop each other from growing. Ari Gold, despite loving his wife so much, never really puts up much effort to be with her and she, in return, tries to take out grudges of the past

      4. Ted Mosby and Robin Scherbatsky from How I Met Your Mother

Ted and Robin, like Ross and Rachel, are obsessed with each other, don’t want one another to see anyone else, and pretend to be happy when the other one is in a romantic relationship. If I’m being honest, they’re not too far from Ross and Rachel. The only difference is that Ross and Rachel knew each other since high school and these two met at a bar for the first time in their 20’s. The whole series is about Ted Mosby telling his kids of how he’s trying to find his perfect match. The series shows Ted and Robin being together and breaking up by the end of season 3. But he keeps constantly bringing her up as an old romance that he can’t forget. Even though they both want different things, the series magically ends up giving them both what they wanted AND they end up with each other. Why this is on the list is

a)       Ted is obsessed with Robin, so much so that his kids point it out in the last episode

b)      The series very conveniently puts them together at the end and that’s really a wrong depiction of love

c)       And despite being oh so very old with 2 kids at the age of 15 he is still trying to peruse her with their permission even though he found the love of his life… apparently.

This goes to show that he never really stop thinking about her. And neither did she. Its all romantic and what not, but even when you’re married?? Think about it. What if the mother never died in the series? Then would they have continued their relationship somehow?

      5. Haley Dunphy and Dylan from Modern Family

Okay so now I know that Haley and Dylan are probably the funniest couple in all of this but they were still unhealthy to start with. Due to the fact that Dylan was a little obsessed with Haley, he never really let her think she had to be challenged in any way. He always seemed to cheekily compliment her and I know that’s not a bad thing, but it never really lets the other person grow. Not only that, but Dylan wasn’t the smartest either. It seemed more like he was trying to dumb her down all the time, and when she left Dylan, to compensate for her loss, Haley started dating a man the age of her father, someone who was mature, experienced, and of course, smart. Dylan really held Haley back because he wasted a lot of her time, did childish things, and never really pushed Haley to her limits. Being in an unhealthy relationship is not only mental or physical torture, but an unhealthy relationship is also one that doesn’t let one another grow, it doesn’t let their significant other challenge their limits, and most importantly, it stops the couple to be their best selves. In all retrospect, I think that is most important thing you should look at when you’re finding ‘the one’.