Perfect days

I was stuck in an apartment for four days hoping without much confidence for some unknown people to walk in. As expected, no one came and I had plenty of time to spare. So I lay on the couch, dragged a chair besides me, placed the laptop on it, switched it on, plugged the headphone jack into the laptop and placed the headphone over my ears. That was the beginning. Ten movies in four days. None of the movies can be called classic. Many of them had a B-grade feel to it but except for one sentimental nonsense I loved watching each of them. For the few hours the movies held my complete attention and all my worries could not cross through my thought horizon. The movies went thus.

1. I always thought this monster destroyed humans. I was surprised to realise that it is a friend and saved humanity from massive destruction. Poor SFO and Golden gate got destroyed in the process of saving humanity. None of the set of monsters cared about the human beings through the movie. They were more interested in each other. 
2. There are no Bruce movies that I have disliked. I confused this with another movie, which was a mega flop. Turns out that the movie was a hit and was also liked by the critics. It was a gripping movie that went nowhere. I mean the situation at the end of the movie was same as the beginning. I don't think I have seen too many movies like this.
3. I have seen the trailers of this movie when it was released and was keen to watch it. But I had watched another movie which I thought was similar to this and hence decided to give it a skip. Thursday morning after my breakfast, I settled into the couch to watch this heaven and hell movie. It was amazing. I still think it was similar to the other movie but that doesn't reduce the fun one bit. A dark movie dripping with eeriness. It lingered in my mind for a few hours.
4. I had not heard of this movie but got interested when I realised that it was about a famous serial killer. The feel of the movie was great but the big revelation towards the end was disappointing. It was too ridiculous for expectation and acceptance. That said I liked the way the movie ended. The movie stayed with me till late in the night when the lonely darkness of the apartment made me uneasy.
5. I have always been comforted by the presence of Matthew Mcconaughey in a movie. When I see him on the screen I get the feeling that the rest of the characters are safe. The only issue with this is that Matthew Mcconaughey ends up being Matthew Mcconaughey in all his movies. While this would be a weakness with other actors, it’s a strength for Matthew. But even Matthew could not save this movie. It is a boring real life based sport movie. The first half of the movie was reasonably engrossing but the second half was a bore. By the end of the movie I was browsing Wikipedia to determine its accuracy. The second half was not very accurate. 
6. I have never heard of this movie but found its name interesting. Also it had aliens in it and I was in an aliens kind of mood. The internet claimed it used the concept of aliens to talk about the segregation that exists in our society. The movie began well. The documentary style was done well. The humour and the ridiculous situations were brought out well. The main character played his role well. Towards the middle, the makers started struggling to maintain the documentary format. So they dropped it and the movie for few minutes turned into a mundane aliens movie. The movie ended in an interesting manner though.
7. I was young when the original movie was released. I was old enough to watch that movie but I was not interested. So I let Schwarzenegger and his gang fight the invisible aliens. Many decades later, I decided to watch the reboot version of the movie. It turned out to be one of those movies that captures one’s attention as long as one lives through it. At the end of it I felt a disinterested “Myaaah!” run through me.
8. This movie was the only funny movie among the ten. Four old men biking across the country behaving like leather rebels when in life they are losers in one manner or other. Definitely not a great movie but I laughed a few times and felt amused during a few others.
9. Tom Cruise is the emperor of action movies. At some point of time, when I look back at the Tom Cruise movies I have seen, I would not be able to separate one from the other. Most of his movies are similar. I mean they all have Tom Cruise in them and regardless of the name of the character he is enacting he always is Tom Cruise. This is a good addition to that list. The one slight twist from his usual movies is that this one has aliens in it. It seemed like an action and aliens filled version of Groundhog’s day. The movie had the ability to capture my attention and that makes it a good movie to watch.
10. This movie was not in the list of movies I was planning to watch. I had a few hours to spare and I had already watched half of this two hour and forty five minute movie. So I closed my laptop, pushed it back into the bag, fished out the mobile from my pocket and continued watching it. Under normal circumstances I would not have watched this movie. But I was in a mood for utter nonsense and this movie provided it in ample amounts. Mamooty and Suresh Gopi screamed every word they uttered; many of them in annoyingly polished English. Suresh Gopi acted as a top cop and Mamooty as an IAS something who had enough power to call the home minister of India a bastard and land a kick on his chest while the minister’s Z-level security watched the fun with their guns held safe in their hands. The movie was released in the first decade of 2000s and one could easily identify all the politicians of that time in the movie. The best dialogue in the movie landed from Suresh Gopi’s lips, which probably exists underneath his thick moustache, when he admonishes one of his subordinates for mistreating a Muslim man. The golden words when thus “You treat this man so badly because of this cap he is wearing.” A wonderful movie that made me laugh every time I should not have.