Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Watching Movies In HD Brings Your Family Together

With the busy modern life that many people live, it is getting harder and harder for folks to come together as a family to enjoy some old fashioned family time. Between homework and soccer games in distant cities, there are very few opportunities for folks to get together and enjoy each other's company. Fortunately, many families are looking to counteract that trend by starting a family movie night. All you will have to do is figure out which night of the week that you will want to be gathering together, and make sure that nobody schedules any conflicts for that night. Then, you and your family can gather around the television set and watch some of your favorite movies in HD. Doing this will be one step that your family can take in order to enjoy family time.

The first thing that you will want to do in order to plan a weekly family movie night is to clear everyone's schedule for the night in question for the first month. Starting something new usually takes a lot of concentration in order to be able to make it stick. If you are able to get everything off of the schedule then it will be more likely that your family will actually stick to the plans that you are making. If everyone knows ahead of time that they will be watching a movie in high definition, then they will be more likely to make the effort to have family movie night stick.

A good tool for being able to pick movies out for family movie night is satellite tv. With satellite you will be able to have a wide selection of movies to choose from. With the selection and flexibility that satellite provides you will be able to have a more successful family movie night. For example, should you find yourselves having a good conversation around the dinner table you can extend your talk and pause the movie. Were you to only have a basic network television you would not be able to do that. Instead of being a slave to the clock, satellite allows your family to control the time.

After watching the movie you may want to start a family movie journal where everyone is able to write a little bit about what they thought of the movie that they just watched. Many family members may appreciate to write a little bit about what they liked and did not like in order to be able to look back on the journal years later with fond memories. Whether horror movies, comedies or sports movies, having a movie journal will be a great way for you and your family to connect with the past.

If you are serious about starting and sticking with a family movie night, then the first step that you should take is making sure that you have satellite tv. Once you have that installed you will find that starting and enjoying family movie night will be a breeze.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

My Big Fat Greek Wedding - A True Family Comedy

One Rainy night, Tula finds herself doing the same thing that she has always done. She is a thirty year old seating hostess in Chicago at the family restaurant of Dancing Zorbas.. She is very different from most people even from when she was very young. Her family is very Greek. She eats Greek food, and goes to Greek school when other girls go to brownies. Her home was even modeled after the Parthenon. Her father believes that everything can be cured with Windex. Greek women have three jobs in life, to marry Greek boys, make Greek babies and feed everyone until the day they die. Whoever doesn't marry must work in the family business until they do. Her father wants to send her to Greece to find a man, but she refuses to go. The family decides that she will be very reliable in the future and will always be there to run the restaurant.

One day a man comes to the restaurant for lunch with a fellow professor. She has a hard time talking and acts very strange. She decides to tell her parents that she wants to go back to college so that she can get a computer and avoid over stocking the restaurant. She also really wants to have a way to escape from her family and possibly date. She perms her hair and wears makeup for the first time in a long time. She does take some classes and asks her aunt to hire her at the travel agency. Her aunt also own a dry cleaning shop. Then the aunt and her mother make her father think it was his idea.

While working at the travel agency, the mystery man walks by and notices that she is having a great time working. She notices him and hides. The next day, he comes back again and introduces himself as Ian Miller and asks her to dinner. He likes Linkin Park, is a vegetarian, and is an only child. While eating, he suggests that they go to Dancing Zorbas for their next date, and she lets him know that her family owns the restaurant. He then makes the connection that she was that seating hostess there. They decide to go Italian instead.

They go on a walk and tells Ian of her doubt on the future of their relationship because her family is loud, big and Greek and his family is small and quiet. Ian convinces her that it will work. Later she is caught kissing him and the family finds out. Her father is very angry that he is not Greek. Her family then tries to set her up with many Greek men that don't work out. Tula continues to secretly see Ian.

Gus, her father begins to pout about the whole situation. He thinks no one is thinking of him and his feelings. Her mother breaks it to him that his daughter, Tula is in love and there is nothing he can do about it. Tula sees Ian at work and asks him to elope with her. He tells her that they are going to do it the right way and get married with the family. To help his acceptance, Ian gets baptized in the Greek Orthodox Church. They then have an engagement party.

Her family begins taking over the wedding planning. Everything is heavily Greek. Invitations are ordered, bridesmaids dresses are picked and the guest list is all set without Tula's approval. The invitations even have some misspellings in them. Ian's parents come for dinner at the house. The whole family is invited. They are very shy and don't know how take the greetings from the whole family. Will it be too much for Ian's parents? Will Ian and Tula's relationship survive? Watch and find out.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Yamla Pagla Deewana - The Deol Family

Well I think there should be more of family comedies written in the Bollywood industry. A perfect blend of comedy, emotions and drama all combined in the three hour Yamla Pagla Deewana - Now lets discuss more about the Deol family.

(Dharmendra) plays the con father with his younger son (Bobby) and the Hero is played none other than (Sunny). A decade ago there was Dillagi and Dara Singh was the father, Both brother were young and dynamic. In Yamla Pagla Deewana the father plays the dynamic dharmendra but the star goes to Sunny Deol - he is the main character just as he was in Dillagi 10 years ago He is the Big Brother of all times - I think the producers got their money cashed out the first week. Sunny's Macho & Bobby's simple love story takes them to the next level of brother hood.

They were very involved and were perfectly blending with each others comfort zones. The title song is a treat to the clubs and teenagers actually do the Dharmendra step coming in from ages. Bobby's quality in the movie was his acting skill and for a change the proposal to his woman in the movie was very simple and thank god they did not make a hype about it - usually his proposal in other movies are larger than life and it was perfect this time for him to be the cute one and his woman to be the intelligent one. Its a family movie, This time I mean not just the Deol Family Catch on People Yamla Pagla Deewana is funny.

Cheers.