I didn't misspell it, I do mean stakes & not steaks - Belmont Stakes 2012. I'll have another was not playing, so no Triple Crown, but still was a nice day. Bet $40 total & won $20, not too bad I'll say for a fun day of horse racing. What sucked was tolls. From Jersey, you have to pay $13 toll to get in Staten Island and then $13 again to get back to Staten Island from Brooklyn. WTF?? And on top of that we had to pay $3.25 toll each way for visit to Far Rockaway, which is not as bad at night as people may tell you, but not any shops open or enough people after sunset, to have any fun there.. BTW, Union Rags won!!
Watched J.Edgar (6/10), which is not a great movie but good performances by actors, specially acting old. Plus interesting to see what happened in recent history during those days. More like fun documentary for me. Also watched Singham (7/10) which was fun. Not a great storyline or amazing plot/performances etc but not bad either. Actually Ajay Devgn (he's Devgn now & not Devgan) & Prakash Raj were quite good. Over the top action, over the top acting, over the top everything with dropping cars, flying people (when slapped by Singham), tacky dialogues etc etc, but FUN. What else do you want from a movie? Every movie is not suppsoed to make you a better person. When Mithun & Dharmendra were doing similar movies but low budget B-graders, we were too posh to watch those & laughed at them. Now we are enjoying similar movies but presented in a better form. Full fledged Action & Masala time is back in Bollywood!!
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