Movie Reviews

The General's Daughter -

A 1999 movie with John Travolta (of whom i am not a fan) as an army detective, tracking the murder of a powerful general's daughter. I enjoyed the movie although its not exceptional. It boils down to "women in the army" and "trade off between career and personal life."

The Crying Game -

A 1992 movie with Forest Whitaker (he is a damn good actor!) and Stephen Rea (i have only seen him in V for Vendetta apart from this one - he is the Inspector there)

Turns slightly weird, but a good movie overall. Based on IRA , the Stockholm Syndrome , and quite a few other interesting concepts. There is an interesting story in the movie, which Forest Whitaker narrates (Don't worry its not a spoiler) I quite liked the story.

Maverick -

A 1994 movie starring Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster, a thorough masala movie. It is worthy of being made into a South Indian flick. Enjoyed it. Though, don't expect to exercise your brain too much on this one.

The Brothers Bloom -

A 2008 movie starring Adrien Brody (of the Pianist fame) which starts off quite sharply but fails to take off. The movie is not smart enough. And the characters are not convincing enough, not even the cute Rachel Weisz who plays the part of an eccentric & rich orphan does the trick.

But a watchable movie overall.

Tell No One -

A 2006 French movie - the story of a man who has lost wife (his childhood love) and after 8 years is framed for murdering her.

Suspenseful and neatly done. Liked the movie. Watch it if you have the patience.

Glorious Movie

Watched Inglourious Basterds yesterday night. Loved it!

By far the best character in the movie is that of a SS Colonel - Hans Landa. You cant help but enjoy this cunning, diabolical and talkative Nazi prick. Brad Pitt does a good job heading the "Basterds", who are a bunch of Nazi scalp hunters in German occupied France during WWII. The opening scene is extremely cold-blooded and has the usual Tarantino long conversation and weird shooting angles. It works!!

The music through out the movie is bang on appropriate and hooks you to the shot at hand.

Although the violence in some scenes is a little difficult to take, it was a wonderful movie with a feel good ending. There are two main lines in the movie - One of the Inglorious Bastards, the other...... go watch the movie!!!

Merry May

IPL is over. It was fun fun but also a little shady. Reminded me of WWF matches.
Apparently bookies had huge losses. So we know who the matches were not being fixed by.
I supported the Bengalooru Royal Challengers. Unfortunately my team lost the final. Cursed "Uppu thuppa" for the stupid batting in the last over. More cricket coming up in June.

Bangalore's weather is beautiful nowadays - Rains occassionally, but is cloudy for most parts.
Sunfeast marathon is coming Sunday - I am not participating this time. Would be a logistics nightmare if the turn out is higher than last time. They are still not closing registrations.

Basketball has resumed. Every weekend in Malleshwaram with the Kumaarrs.
We played at IISC for 3 months. But of late the watchmen are not letting us. Does not matter if the courts are empty and no one uses them anytime of the day/week/year . Losers.

K3 was in town for a month. Achar is still here. Ashwin is coming. All faarin re turn kumaarrs. So weekends busy too.

Not seen any new movies of late. Looking forward to watching Wolverine and T4.

Anyway busy May...

Cheers!
Sep

New Year

My blog begged a New Year post. Any post in fact!
So here goes...

2008 - If at all you make my biography you would call it the year i got married. Not yet felt like i am married though. I like my new roommate - Ashwini keeps the room clean (my half too!) Refreshing after my last roommate. Lifestyle changes: things that came into my life = Hindi movies, things that went out = Books. Otherwise it has been unlike what everybody threatened me married life would be like. Enough of that.
This year i got the opportunity to learn a lot of new stuff and do some good work. Thanks to my colleagues. Learning from books is fun, but learning hands on is so much better. It is indeed a pleasure. I enjoyed it.
Bigger things than me and my marriage happened in 2008. 26/11, global meltdown. Somethings good too. Bhindra's gold, Indian cricket.

2009 - Wish list includes better health, keep up the learning curve, read a little more. Well, wish lists remain just that unless i go and do something about them.
So wishing everyone a Happy and Prosperous 2009 am away on my new year's journey...

Cheers!
Sep