You wake up at Seatac, SFO, LAX. You wake up at O'Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth, BWI. Pacific, mountain, central. Lose an hour, gain an hour. This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. You wake up at Air Harbor International. If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?
We're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.
Several Months Back When I watched the trailer of The Dark Knight in You Tube, thought was like “What the Hell " ... In a role where Jack Nicholson played as the joker.. will Heath Ledger fit the bill..., has Christopher Nolan gone bonkers or what. Similar Responses to the trailer in You tube, or rather several responses similar.
Bingo, Bang on Target, Bull Eyes. Now no one talks about Bruce Wayne, Christopher Nolan or even Batman. It’s Joker all the way around now. It’s dispiriting to know that Heath Ledger has passed away. That was an Oscar winning performance.
If you haven't had a choice to read one of DC Comics Brilliance, Batman, do read it if you get a chance then you can understand the brilliance behind the script. This definitely doesn't fall under the genre of comic book turned film category. Instead this has the potential to make the reverse true. The perception of one who has read/haven't read the comic definitely will come into play. Those 2 sects will have different reviews/feel for the movie. Reading a single comic and watching the film is as good as not reading at all. I still remember the Batman Show which comes in DD Metro on Saturday's 6 PM when I was going to school. I never missed it. This was the video snippet of the same.
I always watched this during those days. Great Times!!!!
One of the greatest disappointments in the film is Katie Holmes; she wasn’t there in the movie to play the role of Rachel Dowes. That was a big letdown. Somehow Maggie Gyllenhaal was uninspiring. Alfred was as usual. The film looked like Nolan already had a sketch of ‘The Dark Knight’ before 'Batman Begins'. Looks like he warming himself in Batman Begins. The Real sport was The Dark Knight.
http://www.imdb.com/chart/top - Kidding Me!!!! Agreed Dark Knight is good. Too good, you bet!! But to beat God Father, Nah. I won’t agree to it. Can’t agree. God Father is an epic by itself. As I post this blog, Dark knight is leading the list with around 1 lakh votes with 9.4,another 1 lakh vote similar .. Freezeeee...The Dark Knight will sustain the spot where God Father was ruling for decades.
The film begins with the famous Joker Bank Robbery, with all the ingredients for a true action flick. Then as the movie goes I somehow felt bored for the next 40 - 60 minutes, I felt things were dragging. Whenever the Joker comes, one tend to go to the edge of the seat then sliding slowly to the stretched position, the film made me oscillate like this for the first 40-60 minutes, then the rest of the movie is what you call “Pinni Pedal Eruda Padam”... There is no stopping by. The Biggest plus is the music. The slow reverberating batman theme is purely awesome and adds a thrilling, edge of the seat action feel. This is not a movie based on a graphic novel not a action flick. Like the fusion music, for some reason for the screen play in the film, it gives you a different feel. Spider Man, that's a true comic hero adapted film. This one gives you a completely different experience.
Though it was dragging for me in the initial, when the climax reel was spinning I felt like wont the movie be any longer. Won’t I have a sequel to this. Not sure whether the Nolan plans to have sequels for the Batman Series. It will be interesting to see if can bring up Robin into the frame but then it will become like a true comic adaption but it will be fun anticipating to watch out whether he can turn the same like what he did for 'The Dark Knight'. Apart from the Joker Villian, there are other interesting villains known by Batman Enemies, will be entertaining to see if Nolan can play with those stuff.
Its been quite some time since I wrote a post on movies. And know what, I have been watching quite a lot of them but none of the post was on them, so writing on something which I like doing it. Here goes the list ...
Wall Street : Charts, Graphs, Numbers, calls, puts, options etceteraetcetera, if you are fantasized about these terms in you day to day life, then this is definitely a must watch. Edward Norton in 25th Hour in the very famous dialogue renders " Fuck the Wall Street brokers. Self-styled masters of the universe. Michael Douglas, Gordon Gekko wannabe mother fuckers, figuring out new ways to rob hard working people blind. Send those Enron assholes to jail for FUCKING LIFE!" . I wanted to watch this movie when I heard this dialog and when searched about this film, the rating on IBDB was good and the user comment stated as " Taut, sharply written thriller" and adding to the fact that Michael Douglas got an Oscar Award for the actor in leading role and a number of other awards, I must say it only added fuel to the fire. There is a quite a lot of scenes that I like in the movie, to mention one, it will be this- Gordon Gekko and Bud Fox in their conversation in the limousine, Gekko says "You see that building? I bought that building ten years ago. My first real estate deal. Sold it two years later, made an $800,000 profit. It was better than sex. At the time I thought that was all the money in the world. Now it's a day's pay." When all the movies that I was watching revolved around themes like crime, mystery, romantic comedy, wars etc etc, this one was way different from the others and definitely one of my fav.movies and I wont get bored watching this again and again.
Gandhi: WOW, I wasn't aware that there was a Hollywood film on Gandhi till I watched this. This is a Great Film, I just don't have anything else to say for this movie. This is ranked 8.1 and it stays at 164 and that is clearly a score which is under rated for this film. This deserves much more than that. Shooting a life history of a man is no joke and requires careful attention to detail. There a no of scenes that I liked in the movie, the one that stands atop is, before he sets himself for the dandi march, Vince Walker ( the reporter played by Martin Sheen) asks Gandhi " You Know what you are gonna do" for which he replies" It would be very uncivil of me to make such a long distance for nothing" and there comes the Dandi March and what comes later the History has taught us. Apart from What I learnt about Gandhi in textbook as the Father of the Nation, I knew nothing much, once I started reading the auto biography of Gandhi but I didn't come to that part where he strived hard for the freedom of the nation.Watch this film and you will get to know that. This is truly a classic. This is one of the scenes from the movie. ( PS: this film got 8 Oscars)
Seabiscuit: OkkaMokka. Gum ThakaPadamethu. Such a beauty this film is. Based on a book, I am not sure whether this was a true story or not, whatever it is,this film just excels. This is also not one of those regular crime or action stuffs. This is all about a Horse and a jockey. Definitely a must watch. and this is one of the good scenes from the movie which I could get hold of in You tube, however I couldn't snatch my fav scene where the jockey explains, the race is in his heart and not in his eyes. One of the you tube comment said " There is nothing more beautiful than a horse" ha ha. That's how you feel after the movie.
Pulp Fiction : They call him the master of Dark Humour- Quentin Tarantino , all his films stand apart from other directors and Pulp Fiction is no different. ( PS: It is Ranked all Time 5thposistion in IMDB Top 250) I did like this film but I am still skeptical how it made it to the top 5. The others being GodFather 1 and 2, Shawshank Redemption, Good bad and Ugly.Those are epics in their own classes. Pulp fiction is good stuff but still to make it to the top 5, I personally didn't feel like. I would rate Fight Club better than this. And the screen play in this movie was so elegant and Yeah, he got an oscar for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for this movie :) .Jules the character played by Samuel Jackson is my pick in the bundle of characters in the movie. The following dialogue comes around 3 times in the movie and its just awesome and delivered by of course Jules . "There's a passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you. I been sayin' that shit for years. And if you ever heard it, it meant your ass. I never really questioned what it meant. I thought it was just a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before you popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin' made me think twice. Now I'm thinkin': it could mean you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. 9mm here, he's the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could be you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. I'd like that. But that shit ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be a shepherd."
Mayavi:Jo Jo Jythokiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.. nee vaatamakuttiberika..... but apart from her, the role satyaraj played by satyan was hell a lot of a comedy. Watch for his reactions in the movie. Good song from the movie
Rain Man: Dustin Hoffman was just awesome and Tom Cruise in his late 20's, one of his earlier movies, this is not one of his action flicks,this film is all about a relationship between 2 brothers. Having watched a number of mission accomplished stuff from Tom Cruise, this was a real treat. And one more film that I want to watch of his is Jerry Maguire. its been in my pending list for a long time. This movie is like say Anbe Siva etc where the story revolves around 2 characters on screen. But this isn't a Tom Cruise Film, the show stealer is Dustin Hoffman. Those scenes which exhibit Dustin Hoffman's memory like those Aeroplane accidents, playing cards, counting match sticks and Tom Cruises spell-bound by those are too good. This film had quite a interesting scenes between those 2.
Down in the Valley & The Painted Veil : Being a true Edward Norton film, I went for these 2 and both let me down only the films not the actor. But still I say avoid these film else it will be a waste of time :)
The Silence of the Lambs:While I was randomly looking for movies in imbd, this film caught my attention, first thing, it won 5 Oscars, and that too it sweep-ed the main 5 , Best Actor, Actress, Picture, Director and Screen Play. and that too Antony Hopkins comes in the movie for just 20 minutes and gets away with an oscar for the best actor. Till date this actor maintains that record for appearing for the shortest time and getting away with an Oscar :) That guy was a terror in the film and Jodie Foster was simply amazing as well. Those interview scenes between her and Antony Hopkins were just awesome. Hannibal Lector, the way it is stressed in the film adds sweat to the one watching the film. "You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? And that accent you've tried so desperately to shed: pure West Virginia. What is your father, dear? Is he a coal miner? Does he stink of the lamp? You know how quickly the boys found you... all those tedious sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars... while you could only dream of getting out... getting anywhere... getting all the way to the FBI." That's the opening scene for Hannibal Lectar. The way he delivers the dialogue induces terror in Jodie Foster but still she hides them and try to look casual. That was one hell a lot of a scene.
Insomnia : I love watching Christopher Nolan movies ( Batman begins was a real suprise, it had lots of philosophies in it) , that's the reason I went for this and since this also had Al Pacino in it, I rented this and pity only the place Alaska where the movie was picturised was good and nothing else :(
Fast and the Furious:Tokyo Drift : MaaaaaaaamaaaaaaaaaSitaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... WOW, I always like Fast and Furios and this is no let down. The first song in the movie 6 days, that was lingering in my mind for a long time. Tried searching for the video of the same but couldn't get it. No wait as I was searching and composing this, I got hold of it. Watch this.
LOST Season: WOW. This deserves a separate post.
The movies that I have lined up for the week are God Father 2, Jodha Akbar, Tamil MA, Blood Diamond etc:- :P
I want to go out to a top of a building and shout like everybody hears me loud, and the entire world staring at me what’s this kid upto?It’s been sometimes I messed up things around me. I have been in situation where I had no choice but to get screwed up and I do let it happen and get screwed. Like they dance like no one watching, I have done things like write like no one reading, work like no one paying me, live like there is no tomorrow, love like no body cares...
Tony in 24 Season talks about Jack, commenting that some people are more comfortable in stress, well I am definitely not comfortable at stress but I really want to be in a pressured time, I am totally bored with having all the time in the world,if not this post wont be coming up right now. I want to do the 25th hour thing in the 24th hour rather than having all 24 hours before me.
I want to fight, I want to hit someone in the eye so that it black out him, of all of the testimonials that i had in orkut, if I am asked to pick the one that I like, this will be it...
“Closest of friends… and this testi is not any praise for this guy, but just a moment in our fun filled lives.. only once in his life would he have fought with someone and I was lucky to be there at the moment to witness it… his fight with butty was so physical, brutal and also cool… and the few around knew that this wont last long, we just witnessed it and did nothing to stop… surprisingly ponam won comfortably in the end… and to nobody’s surprise, it took only seven minutes before all of us went for a beer with two guys having scars and pain through them… and don’t even bother to ask why there was a fight on the first hand… its difficult to understand.." The above was said about me by Billy, one of the closest buddies since college.
Inspired from Fight Club “After you fight, the entire volume comes down and you could face almost anything in life.” I want to do it again... I want to fight until the other person says I QUIT or I say I quit.
Tyler Durden asks “If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?”
Well Frankly I don’t know how to answer that, has anything I have done made my life better?
“Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want? Get out of your apartment. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned”
When I wrote the above post, nothing was saved, not even time, it was a total crap waste of time. But then nothing mattered. All that matters how you feel end of day, were you happy doing it. That's what matters, nothign else, absolutely NOTHING ELSE.
Some time back I was totally screwed up, I will always have pile of things above me, not knowing which to pick up, ever pre occupied, I was the so called busy professional .. Screw everything, screw people writing code in java and getting null pointer exception,everybody who scrap in orkut, scrapping strangers Do I know you, hey can we be friends,I saw you at my cousins weddding,Do you remember me screw them all,that ting ting sound which comes in gtalk, people who are trying to multiply coins in Wall Street, looking all those god damn charts making nothing out of it, who waste time watching movies 25/7, everybody who posts blog and more of all everybody who reads those posts, , people who reply to all the thread mails in the world, those who are giving project deployments, those who test the products, those who leave a voice message - 'Hey Man,giveee me aa call.. phone eduka mudiyatho.. sir romba busyooo", those who are planning for the next long weekend, all holidays in the calendar, those who trying to learn something new, those who stay all night and work and still get no appreciation for it. , those who learn guitar playing till their fingers bleed, those who draw cartoons, those who want to travel places, those to buy groceries in that deparment store out that and trying to woo the sales girls there , those who snooze their alarm clocks every morning and never getting up at the time they set alarm on, those who read newspapers everyday reading every line making no matter out of it, those who are reading this right now, don’t you have anything better in your life to do, all, all, all of them
No Not all, Screw Me I had it all, and I threw it away, you dumb!
Bhooma Devi vaya thoraka pora, namma ellorum ulla poga porom (this I heard in a bus stop, a fellow was shouting this and going, I was like: O)
I’ll run. Keep running. I will run to middle of nowhere, take that road as far as it takes me to a different world. . Nothin' at all for miles around. Nothin' bu blue sky. Not a soul in sight. No sirens. No car alarms. Only silence out there, I will find peace. I will find GOD.It all came so close to never happening. This life came so close to never happening.
Yappa oru one hour time pass aachu.. it was good writing something totally irrelevant and being violent :P, I liked it. Watch 25th Hour. Period.
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