Another Interesting movie... Fight Club.. I was exactly in the same mood yesterday.. totally down.. even my gf, who usually has no work, dumped me coz she got some f* tickets to solve.. dropped early out of office... stopped at trinethra and picked some apples and went home to the comfort of extremely thin couch. That was one hell of a movie.. dont know how i missed it.... one particular interesting thing in that movie.. Brad Pitt aka Edward Norton gives an assignment to his club members that every one should pick up a fight with a total stranger... hmmm.. I might end up punching my boss, next my gf's brother, next all of those starers( whoa! what a name! for those who stare at any one unabashing...) list goes on... this thing is for sure.one day it might happen... but suddenly i was back to my reality when my gf called me o pick her up... now I wish.... you know what :)

Maxed out - review

This is for the guys who revel in bulging their wallets with credit cards. Are you a guy who pays the minimum monthly payment on time? Then you may not have confronted guys who are termed as 'debt collectors', you may not have got any honey combed calls regarding the excess amount you have to pay nearing what you have actually spent. This is a film which gives us a detailed look of excessive credit card debts and how financial institutions make profit out of that. Well, the whole story is about how things go in America, though things are getting scary in India too with most MNCs pushing their gas paddles. It gives us an inside look into the modern financial industry, revealing the industry's drivers and the effects excessive debt can have on customers.
Well, this is a documentary, but i would say more than a docu, mostly hilarious through out the story, also giving us a deep thouht before swiping the card. The film goes like taking different case studies of different persons who got affected by excessive debts. The sequence is well scripted with how the so called financial institution lures the customer into its trap promising lot of offers and then targetting the less than perfect pay backers. Guys, i think this is high time to think before swiping the card. The fact is that the less perfect customers are the most profitable to the financial institution. This film could be an eye opener for us(esp. techies, who are the most targeted). Please watch this film. nothing can go wrong in wasting(i dont think so) a few hours of you weekend.

A tribute to Tolkien

And his master piece..infact two masterpieces, The Hobbiton and the Lord of the Rings. What made me write this? Was it the excellent stroy telling by the maestro himself? or the incredible imagination that he emulates on our minds? or I was too involved.. It has been quite a long time since I read the book( I cant forget those days, maybe I can say it as one of the main reasons for my sixth sem flunk).... "You gotta be really nuts to read such a huge book", My friends used to say.
As for me, the book was a bible, as it triggers imagination out of bounds..creating a sense of aura around you, feelling one among the characters, you could be Aragon or Logolas or Eomer..or even Gimli save his long beard.. I know this post is outdated, but I really liked to give a go as a tribute to the master storyteller.
When the LOR trilogy was released by peter, I was overwhelmed and also disappointed to see what I had imagined. Credits to him, that the picturization almost came upto the imagination, except for the sheer size...ofcourse you couldn't expect all the weird things you think to be realised. One thing I was always sceptic about Tolkien is that did he write the novel keeping europe in his mind, coz the map of the middle earth almost resemble the europa and the middle east.. This could lead to further debates like if the middle earth resembles Europe( or the western world here), then who are they fighting with.. the middle east?.. When you look at the minute deatils of the map, You could find that the land of death valley has oil spurts at places, covered with ash.. does it hit u with oil reserves of the middle east?
Man.. this is getting serious.. I'll stop with this. this is the problem with me.. I started this praising tolkien ending up as his critic..
But Tolkien always denied any allegerical motif to the dangers of the present or the appeasement of the leveling effects of modernism. Tolkien being a post Imperial writer, you might be tempted to think that he might be lamenting on the gradually losing glory of the old england.. We could also make a silly comparison of the hobbits to the europeans.. living peacefully, unarmed, Protected by the Rangers of the north,yet can rise to the occasion, if the situation demands. we could also level up more comparison. but as of now end this up , will be continuing in the next post...........