Finally caught No Country For Old Men. The movie kicks a lot of ass. Captive bolt pistols for the win!

More Rome here. About 10 episodes through. I have less tolerance for fictional drama elements of historically insignificant characters. More time is spent on these than what I expected but it's still very gripping and everyone should watch this. I'm just way too pampered by Terry Jones' great historical documentaries and it's completely unfair to expect it from a period soap.

Suresh - When's Eric The Red, Director's Son's Cut out da?

Srikanth Panaman wrote:Suresh - When's Eric The Red, Director's Son's Cut out da?
It's been out since Dec 2007, Amazon has it in stock as will most other outlets. Btw you may want to ensure a DVD edition that has both theatrical and the recent cut because the new version is some 20min SHORTER than the original release.

Donnie Darko turned out to be a pretty good watch. The explanations for the paranormal stuff were unnecessarily twisted, but most of the characters were done well and made for a good story. Except that Drew Barrymore, who can't really act.

Samurai Fiction was good slapstick fun for the most part, and had a smidgen of character development in parts, as well as some cool fights. I also got to learn that hayabusa means falcon, and managed to figure out what "umii oshii desu-ka" meant without reading the subtitles. I'm awesome.

That's pretty impressive, Chacko Ono.

I've started watching BBC travel series called Michael Palin's New Europe. He travels to the very obscure corners of Europe, the eastern side. Split into 7 one hour episodes. The second one had finished downloading so I watched it earlier today. It mainly covers Bulgaria and Turkey. It's great, going to quickly finish with this series and try to download his other travelogues too.

Also saw this New Europe episode on Hungary and Ukraine. Heck, this was even better than the earlier one I posted 'bout.

The Terminator series is only 3 episodes old and I'm already getting bored of this. The science/tech explanations are just so hilariously wrong and hollywood and the teenage soap elements are just killing me. Summer Glau started off as a smart and expressive terminator - she in fact ACTED as a fake person with a fake background and expressions when she was introduced and she's right now having troubles with it. Stupid inconsistency there.

Just read MPD Psycho 1, the controversial manga about a detective with multiple personalities who happens to be an expert profiler. Bizzarre crimes, disturbing artwork and a twisted narrative makes this manga utterly compelling. Hopefully the remaining volumes will come out here.

We saw Ridley Scott's American Gangster. It almost escapes being completely a generic gangster movie on two counts - one, the gangster is actually black (it's the late 60s) and is cutting out the middleman by personally getting the drugs from the southeast and two, well he's got two enemies - the corrupt drug division of nyc police and crowe trying to find them all. It's a true story that I was not aware of. I liked it except little annoyances like the loud and always present soundtrack, a few unnecessary plots (too much time wasted on crowe's marriage-divorce process, cuba gooding jr's pointless appearance) and Denzel managing to overact at least a couple of times towards the end. Russel Crowe and the supporting cast were really good, The drama wasn't too overblown and the action scenes though quite rare in the epic 2 hour 37 minutes, were well done. Oh, it looks great of course. I'd give it 3 thadiyans and a half.

^^I'll probably watch that tomorrow.

Caught the HIGHLY BLAND horror movie produced by WWE Entertainment, See No Evil, which even has Kane in it. My word, it's the cinematic equivalent of being stuck in a lift with a fat guy who produces noxious farts ALL the time. In contention for one of the worst movies ever along with Death Tunnel.

Almost as if due to some absurd Karma, I ended up watching Ron Fricke's STUNNING movie, Baraka. Simply put, I was mesmerized and had to watch the silent film as soon as the first watch got over. Utterly mesmerizing.

Next up I need to catch the Qatsi series by Godfrey Reggio.

Finished watching Michael Palin's New Europe, all the 7 one hour episodes. It covers all the countries this side of the erstwhile iron curtain and finally ends in East Germany. It's a pretty amazing idea to begin with, and done really well.

I caught about 4 episodes of "Michael Palin's new Europe" on BBC when i was recently in Brugge. Really interesting concept and well executed. Need to get hold of the rest.

I also need to get hold of "Jeremy Clarkson's Meet the neighbours" - another series i saw half way through and like.

Hello and welcome. Yeah I saw the Jeremy Clarkson thing on Discovery's Travel & Living. It was good indeed.

Rewatched Barton Fink a couple of nights ago. Absolutely captivating movie and Turturro and Goodman are fucking godly in this one. Also the dude who plays the movie moghul was quite awesome. Just one superb movie.

Caught the movie *everyone's* talking about - Juno.

Eh. It's pretty alright I'd say. Better than your average teen-pregnancy movie.
Anybody else see this?

yeah Juno was pretty alright.

Saw the first 2 episodes of The Wire - S1 on friday and ended up watching the entire season in the weekend. It was totally awesome.