30 days of night
What a crap movie. I don't know if I ever shared the fact that I get a headache whenever I watch a really bad movie - that is how I can tell if the movie is bad or not. :-) Pretty rudimentary method for judging movies you would think - especially for a guy who thinks he is a film maker. Well the truth is that every person is an audience member first and foremost and everything else follows. Yeah that's deviating from the thought process but if you can try hard enough - then try and avoid 30 Days of Night - which is utter bull crap. It was made even more disappointing by the fact that David Slade's first movie Hard Candy was a really solid flick. Reasonable acting and beautiful cinematography combined with non-existent storyline or character development or even scares or coherence.The other movie I watched was 'The Root of all Evil?'. It wasn't a movie per se - it was a 2 part documentary put together on 1 disc. It was a fascinating documentary mainly because it deals with religion and God - a topic which usually brings everyone into a heated debate. The first part of the documentary 'The God Delusion' was fantastic and the second part barely reaches those heights, even though it is good - the reason being it mainly explores Christianity and not the other major religions. It lead me down an interesting trip down memory lane about my own dealings with different religions and I am happy the way things have shaped out for me as far as my belief system goes. Now I am tempted to read 'The God Delusion' the book by the same author - Richard Dawkins.
Talking of reading - I finished 'Youth' by J.M.Coetzee and it was a tearful and hard read because of what it is. I don't think I will go into the actual content itself but needless to say you will either know what he is talking about or you won't - there is no middle ground. He is turning out to be one of my favorite authors.
Till later,
Amit
posted by Amit @ 11:48 PM
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