call it the power of memes. its an itch. to blog. to tell the world what I think.
not that the world needs one more person's opinions, but hey, what the heck, that ain't going to stop me! what does stop me though is my laziness. and my disinterest in telling the world what I think. but the mind has a mind of its own which only the mind knows, and so as a compromise between my mind's desire to blog and my desire to keep shut here's a little something. a mini blog. a tumblelog.
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Speaking of kicking ass, I saw “Kick Ass” a week or two ago. The movie tries to be something - though I can’t place a finger on what it wants to be. Certain parts were funny, other parts were superhero movie-ish, and yet other parts were sad. Unlike the title, the movie doesn’t really kick ass!
Worse of all, they killed Nicholas Cage. Unnecessary. Nobody ever kills Nicholas Cage in a movie, even in a cameo role.
The fight sequence in the end was kick ass though. Where that little girl goes about killing everyone. Awesome. (The girl’s great, by the way. Much better than the protagonist). And the background score in that bit is cool.
I thought “Salt” would be like “Wanted” or “The Expendables”. Wild, wicked, evil action.
But it isn’t that way. Its got some action, but that’s the usual sort as in all other action movies. And the story’s kind of predictable.
Watch it though coz its got Angelina Jolie. And its always good to see her kick ass!
Just saw “The Expendables”. Bloody cool movie, with some equally bloody action. There’s not much story to the movie (obviously!) but the action’s great, and the movie’s cool. Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham royally kick ass. Jet Li isn’t much in the limelight; I was hoping he’d have more screen presence and action. Jet Li sort of got beaten up in at least two action scenes. Possibly to make up for that, Sylvester Stallone let himself get beaten up in one action scene. (But the nice thing is that they joke about it and let you know this whole thing is a take it easy thing).
Arnold S. had virtually no screen presence. Heck, Bruce Willis had more screen time and dialogue. Mickey Rourke had even more, and was fun.
Go watch it! Great movie.
I am around, but just too lazy to blog. Saw a bunch of good movies recently, I meant to blog about them but then didn’t feel like. Plus I had this feeling in my head that each time I saw a good movie I had this urge to quickly blog about it. And I didn’t like that … I don’t want to be compelled to do something just cause. So I skipped blogging on the impulse, and then my laziness took over, and hence there’s no posts these past few days. :p
Oh well …
I’m sure I’ve used this website before, but it was a pleasure to come across http://www.canyouseeme.org/ (once again). The website lets you check whether a particular port is open on your IP. Very useful!
Previously I’d use the “ssh” client on my N900 to try connecting to a particular port and see if the connection gets established.
Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” is beautiful. The experience of watching it was similar to the sense of amazement and wonder I had while reading the book (I haven’t read “Through the Looking-Glass”, unfortunately). The characters and dialogues have this “mad” sort of feel to it. Everything is so surreal yet real. The plot is simple, and the movie progresses neatly through it. Wonderful!!
Robert Zemeckis’s “A Christmas Carol”, on the other hand, was boo boo boring! Too much special effects and drama. The story and the point it makes are simple, and yet the way this movie was taken makes it all so complicated and bigger than necessary, so you don’t really get the message through. I didn’t like it at all.
Saw Sajid Khan’s “House Full” this weekend. Eugh, what an experience. “House Full” is one of those rare Hindi movies that irritated me so much so that I actually left watching it midway. I am usually very patient when it comes to suffering through bad movies (heck, I even watched “Raavan” and “Raavanan” back to back in spite of not liking it!) and I am a HUGE fan of David Dhawan comedies that require you to usually leave your brain at home and just enjoy the movie - but I still couldn’t handle “House Full”. That’s how awful it was.
The three heroines are HOT though!
Stories such as these ([1], [2], and [3]) make me glad that I’ve invested in an alternate media-player (cum-phone) like the N900. At least with the N900 I don’t have to convert my videos to a specific number of limited formats, or use an media manager app to copy music/ videos/ photos to it, or be in any way limited as to what I can do with the device coz the creators so deemed it. I am free to do what I wish with the N900, and that’s a big deal.
Mind you, I do love the iPod Touch etc for its class and attention to detail. But I do love the N900 too, for the freedom it gives me.
That said, speaking of the N900, its been behaving better these past few days. I changed the theme from an-DROID, which I had downloaded through the App Manager, to the default one (the blue one). And the phone feels a lot snappier since then. I guess the theme choice too matters.
