At this time last year, Ronald and I went to a popular restaurant at Sanpada, near Vashi in New Bombay, India to drink bottles of buttermilk. And opposite, is a downtrodden ‘movie hall’ that plays old and down market moves. A cheap ticket grants you access to the ‘sperm bank’; I suspect the audiences jerk off inside! The photo above shows the ‘ticket counter’ and the guy selling tickets. Some clients too.
It is highly unlikely that I’ll watch another movie before the 1st of Jan, 2010. During 2009, I maintained a log of all the movies I’ve seen, by month. Nowthen, it is time to rate them, best few, and, worst few.
BEST MOVIES OF 2009:
The Wrestler (JAN)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (FEB)
Hangover (JULY)
Public Enemies (AUGUST)
District 9 (SEPTEMBER)
A Christmas Carol (NOVEMBER)
TOP 3:
3. Hangover (JULY)
2. Public Enemies (AUGUST) and
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (FEB)
1. District 9 (SEPTEMBER)
WORST MOVIE OF 2009:
Slumdog Millionaire
Since the past eight or nine years, I haven’t watched all those many movies, fewer still at movie halls. It was the day, the 10th of July, 2009, today, I went for Transformers, the rise of the fallen, by myself. The scene outside the movie hall was typical. A lot of’em, came by themselves, the cult, come to watch the movie, Transformers, the rise of the fallen, by themselves. The chap in front of me, in line, buying tickets, a’slave to the corporate scheme of things. Straight out of a conference, dressed in formals, cuddling a blazer under his left arm, “One ticket for Transformers, 2:15 show.”
I was next, “One ticket, Transformers, 2:15 show.”
Half the seats were taken, not bad for a Friday afternoon. Most people, by themselves, others, juvenile, in the company of their juvenile comrades. Knowledgeable, a big cheer went up when Optimus Prime showed up, others jerked off at sights of Megan Fox. But all in all, a good 30 minutes could, and should’ve been cut, I think, the movie actually got boring at times.
At the end of the day, 2/5.
Lisa Ray has always been in the news more because of her stunning looks and less for her acting talent. While she didn’t go far as an actress in the Hindi film industry, not many know that Lisa has done several nude scenes in a raunchy British thriller, Kill Kill Faster Faster.
Not so good. No further comments.
If you haven’t, yet watched, Amores perros (Love’s a bitch, in English), you shouldn’t read this, yet. Having said that, let me warn you, this movie, could be very disturbing, especially, if you love dogs, and can’t watch’em tortured, bleed and die. OKAY. And YA, there ain’t enough sex in it.
Whilst the boys were, in school, in grade ten, the local cable television operator’d telecast pornographic films, at a half past midnight, on the Thursday, and the Saturday, of each week. The news spread like wild fire, through all classrooms, of grade ten.
Examinations were fast approaching, in about eight months time, and the boys’d be, for the first time, attempting, an examination, set, and marked, by the state government. Each Thursday, and Saturday, the boys’d stay up late, at night, studying, I mean, watching pornographic films, on cable television. Failure to do so, would mean, that, one couldn’t actively participate, in discussions, that’d follow before class, during the twenty minute recession, and after class, the following day, about the visual contents, of the film. No Internet, torrents, youtube etc. in those days, remember.
This afternoon, I am going to answer the question, asked to me, most frequently, or should I say, the questions asked to me, most frequently:
“Why such a low rating? Why have you rated the film ZERO out of five?”
“You don’t like this song? What is wrong with you? Are you insane? You don’t like this song? And the band? Dude?”
Well, no, I don’t like the film, I don’t like the song, I don’t like the band. Let me explain, I’m going to bring my degree in Physics into this. Okay. Every body emits a wave of a certain frequency, every body known to man, in this day and age, emits a wave, of a certain frequency. The frequency of the outbound wave, can, and in most cases, will, change, if the body is exposed to radiation.
Filmmaker Girish Menon, last year, released a documentary film, on a World Bank funded project, the Slum Sanitation Program, in India. The film takes a close look at, sanitation facilities, in the armpits of the third world. Inadequate sanitation facilities, is a major concern, in the third world, exposing its residents to contagious diseases, because of which, one isn’t able to report to work, resulting in a decline in income, the standard of living and children’s education.
Today, seems to be a day of announcements. Someone I know, one Mr. Girish Menon, recently made a film on Slum Sanitation in Mumbai, this a World Bank Project for Slum Sanitation. The film is online, http://girishmenon.com/films.html
YA YA YA YA good film, good, bugger, good plot. Wild plot, YA YA YA YAYA watch, bugger, watch. Good shots, nice cinematography, mostly people shots, good shots, bugger, YA YA YA AYA YA YA. Interesting film, about bitches, dirty women, greed, YA YAY AYA YAYA Y, dirty politics and all, good plot, fuckall people, fuckall lives, dirty lives, it is an interesting film about dirty, bad people. YAYAYA YAY AYAY AY A.
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