Finally a weekend in Bangalore and I managed to squeeze some watching time in.

It Might Get Loud

A nice retrospective documentary of sorts involving three guitar players from a generation separating each. Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White sit around and talk about how they got into rock music, their first guitars etc. It's worth it for Page's bits. The guy set the template for heavy rock guitar playing after all - I'm not much into the other two, though Jack White really knows his roots evidently.

Watched all the seven episodes of Archer - Not digging the visual style too much, and the series had a bit of a bad start, but it really takes off well after the first episode. It's yet another dysfunctional-lot-and-their-adventure, but the writing is good enough to pull it off.

maybe it'd have been more fun with Jack Black thrown in instead :P

I would've probably not finished the movie.

Zombieland

this was fun!

Saw Tango and Cash. This was a pretty good 80s style ass kicker starring Stallone and Kurt Russell. It was a little less funny than it thought it was and some of the in jokes seemed a little forced but was an entertaining one time watch. Tango and Cash are a couple of cops framed by the British, Italian and Japanese mobsters who are running riot all over LA. They escape prison and extract a hilarious vengeance.

Tango & Cash has some of the best series of wiseguy tradeoffs.

Halfways through the 'Making of' for Dev D. Yea, this is one really good feature, probably the best for an Indian film so far. Anurag has a fair number of revealing things to say about how he approached the film and there's a lot of behind the scenes production footage which makes things very interesting.

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HathyaSaiBaba wrote:
It was a little less funny than it thought it was and some of the in jokes seemed a little forced but was an entertaining one time watch.
Worst joke is:
"Who taught you how to drive?!"
"Stevie Wonder!"

Yeah, that one was better in Die Hard.

Finished Seasons 3 and 4 of Dexter. Season 3 was quite unremarkable. No awesome moments like in Seasons 1 or 2. Season 4 was smashing for John Lithgow's understated performance. The "twist" at the end of the season was kinda lame but it does raise some interesting questions for Season 5.

Went on an absolute 30 Rock trip sometime back and watched the first 2 seasons over the course of 2 days. Lotta fun. Tina Fey <3

The sixth season of House MD turned out to be quite boring. Full character assassination happened. Unfathomable, as the show is extremely dull without House's quirks. A few weak attempts were made at restoring the mannerisms by the 12th/13th episode but too little, too late.

Zombieland was one of the most boring movies I've watched in a while. Utterly devoid of any entertaining moments. I mean, don't get me wrong, I like myself a mindless gore-laden fest once in a while (Midnight Meat Train anyone?) but there wasn't even enough gore in this movie. Hackneyed characters, fucking terrible dialogue and apart from the Ghostbusters song and the surprise of For Whom the Bell Tolls at the beginning, very unremarkable music score too.

OTOH, Mary and Max (danke, Chacko san)turned out to be a completely awesome watch. Very muted but full of memorable scenes and dialogue. The music score was also fucking terrific. Loved this one.

Thanks to a spanking new net connection, finally got Kaminey and Dev D, 2 movies that I've been wanting to watch for a while but haven't found worth dedicating my hitherto limited bandwidth for. This should be a fun week ahead.

You ought to be the judge of how fun the weekend is AFTER you are done watching those. They are both okay movies with some good parts IMO.

Outlander

Whoever thought a movie about Vikings squaring off against alien creatures could be so dull? Sheer waste of time, this Army of Dampness.

HathyaSaiBaba wrote:
You ought to be the judge of how fun the weekend is AFTER you are done watching those. They are both okay movies with some good parts IMO.

Heh, I meant that it would be fun in the sense that I can get more stuff to watch. Haven't been able to sit through Kaminey or Dev D in full yet. Dev D has its moments in the first hour or so that I've watched so far. Kaminey has been quite dull in about the same amount of time.

I got the 3rd season of 30 Rock, Network and Paranormal Activity. Let's see how this goes.

WatchedSupersize Me, a documentary on the fast food industry in America, and more specifically McDonald's. It was pretty decently done except that it veers towards propaganda quite often.

Sita Sings The Blues

Apart from the immensely stupid gabbing between three yuppie stooges who're trying to be this modern Indian perception of the events of the Ramayana, this was a film with its charming moments and an example of how even simple animation can have a lot of personality. A very spirited indie effort. I will do a full review shortly.

Tintin in Tibet

Watched Season 1 of Hustle. This revolves around a gang of 5 con artists who pull off elaborate con games (and some not-so-elaborate ones including selling off the london eye) based on the principle of ripping off the greedy and the undeserving and uh... keeping the spoils for themselves.

The fact that they never get caught despite hardly ever disguising themselves is a bit silly but it's really good fun as it has some pretty memorable scenes and a treat if you particularly enjoy the idea of a well-played con.