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Anybody watching 3rd season of dexter??
Comments??

3rd season is pretty slow, and I'm not really interested in any of the subplots. Well, only a matter of time before it ends like the 2 seasons before it. And you know what I mean.

its okay so far. It doesn't go much beyond what the first 2 seasons were. Decent timepass at the least.

Nevermore - DVD
Halfway through. Looking great so far.

Watched the new Futurama last week which was pretty cool, keeping things like the episodes. Also saw Miller's Crossing, which was fuckin' cool.

Currently reading Poornachandra Tejaswi's Minchulli, which is superb fare for people interested in reading about nature in south india - he has a very cool way with words, and most of his stories are hilarious. Minchulli translates to Kingfisher btw. Apart from this, plodding through Upamanyu Chatterjee's The Last Burden where I need to look at a dictionary every three pages or so.

Saw Bruce Campbell's Man With The Screaming Brain. Set in Bulgaria, Bruce plays the typical ugly American in a foreign land. There are gypsies, Russian gangsters, mad scientists and just about everything you'd expect from a Bruce Campbell movie. There's even Stacey Keatch playing a mad scientist with Ted Raimi as his assistant and both of them seem to be having a blast playing up atrocious East-European accents. The movie is pretty much laugh a minute till Bruce finds himself resurrected with half the brain of a Russian gangster and there the movie dissolves into slapstick. But overall, quite good timepass.

@crypticmyth - if you like the way Thejaswi writes about nature you should definitely check out some of his other books. Parisarada Kathegalu would be a good start. I also really love his novels Karvalo and Chidambara Rahasya.

Started on a book called War at the end of the world by Peruvian writer Maria Varga Llosa who sounds like a Ricky Martin song. So far so good. Supposed to be some allegorical tale on Brazil.

Hm, just as I spoke, Dexter has upped the ante in a big way. Interesting. Tearing through a lot of Pratchett at the moment (all of which were bought on Prachit's recco). Finished Guards!Guards!, Thief of Time and Night Watch, on Going Postal right now, and I've got Making Money and The Wee Free Men left. Watched a bit of that new X-Files movie - haha, it's so bad. Hey is that Lou Ashby as the serial killer?

poorna wrote:
@crypticmyth - if you like the way Thejaswi writes about nature you should definitely check out some of his other books. Parisarada Kathegalu would be a good start. I also really love his novels Karvalo and Chidambara Rahasya.
Parisarada Kathe was the book I had chosen as my non-detail textbook in tenth standard (along with Masti Iyengar's Nammoora Rasikaru which was also pretty damn cool). Know it in and out :D

Yet to read Karvalo (which I picked up) and Chidambara Rahasya though.

Have any of you seen Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye! yet ? I heard its really good.

^^Releasing tomorrow here and it's directed by the guy who did Khosla ka Ghosla so people seem to be having high expectations from it. I think I'll watch it over the weekend.

Just saw Oye Lucky and thought it was fucking brilliant. About the evolution of a small time thug in Delhi. The film is very Dally from its language to its attitudes, but Abhay Deol (looking more Dharmendraesque than he ever has) is just likable enough for you to be mostly sympathetic and rooting for the thug. Great script writing that sustains an essentially anecdotal film for its two hour plus running time.

^Ditto. A really kickass film that captures typical Dilli attitudes in all its glory (?). Abhay Deol fits the role to a tee, very stylish and suave. I think everyone involved in making this film had a ball working for it and it really shows. I may have missed a few little jokes the first time. Should see it again some time.

Saw this decent action film called Taken where Liam Neeson plays a retired CIA operative who's daughter is kidnapped by Albanian flesh traders while holidaying in Europe. Neeson goes on a rampage in Paris and kicks lots of ass. Good timepass and the most fun action thriller since Bourne Ultimatum.

Also saw this Anime called Afro Samurai. This was some director's cut of 5 episodes with Samuel L Jackson voicing Afro Samurai and without a doubt the worst anime I've seen yet. It's going for some sort of Samurai meets blaxploitation feel and just comes across as really irritating with every character having an exaggerated accent and the whole plot and storyline just seems tossed together so you can have one fight scene after another. Terrible terrible shit and even the fight scenes are mostly badly done.


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