vindaloo

All week I bide my time anticipating the weekend and then I wonder what was it that I was eagerly awaiting. Most people like to sleep late on the weekend, but as I am a light sleeper(that means on any given day I don’t sleep more than 6 hrs…unless I passed out the previous night) I cannot indulge in that luxury either.

The one thing I decided to do this Saturday(not a very novel decision) was to watch movies. I decided to see old movies(by old I’m referring to ones not running in the theatres as I find it cumbersome to go to a theatre alone), nothing special whichever movies were being rerun on TV and ones that I had on hand with me. Surprising for some but not for those who know me I managed to watch 5 movies, tying my old record set during my winter break in Dayton(I was hoping I could break that record…I know some of guys are going this guys nuts, don’t feel alienated with that thought most people refer to me with similar adjectives). The movies I watched..

Dogma: Worth the watch especially since I like Matt Daemon and Ben Affleck movies. But the good thing about the movie was that I had just had a discussion about religion with my room mate the previous night. The movie is a good satire on Catholicism, at certain points it does stray from the satire to insulting, but I don’t feel that insulted even though I am a catholic, yeah a practicing Catholic. I believe in what I want and no movie or person can change that belief. This movie is a must watch for any fundamentalist, whatever religion you belong to. What I always enjoy about the movie is the Jay and Silent Bob part, especially Jay’s monologues.

Any Given Sunday: I watched this movie now for the 4^th time now, not because it’s that good but it appears on TV I guess every time the football season nears. (Waiting for football to start again. Go EAGLES. TO is in the movie) Jamie Foxx is good, and any movie with Pacino is always worth a watch. I like the speeches, they are always the highlight of any football based movie. Half time speeches, pre game speeches etc.

O Brother where art thou: Only worth watching if one has nothing else to do, that was exactly my case, George Clooney is good though. I also liked the enactment of the KKK, talk about religion and I went from one extreme to another.

The whole nine Yards: Total waste of time. But a good movie to watch when your doing some cooking or laundry and do not mind missing stuff that is on the TV. I guess I have this compulsion to leave the TV on and what better on TV to miss than a movie like the whole nine yards.

Well I thought that was a nice waste of a Saturday, guess this gives me even more reason to start revisiting the library, or at the least start going to the mall to a BORDERS or a Barnes and Noble. If anyone reading this has seen more than 5 movies in a day, I would definitely not like to know bout it, your time I guess is worth even lesser than mine.

# posted by Goan Pao : 8:41 PM