The day after the big night. The day after a decade of Oscars. This is a better time than most other to air my mixed feelings about awards in the acting categories (hereafter called acting awards) given my interest in fiction.
While the deservingness of awards are eternally debatable, awards play a role in reminding us [...]
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Avatar is no Star Wars
I read and heard a lot of superlatives about James Cameron’s Avatar in the last two months. Some from well-known critics and mostly from the gen-pop — “awesome”. I knew very little about the story itself and that may have helped ground my expectations closer to Earth than Pandora. I waited for the opportunity, and [...]
A Little Further From Fact
I reluctantly accompanied my friends to the airport four hours before my flight time, all three of us fooling me that I would be able to spend the one hour between their flight and mine watching birds. Little did I know that I would have preferred watching hens hatching eggs to that long wait.
On hindsight, [...]
My Unique Movie Watching Experience
The first time I heard about The Man From Earth was a few months ago. The movie is an hour-long discussion of sorts that ensues when a pedagogue presents to his colleagues the hypothesis of a man who has been alive for the past 14000 years. We can imagine how this could go on. My [...]
Terminator Series Salvaged
I was expecting McG’s Terminator Salvation to wind up the Terminator series, an entirely unoriginal and irrational expectation. Little did I know to interpret the title literally: “Terminator Salvation” means “a means of preserving Terminator (series)”. Go lookup the dictionary.
In The Terminator (1984) a T-800 model was sent from the future to kill Sarah Connor. [...]