August 2009
14 posts
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I admittedly didn’t finish watching this movie, but it seems like a worst-case scenario depiction of Bush as a person. What’s particularly disturbing is that even amongst his obnoxious frat-boy friends at Yale he is portrayed as, ultimately, a loser - they cheer him on, but more as that bonehead they keep along because he’s amusing than as a leader of any sort. The problem with...
The Hangover
I had heard from multiple people that this was actually pretty good. Not really a fan. I guess there were some positives about the movie. The part of the story with Ed Helms’ character and his almost-fiance was pretty funny. The way it unfolded was a good idea - to start off with the end-product of all this crazy shit happening and then have the characters attempt to retrace their steps...
Parineeta (spoiler)
I liked this movie. During the climax, I was thinking to myself, “this is ridiculous,” and yet I had this grand feeling of elation. Grand, sweeping metaphors that had been built up throughout the movie came to a head nicely at the end (building a wall that was then broken down; the ruthless, rich father business person that ends up bankrupt in all other senses). It was clean and...
Being Cyrus (spoiler)
There were aspects of the movie I liked, but on the whole I thought it was both boring and too long, which is odd because the movie was only 80 minutes long. The whole point of the first half was to set you up for the shocker, but once the shocker came, instead of just having everything come clear to you in a quick 2-minute montage, they dragged it on for a while (although I liked the fact that...
“Sometimes she was erotic and teasing. She complained he had never taken her to Mirabelles or to the Savoy, and said that recently she had been out for an ice-cream, moulded to a point on the cone in the Argentinian way, and observed what a lovely phallic symbol it made, adding that she had deliberately chosen chocolate in order to be reminded of him.”
- The World is What it Is, the...
Points of Views
via SAJAforum
… The average NRI’s fall from grace in India has been precipitate. The vacuous condescension that marked earlier attitudes has been replaced by desperation to find some accommodation somewhere. The big NRI players have no problem — they have seen their social worth in the West keep pace with India’s soaring reputation as a rising power. But the small fish whose tie and a twang...
Interesting Survey Feedback
Firm Culture & Associate Satisfaction • “The firm is GREAT, (and) access to partners is amazing. I just don’t know if I want to be a lawyer.” – business and finance attorney … • “I think that my job is about as fulfilling as I would find (it) at about any other law firm.” – IP specialist
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys
My interviewer on Friday confirmed explicitly what I had been suspecting for some time now - that most lawyers, even among the most successful lawyers at the biggest law firms, would have preferred to become doctors but didn’t because it was too long a process or they hated a particular science class or something procedural along those lines. This turns the question of “why did you...
Kaminey
All in all I thought it was a great film, if one that was ended a bit lazily. There were aspects of the film that were absolutely brilliant: the gay, violent sexual tension between Shahid Kapoor and Chandan Roy Sanyal (the signature Dhan Te Nah dance move was brilliant); giving the badass identical twin a defect where he pronounces the S sound with the F sound (“paisa kamane ke do raafte...
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The Right Stuff
I’ve pulled a couple of comments about my law school from a recent website thread:
“What’s a Fordham?” “I have never been impressed by Fordham law grads” “roflmao at fordham being called a ‘great school’” “No ones cares what Fordham Law does. Please move on to a real story.”
It’s possible that these comments are from a...
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I actually thought this movie was pretty brilliant (rediff gave it 2 stars), except that in retrospect certain aspects of it don’t make sense and the reviewer is right that certain scenes are redundant. One of the things that makes horror films great is that they’re absurd and sometimes absurdity takes the shape of super cheezy. Here you have this semblance of the perfect family and...
Playing into his hands...
Q. Do you have any regrets?
A. Like all of us, I too have my own set of regrets. I feel sorry for squandering my precious years studying and practicing law. Apart from that, I had in my mind a novel about my country, which could never be written. Thinking in a lighter vein, I sometimes feel how well it would have been if nature had bestowed upon me a six-foot frame.
- Khushwant Singh
The Company of Women →
“The octogenarian writer has declared ‘as a man gets older, his sex instincts travel from his middle to his head.’”