Aussies down :(

Peter Roebeck's columns are a treat to read! Just before yesterday's cricket match(ODI) against Australia and Bangladesh, Peter Roebeck had claimed in his column in 'The Hindu' that Aussies are at a new-low thanks to their defeat in 20-20 against and against a county team in an ODI and Peter said that it wont amuse him if England could beat the Aussies.

Peter Roebeck also claims that Aussies are good-starters and once they are on top they go for the kill, thus not allowing the opponents to comeback. Steve Waugh did the same during the last Ashes tour of England.

Now after reading this coulumn, I got to saw Bangladesh beating the mighty Aussies! That's a major achievement for Bangladesh. It is mostly former Australian players including Richie Benaud who were hard on Bangladesh after their infinite miserable performances. Now with this win, Bangladesh have silenced the Aussie critics!

Aussies did not attack enough all through the match. For most of the match they bowled with only four fieldsmen inside the circle, which is a bad strategy that gave lots of singles to the inexperienced Bangladesh-players.

Another strategy of Aussies which might have got most of the viewers by surprise is 'Jason Gillespie bowling the end-overs with a thirdman up in the circle'. Jason kept bowling the slow offies throughout the slog-overs and at one point of time everyone watching the match knew what ball Jason is going to bowl next(if you wondering what ball - it is the off-spinner!). I think Jason Gillespie is one bowler who bowls with a lot of heart(not with brains unlike Venkatesh Prasad, who bowls extra-ordinary slow-balls). Jason should have bowled his heart-out with his superb length-deliveries, yorkers and the fast-bouncers!
Guess, the Aussie think-tank were over-confident!

The Godfather series

Great movie!
Guess I saw this movie for the nth time, but this time I made it a marathon i.e 1, 2, 3 at one go!
Enjoyed the movie like never before.

The slowness of the movie and the rather sober background music was the best part I liked about this movie. On the contrary, it is because of the same two reasons why I hated watching 'Donnie Darko'(add to that an unexplained story!). 'The Godfather' made sense to me because the plots and sub-plots in this movie was explained, but the plots and sub-plots in 'Donnie Darko' is a mystery!

One of Kill Bill's advertisement reads 'Revenge is a dish best served cold' suits 'The Godfather' movie-series.

Friends and Big Fish

Friends:

Got the chance to see the episodes of Friends season 1, 2 and 3, enjoyed the same!
I think the best episode has to be the one in which Ross and party travel to UK for the wedding and then Rachel also wishes to come-in at the last moment!
Joey and Phoebe were great fun to watch!

Big Fish:

Good movie!
Magical Realism in full-flow!

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Donnie Darko

Ordinary movie.
Expected this movie to be of the horror-kind(read the title!), which I normally dont enjoy. But the worst part was that the movie is was too-slow and the music too dull. Remember another movie which was way-too-slow and the music too slow, was 'Ek Chotisi Love Story'.

Wonder how this movie pulled-off a casting coup(including Drew Barrymore(also an Executive Producer of this movie), Patrick Swayze)!

Van Wilder and Born on the Fourth of July

National Lampoon - Van Wilder:

Good college-comedy movie.
Tara Ried looked real hot in this movie!
Had earlier seen another top-class Lampoon movie which was a spoof on Independence Day and other alien movies.
But this Lampoon movie was a lot different with an original story.
American teen-comedy as a movie-genre is great fun to watch - including 'Revenge of the Nerds i, ii, iii and iv, American Pie series, Adam Sandler-movies, Trip-movies.

Born on the Fourth of July:

Ordinary movie.
I had earlier seen a couple of movies set in the backdrop of Vietnam-war and when I watched this movie had nothing new to offer.
'American history' is a great-read particularly the turbulent 60's and early 70's.
Best 'Vietnam' related readings/serials/movies according to me include
a. Art Buchwald's columns(mostly a parody on Nixon and his Vietnam war),
b. 'The Wonder Years' and 'Tour of Duty' television serials,
c. 'Forrest Gump' movie

The 300 Spartans

The 300 Spartans:

Ordinary movie. This War-movie which sings praises on the Spartan-army, also insults everyother army.
Wars are stupid and war-movies are no exception to this stupidity. Just like 'The 300 Spartans', the movie 'Troy' also talks about 'omens' which gives warriors and rulers a false-sense of security about the future. This sounded really stupid!

Hoping to learn a little about Greek history via wikipedia before watching any more Greek war-movies.

Seven Years in Tibet

Good movie.
This movie tries to explore few traces of world-history(my favourite subject in school), so enjoyed those sequences.

Had Johnny Depp played the same role as Brad Pitt, the sequences with Dalai Lama(younger) would have been more interesting. Johnny Depp and his pranks are always a treat to watch and Johnny Depp has great chemistry with young-actors!

Woh Lamhe

The song 'Woh Lamhe' by Atif Aslam is good. But the controversy surrounding it really sucks (the Bhatts and the Pakistan 'Jal' band brigade).

Pakistani-pop bands are rich in talent when compared to Indian pop-bands but guess the financial backing is not there!