vantage point

Long time since I wrote any blog. Its a long time since I watched any movie worth a blog. Vantage point is a good movie, especially I liked the way it was narrated. It shows 5 different views of a single murder sequence and each time explaining a little further in the story. Although I liked the direction, I found the movie lacking in the story line. Its only the direction which makes it watchable, else it would have been a boring movie. It could have been made much better...

cricket

In the recent world cup you have seen gilchrist using a sqash ball in his gloves. This was considered unethical by a few people but most of the people thought it was perfectly legal. My view about this is that it wasnt right on the part of gilchrist to use such methods which makes it easier to bat. That would only give the batsmen an unfair advantage.

Even earlier whenever such unfair methods were used it was disgarded and were not allowed to be used after the first such incident. Take the case of using a steel bat or using advise of the coach with an earphone. Now only because its an australian using such methods it need not be considered ethical.

Lets say gilchrist is given a clean chit (which is most likely to happen) let us think about what would happen to the future of cricket. You will have springs in the boots for you to help running and also fielding. You can design a helmet that will bounce of it and go for a six, as runs are also counted if you take some evasive action. Basically you will be having an invasion of technology into cricket. The game wont be testing criketing skills instead it tests how well they adapt to new technologies.

300

Long awaited movie review after a long time :)

This is an all out war story. This is acutally a story book adaptation. It is a story about a group of 300 people fight aganist an army of a few lakhs who have come to invade their country. Wonderful computer graphics makes the movie worth the money. Many people liked the movie but somehow I felt there was something missing in it.

First of all the movie is narrated in a story book style. Some may like this as it is different from the normal way the movie is presented. In a movie you are supposed to show the actions that you try to imagine in a book, which is the basic difference between a book and a movie. You repeat the same dialogs as in the book is something absurd. Just imagine this when the war is going on and the son of the captain dies you hear a background dialog saying " the way in which the captain was fighting after seeing his dead son was something even the enemy feared". The same could have been shown in the form of actions... the enemy army being shown with fear in their eyes after looking at the captain's fury.

The war scenes are fantanstic. But the same being repeated for a long time is what I felt was boring. At any point of time you dont feel attached to the movie. Basically the fact that 300 people are sacrificing their lives for their country isnt captured properly. For those who appreciate the special effects in the movie may like it. Overall its a movie watchable but could have been made much better.