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I just finish watching Band of Brothers, for the second time. Watching a good movie is like having delightful sex. You want to talk to someone at the end. Since I don’t have my dear friends around me, I’m doing the next best thing. Writing to you guys.

First time I watch that in HBO some years back. What a movie it was. 12 long hours. I don’t know how humanly possible to create such a movie, long 12 hours and still every millisecond of it very well planed, and most of all, very well done. Only way I can explain that is, Spielberg, Tom Hanks and others who made this movie are above normal human capacity. So I watched it again.

I’m not a big fan of war. I’m a type of a person, who likes to send other people to do evil things to evil people, so I can sleep tight on my comfortable bed every night. Been such a person have lot of advantages. It gives me chance to have my hot Ceylon tea and discuses about war with my friends or argue about it in blogs. It gives me chance to be proud about those men and woman we send out there to do evil things to evil people in evil circumstances. And click forward button in my outlook and show how much I care about those people. Or write something like let triple gem protect our solders or Gold bless our solders. And then go on doing other things such as look at funny emails or have Chinese fried rice with deviled chicken.

Even you like war or not, everyone must watch Band of Brothers. Not because it is a good movie. Because it can make you little bit closer to the experience solders go through in every millisecond, so you don’t have to do what they are doing. It will make you think twice before next time you say yes or no to war. It will make you shame of yourself if you click on the link minutes before, because you thought somehow you can support our troops by clicking on a link.


28 November, 2008

Most Low-Tech James Bond Ever

I push my body pretty hard. Not the way James Bond does - but staying up all night front of the computer, working too hard, sleeping on uncomfortable airport plastic lobby chairs, not eating correct and not doing any sort of workout. So I decide to take a physical test and see how my body is doing. Doc said I have perfect blood pressure, perfect weight and I'm healthy. That is a perfect news anyone can have. Therefore I decided to treat myself.

I never seen a James Bond movie in a theater. But today I happened to be at the correct place at the correct time. If you want to treat your self for been healthy, James Bond is the perfect movie to watch - because no other movie can make you feel good about yourself than 007. James Bond is the most fed-up character in the cinema with all the technology and money around him. Just like he said, double O has very short live expectancy (Hey, I have 72.89). Even the fellow can't have sex without risking his life - have a martini without getting poisoned - Bond got beat-up on his bolls in Casion Royale. Alright.. He get a Free Office Car - but getting beat-up on the balls? - That is a bad deal right there.

Casino Royale is the most low-tech James Bond movie I have seen. It starts black and white, with a very low-tech fight in a very low-tech bathroom ending in a very low-tech killing. Then there is an exaggerated Parkour seen I love, a low-tech sport, but excellent sport to watch.

The movie is all about lengthily card game in tuxedo. I'm pretty sure none where tuxedos to casinos anymore. But this is 007 - the only man kill people in tuxedo. Anyway there is very little or almost no driving in the movie. No Q. No watch. No flying. No diving. No missiles. No breasts or nude girls. The whole move is very un-Bond-likely. Even they use Google for find things! Hey! Even I can do that!

But this is a one of the best Bond movies I have seen. Daniel Craig is very deferent Bond form Pierce Brosnan and the whole movie is deferent altogether. I like the fact this movie doesn't overkill gadgets like invincible cars in Die Another Day.

After the movie, I had a beer - no poisons in it - no beating on my bolls - no tuxedos. Had a good sleep, got up in the morning, now writing this post sitting on my comfortable chair. Hey. I'm happy. Happier than Bond - James Bond.

29 November, 2006

Watch Borat, or Borat will be Executed

Sacha Baron Cohen is without a doubt most politically incorrect comedian. His new movie 'Borat' is out (in US). I have seen some of 'Borat' performance in his Da Ali G Show. The character 'Borat' pushes my boundaries too far; it is quite painful to watch it sometimes. But I always like the way he stretch the boundaries and his bravery.

In his Ali G show, he perform three characters 'Borat' (Kazakhstani journalist) , 'Ali G' (gang member of the "West Staines Massiv") and 'Bruno' (Gay reporter from an Austrian TV station).
Those three characters far deferent from each other - for quite sometimes, I thought it was three people performing. Here is Borat wiki - check out his Biography - quite controversial.

I believe comedians are magicians. They use thing around you and me - and create something totally deferent out of it. It pushes our limits and makes us wonder. Sacha is very good at it.

Moliere is a 16th century comedian I like a lot. Once he collapsed on stage and died few hours later, priests refused to visit him because he was a comedian. And refused to give him a proper Christian burial. From Moliere's Tartuffe to Sacha's Borat, comedy came a long way. It is not just only comedy; it represents freedom.

Politically Incorrect comedy is nothing new to Sri Lanka. All our traditional performance like 'Lenchina', 'Puppet Theatre' or 'Thovil' filled with all sort of politically incorrect comedy. Good Spicy Stuff! But once Christian culture becomes the mainstream culture in Sri Lanka and top of that Indian comedy came to in to Sri Lankan cinema we loose the taste of controversial comedy. We need a Borat in Sri Lanka!

Here is introduction to Borat. If the movie isn't successful, Borat will be executed.

Borat Interview

04 November, 2006