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Avatar – Movie Review

December 25, 2009 by Haas

[rating: 4]

Maybe I should have written this post immediately after watching Avatar. It has been a few days since I watched Avatar, but I think that actually helps coz the whole experience had its time to sink in.

If you are reading this wondering – Should I watch Avatar?
The answer is an emphatic – Yes, but only in 3D.

Avatar isnt just any ordinary movie, with it taking 14 years to make, it is nothing short of an extaordinary experience. The visuals and effects simply take your breath away. While too much effort is put into the effects, they seemed to have over looked more than a few basic requirements.

New York – Movie Review…

July 3, 2009July 1, 2009 by Haas

[rating:4]

New York is the story of three friends whose lives are changed by the events of 9/11. Director Kabir Khan makes an honest attempt at telling the story of two Muslims entangled in all the injustice that followed the events on that fateful day. He succeeds in making a movie that is not just engaging right thru but since its based on a genuinely different story, gets the message home.

This movie for me is a good example of how a different story should be handled for the Indian audience. The movie seems similar to Khuda Kay Liye but its not fair to compare the two movies. KKL was written for a global audience but NY was intended mostly for the Indian public.

Movies of 2008…

January 7, 2009January 7, 2009 by Haas

(click for larger graphs)

2008 was a good year for movie entertainment. With a movie every third day it is possibly the second best year of my life wrt watching movies… (The best year had the infamous summer months of ’01, which had over a hundred movies in a couple of months :P )

Thanks to Flixster and my Movie catalog, I was able to (once again) pull up graphs of my movie watching habits :)

2008 – In Resolution…

August 2, 2022January 4, 2009 by Haas

Last year I decided to keep my new year resolutions as private as possible. I had realized that announcing them to the world was not helping at all, people would go ‘that sounds great’ or ‘wow’ and I would actually endup feeling good, despite doing nothing :P So last year I put down a few things I wanted to do over the year on my comp and looked at the list regularly.

Below are few of the resolutions I had planned:

2008… 2009

January 1, 2009 by Haas

You will never climb the mountain if you keep looking only at its peak. – What 2008 gave me. To my Friends, readers, visitors and critics, I hope you have a wonderful 2009. Happy New Year :)