I find this page totally entertaining:
http://www.last.fm/user/peloquin3/charts/&charttype=overall&subtype=album
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Guns and the Young – More Noise and Other Disturbances
I find this page totally entertaining:
http://www.last.fm/user/peloquin3/charts/&charttype=overall&subtype=album
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Guns and the Young – More Noise and Other Disturbances
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hell yes on the lost highway soundtrack!
I just finished Veer-Zaara… I really enjoyed it (except for the age makeup, but really, I rarely see good age makeup).
Yeah, the last part of the movie was a major fizzle for me. It’s another one of those movies that has amazing songs and gorgeous visuals, but maybe not the best story ever. Interesting tidbit – the music was all written a few decades ago by someone who is now dead, which gives it a bit of an older feel. The soundtrack is a new classic, for sure.
I like the ending if only because it summed up the context of our class simply. The speech by Zakir Ahmed upon quitting law was absolutely brilliant!
Heh, well, most desi folk consider all that stuff at the end to be very preachy. Sounds like a preachy class. 😉
By the way, I’d love it if you kept updating me on what you think of these films. I love hearing outsider perspectives on Hindi movies.
Will do… in fact it would probably be a good practice to organize my thoughts in my journal here.
I don’t know if its so much of a preachy class, but there’s a certain amount if indoctrination that needs to be done for us to be aware of the subtexts of the culture…
and at the same time, it is an Art History class, which can be a bit pretentious at times.
heh… yeah. no comment on the pretention. 😉
and on the preachiness, I was mostly speaking to the fact that indians and pakistanis don’t really like being told they should get along. yeah, the movie does have the subtext of it being created by indians and therefore theoretically showing an indian ideal… and sure, most people are reasonable… but there’s just so much more to it. I guess if anything the preaching should be more “everyone should at least be reasonable about their distaste for each other, don’t let it ruin lives or kill people” rather than “india and pakistan should hold hands and be friends.” I hope I make sense.
Yeah, I mean we’re watching it in the context of the region, but at the same time, it was more of a humanitarian statement to me, as the uninitiated.
Heh, yeah, as I said – more focus on not killing or ruining people’s lives, rather than making it a political thing. ‘Cause it’s gonna take a lot more than a sappy movie to get these people to like each other. 🙂
oh, and I currently have K3G, Devdas (SRK version), Swades, and Chalte Chalte on my desk. Which would you suggest for next?
Hmm… I’d say go ahead and get Swades out of the way first, it’s probably the most boring out of all of those. Awesome soundtrack on that one, though. One of the songs from it is actually my cell phone ringtone. And one of the other songs won best singing of 2005 in their big movie awards show.
I’ve actually never seen Chalte Chalte, but I know it’s a kinda pop-ish. Devdas is a ‘meh’ story but with great visuals and the most amazing songs I’ve ever seen, and K3G is extremely poppy but one of my absolute favorite movies ever. It’s star-studded melodrama to the max.