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I and Khushi are major movie buffs. We see at least 3-4 movies every week and NetFlix has been one of our greatest movie resource over the past 2 years or so. Recently we got a great deal on AT&T UVerse’s 200 channel program and honestly, we haven’t been able to keep up with all the movies out there. To make things worse (or better?), ATT gave us a free upgrade to their U300 program. That meant even more movies. The movies that we used to get from Netflix just started laying around for days together, if not months! I was enrolled on their 2-at-a-time program for 13.99 a month. Usually, that meant 2 movies over the weekend during our cable-free life which was too good a deal. But now, with all the choice available, it didn’t make much sense. So today I downgraded to their 1-at-a-time program for 8.99 which I’m not sure is gonna get used that much either. Still this means a 5 dollar saving every month which translates to $60 a year.

Tamil song topping the charts these days. Quite an addictive number I must say

This is a forthcoming Tamil movie making news in the South. Music by Harris Jayaraj is catchy and cinematography looks really slick. It’s being directed by Gautham Menon of Minnale fame. Check it out if you’re a fan of South Indian cinema. It’s coming out on Nov 14.

Stumbled upon this doing a Google image search. Don’t ask me what I was searching for. Enjoy!

The movie says 8 vantage points. However, after almost 90 minutes of onslaught, I couldn’t find even one. This is my first movie review here and I wanted it to start on a positive note but turns out that destiny had different plans. I was given a few movie passes by my employer the other day and I wanted to put them to some good use. I and Khushi had one of the best Thai lunches ever and we wanted to complement it with an afternoon movie. But damn misfortune, we chose Vantage Point. When it comes to movies, I’m not too picky. I will pick a movie by reading a couple of reviews or just by counting the stars next to the title. And 9 out of 10 times, I like one or the other thing about the movie. Vantage Point, where do I begin? OK let me try by saying that VP is the worst movie I’ve seen in recent times and most probably a long time to come. I really do not want to waste my energy writing a full-fledged review since there is nothing to talk about for this movie, I’m serious, zip, zilch, nada, zero, nonka. The only motive behind writing this post is to save you from the misery that I’d to undergo watching this joke. I beg you, do not waste your money on this piece of *#%$ even if someone gives you a free ticket (like I was). This is the worst movie of 2008 since I’m more than confident there will be not as bad a movie as this one coming out for the rest of the year. I know I’m repeating my words, but that is how pissed after watching this movie. There is no script whatsoever, the writer I guess got bored after writing a couple pages or maybe joined the writers strike! The characters are half-baked, almost all of them out of place. And at the end of it, you’re left completely frustrated and cheated after all the initial buildup. The actual footage for the movie is about 20 minutes which has been repeated at least ten times over and again to cover the entire length of the movie. WTF?! The whole rewind concept (where the director chooses to rewind actual movie footage in real-time) falls flat on its face. What was Pete Travis thinking? Do not listen to any of the reviewers on other sites who have given the movie big thumbs ups and A pluses. Either they slept through the movie or they just want you to undergo the same misery as they did. Save your money and watch something else. A biiiigg F