film-review on S Anand

The Social Network

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:00:33 +0000

4:00pm. Just started watching The Social Network. I’m fairly sure I won’t like the film, mostly because I’ll be jealous of Mark.

About 5 minutes into the movie. I find myself rewinding to catch the dialogues. They’re very fast. Very, very fast.

10 minutes. I like the code. I stopped on a screen to start checking if it’s real code. It’s in Perl. Stopped myself before I started dry-running the code.

20 minutes. OK, some of this is a bit beyond me. But good movie.

1:20. Dropped a note to Ram asking (almost forcing) him to watch the film. A fair bit to learn from a stakeholding perspective.

1:45. Dammit. I see a bit of the anti-social me in him.

Gripping. Overall, bloody good movie. Quite surprised. And no, definitely not feeling jealous.

Peter Jackson

Fri, 08 Feb 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Reviews of Lord of the Rings (Peter Jackson, Stephanie Zacharek). Full of glowing praise, but with a kind of detail I liked.

Memento

Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:00:00 +0000

I saw Memento. This film is incredible. Of the class of “Citizen Kane”. Likely to win an Oscar? (It also stars Carrie-Anne Moss, of the Trinity fame in “The Matrix”.)

Artificial Intelligence

Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:00:00 +0000

A review of Spielberg’s A.I. with lots of spoilers.