Posts

Showing posts from October, 2009

WANTED - review

I just watched wanted . Not the Indian one but the Angelina Jolie's one. And frankly I was blown away by the bending bullets. The pictures started very impressively with assassination of one very powerful assassin. The one they said was the greatest assassin in the world. The guy just virtually jumps through a mind fucking 100 feet through one of the tallest buildings in the world on the top of that he shoots 4 people while still in the air, pointblank at their forehead. Very impressive I say. And the twist that came after that was also very good. But after that the movie took a sad drop. Instead of letting the story flow through its natural course. Perhaps the director wanted to put too much blood and gore in this movie. Sadly the picture loses its thread after first 30 minutes. The development of the characters is very shallow. And the directors wants us to believe that people can be stupid as their characters and still be so good in what they do. The other very bad thing abo...

Magnus Carlsen - the chess prodigy

I am rather I was a chess freak. At some point during IIT I played chess religiously. I also studied the games of the players of the chess. But all that habit I have left for now. But I still follow the chess news quite regularly. And I come across this news. Magnus Carlsen still 18 years of age ha put the greatest tournament performance of last 10 years. Note that in chess unlike other sports like tennis where energy and stamina of youthful age is very important. In chess as you play and age you only get better. Carlsen has put such a string of victories in the last 2 years that Garry Kasparov greatest chess player of all time has taken upon himself to coach Carlsen to make him the world champion.