Please note that the URL for this blog has changed to http://prachee.avasthi.name/blog/

The old one will still work and be redirected to the new one, but please update any links to the new URL.

The Sopranos are back!  They return with their final episodes this Sunday, April 8th, on HBO.  Enjoy!

After watching the “magic loogie” episode of Seinfeld, Scott and I got inspired to rent Oliver Stone’s JFK.  The last time he saw it was in the theater in the 8th grade and I don’t think I have ever seen it in its entirety.  It turns out the running time of the special edition director’s cut is a whopping 205 minutes.  Despite Scott’s intense aversion to long movies, this one was worth the marathon viewing session.  I’m not a JFK buff so I can’t rattle off which things in the movie were based on fact and which took advantage of artistic license, but either way, it made of an extremely engrossing movie.  It says a lot that on a late Friday evening, I stayed awake for a movie pushing three and a half hours.  Rediscover this classic.  Highly recommended.

The other movie I saw this weekend was Children of Men.  I would LOVE for someone to explain to me what all the hoopla for this movie was about.   I just don’t see what was so great about it.  In my mind there was very little imagination in this story.  Someone took a simple idea with virtually no elaboration and tried to stretch it out into two hours.  This movie was the perfect example of what I always say about fiction vs non-fiction.  It’s difficult for people to imagine up scenarios as moving and powerful as what has happened in real life to real people.  This wasn’t nearly as compelling as it could have been considering the story was about survival of the human race.  That said, there was quite a bit of star power and it was well acted by Clive Owen, Michael Caine, and Julianne Moore.  To you sci-fi and fantasy nuts who have been exposed to the truly imaginative, how can this measure up?