Taken

After watching Dan Brown's novel Angels & Demons on theater, me and my friend got off on a movie spree. We heard many talk about this movie, Taken. Earlier, we tried twice at a nearest Red box machine and couldn't get the DVD. Finally on Saturday night, we went to try again and much to our luck a guy was standing in front of us on a line (Can you believe? Yes there is a line now to get Red box movies. Few months ago people wouldn't even notice) waiting to return the movie.
I starting bugging this guy and asked him whether he liked it. Though he looked like he was not interested at all for a social chat at 9pm on Saturday night, he just said "It was OK". As much as I cared about his comment, I really wanted him to return the DVD so I can get it. All the copies were taken crazily over the weekend. If Red box has a "Most watched Over the weekend" poll, "Taken" would have taken the spot for this past weekend. Just when the guy in front of us returned the DVD and we were about to reach the machine, couple of other guys crossed us to leave the shop with a brand new DVD of "Taken". With a "given up" look, it seemed they were frustated and unlucky and went on to buy the DVD. Me and my buddy looked at them and shared "Look how lucky we are" looks. Anyway, we came home turned on my sound system and played the movie.
It started off as a regular pace movie until the kids go to France. Man! Don't miss with stranger cute girls. You never know whose father is a CIA and works for the government. Special skills Liam Neeson roiled the screen and my speakers. Fantastic performance! I was eating some grapes and stopped after half hour into the movie in order to listen to the dialogues. I am not discussing any of the plots or scenes so that the plot remains for those who didnt watch it yet. What a movie to end a perfect Saturday! Must watch.

My rating: **** (out of 5).

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Google Tamil Calendar

Image
For a while now, I use several websites in order to find auspicious days and times based on Tamil astrology. Daily sheet calendars in Tamil provide all the information about a day. However, finding those daily sheet calendars online is a pain. There is not one reliable source out there. Either you go to one of the Hindu temple’s websites or you find local Tamil newspaper online. Even then you have to search there a lot. One recent finding seems to be reliable since 2009 which I got it from my favorite Hindu temple . But then the problem is every time I need to go through the calendar website and click on drop downs and wait for the image to load. For a long time, I was wondering whether I could add such calendar info, like nalla neram, raaghu kaalam etc. to my Google calendar. Data entry is a tedious work and error prone. Maintenance of those manual entries is also a problem. When I was browsing some other feature in Google calendar I found out this cool event called Google Event G
Read more

Who does the daunting task of valuing all the troubled assets?

BlackRock becomes the go-to firm for Divining Wall Street's Assets First of all, as a risk analyst isn't this too risky to put all eggs in one basket? The reasoning Geithner gave when asked why should we trust BlackRock, is simply, "They come with world class reputation". Well so be it. I guess, and I share Janet's (read the article) comment, that the government should come out with all the details about how the assets were valued and what measures did BlackRock take, even if it is propreitary. We are talking about billions of dollars under government custody now and people's lives and jobs are dependent on these analyses. When asked about transparency of what BlackRock does and who else it works for, Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock says he has " to be opaque" about it. Don't we smell a Madoff stink here? When it comes to public tax payer's money being used, one should provide every transparent detail possible. Atleast the government should have
Read more

Why is my Visual Studio Solution (.sln) file not opening by double-clicking?

Generally, I double-click on my .sln files from Windows explorer to open the correct version of Visual Studio (I have VS 2005 and 2008 running on Windows XP).One day one of my Visual Studio 2008 solution file’s icon changed to that of the new VS 2010 icon (with blue and purple rings). And ever since when I double click it did not open VS 2008 nor my solution file. However, I open VS 2008 devenv.exe separately and do a File->Open and open my sln file. This got me on my nerve today and wanted to figure out what happened. Many Google searches revealed that the sln file is now set to open with Visual Studio version selector and not VS 2008 itself. Hence the disappearance of the 2008 icon (with a little 9 on it). Further search revealed that if the Line formatter in the file gets corrupted somehow (could be due to your source control system – I use SVN and it indeed corrupted the file), then the VS version selector will not be able to identify the version. If you hover over the soluti
Read more