Watching movies

I have been recently being amazed by appetite for watching movies...utilizing the winter break to the hilt...lately I have been seeing movies with an amazing pace. Day before yesterday, I saw just four movies...Minority Report (a good sci-fi after all), The Bourne Identity (I believe the novel would be much better), The meaning of life (in my opinion, it was utter bull.... i dont know how the IMDB ..which I have a good opinion..gives such a good ranking to this movie...i assume that some hilarious sequences can't make the movie good)..and XXX (I dont know why I had missed this action movie earlier...though Vin Diesel exudes extra confidence :-D)

However, yesterday I broke all my records by watching 5 movies. Sweet November ( i saw this again..), From here to Eternity (a very old but a good movie, reminds me of the thing that old Hollywood movies were also like old hindi movies..and it was a closed society in US then), Spiderman, Contact (again a good sci-fi) and finally a hindi movie "BluffMaster"...(recently I have been losing confidence in Hindi movies...somehow I have got the feeling that Bollywood movies are inherently not good and only exceptions occur) and this movie only added to my conjecture.

Anyways, if this is a good way of enjoying...way to go!

The Recruit

The Recruit is the title of the movie I saw yesterday. See the review on IMDB (Internet movie data base) which I consider a good source to obtain a fair review!
Well the movie manages to get only 6.6 / 10; still I would rate it as a very good movie. Though I agree that there is too much confusion for a short duration during the middle of the movie, otherwise I really loved the movie, especially the ending.
Cited below are two quotes from the movie that I liked:

Psychiatrist #1: Would you consider yourself subjectively firm or objectively flexible?
James Clayton: Metaphysically wrinkle-free?

Walter Burke: There's this parish priest and he goes before the Pope weeping and begging for forgiveness. What am I to do, oh what am I to do I do not believe in God anymore and you know what the pope said... fake it.

Though Pope is "kind of" ridiculed in the second quote...I'd love to receive your comments.

Semester is over !

Its been one semester in USA. When I contemplate back, I see many intended aims unaccomplished :D, though a general sense of relief for 20 days after gruelling 2 weeks that I was subjected to before the commencement. Though now I am free to blog. Here is a list of fiction works read in the semester.

• Disgrace by J.M.Coetzee
• Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho
• Coma by Robin Cook
• To Kill a Mocking bird by H.C.Lee
• Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger

Out of these, I found Fountainhead and Catcher in the Rye most impressive. Though I have real doubts whether a character of the man called "Howard Roark" in Fountainhead can really exist. No doubtl, the unconventional individualistic fiction-cum-philosophical work by Ayn Rand is still very popular. On the other hand, Mr. Salinger has a very different style of writing as found in the novel "Catcher in the Rye." We can see how little things can delight a person and assume significance in the life of an individual. Also, reflected is the pressure put up by the society to excel in conventional schooling and strive towards education that results in better material gains not necessarily in the pleasure of the conscience.
More later !