Marathon of a different kind

These few days I have been doing nothing except trying to make a DVD rental company regret its policy. Play! has recently launched a monthly subscription package that offers UNLIMITED DVD rental for $25, it is my personal goal to watch AT LEAST 4 movies a day on average to make sure that I finish EVERY SINGLE MOVIE that they have in that machine. =) I think it offers me a fanstastically legitimate reason to idle non-stop. I’ve watched 12 in 3 days, so far so good. Heh.

One REALLY good movie that I’ve caught was Charlie Wilson’s War which is essentially a standard Hollywood cocktail of politics, hot celebrities and awesome quotes. It’s pretty cool because many people have been criticising US for training the Mujahideens in Afgahnistan thereby creating a terrorist hotbed with their own hands and I thought the show demonstrated how it could have been an imperative back then. I also like it cos I am at times disturbed by how sometimes states are referred to like singular, undifferentiated entities when in actuality politics is really a lot more complicated than that, with many actors affecting decisions at every single juncture. In fact, U.S. support for the Mujahideens seemed to have been rather seredipitous in the movie. It’s also pretty good because I can never remember history well and such stories make it easier.

Am going to keep a list of the watched films.

Bedtime Stories; City of Angels; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Phonebooth; The Women; Driving Lessons; Your Name is Justine; It’s a Boy-Girl Thing; The Day the Earth Stood Still; Charlie Wilson’s War; Catch Me If You Can; Into the Wild; Breakfast at Tiffany; Half Nelson; The Duchess; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Frost/Nixon; Lions for Lambs; No Country for the Old Man; Body of Lies; Departures, Devil Wears Prada, Children of Glory; Wedding Daze; Pink Panther 2; Darjeeling Limited; Little Miss Sunshine