These days I am getting lucky with my selection of movies. My institute hostel used to have an un-official reservoir of movies. Whoever, whenever downloaded something, goes to the reservoir, provided the print is good. We all unanimously hate bad prints, even though we get them freely. Everybody can't access the reservoir, as the content is huge and must be utilized in restricted mode, so that the sys admins do not get whiff of it. Some 2 yrs ago, I got the privilege via a friend. He cautioned me though that the content may not be appropriate always, as quite a few samples are in hostel who always run towards porn movies and the criteria of good print qualifies them to be included in the reservoir :). Who cares? Everybody is adult here and a person's sanity and honesty lies with him/er only. I was not sure for what duration I was granted the privilege. So, I copied whatever I can from the reservoir to my external hard disk with a blindfold. Thought, will delete, what I don’t like, later. That collection is running till date. Deleted some movies, added some (given by friends), and yet haven't seen some of them.
It is not that you feel like watching a movie everyday that to of unknown content. It may be a romantic/ comedy/ horror/ sadistic/ porn one and ruin your happy mood very easily. I feel it bad, deleting a movie, before atleast watching it once. So there were many nights, I watched a movie and went to bed quite unhappy about the story or the ending and quite a few times did not leave the director even for a good reason. I think, I have endured all the bad movies in my collection. 'Coz these days which ever movie, I decide to watch, turns out to be a fantastic one. Last to last weekend I watched "The Pianist". I am a happy go lucky person and hate sad movies. Always end up with wet towels and headache after watching such kind of movies. This movie is a sad one, still such beautifully the plot was written and the actors were so natural, I felt good that I didn’t miss it, just because it is a movie depicting a disturbing era of world history. A few days later, I choose "The curious case of Benjamin Button". Absolutely loved it. Initially I thought of watching a bit, then will drag some and watch some, just to cover the plot. As such I am always interested for the storyline, being a tiny writer myself. Dragging a few mins and then watching some more mins suits well to my purpose, if the movie does not interest me. But this one was different. I became so enamored with it that lost all track of time. Went to bed at 4 AM in the morning. No doubt, the next day went horribly at lab with droopy eyes and yawns. Still felt, the movie is worth the effort.
I just hope my third random movie will also turn out to be great. Will it be a Hattrick??? Lets hope so :).
PS: Amongst this cleaning of content of my movie database, my brother visited me once. He is sneaky by birth. So u can guess the rest. He had literally a fit watching the list. I have to coax him a lot just to listen to me. God, that was a day, explaining my younger bro that I have not collected them by preference and this is just a database of which 70% are yet unseen by me. Hahha....
