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Wrote a review at Muslim Movie Reviews for the best movie I’ve seen so far… The Departed.  Yo ucan read the review if you want to know what I thought about the movie, I had to steal this few snippets from Saaleha though…

Frank Costello: When you decide to be something, you can be it. That’s what they don’t tell you in the church. When I was your age they would say we can become cops, or criminals. Today, what I’m saying to you is this: when you’re facing a loaded gun, what’s the difference?
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Kneecapped Bankrobber: [after being shot in the knee] I thought you were supposed to go into shock! I’m not in shock! It fuckin hurts!
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Fitzy: I don’t believe it.
Mr. French: What can’t you believe?
Fitzy: I spent all fucking night dragging the poor bastard in there. Tell me how they find him so fast? Somebody walking a fucking dog ? What fucking size a dog is that? Has to be a big fucking dog, man. I spent all night doing it man.
[pause, Frank stares at him]
Fitzy: I’m embarrassed. I still don’t believe he was a cop, I don’t believe it.
Frank Costello: The COPS… are saying he’s a cop… so I won’t look for the cop. Are you soft, Fitz? When I tell you… to dump a body in the marsh, you dump him *IN* the marsh. Not where some guy from John Hancock goes every Thursday, TO GET A FUCKING BLOWJOB!
[Fitzy laughs, Frank hits him]
Frank Costello: Don’t laugh! This ain’t Reality TV!
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Billy Costigan: [Referring to Costello] Do you want him to chop me up and feed me to the poor, huh, is that what you want?
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Oliver Queenan: All cell phone signals are under surveillance, due to the courtesy of our Federal friends over there.
Ellerby: Patriot Act, Patriot Act! I love it, I love it, I love it!
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Providence Gangster #1: Come on Babu, I can’t do any more. I can’t go off, please don’t make me go back empty handed. Please don’t do this. I wanna help you.
Pakistani Proprietor: Come to my store next Friday. I’ll give you the money…
Providence Gangster #1: This is Friday Babu, how many times I gotta tell you?
Pakistani Proprietor: You keep calling me Babu, it’s ‘Singh’ motherfucker!
Providence Gangster #1: I’m trying to help you. Don’t you understand?
Pakistani Proprietor: You keep on telling me ‘I’m your friend’.
Providence Gangster #1: Yeah.
Pakistani Proprietor: You don’t even know my fucking name!
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Dignam: I’m the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy.

Brilliant Movie.. I loved it… Totally Gangster. 

I brushed past a few art movies too… One which ended up just being a poor excuse for porn weaved in with some weird love story was Lie with me .. Like Borat, Don’t bother going to watch it, the movie has no use, it’s a waste of time.  I also watched Running with Scissors which, I have to admit, made me laugh a bit mainly because the characters were so insanely out of their minds really had issues.  It was like a mix of some real family issues and some really really crazy people.

Deja Vu was cool, but catch it on DVD rather… its another Jerry Bruckheimer movie… I was expecting more dialogue on the whole time-travel, changing-the-past philosophy angle… but it just became another good action story with lots of explosions and gunshots.

Some australian movies which actually got my attention recently was Wolf Creek which was not bad really… something sort of like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and this too was a true story, but you have to sort of get into the movie to enjoy it and leave your critic hat at home… it was pretty damn scary. 

The other Aussie movie I seen was Three Dollars, this was a pretty good movie which shows a normal family man who’s living a pretty stable life until he makes a decision to stand for something he believes in… and then he loses his job and things start to fall apart.  It made me realise the fragility of our lives… our little gilded cages and how everything can really fall apart for us as well, but we take a lot for granted.  It was good and I do recommend it :)

Peace,

M.

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