I was making a list of the styles:
- documentary
- aliens la "Aliens" a la The Fly
- transfomations a la "The Fly"
- firefights with big assed guns: see summer blockbusters
- the alien buddy movie
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
District 9
Take every film genre, or more specifically- every summer blockbuster genre, throw it in a blender and have Peter Jackson produce it and you'll realize you've already seen District 9.
I was making a list of the styles:
I was making a list of the styles:
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Thursday, January 12, 2012
I've watched all of the tv... any questions?
This week, actually the weeks leading up to the new year, I've been restless and watching too much tv. I've seen everything in my DVR and I use Law and Order to make me feel normal. I've also been incredibly bored because the stupid holidays made my favorite shows go away and then when they came back on they disappointed me. Was I expecting too much. I just needed my best friend tv to fill the whole others were filling with friends and love. Is that too much to ask Vampire Diaries? I know it's the first week back and I'm going to give you my winners and losers list. And I expect these shows to take heed, because if I wanted to suffer this kind of disappointment I'd get a boyfriend.
Post Holiday winners:
#1 ALL TIME #1-GOOD WIFE! As usual, Good Wife gooooood! This week was a gentle transition back into Lockhart-Gardner sans a holiday episode and hitting the ground running. It seemed simple enough with a little art and a little flirting for Diane. She needs love. And summons mummons, get the man's info girl.
And not they don't get numbered 'cause they're not Good Wife.
Revenge: This show has really surprised me ABC. I expected some WB wannabe show about spoiled rich white people and although it kinda is... well let's be honest- I like revenge. When I read it was like The Count of Monte Cristo, they had me. I read that book every few years. I love it. So I have a genetic predisposition toward the victim becoming the villan and rooting for them. Because no matter how smart the Revenger is, it's not going to work. They're gonna fail and usually it's that stupid love that's gonna get them.
Post Holiday winners:
#1 ALL TIME #1-GOOD WIFE! As usual, Good Wife gooooood! This week was a gentle transition back into Lockhart-Gardner sans a holiday episode and hitting the ground running. It seemed simple enough with a little art and a little flirting for Diane. She needs love. And summons mummons, get the man's info girl.
And not they don't get numbered 'cause they're not Good Wife.
Revenge: This show has really surprised me ABC. I expected some WB wannabe show about spoiled rich white people and although it kinda is... well let's be honest- I like revenge. When I read it was like The Count of Monte Cristo, they had me. I read that book every few years. I love it. So I have a genetic predisposition toward the victim becoming the villan and rooting for them. Because no matter how smart the Revenger is, it's not going to work. They're gonna fail and usually it's that stupid love that's gonna get them.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Limitless
Are you serious? You awaken the unused 80% of your brain and that's what you do with it? You become a Wall Street Douchebag (WSD). Who wrote this a 15 year old? This is another example of ManBaby Syndrome.
It's a good thing Bradley Cooper's face pleases me so, or I wouldn't have made it through that. But he is dreamy...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Maybe this one is better on Twitter
Cause I've got all kinds of shit to say about tv.
Like:
Do we really need another Bosom Buddies type show?
I love 30 Rock and I'm obsessed with it right now.
There's a new Revenge on tonight, horray!
I don't know if I'm going keep up with American Horror Story.
Like:
Do we really need another Bosom Buddies type show?
I love 30 Rock and I'm obsessed with it right now.
There's a new Revenge on tonight, horray!
I don't know if I'm going keep up with American Horror Story.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Breakout Kings
I read a review of the show that referred to it as a violent Leverage. I guess. If Leverage didn't have characters that I love despite its incessant use of hokey music. Breakout Kings is a lower rent version of Leverage populated by people who yell too much and don't seem to buy their own hypothesis.
It's a show about a couple of federal marshals (one of which is from The Wire) who assemble a team of convicts to catch a dangerous escaped con. By helping, they get to move to a minimum security jail and get a month knocked off of their sentences for every con recovered. The convicts are a genius, a con, an "entrepreneur" (drug dealer, he's the black one), and an unlicensed big game hunter (the hitter I assumed). Now the white marshal dude is not really a marshal anymore because he stole some money and lives in a halfway house (which I deduced is a secret from the cons, but I learned that from the previews of the coming weeks). The other one (the brown one) is a desk jockey who is antagonistic to everyone, seems to be on a massive bureaucratic ego trip and was seen taking some pills in a bathroom then seeming woozy afterwards (with no explanation).
The cons are the most interesting thing about the show so far. The genius dude is a former child prodigy, professor, problem gambler and mama's boy with a breast fetish. The con woman...has no personality and I guess only uses her sexuality to get men to do what she wants (I have been spoiled by Sophie on Leverage who's mastery of understanding human behaviors make her beauty more interesting). I saw on the previews that she's getting replaced. Then there's the "entrepreneur" who wasn't given a lot to do, but at least put a mark on where the character was going. I'm interested in him. The hitter dude was only in it for like 10 minutes and ended up getting left in a diner. What was the point of that?
Why introduce characters in a pilot you'll never see again when you're trying to entice people to commit their hard earned time to your show. It feels like a bunch of people who grew up in the '90's and don't know how good scripted drama feels. They make the same assumptions about our intelligence as the rest of the media. In promos they tout big explosions and chases. I can watch disaster porn or The French Connection for that. I want to see some complex characters whose actions make sense and moves a cohesive storyline forward. White marshal should know that.
It felt like they'd made a 2h pilot and cut it down to the loud parts because shouting always makes me stay glued to the screen. The characters don't like or trust each other. And I know, I know, they will learn to as their lives become more entwined, I know, I know. But the problem with that is that I didn't like or care about them either. I love asking why when watching drama. I love a witty aside. I love explosions and ingenious prison breaks as much as the next guy. But if you want me every week to look at your commercials, you have to give me some compelling characters that at least can act like they like themselves so I can like them too.
So no, it's not Leverage which had me from the first episode. They were smart and funny and had great chemistry. Now the music is too cheesy and omnipresent, but I still grow to love the characters despite the editor. Despite. I'll give Breakout Kings one more chance. But they'd better hurry up. Once it's spring, it's going to be hard to keep my attention unless you're like Supernatural.
It's a show about a couple of federal marshals (one of which is from The Wire) who assemble a team of convicts to catch a dangerous escaped con. By helping, they get to move to a minimum security jail and get a month knocked off of their sentences for every con recovered. The convicts are a genius, a con, an "entrepreneur" (drug dealer, he's the black one), and an unlicensed big game hunter (the hitter I assumed). Now the white marshal dude is not really a marshal anymore because he stole some money and lives in a halfway house (which I deduced is a secret from the cons, but I learned that from the previews of the coming weeks). The other one (the brown one) is a desk jockey who is antagonistic to everyone, seems to be on a massive bureaucratic ego trip and was seen taking some pills in a bathroom then seeming woozy afterwards (with no explanation).
The cons are the most interesting thing about the show so far. The genius dude is a former child prodigy, professor, problem gambler and mama's boy with a breast fetish. The con woman...has no personality and I guess only uses her sexuality to get men to do what she wants (I have been spoiled by Sophie on Leverage who's mastery of understanding human behaviors make her beauty more interesting). I saw on the previews that she's getting replaced. Then there's the "entrepreneur" who wasn't given a lot to do, but at least put a mark on where the character was going. I'm interested in him. The hitter dude was only in it for like 10 minutes and ended up getting left in a diner. What was the point of that?
Why introduce characters in a pilot you'll never see again when you're trying to entice people to commit their hard earned time to your show. It feels like a bunch of people who grew up in the '90's and don't know how good scripted drama feels. They make the same assumptions about our intelligence as the rest of the media. In promos they tout big explosions and chases. I can watch disaster porn or The French Connection for that. I want to see some complex characters whose actions make sense and moves a cohesive storyline forward. White marshal should know that.
It felt like they'd made a 2h pilot and cut it down to the loud parts because shouting always makes me stay glued to the screen. The characters don't like or trust each other. And I know, I know, they will learn to as their lives become more entwined, I know, I know. But the problem with that is that I didn't like or care about them either. I love asking why when watching drama. I love a witty aside. I love explosions and ingenious prison breaks as much as the next guy. But if you want me every week to look at your commercials, you have to give me some compelling characters that at least can act like they like themselves so I can like them too.
So no, it's not Leverage which had me from the first episode. They were smart and funny and had great chemistry. Now the music is too cheesy and omnipresent, but I still grow to love the characters despite the editor. Despite. I'll give Breakout Kings one more chance. But they'd better hurry up. Once it's spring, it's going to be hard to keep my attention unless you're like Supernatural.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
This whole thing's gonna change
I get so intimidated reading other people's TV/Film type blogs. They're so organized. I don't always have something to say about every show I see. I watch way too much TV for that. So, from now on, I'm just going to write what the fuck I want to on here. I'm not monetized or anything and if someone wants to follow or comment, so be it.
So here are my new favorite shows in no particular order:
Top Chef All Stars: My boyfriends Spike and Fabio are gone, but Carla's still there and that pleases me. I also think I'm a little hooked because I've decided Padma looks and acts like my mom. So pretty.
Good Wife: As my friend Tanisha and I say "Good Wife Good". It is. It's an adult show with adult people and adult problems. Even the kids have adult problems and that's like 1000% better than most alleged network dramas.
Damages: I know it's not new yet, but I'm reliving it with a padawan and it's fun to see it through new eyes. Since I've seen all of them I get to see how strong the storylines are and how well they have been followed. The character development is complex (even Rose Byrne impresses me with her Keanu Reeves style of acting).
RuPaul's Drag Race: Well, duh and/or hello. No explanation needed. Drag queens competing. RuPaul. Every show should be this good.
Archer: I had something for this. It's one of the most fucked up 1/2h going. And many of my new catchphrases come from it [see duh and/or hello above].
*tiny, tiny writing* Vampire Diaries: Leave the 17 year old girl inside me alone. It's not her fault. Boone from Lost is on it and she loves Boone. Get over yourselves. And it's what I watch with my little sister (and a few select adult friends).
SUPERNATURAL: I have no shame in my love of Dean. I love him. I love him. I love him. But I've always had a soft spot for a bowlegged man. The angels, demons, monsters, Lucifer (Jacob from Lost), Death...I mean really. What's there to not like? Before I watched it and saw the commercials I'd get mad that I'd wasted time on that fucking Heroes and had missed the beginning of Supernatural. I'd say "man, that show looks good" and I had no idea what I'd been missing. And it's all meta. It makes me feel like my masters in media studies wasn't a waste. (Though daily the job market insures me it was.)
30 Rock: For all the obvious reasons. It makes me miss going to work sometimes too.
So here are my new favorite shows in no particular order:
Top Chef All Stars: My boyfriends Spike and Fabio are gone, but Carla's still there and that pleases me. I also think I'm a little hooked because I've decided Padma looks and acts like my mom. So pretty.
Good Wife: As my friend Tanisha and I say "Good Wife Good". It is. It's an adult show with adult people and adult problems. Even the kids have adult problems and that's like 1000% better than most alleged network dramas.
Damages: I know it's not new yet, but I'm reliving it with a padawan and it's fun to see it through new eyes. Since I've seen all of them I get to see how strong the storylines are and how well they have been followed. The character development is complex (even Rose Byrne impresses me with her Keanu Reeves style of acting).
RuPaul's Drag Race: Well, duh and/or hello. No explanation needed. Drag queens competing. RuPaul. Every show should be this good.
Archer: I had something for this. It's one of the most fucked up 1/2h going. And many of my new catchphrases come from it [see duh and/or hello above].
*tiny, tiny writing* Vampire Diaries: Leave the 17 year old girl inside me alone. It's not her fault. Boone from Lost is on it and she loves Boone. Get over yourselves. And it's what I watch with my little sister (and a few select adult friends).
SUPERNATURAL: I have no shame in my love of Dean. I love him. I love him. I love him. But I've always had a soft spot for a bowlegged man. The angels, demons, monsters, Lucifer (Jacob from Lost), Death...I mean really. What's there to not like? Before I watched it and saw the commercials I'd get mad that I'd wasted time on that fucking Heroes and had missed the beginning of Supernatural. I'd say "man, that show looks good" and I had no idea what I'd been missing. And it's all meta. It makes me feel like my masters in media studies wasn't a waste. (Though daily the job market insures me it was.)
30 Rock: For all the obvious reasons. It makes me miss going to work sometimes too.
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