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It’s been a month since I’ve updated. Had to take a bit of a hiatus (again) due to work and health problems (what’s new). Anyway, let’s see, I’ve a couple of movies to bash and some TV series too!
Miami Vice
So it wasn’t what everybody expected. Granted, the film was shot in a very artsy way. BUT we were looking for exploding choppers, car chases at breakneck speed and impossible stunts ala Bad Boys. If I wasn’t trying to appreciate the movie, I would’ve dozed off. There are a couple of bed scenes so maybe that’s not a total loss. By the way is it just me or is Colin starting to look and act like Mel Gibson on the Lethal Weapon series?
My Super Ex-girlfriend
We couldn’t figure out if this movie was supposed to be for kids or for adults. The story and plot is definitely Disney material and not really interesting for grown-ups but the humour is more like American Pie. You can imagine our appreciation dilemma right there. Uma Thurman is gorgeous but the movie just soars straight down after watching for 35 minutes.
Click
While 50 First Dates is still Princess Leah’s best Adam Sandler movie, I’ll go with Click. You’d think that the movie was all fun and games until Sandler’s remote goes on auto-pilot and kept missing important events in his family’s lifetime. The movie shifts from being goofy funny to serious tear-jerker in just a click of the remote. Everybody I’ve talked to about the movie cried in the cinemas during the heaviest scene toward the end but they loved it. Sandler obviously has a gift for touching people – either by making them laugh or making them cry – or in this case laughing and crying at the same time (look out for Sandler’s dirty finger on the last scenes!).
On Cable:
Carnivale (HBO)
The HBO original series started out with a huge buzz but apparently failed to deliver. It was definitely an inspired project with outstanding cinematography for a cable series but the story was painstakingly slow. Let’s put it this way, if you missed 2 episodes in 24, you won’t be able to follow through the series anymore. Now if you missed 2 or 3 issues of Carnivale, it probably won’t hurt you much since there’s not much happening on each episode anyway. The end of the 2-season mini-series was a cliff-hanger – I don’t think I’ll waste time for a third season if they are still planning on one.
High School Musical
This is currently a best-selling soundtrack CD in the country due to the TV-movie’s huge hit on Disney Chanel. The songs were wonderful and although the story follows the generic Disney plot, it would have to be the best on the category. You will feel a bit cheesy on some of the acting done by the cast but if you keep in mind that this was a musical then what they’re doing is just standard stage-type of acting. Highly recommended for the whole family.
Prison Break
We were just able to finish season 1 of this fast-paced series that will remind viewers of 24. It’s definitely a guy-series. Lots of blood, violence, cursing, beating, politics, murder and investigation work but not so many hot women here though. The kind of sex we only get here is the one that happens on all-male prison cells. The show is definitely gripping and you’d want to finish the whole season off in one seating like you probably did with 24. My only comment here is that the characters were obviously subjected to the full extent of Murphy’s Law. For a structural engineer (who built the penitentiary in the first place) to intricately plan the break, it’s a wonder something’s always bound to go wrong in each episode.
Ghost Whisperer
We haven’t finished the whole DVD (first season) yet but it’s a kind-of lite-viewing for the whole family. Wentworth Miller guest-starred on the pilot episode and the way he acted, he might as well have come out straight from Fox River State Penitentiary (see Prison Break) and visited Jeniffer Love, who plays our I-can-see-dead-people lead. We’re halfway through the series and I’ll get a proper review when we’re done.
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PS - I haven't the time to search for typos so feel free to point 'em out for now.
It’s been a month since I’ve updated. Had to take a bit of a hiatus (again) due to work and health problems (what’s new). Anyway, let’s see, I’ve a couple of movies to bash and some TV series too!
Miami Vice
So it wasn’t what everybody expected. Granted, the film was shot in a very artsy way. BUT we were looking for exploding choppers, car chases at breakneck speed and impossible stunts ala Bad Boys. If I wasn’t trying to appreciate the movie, I would’ve dozed off. There are a couple of bed scenes so maybe that’s not a total loss. By the way is it just me or is Colin starting to look and act like Mel Gibson on the Lethal Weapon series?
My Super Ex-girlfriend
We couldn’t figure out if this movie was supposed to be for kids or for adults. The story and plot is definitely Disney material and not really interesting for grown-ups but the humour is more like American Pie. You can imagine our appreciation dilemma right there. Uma Thurman is gorgeous but the movie just soars straight down after watching for 35 minutes.
Click
While 50 First Dates is still Princess Leah’s best Adam Sandler movie, I’ll go with Click. You’d think that the movie was all fun and games until Sandler’s remote goes on auto-pilot and kept missing important events in his family’s lifetime. The movie shifts from being goofy funny to serious tear-jerker in just a click of the remote. Everybody I’ve talked to about the movie cried in the cinemas during the heaviest scene toward the end but they loved it. Sandler obviously has a gift for touching people – either by making them laugh or making them cry – or in this case laughing and crying at the same time (look out for Sandler’s dirty finger on the last scenes!).
On Cable:
Carnivale (HBO)
The HBO original series started out with a huge buzz but apparently failed to deliver. It was definitely an inspired project with outstanding cinematography for a cable series but the story was painstakingly slow. Let’s put it this way, if you missed 2 episodes in 24, you won’t be able to follow through the series anymore. Now if you missed 2 or 3 issues of Carnivale, it probably won’t hurt you much since there’s not much happening on each episode anyway. The end of the 2-season mini-series was a cliff-hanger – I don’t think I’ll waste time for a third season if they are still planning on one.
High School Musical
This is currently a best-selling soundtrack CD in the country due to the TV-movie’s huge hit on Disney Chanel. The songs were wonderful and although the story follows the generic Disney plot, it would have to be the best on the category. You will feel a bit cheesy on some of the acting done by the cast but if you keep in mind that this was a musical then what they’re doing is just standard stage-type of acting. Highly recommended for the whole family.
Prison Break
We were just able to finish season 1 of this fast-paced series that will remind viewers of 24. It’s definitely a guy-series. Lots of blood, violence, cursing, beating, politics, murder and investigation work but not so many hot women here though. The kind of sex we only get here is the one that happens on all-male prison cells. The show is definitely gripping and you’d want to finish the whole season off in one seating like you probably did with 24. My only comment here is that the characters were obviously subjected to the full extent of Murphy’s Law. For a structural engineer (who built the penitentiary in the first place) to intricately plan the break, it’s a wonder something’s always bound to go wrong in each episode.
Ghost Whisperer
We haven’t finished the whole DVD (first season) yet but it’s a kind-of lite-viewing for the whole family. Wentworth Miller guest-starred on the pilot episode and the way he acted, he might as well have come out straight from Fox River State Penitentiary (see Prison Break) and visited Jeniffer Love, who plays our I-can-see-dead-people lead. We’re halfway through the series and I’ll get a proper review when we’re done.
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PS - I haven't the time to search for typos so feel free to point 'em out for now.
