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May. 12th, 2013
Too pretty a day to see Iron Man 3, so putting it off to next weekend, or maybe will just rent it - have not decided yet.
Did however watch Argo last night. It was deserving of all its accolades even if it reminded me a bit too much of the late 1970s and early 1980s hyper-realistic/documentary style films. Even had the same grainy lighting. Plus the hair styles, music, cinematography, and style of the 1970s/1980s films. Nostalgia hit me like a two-by-four.
( Review of ARGO and a bit of history on the whole Iran Hostage Crisis and its aftermath )
A good film if not a historically accurate one. So if you see it, remember it is merely "based on" a true story, it is not a true story. This is not how it happened in reality, there are a few alterations. Because reality often is stranger and more complicated, not to mention more mundane than fiction.
Overall rating? A
Did however watch Argo last night. It was deserving of all its accolades even if it reminded me a bit too much of the late 1970s and early 1980s hyper-realistic/documentary style films. Even had the same grainy lighting. Plus the hair styles, music, cinematography, and style of the 1970s/1980s films. Nostalgia hit me like a two-by-four.
( Review of ARGO and a bit of history on the whole Iran Hostage Crisis and its aftermath )
A good film if not a historically accurate one. So if you see it, remember it is merely "based on" a true story, it is not a true story. This is not how it happened in reality, there are a few alterations. Because reality often is stranger and more complicated, not to mention more mundane than fiction.
Overall rating? A
Mini-TV Slut Report
May. 12th, 2013 06:32 pm1. Hannibal - what happens when you mix Dexter with Elementary, and add a dash of Criminal Minds by way of Thomas Harris....and the end result is a tv show I don't want to watch. Basically we have a brilliant psychologist/would-be serial killer solving crimes with brilliant profiler/empath (who is afraid of becoming a serial killer) solving serial killer crimes. And if you think that's one too many uses of the word serial killer in one sentence, well....you begin to see my problem. And that's just the pilot. The TV series lacks Dexter's sense of humor, yet not the gore. I'd prefer more dry wit, less gore, like Elementary - which is directly opposite. Elementary also has more likable leads - a definite plus.
Is it just me or has television gone a bit overboard with the whole anti-hero concept? Anybody else miss the good-old days when tv networks thought a show with an "anti-hero" protagonist would not sell? I mean I don't a little of it, but this is over-kill.
2. Smash - Ack, this episode was worse than last week's. Didn't think that was possible. The Derek plot thread doesn't work. Too much telling not enough showing. Note to writers and producers of SMASH - if you spent more time on the creation of a Bway show and theater politics, and less time on soap melodrama (which you suck at) - this would have been a great series. I agree with the EW columnist, who states that the problem SMASH has is it spent too much time trying to cater to the wrong audience - the American Idol audience, and not the Theater Geeks. It tried to play it safe. Big mistake. The episodes that work focus on the making of a show or let's put on a show, the episodes that suck focus on the cliche melodrama.
I'll continue to miss the SMASH that could have been. Not the SMASH that these nitwitty writers and producers created. It's a show I desperately want to fix.
3. Merlin - clearly building. Not a lot happens. It was a good episode. ( spoilers - assuming there's anyone but me that hasn't seen these episodes yet )
4) Nashville - better than SMASH. This does soapy realistically and well. Rather like the arcs, which continue to surprise me and meld of music and story. Turns out Callie Khouri and T Bone Burnett work well together. Oddly, Hayden Pantierre is stealing the series from Connie Britton, while Jonathan Jackson is stealing it from all the male characters.
5) Glee - Season Finale - okay, that's it. I'm done. Done, I tell you. I know I said this before - but I'm serious this time. Not even the music can save this travesty. It's just dumb. And the music is dumb and irritating too. RIP Glee. On my DVR at any rate. It'll probably go on for five more seasons...
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Is it just me or has television gone a bit overboard with the whole anti-hero concept? Anybody else miss the good-old days when tv networks thought a show with an "anti-hero" protagonist would not sell? I mean I don't a little of it, but this is over-kill.
2. Smash - Ack, this episode was worse than last week's. Didn't think that was possible. The Derek plot thread doesn't work. Too much telling not enough showing. Note to writers and producers of SMASH - if you spent more time on the creation of a Bway show and theater politics, and less time on soap melodrama (which you suck at) - this would have been a great series. I agree with the EW columnist, who states that the problem SMASH has is it spent too much time trying to cater to the wrong audience - the American Idol audience, and not the Theater Geeks. It tried to play it safe. Big mistake. The episodes that work focus on the making of a show or let's put on a show, the episodes that suck focus on the cliche melodrama.
I'll continue to miss the SMASH that could have been. Not the SMASH that these nitwitty writers and producers created. It's a show I desperately want to fix.
3. Merlin - clearly building. Not a lot happens. It was a good episode. ( spoilers - assuming there's anyone but me that hasn't seen these episodes yet )
4) Nashville - better than SMASH. This does soapy realistically and well. Rather like the arcs, which continue to surprise me and meld of music and story. Turns out Callie Khouri and T Bone Burnett work well together. Oddly, Hayden Pantierre is stealing the series from Connie Britton, while Jonathan Jackson is stealing it from all the male characters.
5) Glee - Season Finale - okay, that's it. I'm done. Done, I tell you. I know I said this before - but I'm serious this time. Not even the music can save this travesty. It's just dumb. And the music is dumb and irritating too. RIP Glee. On my DVR at any rate. It'll probably go on for five more seasons...
( Read more... )