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[shadowkat]

Desperate to lose weight - and not wanting to spend money again, I discovered via my flist, MyFitnessPal.com. It's a free dietary/calorie counter, without the expenditure and marketing annoyances of weight watchers.

Granted it is sort of hard to do - with a broken foot.

Watching Tim Burton's Dark Shadows at the moment, and I can't help but wonder if all the people in the cast watched the Twilight films and decided for some reason or other to copy the acting style? They all seem deeply stoned. With placid expressions. And no reactions. I understand being restrained...but my attention is wandering, obviously.

I love this line: "Maybe we are getting too worked up about this Angie..."
Yeah, except, you all seem sort of bored, Angie's the only one who is really showing any emotion what-so-ever. I blame the director, not the actors. Tim Burton should stick to animation - his stick figures are more animated.

This is all style and no substance. Lots of shout-outs to old 1970s pop songs, 1970s sytle,
and clothing. But, it's telling, that the television versions of "Dark Shadows" were far more entertaining, both the 1990s version and the 1960s/1970s version.

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Oh I'm disappointed to hear that Veronica Mars is already over budget... because it needed to be made for the money raised on kickstarter: there is no saying that VM will be a commercial success, it is possible that only the fans will see it, and the fans could even be disappointed if it is more like season 3 (without the edge of season 1).

I've gotten so I'm hesitant to go to the big budget blockbuster films, too often they are 3 hours long, expensive to see (however I have given up on 3D films), and bore me to death... (explosions and car chases don't impress me).

But then I don't always go to the smaller films either: they don't get into the theaters close to me, so I have to drive as much as 100 miles to see them (which means I almost never do go see them until they are on DVD). I know I'd enjoy some of these low budget independent films, but I cannot drive four hours round trip just to go see it!

So I agree, there is so much great writing on TV... I just started watching a show called The Killing which is incredibly well written and acted (dark topic, but I'm hooked now). It kind of amazes me that these shows manage to get picked up, but it is so wonderful to have such high quality story telling coming to me conveniently on my TV!

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

The Killing has survived in part because it is on AMC, doesn't need as big an audience as say CBS does. Cable channels, as you may have discovered, can get away with a lot more than broadcast channels and have a longer survival rate.

I tried it in its initial run, the first year...and got bored. This season is touted as being slightly better. Although I'm in an "anti-serial killer" mood at the moment. Anything featuring "serial killers" tends to turn me off for some reason with few exceptions. I think I may have burned out on the genre? (shrugs)

There's three other dark dramas popping up soon that I'm keeping an eye out for this summer: Low Down Sun (on AMC about police corruption in Detroit), and The Bridge (on F/X based on a Netherlands series, except it is about two cops solving a case that happened on the border of El Paso, New Mexico and Juarex, Mexico. One cop, female has ausperger's syndrom and the other is a male cop from Mexico. Has gotten great press, I think it starts in July. Then there's the International series - French and American entitled Crossing Lines on Sunday on NBC, I think. Starring Donald Sutherland and a cast of character actors.

I don't have high expectations for the VM film...I think it really will be more like S3 than the first season.

Agree on movies. I rarely see them in the theaters. I had plans to see Star Trek Into Darkness and Man of Steel these past two weekends with friends, but alas, I broke my foot. Oh well, apparently they are fine to see on DVD or HBO. Iron Man 3 got the best reviews of the bunch.

Just saw another truly bad movie via HBO, entitled This Means War - it had two funny moments in it, but most of it was just...too ludicrous to be taken seriously. Too many of these movies are just over-the-top.
Dear Hollywood? Less is more!!

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Yeah, I can really understanding being sick and tired of serial killers! I have tried to tune into Hannibal, but it just is really off putting. And Kevin Bacon had some really brutal serial killing procedural called the Following, that I quickly realized I didn't want in my life... I was actually thrilled that Ripper Street was way less about serial killers, and way more about the evolution of Victorian police work. Like Coppers is way more about history than a body count.

Take care of yourself!

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I wish I'd know that about Ripper Street - I would have watched it. The previews turned me off.

Right there with you on both Hannibal and The Following - didn't want either in my head. It gets to be a bit much after a while. Felt the same way about The Cult - which was a tv series about the fandom of a violent serial killer tv series and bizarre re-enactments of that tv series killings. Ugh.

I can deal with Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, and Elementary - but the others are sort of over-kill.

Thanks. Climbing the walls. Been in apartment one too many days now.