What I've Seen...Thotful Folks...
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The TV fall season begins in September and October but some networks have released the pilot eps online for some of a few show to get awareness up.
The ones I’ve seen.
( Selfie. No Spoilers )
The TV fall season begins in September and October but some networks have released the pilot eps online for some of a few show to get awareness up.
The ones I’ve seen.
( Selfie. No Spoilers )
It’s one of the few shows I watch that I don’t quite know why I’m watching.
Perfect Impression and comment about the show!
I didn't get it either, I only watched about three episodes because they were there on the streaming site and I had seen all my Say Yes to the Dress new season episodes. WtoS isn't even good watch while doing something else TV. It is bland which is an insult to Sweden because I watch all the Wallander TV series, British and Swedish, and I love those shows. When I watch them, I watch them. They are very moody and emotional shows and riveting.
...it was so late in the production but he had to act with people who aren’t even there, you won’t even know it. He’s an amazing actor. He’s pretty astonishing; Josh Brolin (dawnybee: I was under the impression that he acted against green screen, but I think they had other actors as stand-ins and then digitized the actual cast over them. If he truly did act with no one there a’la Bob Hoskins in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” Brolin is an even better actor than I thought and Rodriguez a better filmmaker than I thought. It’s seamless. Had he not pointed it out no one would’ve been able to tell.
Now this has always been my problem with Mr. Rodriguez's films. They are brilliant stylistically and technically expert, but there is no meat or interest in the characters to them. They are trash, but not good trash when it comes to plots or characters. They are good trash to just watch for the action and the staging and the art direction. In some of these categories, they rise above trash to brilliance.
As for the great acting of Miss Alba, I thought that you said that she just dances and looks sad until the end. She can't be as good as Kathy Bates in AHS who didn't even have a body to dance with. Mr. Rodriguez is not an actor's director. He is not going to get something out of an actor that no one, not even the actor knew was there.
And this:
Look at the women in this poster. All the men are dressed to the neckties not a bare chest in sight, yet the women are stripped bare except in Miss Green's case where you just know that she is nekkid under that trench coat. I don't like the attitude in that poster. And the women in these films are like wild animals who will tear you to pieces in a flash of a mood turned bad. The women in the original noir films of the late forties and onward were also unknowable goddess of vengeance but they kept their clothes on when they seduced their fools.
That said, I will watch this movie on the cheap just for the style and the art direction and the cinematography.
Which niece is this? Surely these films are too crude for Our Lady Gaga GooGoo. She demands mythically driven plots and characters.
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I only watch Say Yes to the Dress when I'm visiting my mom. I don't know why it's a vacation thing to me and not a "at home" thing, but it's turned into that. I saw one ep where the bride wanted a black dress and the dress she found was gorgeous. I loved it. Her mom, not so much.
But WtoS is just bland and meh. I don't know how it was renewed. I guess NBC wants to keep up a relationship w/ Amy Poehler now that Parks and Recs is ending. That's the only reason why this would stay be on their lineup. I'd be more entertained if they just trained the camera on the lake and aired that.
Now this has always been my problem with Mr. Rodriguez's films. They are brilliant stylistically and technically expert, but there is no meat or interest in the characters to them. They are trash, but not good trash when it comes to plots or characters. They are good trash to just watch for the action and the staging and the art direction. In some of these categories, they rise above trash to brilliance.
Where his interests lies is on full display with his network El Rey. It's "Cops" and 70s films (Blaxploitation, bad kung-fu films), horror. He's doing an homage to those days and I can respect that he is influence by those genres greatly. But he's not really trying to elevate those genres with his writing. He's just using better actors and effects. I wish his characters were better written.
As for the great acting of Miss Alba, I thought that you said that she just dances and looks sad until the end.
No, Rodriguez said she did a "stellar job". She did. Her stripper moves were fantastic.
Just not her acting.
She can't be as good as Kathy Bates in AHS who didn't even have a body to dance with. Mr. Rodriguez is not an actor's director. He is not going to get something out of an actor that no one, not even the actor knew was there.
I think he cares more about the visuals than the performances. Actors like working with him because the only one making mainstream exploitation films is him and Tarantino, but I don't think they feel he's going to draw a performance out of them. Especaily when it's not even on the page.
Look at the women in this poster. All the men are dressed to the neckties not a bare chest in sight, yet the women are stripped bare except in Miss Green's case where you just know that she is nekkid under that trench coat.
And is in a sheer nightie in her character one-sheet. She is actually topless more than half of her scenes. I would say naked but they shadow the lower half, but her breasts are on full display.
I don't like the attitude in that poster. And the women in these films are like wild animals who will tear you to pieces in a flash of a mood turned bad. The women in the original noir films of the late forties and onward were also unknowable goddess of vengeance but they kept their clothes on when they seduced their fools.
It goes back to Rodriguez' influence. But the movies he loved from the 60s and 70s were counterculture films that tread new ground to show how free they were from the Hays Code. But he and other filmmakers took that snapshot in time where people were testing to see how far they could go and he made it his signature. I wish more filmmakers would realize they don't have to be base. Especially when they only hypersexualize and objectify women.
Which niece is this? Surely these films are too crude for Our Lady Gaga GooGoo. She demands mythically driven plots and characters.
Never! Lady GooGoo Gaga would never lower her standards for movies written by Frank Miller and are so crude! The only Rodriguez film she's seen is "Sharkboy and Lavagirl".....eleventy million times. That's a soft estimate. If it's not Sharkboy and Lavagirl or Shrek or Frozen she doesn't want to know about it.
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