temping is slowly taking away my will to live...
OK, THE NINE is a keeper. I finally watched the first two episodes last night and it’s good. Really good. I can’t imagine the Big Question - what went on in the bank for 52 hours - will hold up forever, I mean eventually they are going to run out of things that happened. But the characters are good and there are so many things you want to know after the first 30 minutes that you can’t help but keep watching.
Dammit.
Clearly I’ve been watching a lot of tv lately, way more than usual, but I have an issue with guest stars on series. Is there anyone watching who doesn’t realize that when there is a guest star that you recognize in a seemingly unimportant role that this person will somehow end up being “important,” usually guilty. Doesn’t matter what show, they will have done something bad. If you put Edward Furlong on CSI: NY as a random college student you KNOW he’s going to be involved and probably guilty. If you put Betty Buckley on WITHOUT A TRACE she’s going to not be the nice mom that they want you to think she is. Peter Graves on COLD CASE as a harmless survivor of the Holocaust? Right, except for when he turns out to be a Nazi camp guard. I wish they’d knock it off, is most of America really that stupid? Oy.
I scored a ticket to The Times They Are a Changin’ with Julie and KLui on Wednesday night and enjoyed it way more than I thought I would. Twyla’s choreography is what you’d expect, sometimes cool and sometimes ridiculous, but Michael Arden is fanfreakintastic. If he could have sung all of the songs the show would have been nearly perfect. Damn. As it is it’s still enjoyable, Bob Dylan songs are so much better when someone else sings them. Story is negligible. And the backstage tour to play on the bouncy stage was an extra fun bonus.
Julie and I also saw LITTLE CHILDREN. Let’s not kid ourselves, we went because Patrick Wilson is hot, but the movie was a lot like THE DEPARTED in that it’s not always easy to watch. People are doing stupid, bad things and you spend most of the movie waiting for the really bad stuff to happen to them. But in the end it's a well done, enjoyable movie.
But I gotta say that the best thing I’ve seen in a long while is A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS. I thought this was a truly amazing film. I’d heard good things about it back when I was at SonyBMG and it was going to be in the Toronto Film Festival. The cast was promising, Robert Downey Jr, Rosario Dawson, Dianne Wiest, and my BF Channing Tatum. I didn’t hold out a lot of hope for him, he’s not the strongest actor but he’s just so damn pretty. But it turns out that both he and Shia LaBeouf (yeah, dorky kid with the Jew ‘fro from HOLES) were phenomenal. My only issue is that while I can sort of see Shia growing up to be RDJ, I can’t quite see my BF growing up to be Eric Roberts... But it’s a great film with a wonderful cast, excellent story and it just looks good: the sets, the location, everything sucks you in to a crappy Queens neighborhood back in the day.
Loved. It.
Dammit.
Clearly I’ve been watching a lot of tv lately, way more than usual, but I have an issue with guest stars on series. Is there anyone watching who doesn’t realize that when there is a guest star that you recognize in a seemingly unimportant role that this person will somehow end up being “important,” usually guilty. Doesn’t matter what show, they will have done something bad. If you put Edward Furlong on CSI: NY as a random college student you KNOW he’s going to be involved and probably guilty. If you put Betty Buckley on WITHOUT A TRACE she’s going to not be the nice mom that they want you to think she is. Peter Graves on COLD CASE as a harmless survivor of the Holocaust? Right, except for when he turns out to be a Nazi camp guard. I wish they’d knock it off, is most of America really that stupid? Oy.
I scored a ticket to The Times They Are a Changin’ with Julie and KLui on Wednesday night and enjoyed it way more than I thought I would. Twyla’s choreography is what you’d expect, sometimes cool and sometimes ridiculous, but Michael Arden is fanfreakintastic. If he could have sung all of the songs the show would have been nearly perfect. Damn. As it is it’s still enjoyable, Bob Dylan songs are so much better when someone else sings them. Story is negligible. And the backstage tour to play on the bouncy stage was an extra fun bonus.
Julie and I also saw LITTLE CHILDREN. Let’s not kid ourselves, we went because Patrick Wilson is hot, but the movie was a lot like THE DEPARTED in that it’s not always easy to watch. People are doing stupid, bad things and you spend most of the movie waiting for the really bad stuff to happen to them. But in the end it's a well done, enjoyable movie.
But I gotta say that the best thing I’ve seen in a long while is A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS. I thought this was a truly amazing film. I’d heard good things about it back when I was at SonyBMG and it was going to be in the Toronto Film Festival. The cast was promising, Robert Downey Jr, Rosario Dawson, Dianne Wiest, and my BF Channing Tatum. I didn’t hold out a lot of hope for him, he’s not the strongest actor but he’s just so damn pretty. But it turns out that both he and Shia LaBeouf (yeah, dorky kid with the Jew ‘fro from HOLES) were phenomenal. My only issue is that while I can sort of see Shia growing up to be RDJ, I can’t quite see my BF growing up to be Eric Roberts... But it’s a great film with a wonderful cast, excellent story and it just looks good: the sets, the location, everything sucks you in to a crappy Queens neighborhood back in the day.
Loved. It.