Browsing Category: "TV and Movies"
Tags: breaking bad
So AMC has been advertising Breaking Bad all week. Season 3 gets underway tomorrow night and I can't wait. Today they are showing old episodes all day long. So I thought I would stay in and get caught up with Season 2. It looks like they are showing them not in order and they have cut out all of the bad words. I can get past the episodes not being in order but how the hell do you broadcast a show about Meth dealers with no swearing? AMC couldn't even fudge in pretend words they just silence it all out. Crazy. What a waste.
Tags: scanners
I was up late last night watching the old horror movie Scanners. It's a classic if you haven't seen it. People being able to blow people up with their brains. Cool idea. I get the same feeling when I am at the store and those geeks are flashing around one of those Symbol LS2208 barcode scanners. Can they use them for the powers of evil and scan my brain until I pop like I was in a micro wave oven? How about those airport security scanners? They can see right through you. I would hate to think what they are sending through the body.
Tags: annoying people
As if getting insurance quotes isn't painful enough. Now you have to add the most annoying person on the face of the planet into the equation. Can you imagine having to live with a person like this in real life? There are people like this that exist in the real world. Scary.
Tags: taco bell
This commercial just started running where I live. Wow, Denise is allright. There is a Taco Bell about 5 blocks from here and they don't look like that. It's like I live near Bizzaro Taco Bell. Or maybe Denise is from Bizzaro Taco Bell. I am not sure yet. 
Tags: Cleveland show, TV shows
I said please. Pretty polite wouldn't you say? The truth is, you are ruining Sunday night TV viewing for the entire planet. It is as simple as that. I have no idea why anybody would think that this show has any merit along comedy lines at all. If there is a Futurama episode on that I have seen a zillion times, I am still watching it. I can't even sit through two minutes of a brand new episode of The Cleveland Show. It's that bad.
There is a simple formula for funny TV shows. Have a funny or strong main character and have funny supporting characters. The Cleveland Show has none of these. Sam had Cliff and Norm. Hawkeye had Frank Burns. Andy had Barney. Jed had Jethro. Jerry had Kramer. You get the idea. Cleveland has nobody. A talking bear? Seriously? Terrible.
I get that they are trying to rip off the sucess of the Family Guy's characters but they failed. You can take second banana like Cleveland and put them with 4th stringers and expect it to be funny. Nobody is watching preseason football after the first quarter because the big guys aren't playing. The Cleveland Show is like watching the fourth quater of a preseason football game between Detroit and St. Louis.
Suggestions? Maybe you can find a washed up toothless sports figure that can barely speak a word of proper english and give them a show. It has to be a hit, doesn't it? Just give me back my Sunday nights. Give me something to flick to during the football commercials.
Tags: celebrity gossip, movie reviews
I just watched the last episode of the Terminator on tv last night. It was the first one I have seen all year because they switched nights on me and Friday is my play night. Anyways it just got good, I won't ruin the ending.
They showed a commercial for the new Terminator Salvation movie and it looks hardcore. Here is a second clip from everyone's favourite youtube.
For those interested I also present Christian Bale who appears to be the biggest knob on the face of the planet freaking out on the set. What a dick.
The first three trailers for the new Star Trek Movie have been posted on Apple. A Trekkie friend was telling me that I should be all over this as it is going the be the greatest movie ever made. Like he would say a bad thing about a Trek movie. It does look pretty good though. Hard to find any pictures but I never looked that hard.
Check this out, I came across it while surfing around this morning. I am not sure how long this one has been around. You can see more videos on You Tube.
"The New People was a short-lived 1969 American television series on ABC that focused on a group of young college students who were returning from a trip in Southeast Asia when their plane crashed on an island in the south Pacific Ocean, killing some of the college students and all but one of the adults. The only surviving adult was badly injured, and after he died, the surviving students were the only human life remaining on the island. The island was unusual in that it had been built up as a site for a potential above-ground nuclear test but then never actually used as such, leaving all of the buildings (and, improbably, even supplies) untouched and ready for use by the survivors" – From Wiki
If you are looking for some scarey movies to rent over Halloween Boston.com just published a Top 50 Scariest Movies list in slideshow format. You can just wheel through them and pick out a couple to rent from your neighbourhood store. There are a couple of good ones in there I had forgotten about and a few I have never seen. It also had a pile of hollywood fluff movies like Cloverfield which was just silly and not scary at all but hey it wasn't all bad.
If you want to see something even more scarier have a look at the bottom of the link page above at some of the gala pictures they have slidewhows for. Pretty teethy.
