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The Big Bang Theory: The Work Song Nanocluster {TV Squad}
Mar 17th 2009 9:25AM the oddest part of the episode is the timing...
so, it's saturday night and they receive a 1 day rush order. That order wouldn't be received traditionally until beginning of business on monday, giving them til tuesday to deliver.
for a bunch of geniuses, they sure don't understand shipping.
NBC to use the Super Bowl to plug NBC {TV Squad}
Dec 17th 2008 1:19PM They used the superbowl to promote the heck out of My Own Worst Enemy 6 months before it aired. Of course they cancelled it when they didn't get the financial return on it they had hoped.
They need money to afford to hold on to shows that need time to develop an audience. They should jack up the price of the Superbowl Commercials to offset the cost of burying money into shows they have no faith in.
'Hancock 2' On Its Way {Cinematical}
Dec 5th 2008 11:29AM Hancock 2 would not work as a sequel.
The only way it would work for me would be as a prequel - featuring more alcoholic, unlucky hero and less redemption story.
That's what we were sold on from the moment Hancock emerged - ooh, it's a hero that screws everything up - sweet! Wait, there's another and she's close to him for absolutely no reason other that plot device? Crap.
Give me drunken, homeless anti-hero.
Some guy put a Nintendo 64 in his Wii {Joystiq Nintendo}
Nov 20th 2008 4:25PM "blowing in slots"
uh huh huh huh
Watch This: Seven Minutes of 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' {Cinematical}
Sep 15th 2008 5:03PM Klaatu barada nikto.
New DVD Picks of the Week: 'Spaced' & 'Robot Chicken: Star Wars' {Cinematical}
Jul 22nd 2008 5:24PM IT'S A TRAP!!!
Review: Beowulf {Cinematical}
Nov 15th 2007 11:48AM oops... it cut off.
I caught a sneak preview on Tuesday for Beowulf in digital 3-d and after the pre-review on Cinematical that exclaimed that the IMAX 3D version was like watching Star Wars on the big screen for the first time, I couldn't wait.
Without 3D glasses, the movie is junk. Whereas movies based on videogames strive to translate into cinema, Beowulf strives to be a video game. Fight scenes play out like weak imitations of the PS2 game "Shadow of the Colossus". Voice acting is only saved by John Malkovich; however, even he grates 60% of the time.
It was pretty; however, it was far from consistent in its visual treatments. Secondary characters ride on horses like they were crash test dummies mounted on sticks devoid of any expression or fluidity of movement. Cut scenes are merely 3D fashion shows with completely useless fly-bys through tree limbs in reverse. Jolie will put butts in seats, but if that's all you want to see, rent Gia: she still can't act, but she's a cracked-out, naked lesbian supermodel.
No, I would not watch it on DVD, TV or any other medium sans 3D. Like the equally vomit-worthy Miami Vice movie, Beowulf would have been better off without any attachment to previous works. Other than 2 boss battles, the movie is Great Stuff... no, not as in a great movie; as in that aerosol can of spray foam that you use for filler that's highly toxic, but expands to fill a bunch of imperfections temporarily.
Review: Beowulf {Cinematical}
Nov 15th 2007 11:45AM I caught a sneak preview on Tuesday for Beowulf in digital 3-d and after the pre-review on Cinematical that exclaimed that the IMAX 3D version was like watching Star Wars on the big screen for the first time, I couldn't wait.
Without 3D glasses, the movie is junk. Whereas movies based on videogames strive to translate into cinema, Beowulf strives to be a video game. Fight scenes play out like weak imitations of the PS2 game "Shadow of the Colossus". Voice acting is only saved by John Malkovich; however, even he grates 60% of the time.
It was pretty; however, it was far from consistent in its visual treatments. Secondary characters ride on horses like they were crash test dummies mounted on sticks devoid of any expression or fluidity of movement. Cut scenes are merely 3D fashion shows with completely useless fly-bys through tree limbs in reverse. Jolie will put butts in seats, but if that's all you want to see, rent Gia: she still can't act, but she's a cracked-out, naked lesbian supermodel.
No, I would not watch it on DVD, TV or any other medium sans 3D. Like the equally vomit-worthy
Chuck: Chuck Versus the Sizzling Shrimp {TV Squad}
Oct 23rd 2007 10:49AM Dear McG,
Please stop ruining shows with your MTV teeny-bopper sense of style. Desaturate the color in the show a bit, stop the freeze-frame fight sequences, hire some real geeks to provide you with legitimate dorky references, and for your own sake Joseph, you're damn near 40...drop the McG.
If you're going to give this show the Fastlane treatment, at least hire Tiffani Thiessen. You are no longer "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)".
Life: What They Saw {TV Squad}
Oct 18th 2007 10:28AM I love the show and I was more than peeved when the news cut in for 40 minutes of it to warn people of intense drizzling in the area (120 miles south of the metro area).
One thing that bugs me are the flashbacks to the interviews with people central to the cover-up: the same Ames interview shows every episode and multiple times at that. I understand that it's not simply a cop drama, and that the whole basis of the show is a man trying to find out who framed him; however, do we really need to see the same interviews over and over? Maybe I'll chalk it up to first season jitters and worries that they need to keep doing it to fill in viewers who may have missed the earlier episodes, or maybe I'll write it off as bad editing.
The show is trying to do too much and not spend any time doing any of it: Reese's sex/drug/alcohol addiction, the elaborate frame-up, and trying to make Calamity Jane look like a woman again to name a few. Every time I see Robin Weigert, I flash back to her naked body in the bathtub in Deadwood and I get an anti-boner that not even Sarah Shahi can unplug.
New shows try to be everything we like about every other show, and they don't have to be.
