Yawn

10 years, 2 hours and 4 minutes later:

That's how long it took for pathetic Monkey-Boy to get the girl.

I stopped watching about two or three years ago, except for last night (and I wasn't lost in the slightest...)

One thing I'd like to ask: Where's the feminist reaction? I mean, Rachel has to drop everything (perfect job in Paris for Pete's sake!) and everyone's all so damn happy that she got off the plane?

Oh, but it's so romantic, you say.

- Right -

Everyone calls this show a sit-com, but actually it's a fantasy:

Look at the what the show's trying to tell you:

• People can have kids with no ill effects to their health, lifestyle, appearance, WALLET! I mean where the hell did BEN go? What about those triplets Phoebe carried for her Trogloditic brother?


• Huge apartments can be affordable in NYC for waitresses, out of work actors, junior cooks, etc.


• Fat teenage girls can be rail-thin skeletons later in life without dealing with the fallout from anorexia/bulimia. No implications about negative body image and the problems that young girls can have. But it's a big fuckin' laugh when we see "fat Monica" because jeez, isn't she pathetic? Har har har! All you teenage fat girls should get skinny like Monica! Because you're losers if you don't!


• The ultimate expression of love is to agree to hand over your life savings so your obsessive-compulsive fiancee can plan the dream wedding her Barbie's never had, and that she could never pay for herself. And if you don't, you don't really love her! (yes this one was my pet peeve...)

I could go on and on. Thankfully, Friends won't. Except in reruns. But I doubt if it'll have the longevity that MASH or Seinfeld will have. Some of the early Friends episodes already appear dated- none of the Seinfelds do.

Heart of Oak

This is the third viewing I've had of the film.

Damn is Master and Commander good.

I appreciate the difficulty of adapting novels beloved by fans of the genre to the screen: too much detail and you piss off people who never read the novels; too much exposition (to get the rest of the audience to figure out what the hell is going on) and you get the Napoleonic Wars for first graders, as insulting to fans of O'Brian as Pirates of the Carribean was to anyone who takes their naval history seriously. (OK, I thought it was a fun film...Babe du jour Keira Knightley sauced up the screen pretty well.)

I think Peter Weir has struck the right balance with this one.

More detailed thoughts as I go through the extras on disc 2. Now I've got to reconnect my subwoofer...

The lowest price I found was at evil Walmart ($C34.83)

Tuesday

Tuesday can't come quick enough for me.

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World comes out on Tuesday.

Because of my slavish devotion to the books (I am in the process of re-reading ALL of the novels in chronological order) I am practically salivating over the double disc, special edition.

The only thing that troubles me is that there is no possible way that the film could possibly convey the richness and depths of the novels (note that I'm saying this before actually seeing the movie!) and that the "changes" wrought on O'Brian's text may mess things up dramatically. Why the hell can't the U.S. Navy be the opposition? And, of course they can't get into the secret agent activities of Stephen Maturin in any way (kind of hard to do any spying when the movie takes place totally at sea) which means that the movie might not have the Aubrey-Maturin balance that the novels have.

But that's nit-picking...

Tuesday! Tuesday! Tuesday!


* note: the cheapest place I've found the 2-disc advertised is the Future Shop @ $35.99.

More Dr Who!

Dr Who is coming back with a new time lord in the title role.

I remember watching Dr. Who after school in the 1970s on TVO (kinda like the provincial version of PBS in Ontario) and blissfully ignored the cheap effects, crappy sets and stupid villains who didn't just kill the Doctor when they had him in their clutches...

Hopefully they simulcast this on BBC Canada when it's ready.

If you don't know who Christopher Eccleston is, he was the head crazy soldier in 28 Days Later, Nicole Kidman's husband in The Others, but I remember him best as repressed accountant David (gee, wonder why...) in Shallow Grave, a quirky little film from the people that brought you Trainspotting. (God I loved their apartment!)

Can't trust Time Lords

I knew the Doctor would get the BBC in trouble.



Well he's a Time Lord. Of course he's using inside future info to manipulate commodity pricing.

Damn meddler.

I think it was K.I.T.T. actually...

Hasselhoff claims he had hand in Berlin Wall falling



I'm not making this up.



I'm not making this up.



The East Germans were trying to bust down the Wall so they could put the dying animal out of its misery...who knew it was actually Hasselhoff torturing West Germans with his "singing."

Costanza Lives

Is Curb Your Enthusiasm the best sitcom on TV? I'm thinking the answer is YES!

Larry David IS George Costanza!

Movies

100 movies... bold the ones you've seen.

1. Godfather, The (1972)
2. Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)
3. Godfather: Part II, The (1974)
4. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003)
5. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002)
6. Casablanca (1942)
7. Schindler's List (1993)
8. Shichinin no samurai (1954)
9. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
10. Citizen Kane (1941)
11. Star Wars (1977)
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
13. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
14. Rear Window (1954)
15. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
16. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
17. Memento (2000)
18. Usual Suspects, The (1995)
19. Pulp Fiction (1994)
20. North by Northwest (1959)
21. Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain, Le (2001)
22. Psycho (1960)
23. 12 Angry Men (1957)
24. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
25. Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
26. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)
27. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
28. Goodfellas (1990)
29. American Beauty (1999)
30. Vertigo (1958)
31. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
32. Pianist, The (2002)
33. Matrix, The (1999)
34. Apocalypse Now (1979)
35. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
36. Some Like It Hot (1959)
37. Taxi Driver (1976)
38. Paths of Glory (1957)
39. Third Man, The (1949)
40. C'era una volta il West (1968)
41. Fight Club (1999)
42. Boot, Das (1981)
43. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) (Spirited Away)
44. Double Indemnity (1944)
45. L.A. Confidential (1997)
46. Chinatown (1974)
47. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
48. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
49. Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
50. M (1931)
51. All About Eve (1950)
52. Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
53. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
54. Se7en (1995)
55. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
56. Cidade de Deus (2002)
57. Raging Bull (1980)
58. Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
59. Rash?mon (1950)
60. Sting, The (1973)
61. American History X (1998)
62. Alien (1979)
63. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
64. Leon (The Professional) (1994)
65. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
66. Vita bella, La (1997) (Life Is Beautiful)
67. Touch of Evil (1958)
68. Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
69. Wo hu cang long (2000) (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)
70. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
71. Great Escape, The (1963)
72. Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
73. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
74. Annie Hall (1977)
75. Amadeus (1984)
76. Jaws (1975)
77. Ran (1985)
78. On the Waterfront (1954)
79. Modern Times (1936)
80. High Noon (1952)
81. Braveheart (1995)
82. Apartment, The (1960)
83. Sixth Sense, The (1999)
84. Fargo (1996)
85. Aliens (1986)
86. Shining, The (1980)
87. Blade Runner (1982)
88. Strangers on a Train (1951)
89. Duck Soup (1933)
90. Metropolis (1927)
91. Finding Nemo (2003)
92. Donnie Darko (2001)
93. Toy Story 2 (1999)
94. Princess Bride, The (1987)
95. General, The (1927)
96. City Lights (1931)
97. Lola rennt (1998) (Run Lola Run)
98. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
99. Notorious (1946)
100. Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)

66 out of a hundred. Not bad. And there are several like North by Northwest and Notorious that I might have seen but didn't think was fair to count.


via Rilana

Maybe if he hadn't cheated on her...

Lonely Hawke Worries Pals



Maybe he shouldn't have cheated on her.



Poor Ethan. Married to Uma and he cheats on her and now he feels bad. Poor boy!



What? She didn't fall for the "I promise I'll never do that again" crap.



Waaaaaaahhhh! How long before he's out playing fetch with some young pretty dog, cheating on his old, faithful pooch?



Sorry chump. You messed up. At least be a man about it instead of whining in public. looking for sympathy. And nice friends you got there, spilling all your stuff to the press.

I'm supposed to feel sorry for a loser who chooses to screw around on his wife and mother of his two children? Boo-fucking-Hoo!

I respect Uma a LOT more for not taking him back...

Bloody 'ell

You are

Spike

"I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it."

What "Buffy" Character Are You?

Via the Flea.