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TV is over for now...
I daresay that the season "finale" of Sopranos was a big nothing. I have the impression that they are pretty desperate to shuffle people into where they need them for this thing to end. In case you haven't been keeping up, there are 8 more episodes in January, and that is the end. Everyone is fucking up and everything is pretty tenuous. Although the joke where AJ didn't know who Jesse Ventura is and then "remembered" that he's some kind of politician--hilarious!
Contrarily, the season finale of Big Love was incredibly moving, wonderful, and made me weep like a well...like myself since I'm a bit of a weeper when I watch quality stuff. I know I mention how great Bill Paxton is all the time, and this show is the second best thing he's ever done (watch Frailty if you don't believe me).
Tomorrow I'm making H and I a nice meal and then we'll probably watch a movie of some kind. Tuesday we're going to see The Omen and have horrible fried movie food. I predict that the movie will not be great, but will be fun and have some great performances and cool visuals.
I don't really understand why people say things like "remakes ruin such awesome films" as if doing a new version of a film detracts from the original in any way. I daresay flaccid, derrivative approximations hurt films more than outright remakes. Look at all the clones of movies like Halloween...they lessen the whole slasher genre and make people think that there are no truly compelling babysitter killers. And that, my friends, is simply not true.
Usually, a remake will not be as good as an original. The original is probably a classic, which is why they are even bothering to remake it in the first place. Kids don't watch old movies, but they'll pay to watch new ones. So give the kids what they want, and let the grown ups add the originals to thier netfix que. And let us not forget, that every so often, a remake comes along that blows people out of the water.
Contrarily, the season finale of Big Love was incredibly moving, wonderful, and made me weep like a well...like myself since I'm a bit of a weeper when I watch quality stuff. I know I mention how great Bill Paxton is all the time, and this show is the second best thing he's ever done (watch Frailty if you don't believe me).
Tomorrow I'm making H and I a nice meal and then we'll probably watch a movie of some kind. Tuesday we're going to see The Omen and have horrible fried movie food. I predict that the movie will not be great, but will be fun and have some great performances and cool visuals.
I don't really understand why people say things like "remakes ruin such awesome films" as if doing a new version of a film detracts from the original in any way. I daresay flaccid, derrivative approximations hurt films more than outright remakes. Look at all the clones of movies like Halloween...they lessen the whole slasher genre and make people think that there are no truly compelling babysitter killers. And that, my friends, is simply not true.
Usually, a remake will not be as good as an original. The original is probably a classic, which is why they are even bothering to remake it in the first place. Kids don't watch old movies, but they'll pay to watch new ones. So give the kids what they want, and let the grown ups add the originals to thier netfix que. And let us not forget, that every so often, a remake comes along that blows people out of the water.