What I've been watching

[sarahmichigan]

Largely a big bunch of SUCK is what I've been watching, unfortunately.

I, Robot was stylish looking, but pretty terrible. It didn't really make much sense. I'm blocking most of it out. I was warned ahead of time that it wasn't good, but I'm always wanting there to be more good (or at least non-sucky) sci-fi out there, so I gave it a chance.

Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer. Luckily, I only paid 50 cents to see this on the big screen at the cheapie theater. If you thought the horrible "science" in the first movie was embarrassing, it was even worse in the second. The animation for the Silver Surfer was pretty cool, but Jessica Alba's makeup and the horrible pseudo-scientific explanations for everything that happened were too much for me.

On the positive side, we're enjoying Season 3 of "News Radio" and Season 3 of "Smallville." I got really sucked into the tail end of Season 2 of Smallville and really liked the "bad Clark" at the beginning of Season 3. And I'm developing a crush on Michael Rosenbaum, though he looks better with no-to-little hair. I googled up some pictures of him with more hair, and he kind of looks like a frat boy.

Also enjoyable was "The Aristocrats." If you are easily offended by jokes involving scat, bestiality and incest, you'll want to skip it. I found it highly hilarious and pretty interesting. Yes, the film is mostly the same joke told 100 times in different ways, but it also gives you insight into how the minds of various comedians work: Gilbert Gotfried as a dirty-mouth street preacher, Bob Saget's Tourette-like spew of filth, the direction women comedians like Whoopi Goldberg went with the joke, and so on.

Comments

[melstav]

I, Robot was stylish looking, but pretty terrible. It didn't really make much sense.

I actually thought that I, Robot was a fairly decent movie.... as long as you completely disassociated it in your mind from the Asimov story of the same name.

A familiarity with the original story probably helped with "getting" the movie, but if you approach the movie with the expectation that it's going to be a faithful adaptation of Asimov's story, you're gonna have a bad time.

[sarahmichigan.livejournal.com]

I haven't read the Asimov, so that wasn't the issue. I just thought it was badly written. To each his own. :)

[pastry-i-make.livejournal.com]

In the two big Robot fight scenes:

The Tunnel: Two big ass truck loads of robots and they can't get him????

The End: It's amazing how great everyone's aim got in such a short time. A whole factories worth of robots and they are shotting them like they are playing "Duck Hunt" on NES.

[melstav]

A movie doesn't necessarily have to be believable to be "Decent" in my book.

Just entertaining.

[rossja.livejournal.com]

I saw "The Aristocrats" in the theatre. It was HILARIOUS! And yeah, the whole Bob Saget thing was kind of disturbing really. I mean he was DJ's dad on Full House. haha!!! I guess prior to that he had more of a raunchy career. Who wudda thunk it? :)

Marvel always had bad 'science'.

[airsucker.livejournal.com]

I never could buy Jessica Alba as a blonde. It just doesn't look good on her.

[laughlovelive.livejournal.com]

Bwah??? I think I'd fork over the 5 bucks to rent The Aristocrats just to see lovable, dorky and overly saccharin father of Full House and host of America's Funniest Home Videos, Bob Saget's "Tourette-like spew of filth". I so need to get Netflix. Now that I don't have cable, I can probably afford it.