So certain people have told me I tend to go on too long (Helloooooo, the name of the blog is The Long Way Round dumb asses). So I will try to keep this post short and semi-sweet...
Underrated
The best show on TV that nobody's watching has got to be ABC's Brothers & Sisters. The show is the brain child of the brilliant playwright Jon Robin Baits, and Ken Olin is the executive producer. Who's Ken Olin? Well, he just happens to be the glue that kept the fucking awsome Alias alive and kicking for 5 dope ass season. In the current universe of network TV, it's too easy to say that a show is good because of the writing, directing, and acting...too many shows fall into this category (24, Lost, The Office, The Unit, etc...). Well, Brothers & Sisters is no different, but what makes this show stand out from others on network TV is that, well, it's just solid as hell. This word may mean nothing to you, but the only show I can compare Brothers & Sisters to is The Wire. Now The Wire IS the best show on ALL of TV (cable or network), and like like The Wire, Brothers & Sisters...well, it just feels different. It doesn't try to do to much, it doesn't ever go off the deep end, the show is Popey ("I am, what I am"). The characters and storylines are so rich and textured, but never flashy. The last thing I want to mention is the cast...or what I consider to be the most tremendous group of dramatic actors (along with House) on network TV. First we have our Alias alums, Ron Rifkin and the under appreciated Balthazar Getty, next the always steller and so natural Rachel Griffiths (ho w much do you miss Six Feet Under...I mean really), then the ultra reliable Sally Field and Patricia Wettig, then someone who I usually can't stand, but is so good in this show I can't help be a fan of...Calista Flockhart, and finally, the two men who are the true breakout stars - Dave Annable (as Justin the drug addict) and Matthew Rhys (the gay lawyer). If you haven't seen the show, well, don't start now because you won't know what the hell is going on...but promise me you'll rent it when it comes out on DVD. Then you can tell me how right I am.
Huh? January 26th?
Has anyone seen the preview for Smoking Aces? Well, if you haven't...first check it out (http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/smokinaces/). The flm is written and directed by Joe Carnahan, the dude who was responsible for the mind-blowing Narc. Smoking Aces is his follow-up film. OK, now let me ask this...what the fuck?! With the sucess of Narc, don't we all belive that this film should have a better release date than the pergatory that is January 26th? Well, as my boy Beck say HELL YES! Not only because this dude deserves a fucking break (he was attached to three high profile films which got either shit canned or ceased production...and then magically started up again without him), but also look at the cast - Jeremy Piven, Andy Garcia, Ray Liotta, Ryan Reynolds, Alicia Keys, Common, Peter Berg, and (let me hold my breath for these last two) Michael Bluth himself...Jason Bateman AND last but not least Ben Affleck (Affleck was the BOMB in Phantoms YO!). Seriously, people have to start hating on Ben, he's fucking great (brotha was in Chasing Amy and had the line of the year in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back - "Hah, well that's where you are wrong...I WASN'T with a hooker today.) Anyway, it just pisses me off that this film is going to get burried. To me it looks like an American verison of the old Guy Ritchie films - Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels or Snatch (the ones that he made before Maddona cut his balls of).
Well, that's all for today...I know these weren't the meanest or funniest ones I have written. But they were short and they came from the heart.
1 comment:
Narc was great and his first film was decent too, but smoking aces looks like a major flop... take a cast like that multiplyed by no hype and add it to a hackneyed,(apologies to jacoby) dead horse story and ridiculous hype williamsy cinemotography (the exact opposite of narc) and we have a big dud on our hands.
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