Posted on 09/27/2006 11:04:53 AM PDT by Keltik
800 channels and nothing is on worth seeing.
If Hollywood would stop making all those pro-American pro-family feel good movies and start making some good left-wing movies that depresses people, maybe they would make more money.
Heroes was pretty good. Prison Break is enjoyable and House is a good watch. Smallville, Lost and 24 make it for TV for me though. Those shows are great.
The anime I watch blows most live action US shows and movies out of the water. American TV has gotten good in the last few years though with the serialized series. 24 and The Shield come to mind. American cinema has grown stagnant and unimaginative. Where are all the great movies like we had in the 80s?
I *love* watching series on DVD. No commercials, no waiting a week for the story to continue, and then there's the extra features. Good stuff. Well worth the money - especially when compared to the costs of going to the movies.
It sounds as if the Sopranos has jumped the shark. In the months leading up to the first episode of season 6, Chase and his PR people were leading the audience on, giving the (false) impression that the sixth season would be the season to top them all. Instead, it turned out to be a dud. It looks as if it will never get any better anymore.
"the show will have a little more forward momentum"
Werent we promised something like this before the start of season 6? Why should we believe that now?
24 is better, but almost ticked me off with a soap opera style car wreck, daughter miraculously jumps clear and the wife wandering around with amnesia. Other than that, it's been good so far.
800 channels and nothing is on worth seeing.
$73 a month to watch Andy Griffith.
I spend most of my viewing time on The Science Channel and the History Channel.
That and taping "24" on A&E. Other than that it's Sci-Fi Fridays.
Gad, I hope Season 11 of Stargate SG-1 makes it to Sci-Fi.
House would be a better series if it was more about the characters than the patient of the week. That's what makes it formula; after a few episodes you are watching to hear some observations and one liners and a little bit of the "bigger story".
Are we supposed to become emotionally attached to these patient families who will never be seen on the show again?
When is Fox going to compile a "Best of O'Reilly" series?
But I don't really like it. Kind of dumb IMO.
Unless you get the dreaded "long wait" or worse "very long wait". Which is what happened to me with the 2nd season of the series "Ghost Hunters". So I deleted it from my queue and put it in my Blockbuster Q where its on a "short wait", but I've had better success at getting "short wait" movies from BB.
And well worth it :-)
Remember When Lucy and Ricky were in separate beds with nightclothes of opaqueness extraordinaire. At least one foot on the floor when in the same bed and God forbid, (well it was the network censors), the utterance of the word {gulp} PREGNANT!
Myself? I always had a crush on Princess Summer-Fall-Winter-Spring!
"If Hollywood would stop making all those pro-American pro-family feel good movies and start making some good left-wing movies that depresses people, maybe they would make more money."
I know your comment is tongue-in-cheek, but consider:
"All-Time USA Boxoffice
Rank Title USA Box Office
1. Titanic (1997) $600,779,824
2. Star Wars (1977) $460,935,665
3. Shrek 2 (2004) $436,471,036
4. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) $434,949,459
5. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) $431,065,444
6. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) $419,654,338
7. Spider-Man (2002) $403,706,375
8. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) $380,262,555
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) $377,019,252
10. Spider-Man 2 (2004) $373,377,893
11. The Passion of the Christ (2004) $370,270,943
12. Jurassic Park (1993) $356,784,000
13. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) $340,478,898
14. Finding Nemo (2003) $339,714,367
15. Forrest Gump (1994) $329,691,196
16. The Lion King (1994) $328,423,001
17. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) $317,557,891
18. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) $313,837,577
19. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) $310,675,583
20. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) $309,125,409
21. Independence Day (1996) $306,124,059
22. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) $305,388,685
23. The Sixth Sense (1999) $293,501,675
24. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) $291,709,845
25. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) $290,158,751"
http://us.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross
That is just the top 25 (the list goes on) and, so far as I can see, there is not one movie on there most families would be uncomfortable watching (with certain exceptions, like young children). But that is not the usual fare offered by Hollyweird; rather it is stuff that is left-wing, depressing, violent, and full of gratuitous sex and profanity.
You would think the studios would recognize what sells, and then offer it. But no...
It's as good as the action-drama genre gets. However, it'll leave you with withdrawls and the hope that you can find another, comparable, series to watch.
I guess I'll check into some of the above:)
People who buy DVDs don't throw them out. Eventually they build up a library of all the films they want to see and then turn to buying classic (and not so classic) TV programs. So to keep up sales of DVD movies, you either have to make new movies that people want to see over and over (pretty hard to do) or you have to expand your marketing so that people who never watch DVDs now want to go out and buy them (maybe by giving away the DVD player for free). Or you need to change the format from DVD to an entirely new system so people have to upgrade their collection to stay current with the technology. Since this would take years it is not much of an alternative.
1) Parents who bring their babies or young children to a PG-13 thriller only to spend the entire 2 hours explaining to the crying child that it's not real...it's only a movie.
2) People who don't turn off their cell phones and proceed to take calls and talk through the movie.
3) People who talk to their neighbors through the movie even when you politely ask them to be quiet.
4) People who eat like they've been raised in a barn.
5) Parents who use the movie as a two hour babysitter, which means children running wild, not sitting still, and talking through the movie.
6) Even though there are 200 sets in the theater and 10 strangers watching the movie...they all sit with a chair of each other as if they are afraid someone might attack them in the night.
After listening to 2 little old ladies talk through the entire 2 hours of Shakespeare in Love, I did turn to them at the end and say, "You might take into consideration the next time you come to a film that people like me did not pay $6.25 to listen to you talk through the whole movie."
That's why I wait for the movie to come out on DVD.
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