Ms. Amused

Ok I have to give them credit too a la House for being more original with the ways to get rid of a character. The lead in episode to this showed Booth getting shot but like I said before, no way would they get rid of him.

Now I’m curious why the actor left. As always, I hope it was their wish and not the studios trying to cut costs.

A little Google Fu and the answer is … not his choice (don’t click if you don’t want to be spoiled). Dammit!

Well rest assured, YOU WILL BE MISSED! I hope they do bring you back though admittedly, it’ll be hard.

Clearly I need to go rewatch this because I keep seeing people talking about the status of the team and while I get what happened to one part of it…. the rest leaves me going huh what?

I know I was knitting during that episode but I must have been more distracted than I thought!

Now I get why I saw a lot of emotional reactions to the House finale, “Wilson’s Heart”.

I’d held off on watching the first part of the 2 parter finale so that I could watch them back to back. But then that night, I’d started to watch the Bones finale that was on before House and #$*#$#&&~!!! The captions were fucked up due to some kind of broadcast problem. And then I realized oh shit… the House pt 2 is probably fubarred as well! And it was.

But the other night I finally remembered to check online to see if the online version was captioned. And it was!!

So last night I watched pt 1 on my TV and tonight I watched pt 2 on the computer.

AND OMIGOD!! I cried.

I know I recently ranted about how every show I watch shot/killed/or departed a character and that it was like “be original plskthx?”… and even NCIS got into the game. But House at least, they managed to make it original and plucked the bejesus out of your heart strings. Which is amazing considering the characters involved.

There’s a reason the writers fought so hard for internet residuals… times like tonight is one of them. My Mom’s another case scenario as its now the only way she can watch any of her shows.

It might have been released in 1990 but the script was definitely written in the 80s. Felt like the leads were all thoroughly bored and distracted. They’d ‘wake up’ and realize it was their line and deliver it and then zone off again.

I’m fond of Daryl Hannah but now I have to wonder if I’ve inflated her acting skills in my mind. She came off as petulant instead of neurotic.

I’ve never been a huge Dudley Moore fan but I’ve liked things he’s done. This felt like a phone in job for him.

It was mildly amusing to see Paul Reiser playing a similar character to the corp hack in Aliens.

At the end, I was doing a serious double take because I could swear that the one helicopter pilot was George Eads (CSI), but it wasn’t. And I knew it would be because George doesn’t look 45-50 as he would be now.

The only thing I would recommend this movie for would be the funny “honest advertising” campaigns that the movie’s plot centers around. Otherwise unless you just REALLY love 80s movies, Dudley Moore, Paul Reiser and/or Daryl Hannah….. don’t watch.

Daryl Hannah: 1.5 star
Daryl acting badly: -.5 star
Funny ads: 1 star
It’s an 80s movie and I love the 80s: 2 stars
It’s a bad 80s movie with little to no charm: -1.5 star.
Summary: 2.5 stars

I’ve not read any of the books so didn’t really know what the movie was going to be about.

Which enabled me to see part of why the movie underperformed. It’s not a bad movie at all but I think they relied too much on the presumption that the audience already knew the story because I felt like a ping pong ball getting batted around when it came to understanding the story and what was happening and why it mattered.

However, that didn’t stop me from enjoying the movie because the questions were eventually answered and it was a beautifully done movie. CGI wasn’t perfect but good enough to not detract.

I really hope that they do greenlight the followup movies because this one was very much filmed & told to be a part of a series, not a stand alone. It’s like Pirates of the Caribbean 2, Dead Man’s Chest… it told a story in its own right but left a lot of loose ends to be taken care of in POTC 3.

Perhaps if they’d tried to do it more like POTC 1 that was done at first as a stand alone and then built upon for a trilogy, it would have been more successful.

I’m left wondering what the heck was Mrs Coulter (Nicole Kidman) all about? What’s with the weird relationship between her and daemon? What is the Dust and why is it so taboo? I don’t think they really ever made that clear in the movie. The Magistrate (or whatever they called them) wanted to suppress & control awareness of it but the motivation was never really clear. “It’s tradition” isn’t enough because traditions have to start SOMEWHERE!!

I’d watch it again. And I really hope the rest of the story gets made.

This movie is made of so much fail.

I really REALLY do not get how we’re supposed to sympathize or like a the lead who is highly judgmental about his new wife (makes a big deal out of things that aren’t big deals) in order to justify cheating on her. Watching this movie makes me feel bad for Christine Taylor because it doesn’t seem to be made by people who like women very much. I’m looking at Ben, the Farrelly brothers and whoever wrote this shite. Looking at IMDB, Scot Armstrong & Leslie Dixon are the writers. Scot I can see based on his other credits but I’m surprised at Leslie since I like her other movies. I did get a feeling that someone had attempted to reign in the misogyny a bit, maybe that was her? Scot clearly belongs to the Judd Apatow crowd… I despise the bulk of Judd’s work and this crap rates even lower than a lot of his.

It was rather surreal because normally when you have the people who hate the lead and are very critical and etc, you’re rooting for him to show them that they’re wrong. This time… THEY’RE NOT WRONG!! The guy (Stiller) is an absolute shmuck of an ass and rarely does anything redeeming. I just don’t have patience with people (or characters) who operate with complete disregard for how they affect other people and their lives. He barely shows any remorse for the emotional hell that he puts his new wife through. She may be slightly nuts but like he’s not? Not grounds for dismissal and I resented that they made it seem that she deserved what she got or that she was a harpy for acting like a woman who’d just been dealt some low dirty blows from her new husband.  She was the sympathetic character in this… not Stiller. Or the other girl perhaps who I just can’t buy her dumping her husband in the end for Stiller cause hello? He’s shit.

Heartbreak Kid my ass… HE deserved all the crap that happened to him and didn’t deserve the good stuff like the women who married him and “the girl” he fell for.

I agree with other people’s comments that Stiller’s been doing the same thing over and over again. It’s been a long time since Ben’s done anything worth watching. Meet the Parents is the only thing I can think of that was ok at all and I credit DeNiro & Hoffman & Blythe Danner & Babs for that.

So why did I watch it the whole way through? Because I was too lazy to get up and turn it off, plus the horridness made it easier to concentrate more on my knitting which got done much faster!

Why did I watch this at all? Well I keep holding out hope that he’ll pull out something decent again like Meet The Parents & Meet The Fockers. Adam Sandler’s a far better bet. Even if I haven’t loved all of his recent movies, I  didn’t hate any of them… not even Click. And some were really damn good… Spanglish & Reign Over Me were jaw droppingly good as he departed from the comedy standard and showed some drama chops. But I digress…

I’ve not been to Disneyland in a long time but now I wish I had….

Someone talks about playing Jack Sparrow at the park and the DisneyNazis who fired him.

It’s a very entertaining read and is only two pages so go read it! If the accompanying photo is him, damn is he a ringer for the real deal!

So when is there gonna be a Pirates 4 already?

Just WHAT is up with all the season finales these days? A major character (or two) has been shot (or blown up) in just about every show that I watch. Seems like there’s a mass exodus of regular characters as well.

Jesse L Martin left Law & Order (yes I was living under a rock and hadn’t heard of his departure beforehand)

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