Showbiz Wednesday
So the big stuff on TV tonight are the end of American Idol and the season finale of Lost. I’m not watching either of them. I hear great things about Lost, but I just couldn’t get excited about it in the beginning and it just seems like too much effort to figure it out now. Like trying to get back on the ‘24’ bandwagon… just can’t do it. And as for American Idol… I find it unwatchable. I watched Ruben win a few years ago, that was enough for me.
We are now entering the season when television is all re-runs and movies are all blockbusters. The Da Vinci Code did fine over the weekend; 77 million is a very strong opening for a movie that the critics say is horrible. I don’t listen to critics because I’ve found that I disagree with them 99 times out of 100. I don’t know what movie they are watching… but they all seem to think a movie has to be ‘snooty’ to be good. I want to go to a movie, be entertained for 2 hours and then go back to my life already in progress. I don’t need to be emotionally moved by every movie I see.
I can’t give my thoughts on the Da Vinci Code as I have not seen it yet. I’ve had a lot of work this week so Da Vinci waits till this weekend and X-Men 3 till next weekend. As for the earlier summer movie Mission Impossible… well, I might get that on DVD if it’s a good sale.
I saw a trailer for the new Ghost Rider movie and saw some of the reaction to it. The trailer itself looks good to me. It’s not Shakespeare but then again, it’s Ghost Rider not Brokeback Mountain. The effects looked decent to me and Nicolas Cage is a good actor so I’m going to give it a shot. The reaction I’ve seen has been very negative. Things from “looks like Spawn”, to “this is the same guy that brought us that horrible Daredevil movie”. Well, I’m not in the group that hated Daredevil. In truth, I really LIKED the Director’s Cut of Daredevil. When they threw out the love scene and put back in the Coolio sub-plot, it makes it a good movie.
Now I doubt the movie will do that well after X-Men and Superman this summer. Spider-Man and Batman Begins have set such a high bar now that everything is going to pale by comparison. For me, I just enjoy seeing the characters I grew up reading now on the big screen. I’ll even go see Ant-Man if they actually make it.
And note to the producers trying to get Ant-Man done… if you need a writer, I’d like to take a swing at it.
So the big stuff on TV tonight are the end of American Idol and the season finale of Lost. I’m not watching either of them. I hear great things about Lost, but I just couldn’t get excited about it in the beginning and it just seems like too much effort to figure it out now. Like trying to get back on the ‘24’ bandwagon… just can’t do it. And as for American Idol… I find it unwatchable. I watched Ruben win a few years ago, that was enough for me.
We are now entering the season when television is all re-runs and movies are all blockbusters. The Da Vinci Code did fine over the weekend; 77 million is a very strong opening for a movie that the critics say is horrible. I don’t listen to critics because I’ve found that I disagree with them 99 times out of 100. I don’t know what movie they are watching… but they all seem to think a movie has to be ‘snooty’ to be good. I want to go to a movie, be entertained for 2 hours and then go back to my life already in progress. I don’t need to be emotionally moved by every movie I see.
I can’t give my thoughts on the Da Vinci Code as I have not seen it yet. I’ve had a lot of work this week so Da Vinci waits till this weekend and X-Men 3 till next weekend. As for the earlier summer movie Mission Impossible… well, I might get that on DVD if it’s a good sale.
I saw a trailer for the new Ghost Rider movie and saw some of the reaction to it. The trailer itself looks good to me. It’s not Shakespeare but then again, it’s Ghost Rider not Brokeback Mountain. The effects looked decent to me and Nicolas Cage is a good actor so I’m going to give it a shot. The reaction I’ve seen has been very negative. Things from “looks like Spawn”, to “this is the same guy that brought us that horrible Daredevil movie”. Well, I’m not in the group that hated Daredevil. In truth, I really LIKED the Director’s Cut of Daredevil. When they threw out the love scene and put back in the Coolio sub-plot, it makes it a good movie.
Now I doubt the movie will do that well after X-Men and Superman this summer. Spider-Man and Batman Begins have set such a high bar now that everything is going to pale by comparison. For me, I just enjoy seeing the characters I grew up reading now on the big screen. I’ll even go see Ant-Man if they actually make it.
And note to the producers trying to get Ant-Man done… if you need a writer, I’d like to take a swing at it.
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