I pretty much felt all the tears at the end of The Incredible Hulk Returns.
Also, the movie is mostly Thor shotgunning beers and getting into bar fights. It’s impossible to not see Hemsworth and Ruffalo’s performances in these two.
She is my favorite.
(Source: mrgolightly)
The reason to watch it is Jonny Lee Miller, and, yeah, nothing else.
Matthew Weiner, Vince Gilligan, and David Milch talk writing television. Something, something, All-Star Game reference, something writing. There are so many pearls in this thing that there is no point in parsing them. Just go read the whole thing.
I don’t know, you know, I’m kind of interested in this. I’m a Sherlock Holmes nut and even though this is a pretty blatant ripoff of Sherlock I can’t help but still be somewhat tangentially interested in the idea of Sherlock Holmes in New York City, but using setting as a reason to be interested in Zero Cool and O-Ren is a bad reason to watch. I like the concept of modern day Sherlock Holmes enough to try this, even though it feels like I’m cheating. Hell, I liked Eli Stone, so. My concern is I’ll like this too much, because that’s the kind of person I am—I find something I like in everything even though I know I will feel ethically compromised. So, I guess I just admitted that I’m a selfish brat, and in essence that’s very American, which circles right back around to the crux and controversy over this thing. It’s for people who really want more of this kind of thing, even if it is something that is seeded from something that is probably superior.
I have to say I’m sad that Flash Forward is gone. Even though it’s driving force has been: you can change your future, and that is a pretty boring premise to base your show around. It at least has a coherent thought into why characters do what they do. Which is something I can’t say about a show that is going into it’s final season.
V has just been completely uninteresting. I watched one episode and was bored to tears.
Well, it’s smart and exciting and moving without showing any of the pesky nuts and bolts of what make a show smart and exciting and moving. You know how on Mad Men sometimes, just sometimes, you can almost see the writers straining to get that story arc so perfectly crafted? That doesn’t happen on Breaking Bad, probably because by design it’s smaller, lower to the ground, scruffier. It’s a show about a guy dying of cancer who starts cooking meth to leave his family with some money and is therefore about big things like Death & Dying and The Drug Trade In the American Southwest, but it’s also maybe the most quietly pro-family (in the good way) show on the air. It’s got a deep and satisfying and thoroughly realistic humanity to it that makes you feel like you’re watching friends, people you know. Which makes it all the more shocking when the drugs and the guns and the bodies start piling up.
Shit. I think this may be one of those terrible ones. I mean it’s tough to say: The Flash TV show with Dawson’s dad was a childhood favorite, Buffy and X-Files in high school, The West Wing and Sopranos a college favorite, and then The Wire. But my favorite? Shit. I have no idea. I can’t decide.
Okay I know. Doctor Who. That is one show from age 11 to age 29 that I have consistently loved across the board. The crazy adventure mixed with the sensitive nature of the characters has always been something I’ve loved. Mixed in with some good old creepy science fiction and time travel has always twixed me in the right way.
Jasom Katims of Friday Night Lights created this show? And Tommy Schlamme from The West Wing is the producer/director? Not to mention Grazer and Ron Howard and that cast? If there was a category for Biggest Attempt Ever at Give This TV Show Every Television Award on the Planet, this show would be the sole nominee in that category.
Don’t know whether I like the show or not yet, but it’s going to be tough to dislike it.
