Corona | Coming Attractions

 I watched the HIMYM premiere tonight (not their best, not their worst), as well as Lone Star (great pilot!). Now I'm watching The Reason I'm Into Politics being interviewed by David Letterman, as I wait for The Event and other stuff to download. 

Though I'm sure The Event is just a great pilot that's going to go in all sorts of fascinating directions as the show goes on, but ultimately be a complete waste of time with a disappointing finale that doesn't answer every single little question it ever addresses, so I may as well just cut my losses and stop the download now. 

'No Retreat, No Surrender' on Youtube.   I loved this movie back in the 80's.  Sweet cheeks of Buddha, what was I thinking???

Sue-Ellen, you amuse me.  I should make a Lost discussion thread so you can tell me why the finale was actually good. 

The Event was okay.  It apes Lost in that it spent parts of the episode focusing on a specific character (and it tells you that as well) and employs multiple flashbacks throughout the episode (3 months earlier, 8 days earlier, etc).  The flashbacks started to irk me, and if they continue throughout the series, I will not be watching, because that is a lame way to tell a story. No, I'm not digging on Lost there.  

So it's just commissioning by panel of TV Exec sheeple?

"Lost was huge.  Do what Lost did.  We really are worth those huge salaries they pay us.  Is it lunch time yet?"

I watched:

(500) Days of Summer

Me & Orson Welles

I watched The Informant! this weekend and was highly disappointed.

I watched the Prince of Persia movie this weekend.  Meh.

That sounds about right.

I haven't seen Me & Orson Welles, but I was impressed by the bits I saw in the trailer of the guy playing Welles.

Prince of Persia was better than I expected, but I wasn't expecting much.

I watched Up in the Air.  Not too bad of a movie.

Prince of Persia was merely okay.  It wasn't bad, it wasn't good, it just "was".  However, it did amuse me how many direct visual cues it took from the Prince of Persia and Assassin's Creed games.

Me and Orson Welles was better than I expected. The guy playing Orson was great, and Zac Efron wasn't horrible. The girl who plays his possible girlfriend was in "A Behanding in Spokane" on Broadway with Christopher Walken, she's pretty good on and off the screen (I think she's a descendent of Eliz Kazan).

Watched Kick Ass on BluRay and had forgotten how entertaining it is.  Nicholas Cage channelling Adam West is genius!

It seemed pretty lazy to me.

Was it too lazy to pull up the awards thread?

I've been watching episodes of MST3K on Netflix Instant, forgot how much I love that show.

So did I, watched Mystery Science Theater 3000: Soultaker

Please quote some of the more memorable lines whenever citing an episode of MST3K. Thank you.

Watched Lone Star last night. It was silly. James Wolk is a handsome man, though.

Mal Shot First wrote:

Watched Lone Star last night.

Did it give you the Raspberry? Only it would dare.

Just finished the most recent episode of 'Mad Men' season 4; this has definitely been the best season, and this episode had some pretty good tension.  I'm not sure if the best development in the episode will necessarily lead anywhere, but it might, and another situation, while not quite as interesting, certainly is going to be central going forward.

Watching my first episode of Glee (Mom has the remote and I'm lazy).  It's the Britney Spears eppy.  John Stamos is delicious.  That's all.

I always liked that other canadian idiot who's not named Saget.

I am pretty sure that Kah watching 'Glee' is yet another of the harbingers of the coming apocalypse.