Saturday, January 08, 2005
Chromosomally Challenged
I still have this list of 21 Things waiting for me to finish... so let's knock a few off today.
#12) Roman Polanski - Director of movies such as Chinatown and The Pianist. His story is an interesting one... his mother died in a concentration camp during WWII. His second wife was murdered by the Charles Manson family in 1969. In 1978 he left the United States for good, has not been back since, after he was convicted of the staturtory rape of a 13 year old girl. He has received two Oscar nominations since fleeing the states, including a win for The Pianist in 2003, but of course he was not there because he is a toucher. I also heard he is Mitch King's favorite director.
#13) Great actors giving first rate performances in small or second-rate roles... examples follow:
Holly Hunter playing the DA in Moonlight Mile...John Turturro as Joey Knish in Rounders and in many others...Giovanni Ribisi in Basic...Philip Seymour Hoffman in about a dozen films, such as Cold Mountain and The Big Lebowksi...Burt Lancaster in Field of Dreams...etc...
The acting in these kinds of roles plays a part in separating great movies from good movies. Bad acting in even just one or two scenes can be quite distracting.
Thursday Night TV Report
The OC
This was pretty much what I expected from this episode. They needed to get the ball rolling on their 12 straight new episodes, as well as continue things from the first half of the season. This episode had its highlights, but it was also a bit like the first two episodes of the season. I expect the remainder of the episodes to all be better than this one.
Lines of the night:
The scene where Sandy and Seth were talking to Ryan about him and Lindsay maybe or maybe not being related to each other was loaded with them. Here are a few:
"...chromosomally challenged children..." "...well, unless you move to the south..."
How about the Dr. Pepper commercial with the Meatloaf song in it? That was funny.
Summer: "Holy 80's Teen Comedy Plot!"
Seth played a drunk better than anyone else I have seen on TV or in a movie lately, well, except for Will Ferrel in Old School, and Philip Seymour Hoffman did a pretty good in the 25th Hour, and let us not forget the guy sitting bitch in the Merthmobile in Wayne's World during the Bohemian Rhapsody scene - one problem when people play a drunk is that they sober up way too soon(i.e. Julia Stiles in 10 Things I Hate About You). One thing I hate about me is being able to recall that scene. Seth played this well in The OC and we didn't see him until the next day when he said to Ryan, "I just came by to tell you I'm dieing adn to thank you for your friendship."
Seth's drinking brought about the line of the night.
Summer: "Your breath smells like Marissa!"
And Seth puked on the Merch table, does that mean he would have to buy everything he hurled on?
I guess the John, er Jack, really got to him.
And, on a final note, I was really nervous for Mischa Barton all episode, but on this I have to give her a passing grade for her acting. She has some tough scenes and didn't even fall completely on her face or make anyone in this house burst into laughter.
Basketball game at 5:00 tonight.
Keg at The 213 afterward.
Until The Next Time.
#12) Roman Polanski - Director of movies such as Chinatown and The Pianist. His story is an interesting one... his mother died in a concentration camp during WWII. His second wife was murdered by the Charles Manson family in 1969. In 1978 he left the United States for good, has not been back since, after he was convicted of the staturtory rape of a 13 year old girl. He has received two Oscar nominations since fleeing the states, including a win for The Pianist in 2003, but of course he was not there because he is a toucher. I also heard he is Mitch King's favorite director.
#13) Great actors giving first rate performances in small or second-rate roles... examples follow:
Holly Hunter playing the DA in Moonlight Mile...John Turturro as Joey Knish in Rounders and in many others...Giovanni Ribisi in Basic...Philip Seymour Hoffman in about a dozen films, such as Cold Mountain and The Big Lebowksi...Burt Lancaster in Field of Dreams...etc...
The acting in these kinds of roles plays a part in separating great movies from good movies. Bad acting in even just one or two scenes can be quite distracting.
Thursday Night TV Report
The OC
This was pretty much what I expected from this episode. They needed to get the ball rolling on their 12 straight new episodes, as well as continue things from the first half of the season. This episode had its highlights, but it was also a bit like the first two episodes of the season. I expect the remainder of the episodes to all be better than this one.
Lines of the night:
The scene where Sandy and Seth were talking to Ryan about him and Lindsay maybe or maybe not being related to each other was loaded with them. Here are a few:
"...chromosomally challenged children..." "...well, unless you move to the south..."
How about the Dr. Pepper commercial with the Meatloaf song in it? That was funny.
Summer: "Holy 80's Teen Comedy Plot!"
Seth played a drunk better than anyone else I have seen on TV or in a movie lately, well, except for Will Ferrel in Old School, and Philip Seymour Hoffman did a pretty good in the 25th Hour, and let us not forget the guy sitting bitch in the Merthmobile in Wayne's World during the Bohemian Rhapsody scene - one problem when people play a drunk is that they sober up way too soon(i.e. Julia Stiles in 10 Things I Hate About You). One thing I hate about me is being able to recall that scene. Seth played this well in The OC and we didn't see him until the next day when he said to Ryan, "I just came by to tell you I'm dieing adn to thank you for your friendship."
Seth's drinking brought about the line of the night.
Summer: "Your breath smells like Marissa!"
And Seth puked on the Merch table, does that mean he would have to buy everything he hurled on?
I guess the John, er Jack, really got to him.
And, on a final note, I was really nervous for Mischa Barton all episode, but on this I have to give her a passing grade for her acting. She has some tough scenes and didn't even fall completely on her face or make anyone in this house burst into laughter.
Basketball game at 5:00 tonight.
Keg at The 213 afterward.
Until The Next Time.
