Band of Brothers (2001) Joseph Toye: Hey guys, I'm glad we're going to Europe. [takes out his knife] Joseph Toye: Hitler gets one of these right across the windpipe, Roosevelt changes Thanksgiving to Joe Toye Day, pays me ten grand a year for the rest of my fucking life. The Movie Quotes
After all that excitement, we were ready for the show. Unexpectedly, Styx came out right on time at 8:30. The band walked out from the right side, and I rushed up to the front row gates and snapped pictures. The staff wanted to keep people in their seats, however, so we returned to where we sat in the center of the 8th row. The band was incredibly tight and they sounded phenomenal. They are a slick, well-oiled touring machine, having performed thousands of shows in less than the past 15 years. James “JY” Young, Tommy Shaw, and Lawrence Gowan all look fantastic and were extremely energetic on stage. They started out with “Blue Collar Man”, then played “Grand Illusion” and “Lorelei”. Gowan knows how to work the keys; he was constantly swinging the keyboard and jumping around. The highlight of the show was when JY, Tommy Shaw, and Ricky Phillips would all jam guitar together right in the middle of the stage. The band really enjoyed themselves throughout the performance. Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s s some reviews of some TV shows I kinda watch:
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Rating:
I hate to sound like Dwight Schrute, BUT THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING FRAKKIN’ SHOW THAT’S BEEN ON TELEVISION IN A HELLUVA LONG TIME!!!
In a re-imagining of the 1978 space opera, this show has grit, tit and is the shit. Pre-dating the birth of human existance, a realm of twelve colonies (planets) are kicked out of their own home when robots they created as slaves rebel and evolve. The remnants of civilization escape to the stars in search for a mythical planet named earth to start life anew on, all the while doing battle with the ever evolving Cylons. If you liked “Blade Runner” you’ll love this, as the concept, cinematography, atmosphere and music are very similar. Very intense. Stars Edward James Olmos (also in Blade Runner).
PUSHING DAISIES Rating:
Lee Pace is a pie maker who can bring dead people back to life by touching them. If they stay alive for more than one minute something/someone else has to die in their place.
The show is both morbid and sweet with an Edward Scissorhands feel to it, complete with a narrator and overly colorful style. Chi McBride has all the great lines as a detective who solves crimes by hearing from the dead folk themselves who killed them. The piemaker lives with his dead girlfriend and dead dog that he brought back to life, but can’t touch them because he’ll kill them again. The music is drippy emotional and the dialogue has a forties film noir snappiness to it. The characters are odd and the stories have frequent guest stars. Overall amusing, but starting to get stuck in a one-note rut.
ELI STONE Rating:
Brit import Jonny Lee Miller is an attorney for a San Francisco firm who develops a brain aneurysm and starts having divinely inspired hallucinations, mostly based on George Michael themes, that help him become a lawyer with a mission.
Also in the cast is Victor Garber who, no shit, played Jesus in the 1973 screen version of Godspell. There’s singing and dancing and very elaborate CGI special effects. At the end of season one Eli had his aneurysm removed. He begins season two normal, except his doctor brother now has the sight. BTW, their dad has the sight and he drank himself to death because of it. After negotiating with God (Sigourney Weaver) his brother loses the sight and he gets it back. Kinda lame but generally amusing.
JERICHO Rating:
Well done ensemble cast, now defunct from CBS, about a fictional town in Kansas who tries to survive after 23 cities get nuked by terrorists. The acting is above average as the USA is plunged into a Mad Max anarchy of the Old West, with no electricity, TV, computers and neighboring towns, mercenaries and thieves assaulting them. The terrorists turn out to be former U.S. Government folks and one of them has escaped to Jericho with the last warhead. The show made it only into 30 episodes and there’s talk of maybe a big screen version.
THE OFFICE
overall Rating:
This season Rating:
Anyone who isn’t familiar with this series has been living under a rock for years. The Americanized version of the British The Office, this focus on Steve Carell as the dumbass boss of a Scranton, PA, paper company called Dunder Mifflin. Told in “This is Spinal Tap” kind of docucomedy style, this show is somethimes very painful to watch. Rainn Wilson is the uberhero as ass-kissing inbred Dwight Schrute. The story follows the ensemble cast’s drama from day-to-day. I have to say that, so far, the current season is horribly off-game and if they don’t get their shit into one-sock, pronto, I’ll have to take my business elsewhere.
MAD MEN Rating:
Yeah, wanna know why the ratings are so low on this? Because it fucking sucks! An esemble cast of hateful pricks smoke and fuck around this Madison Avenue ad agency in the early sixties. There’s plenty of style, but the one thing that keeps me coming back to a TV series is some likeable characters, which this has none. Even if there was one semi-likeable character, but it’s painfully obvious that everyone is only out for themselves…oh yeah, and every smokes, drinks and fucks TOO GODDAMNED MUCH! When one guy kicked his dog out into the street to get killed by a car cause he was pissed off at his wife, that’s what made me permanently tune off.
Frank Marshall
Denis L. Stewart
George Lucas
Kathleen Kennedy
Written by
Screenplay:
David Koepp Story:
George Lucas
Jeff Nathanson
Starring
Harrison Ford
Cate Blanchett
Karen Allen
Ray Winstone
John Hurt
Jim Broadbent
Shia LaBeouf
Music by
John Williams
Rating:
Okay, this is the Phantom getting off his dead ass and writing an honest to goodness review, rather than just cutting and pasting shit I concur with from the web.
I just hadda write on this one cuz, for the love of god, man, this is Indiana Jones we’re dealing with here. It’s been 22 physical years and 17 screen years since the last IJ flick, “The Last Crusade.”
In TV land there’s a term coined from Happy Days called “jumping the shark,” which came from an episode when the Fonz jumped his motorcycle over a shark tank wearing a leather jacket and swim trunks. That signaled the beginning of the end for Happy Days and became an industry term for a series that outlived it’s shelf date and has degraded to stupid shit which nobody watches and, ultimately, leads to the cancellation of the show.
Well, the movie industry now has an equivalent phrase coined from this very flick. It’s called “nuking the fridge.” The phrase come from a scene wherein Indy survives a nuclear blast (at ground zero no less) by hiding in a refrigerator.
Nuking the fridge now means that a cherished movie series has outlived its shelf life and is now silly shit just for the sake of being silly shit.
But the silly shit just doesn’t stop there.
After all that excitement, we were ready for the show. Unexpectedly, Styx came out right on time at 8:30. The band walked out from the right side, and I rushed up to the front row gates and snapped pictures. The staff wanted to keep people in their seats, however, so we returned to where we sat in the center of the 8th row. The band was incredibly tight and they sounded phenomenal. They are a slick, well-
oiled touring machine, having performed thousands of shows in less than the past 15 years. James “JY” Young, Tommy Shaw, and Lawrence Gowan all look fantastic and were extremely energetic on stage. They started out with “Blue Collar Man”, then played “Grand Illusion” and “Lorelei”. Gowan knows how to work the keys; he was constantly swinging the keyboard and jumping around. The highlight of the show was when JY, Tommy Shaw, and Ricky Phillips would all jam guitar together right in the middle of the stage. The band really enjoyed themselves throughout the performance. Read the rest of this entry »
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