On Law And Order: SVU this week, the guys took their chance to get in an unexpected dig at Ryan Seacrest. Well, better late than never:
I just imagine all these older people in their easy chairs being like "That was so mean!" But do you know what this means? It means Law And Order: SVU and American Idol occupy the same TV universe! I'm sure that's important to exactly one person out there. (Via The Soup blog).
And in fact I'm not putting this up because I think it's funny or because I have some kind of oldest sibling camaraderie, I'm putting it up to draw attention to the problem of older brothers, and also the objective hilarity that is any person, even an adorable little towheaded tike, being caught/interrupted while vlogging:
It seems like he was okay! Right? I'm on the little boy's side. I demand justice for that little boy, who I'll call "Timmy." Justice for Timmy, now! (Via Filmdrunk.)
Via CC Insider, genius comic Maria Bamford calls out 99% of "women's comedy" with a few well-placed words. "I'm empty inside I'm a husk I can't feel my hands!" She's like the Carlos Mencia of funny comedians:
Christopher Hitchens, a humorless man who wrote that dumb thing about how he thinks women can't be funny, agreed to be waterboarded on video for an article about torture in next month's Vanity Fair. Unlike real prisoners, Hitchens gets a safe word (it's "red" and you might want to remember it, just in case), and two "metal objects" that he can release when he wants the waterboarding to stop. Here's the video, set to terrible melodramatic music, probably because waterboarding doesn't seem to be the most cinematic of torture techniques. If you dislike Mr. Hitchens, though, there's a wonderful satisfying moment when the metal objects fall to the floor with the clinking sound of him being a pussy. How brilliant would it have been if Vanity Fair had replaced the official torturers at the last minute with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler?
Oh SNAP! Last night's Bachelorette was actually interesting! After visiting the homes of the four remaining guys, DeAnna chose to send Graham The Basketball Player, the one she was really falling for, home because she didn't think he liked her enough. But then it got all Romeo and Juliet when she was yelling at Graham after the rose ceremony and he busts out this LOVE LETTER he'd written for just such an occasion as her kicking him off the show. Memo to DeAnna and future Bachelorettes: the whole "breakup bluff" relationship strategy DOES NOT WORK when you've both signed a contract stating you can never see each other again:
Last night, How I Met Your Mother earned its Two And A Half Men lead-in timeslot (snap!) with what was indisputably the worst episode ever. Britney Spears made her second appearance as Crazy Abby, in an episode that, unlike her first, was clearly written around the guest star. Maybe because her character was less funny and more sad and delusional, or maybe because she had more lines, or maybe because the show's other subplots fell in line with the kind of cheap gay-stereotype jokes you'd expect to see on a CBS sitcom, just not this one, but this episode had fans yelling "Stop being the worst!" at their TV sets all across my apartment. Bad. Here are a few clips illustrating Britney's self-conscious, shrill performance. Poor Neil Patrick Harris.
Manohla Dargis didn't likeWhat Happens in Vegas, sure, but she disliked it so much that she used a sizable chunk of her review to explain to the filmmakers how to make films:
The word dailies here refers to select material shot that day and viewed by certain crew members. Dailies can be projected as prints or watched on videotape or both, but are now often digital and displayed on monitors, which may affect quality control. Because, unless you're David Fincher and a genius, or an obsessive-compulsive, it may be easier to ignore your mistakes when they look like specks on a computer monitor. Or as Robert Elswit, the cinematographer for Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood," which used traditional dailies, said on digitalproducer.com: "The other great thing about seeing film dailies is that you can't kid yourself about focus and all the other technical issues that can come back to bite you."
Will the makers of WHIV ever escape from Snap Island? I'm pretty sure I've never read a film review that had to redress the makers for not focusing the camera properly. CHEMICAL BURN. I just hope that director Tom Vaughn can take something away from this.
It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything, Tom Vaughn.
Carrie Prejean turned the video camera off, put on some clothes, and stepped out of her house. It was a beautiful day outside. The air smelled like apples, and the late morning light hit the world in just such a...
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Blogging about TV and movies isn't all fun and videogames. Every week, Lindsay or Gabe will be presented with a physical or mental challenge that tests their bravery,patience, and taste.
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Uh. OK. Well, first let's address what this movie did well, like the disappointed parents we are (or at least that I am), recognizing that the negative feedback won't be useful or constructive if it isn't preceded by something positive....
