I’m a firm opponent on most reality TV. Like Real Housewives of New York / Orange County / Wichita… most of whatever is shown on MTV or VH1 that isn’t music related like My Sweet Sixteen Baby Shower. And it’s hard to include following around musicians UNLESS they are regularly being followed around while on tour or making music. Maybe I’d watch that. And I’ll also leave The Real World exempt for being one of the “originals.” And Cribs was just cool to watch.
Then today, I saw this:
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I felt it was absolute genius and honestly made me think a little bit about Arrested Development and my ongoing idea about a mockumentary style sitcom based on college life. At this point, I don’t think I’d mind if that idea were lifted, but one of these days I may write a pilot. But I digress. I personally feel these so called reality shows are getting out of hand. As unscripted as they say they are, they are still scripted. If anything, it’s really bad improv. It’s also a cheap guilty pleasure for networks and the people that watch them. I’ve gotten caught in a few of those pleasures myself. My weaknesses are Ghost Adventures and a few of the A&E shows. Remember when A&E stood for “arts and entertainment”?
This is a topic I must revisit someday with my own personal scale or infographical chart showing value to society. I’ll have real time numbers and awesome bar graphs and pie charts. In the meantime, I’m curious as to your thoughts on reality TV. I kinda left it pretty vague, mostly because this genre of TV has gotten so big, it’s sub genres has sub genres.
It’s that time again. I don’t think I cared much for the Emmys a few years ago, but I’ve managed to start watching more TV as I get older and more immersed in the entertainment world where now I can’t help it. In fact, I’m reminded that for a lot of entertainment reporters and personalities and the like, it’s part of their job to watch TV almost all the time. It might seem sarcastic in tone, but that’s hard work… seriously. I have so many hours of television backed up on DVR that it terrifies me to even think about sitting around all day watching it all. Okay, I’ll admit, a good maybe 50% of the disc space is Craig Ferguson and Conan, but still… that’s a lot of TV to get through. Congrats to Conan for his nod by the way. Team Coco FTW.
This is one of those must-see, important documentaries that I feel a lot of people need to see. Maybe not necessarily everyone on the planet, but probably most American parents, educators, kids and those who are concerned about education.
On one of my more random intern adventures, one Friday a few weeks ago I started out working at the sound stage cataloging a series of comic books and other random material the studio was selling to generate money. Anyway, while I was in one area of the sound stage, Joe Young and Co were in the main area, specifically the green screen shooting a commercial for the Diamond Ruff book and project. Soon after, it was lunch time and Joe ordered us pizza that looked awesome… tasted pretty normal but I wasn’t complaining.
This film was SHOT in 3D. Most of it was anyway. It’s important for me to say that because a good chunk of the 3D films that have been released, were converted to 3D and don’t have that look that so many of might be looking for… especially if you’ve seen Avatar. With that said, I suggest seeing this in 3D. Or maybe recommend is a better word? I don’t want to say “required” because, I mean I saw the first two in regular old fashioned 2D and I enjoyed them just fine. But that extra dimension is rewarding.
Out of all the summer/superhero movies I’ve seen so far (as of now, four), this might be my favorite. But again, that’s so far. This has been one of the more satisfying of all the X-Men movies so far too. When I go to see a movie about the X-Men, I want to see super powers galore! I got my wish with this one. I also got a great story in the process.
I’ve realized over the years I have a thing for comic book/superhero movies, since quite a few of them are my favorite. I’m not saying this one is a favorite, but I just wanted to make that known. I’m not a big Green Lantern fan either, but I like the character enough that I felt he deserved a midnight showing… so I went.
I’m a total JJ Abrams fan… except for his earlier works, like TV shows Alias and beyond only because I haven’t seen them yet. With that said, I was highly anticipating seeing this film from this expert storyteller. Oh, and it was exec produced by the living legend Steven Spielberg. Two heavy hitters when it comes to a stellar summer story.
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