Monday, May 19, 2008 - 6:04 PM
Not much is going on this week because everybody was terrified to open another movie against Prince Caspian. Turns out their fears were only half-founded: the flick made $56 million this weekend, which, while not at all disastrous, didn't match The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe's $67 million. Most box office watchers expected it to surpass that number - which shows you how much they know, since they also predicted Speed Racer would hit at least the high 20s.
Anyway, few people care about box office numbers as much as I do. Onto my new material...
THECINEMASOURCE:
I've already linked to my Narnia review in the previous post, but here are the two spotlights I did:
For the past few weeks I've been linking to the occasional article of mine up at a blog for a relatively new website called MovieZen. It looks like that will become a semi-regular gig for me, with about two articles a week, so I'm giving it it's own category.
Anyway, few people care about box office numbers as much as I do. Onto my new material...
THECINEMASOURCE:
I've already linked to my Narnia review in the previous post, but here are the two spotlights I did:
- Anna Popplewell interview (Susan)
- Peter Dinklage interview (Trumpkin)
For the past few weeks I've been linking to the occasional article of mine up at a blog for a relatively new website called MovieZen. It looks like that will become a semi-regular gig for me, with about two articles a week, so I'm giving it it's own category.
- The Delusion of George Lucas - an editorial on Lucas's comments about his own fans and the expectations of the new Indiana Jones movie vs. the Star Wars prequels
- What gives?
- Random Initial Thoughts: "There's No Place Like Home," Part 1
- Talk Show Circuit Mania
- Watch over fives minutes of "There's No Place Like Home" Finale Part 1!
- What Happened to the Women?
- Theory: Widmore preceded Ben as the Others' leader
- Next year's time slot?
- Which of these things belong to you already?
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Whoa, they're making an American version of Life on Mars!? I hope it doesn't suck like most American remakes of British shows (most notably The Office). You know, that makes me think about why that is true. Why are Americans generally so bad at remaking British things? I guess the fact that our sense of humor is much cruder plays a big part in it, but I don't think that's all. I mean let's take The Office as an example. Leaving any personal biases aside, it's pretty obvious that the American Office sucks compared to the British one, no matter how much some people may happen to like it.
I'm gonna boil it down to this: Americans don't know when to stop. You can argue all day about different types of humor and whether the jokes are just as good in US versions, but the bottom line is that this recent trend in the US is never to stop. We see it in movies all over the place. If almost any movie has success then it becomes a trilogy, or more. So of course this happens even worse with TV shows. Maybe the worst of all at this is The Simpsons. This was a great show that everyone loved and then became awful because they didn't know when to stop. Okay, fair enough, at least it was great for a pretty long time.
British shows mostly don't do this. They have a set run and they don't really go beyond that. Maybe this has something to do with how contracts work in the UK, I don't know, but either way this is how it is. They have their small number of shows in which they explore their idea or concept fully and then they end it. When the US tries to adapt shows like this it just doesn't work because they always have to leave in the idea that the show will want to go on forever. This makes each episode worse because the writers are always going to be too scared to fully explore ideas since they will run out of material if the show goes too long. Also, when it does go too long then there is nothing new to do. It's just a shame people can't leave great things alone. Thank god Not Another Teen Movie never got a sequel.
Anyway, you can tell I'm pretty bored. That does lead well into your George Lucas article; pretty hilarious. It's always good to rip on that idiot, talk about not knowing when to stop. Also did you get to actually meet Anna Popplewell? If so I am very jealous.
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