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Ha ha ha ha, Beverly Hills Cop 4: The Zimmer Frame of Death

Ayup.

The untimely death of serials is now dooming any new serial, since smart people will not commit themselves to a serial when the odds are so high that it will be yanked out from under them with no resolution.

Haggis... I do not feel the same antipathy as you do -- didn't he adapt Million Dollar Baby? That movie ripped me apart.

That entire SNL paragraph -- ayup.

Jack Black cannot get Kate Winslet. It's the big screen version of all those incredibly lame, mediocre sitcoms with a big fat doughboy husband and a hot thin younger wife. You just KNOW the writers of this shit look like their heroes.

1. Word, Maryscott and Dustin. In fact, I had the same annoyed reaction when I read this in the recent "Bobby" review:

"Paul (William H. Macy) is the general manager of the hotel, married to Miriam (Sharon Stone), the hotel's manicurist, and sleeping with one of the hotel's switchboard operators, Angela (Heather Graham)."

Uh-huh. It reminded me of a friend's snappy blurt-out when we saw "Basic Instinct" all those years back: "Are we expected to believe that wrinkly-bag Michael Douglas can get Sharon Stone AND Jeanne Tripplehorn?" Since then I've always silently called this particular Hollywood dysfunction the Stone-Tripplehorn Paradox.

2. Haggis--no thanks. But he didn't completely waste-out the "Casino Royale" script, in which he had a part. The dialogue worked for what it was, IMO. In other words, he should stick to schtick.

3. I live in fear of the "Talisman" adaptation. God I love that book--didn't study for my Grade Twelve finals all those years back, I was so deep into it. But TV project + King involvement = trust me, nothing I want to see given his track record when it comes to adaptations of his work. Nor can Straub save it--like King, I find his later stuff unreadable (when once, eons back, they both had a little something-something, you know?) and don't have any faith in either man's judgement anymore.

I don't normally commit to a television show, and now, I am even more apprehensive about doing so, as it seems like all the good ones die young.

Daybreak has an incredible cast, incredible writers, incredible DP, did I forget to mention what an incredible series this is?

And I miss Smith. I mean seriously ABC keeps wife swap and a show like Daybreak is cancelled? What have we come to?

before I forget: FUCK YOU Lost

never again!

If they replace Renee with Cookie Puss they might get more dramatic range out of the character (did I just say that out loud?).

Lost - which I've been enjoying - moving to 10 doesn't bother me, as being a college student means it's not like I sleep at decent hours, anyway. But I'm with you about Day Break, Seth Freilich. Seriously, it's a thirteen episode already filmed self-contained series. Why not just let it air? Yeah, I know the ratings haven't been good, but dammit, do they really think that The Knights and Emergancy are going to do any better - especially given that they'll be facing American Idol? On the plus side, I'm hearing that even if Day Break gets pulled, the final episodes will air at abc.com. Their view system could be better, but it ain't terrible.

he he he...you said twee....

Beverly Hills Cops IV: Just One More Banana, Please?

"Jack Black cannot get Kate Winslet. It's the big screen version of all those incredibly lame, mediocre sitcoms with a big fat doughboy husband and a hot thin younger wife. You just KNOW the writers of this shit look like their heroes."

I hear that, Maryscott. I shake my fist in the air (metaphorically) every time I see an ad for that movie.

Although, I do like King of Queens... I have problems.

Funny thing though, in my personal experience, decent looking women that marry Alpha types do end up with a fat guy in the end. Many jocks or "Aryan" types end up looking very much like Jack Black it just takes beers and years. The only problem is tahat they don't have the wit or love of life he does.

Beverly Hills Cop 4: Yes...Judge Reinhold is Still Alive

Wow...that's 2 SOLIDLY horrible film franchises that Judge Reinhold has helped run into the ground. You think Hollywood would figure this out and just STOP giving this guy these roles that he just doesn't have the talent to support. I mean sure, he was thrilling in Hermie and Friends: STanley the Stinkbug Goes to Camp. And who was able to keep a dry eye with his emotional turn in Clifford's Really Big Movie. Those were just lucky hits...but Judge Reinhold is definitely not the viable on-screen comodity he once was...

Dammit...I meant to hit preview...

these brilliant series of course are Beverly Hills Cop and The Santa Clause Trifecta

Does anyone know how much money Eddie is "commanding" per film?

All joking aside, when Eddie was in top form he was REAAAALLY good. I recently saw an old clip from some Jesse Jackson parody, he had a big fro and was singing as if he was in the Four Tops, brilliant.

Eddie...how the mighty have fallen. Even your old SNL stuff was pretty decent, relative to what SNL is now/what you are now doing. I just have to see your Buckwheat impersonation and I lose it every time, and almost forgive you the rest of your post-stand-up "career".

(noopin' pah lahb!)

I'm pretty pissed off about Daybreak... that show is unexpectedly, really entertaining! They might as well just burn it off and show all of the episodes, to satisfy the millions of people who are still watching it.

The notion of Jack Black and Kate Winslet getting together isn't as offensive as the notion that Kate Winslet is supposed to be average looking.

OK, I'll bite.
BHC 4: The Tranny Chronicles
BHC 4: I Owe Charlie Money
BHC 4: Fuck You, Fans

Although, Micheal Douglas is actually married to Catherine Zeta-Jones...she's gorgeous!

And I totally agree with ECP's comment on Winslet...she's gorgeous too!

Any guy can land any girl, he just needs the right broom or drugs...i'm not sure which.

the talisman, i read that thing twenty years ago..it`s worth a shot..a great thing about k winslet..she loves to take it off and show it off, i`m sick of jack black

ecp, you read my mind. I have a friend who hates 'Little Children' only for the fact that we are supposed to accept Kate Winslet as the "ugly one," so to speak. I think 'Little Children' is a stunning film myself, but I understand his point. I think Winslet is one of the most stunning actresses working today (or ever for that matter), easily.

bianca- I too am a fan of King of Queens, and get peeved when it unfairly gets lumped in with those other CBS sitcoms. The cast is great, (Patton Oswalt!) and the plots are always fun. I wouldn't by any means put it on the same level as Scrubs or Curb Your Enthusiasm, but its certainly no Two and a Half Men.

PS For the record, Television Without Pity also hold this view. And as far as I'm concerned TWoP can do no wrong...

Speaking of Zales, jewerly commercials are some of the worst commercials ever. And I have to watch them all day long. Is it just me or is it directed at guys who either fucked something up and have to buy some expenive necklace that somehow says I love you to make up for it or the guys who don't have a clue what to get their significant other than some expensive rock that is probably used for the most part to make the woman's girlfriend jealous?
I mean, how fucking full of themselves are they at Kay when they say, 'Every kiss begins at Kay' So in order to get a simple kiss from a woman we have to buy her jewelry? Is that what they are implying? Sorry for the rant but I swear I see at least 10 jewelry commercials a day and they really get on my nerves.

1)I'm pretty sure it's John Krasinski, not John Krasinksi. I know how incredibly anal that comes across, but I can't help it.

2) George Clooney and John Krasinski in the same movie? Sweet, sweet mercy. My sis is gonna twee herself when she hears about this. She loves her some John and I loves me some George.

3) Someone needs to put Ms. Rene the fuck out of our misery. I can't even look at her, she's such a prune-face. It stopped being cute sometime around 1999.

dave- Jewelry campaigns are actually targeted at women. Their purpose is to instill in the woman's mind that her significant other only loves her if he buys her a hefty rock, (and just how much he loves her can be quantified by how expensive said rock is), thus instilling a consumer's attitude in our larger culture. I'm pretty sure buying a diamond wedding ring is actually a fairly recent phenomenon brought about by such a targeted campaign 50 years ago. I'm a little rusy on my social activism though, so don't quote me on that!

"The Nativity Story, which opened at number four, revealing that the controversy that erupted over whether Elizabeth is spelled with a "s" or an "z" failed to generate crowds."

HAHAHHAHAH! I guess you had to be there on the other Pajiba thread.

Seth, I'm with you on being totally fed up with the way TV is scheduled, rescheduled, over scheduled and scheduled one more damn time. It's one of the few things that turns me in a fist shaking middle-aged lady yelling the equivalent of "turn that shit you call music down and get off the damn lawn, you rotten kids."



Then I remember that back in the day I wouldn't have been able to torrent not only Prison Break every week--what can I say, when it comes to William Fichtner I have no shame--but a fantastic Brit mini-series called The State Within which just finished its run on BBC1. So I guess that makes up for it.



Also, fuck you, Lost.

Jewelry ads are for men and you're seeing a ton of them now because Christmas is a big jewelry-buying season (which is why you'll be seeing a ton of them in the run-up to Valentine's Day and Mother's Day, too).

RE networks: I'm convinced they're run by idiots. I understand counterprogramming, ie, running Grey's Anatomy vs. football; what I don't understand is running a show you hope to appeal to younger people against American Idol. Idol, unfortunately, is probably going to kill anything running opposite it that isn't sports for a long time to come. So why do they stick a new show opposite Idol and then yank it after 2 episodes when it fails to "catch fire"? I think they try to kill shows off so they can get credit for "trying" something new but don't get the blame when it fails.

RE Eddie: I was surprised that I didn't hate "Daddy Daycare." It's not the greatest movie, but Eddie is appealing in it and the kids are adorable. Whatever... he couldn't stay cutting-edge forever.

And I sorta like King of Queens, too. The only character I don't like is the effing annoying father (didn't like him as George's dad on Seinfeld, either). The crazy old man shtick gets old fast.

RE old dudes and younger chicks - Not saying no old dude could possibly be appealing to younger chicks, but c'mon. It irks me every time I see it in a movie because the movie usually asks us to do one of two things: 1) sympathize with the younger golddigger who made the "mistake" of marrying the old rich guy instead of the young, hot poor guy she really loves or 2) believe that the old guy is so hot and irresistible that he could get hot young babes even if he wasn't fabulously wealthy.

Re: Eddie Murphy, I'm with you Daniel,
but don't forget some love for Bowfinger! That movie completely redeemed Eddie Murphy in my eyes. For a little while, anyway.

...But no, I can't yet face the idea of a fourth Beverly Hills Cop. I think I'm still too fragile from the last one.

Eddie Murphy is so hurting for cash, I mean, he did Dreamgirls for Chrissakes...

Go team Elisabeth!