Saturday, July 15, 2006
I watched the movie Match Point the other night. It's a Woody Allen movie that doesn't have Woody Allen in it. It's also not set in New York like many of his movies. I think by setting the movie in London, he can make most of the main characters English with dark hair which causes the one who isn't, the Scarlett Johansson-played blonde American, to really stand out. At least, that was the case in the beginning of the movie. It also distances her from the rest of the main cast.
The movie started off slow. At one point, I was thinking the movie should be at a point where it's wrapping up and then I look at the dvd player's timer and realize that it was less than an hour into its two-hour-plus running time. I spent some of the beginning of the movie trying to figure out which movies I had seen the two male leads in. Turns out I had seen Jonathan Rhys Meyers in this and Matthew Goode in this.
Anyway, there are twists in the plot and one character starts to go a little bit nuts, which was realistic considering her situation, but overall, this movie is one to watch if it's on cable and nothing else is on.
On another note, this evening I've watched the latest episode of Psych and the pilot episode of Numb3rs. It's interesting how many stars of old tv shows are on theses shows. Psych has Dulé Hill and Corbin Bernsen, who are veterans of the long running shows The West Wing and L.A. Law respectively. And Maggie Lawson was looking to turn into the new Leah Remini who was the female George Clooney in the sense that they all seemed to always be in a new tv show that never succeed. Of course, the latter two found tv success. Maggie looks to have found success with Psych, only her character is far from non-expendable. I like her character, but if she was taken off the show, nobody would notice.
Now Numb3rs is made up entirely of tv veterans with the tv shows Northern Exposure, Taxi, Dear John, Dark Angel, Sports Night, Sliders, Ally McBeal, and Boston Public all represented. Also, David Krumholtz has had his share of tv experience on unsuccessful shows and they added Rescue Me, Roswell, Drew Carey show, and Loveline experience in the second season.
Getting back to Psych, there's just been two episodes so far. For those that don't know, the plot is the guy is a slacker who was raised by his father to be a detective. He has a Sherlock Holmes level of observation. He uses this skill to fake being a psychic and solve cases for the police department. During the second episode, it seems at least some of the cops are not stupid and are aware that he's faking. On one hand, it would seem to weaken the premise of the show. On the other hand, it strengthens the show because they're not stretching to show off the premise. Overall, so far, it's a great show.
The movie started off slow. At one point, I was thinking the movie should be at a point where it's wrapping up and then I look at the dvd player's timer and realize that it was less than an hour into its two-hour-plus running time. I spent some of the beginning of the movie trying to figure out which movies I had seen the two male leads in. Turns out I had seen Jonathan Rhys Meyers in this and Matthew Goode in this.
Anyway, there are twists in the plot and one character starts to go a little bit nuts, which was realistic considering her situation, but overall, this movie is one to watch if it's on cable and nothing else is on.
On another note, this evening I've watched the latest episode of Psych and the pilot episode of Numb3rs. It's interesting how many stars of old tv shows are on theses shows. Psych has Dulé Hill and Corbin Bernsen, who are veterans of the long running shows The West Wing and L.A. Law respectively. And Maggie Lawson was looking to turn into the new Leah Remini who was the female George Clooney in the sense that they all seemed to always be in a new tv show that never succeed. Of course, the latter two found tv success. Maggie looks to have found success with Psych, only her character is far from non-expendable. I like her character, but if she was taken off the show, nobody would notice.
Now Numb3rs is made up entirely of tv veterans with the tv shows Northern Exposure, Taxi, Dear John, Dark Angel, Sports Night, Sliders, Ally McBeal, and Boston Public all represented. Also, David Krumholtz has had his share of tv experience on unsuccessful shows and they added Rescue Me, Roswell, Drew Carey show, and Loveline experience in the second season.
Getting back to Psych, there's just been two episodes so far. For those that don't know, the plot is the guy is a slacker who was raised by his father to be a detective. He has a Sherlock Holmes level of observation. He uses this skill to fake being a psychic and solve cases for the police department. During the second episode, it seems at least some of the cops are not stupid and are aware that he's faking. On one hand, it would seem to weaken the premise of the show. On the other hand, it strengthens the show because they're not stretching to show off the premise. Overall, so far, it's a great show.
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