I have a lot of trouble watching anything with Clooney in it ... and do not find his face charismatic whatsoever. I think he relies on people thinking it is though, and substitutes that for acting. Eh, what do I know?

To me, I have yet to see him believable in a role since his initial introduction in ... what was it, St. Elsewhere?

Did you see Up In the Air?

A Bronx Tale


@ RagingMudcrab - no, did not see that.

This post has been edited by mALX: Jan 31 2011, 05:38 AM

Definitely see that one then. A very different, vulnerable Clooney. Loved it.

I finally saw The Green Hornet. I dug it. It was stupid, but fun. Just what I expected. No complaints really. My standards are low with this sort of thing generally.

Anyone in need of a good laugh should see "Death at a Funeral", while it looks dull and B-Movie at best, I almost laughed so hard that I cried.

I just noticed your emphasis. I did not mean face as in the part of his head, I meant Face as a smooth-talking individual. A term that started with Dirk Benedict from the A-Team.

AHA !!! I see ... er ... the thing is, to me Clooney comes across as glib. He didn't when he first started out, but suddenly he took off in popularity and it was like it went to his head - (imho). I saw a few things he was in AFTER he became popular, and was totally turned off. After that I kind of lost interest in watching a movie if he was in it. I have a short list of actors/actresses that I just drop the movie off my "interested" list if they are in it, Clooney is among the few.

Along those same lines, there are some actors/actresses that I think so highly of that I will watch a movie I may otherwise not have if they are in it. (EXAMPLE: Colin Firth).

did someone say "the new predators" film?!?! Well I must mention it because after watching it yesterday I have decided to rewatch all of the alien, predators and alien vs predators film series. It has it all- a serieal killer, a mercenary...a crazy scavenger and none of those pesky xenomorphs to steal the show from everyones favourite spacemen---the predators!!!

Yes, it was a fun ride. One little thing I noticed however. The characters talk about it being really hot, and even after hours of hiking through the jungle, no one ever gets thirsty.

GAAAAAH !!! Fabio was eliminated from "Top Chef All Stars!"

I guess he'll just have to stick to Toyota commercials. I haven't seen that show, but I will admit that the future Mrs. OtherRick has gotten me hooked on Hell's Kitchen, Chopped, and The Next Iron Chef...probably just another sign of my testosterone levels dropping with age...LOL

Wrong Fabio, lol. This is the Fabio I am referring to:


http://www.bravotv.com/media/images/persons/Fabio_full.png

This post has been edited by mALX: Feb 10 2011, 06:52 PM

Oh....my bad! Good thing though...I was trying to picture the Fabio that I referred to with a hair net!

Oh, god... another one bites the dust.

Why is it people find it so entertaining to watch some British Celeb. Chef (who is actually not that big an (censored) in the real world) scream at people for 45 minutes and pretend to be the world's biggest (censored)bag? I jumped ship at season 4 because nothing new ever happened, and because the novelty of the show wore off for me at that point.

If you want true-to-life Gordon Ramsay, go watch Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (NOT the American version, that one is utter crud).

EDIT: Auto-Censor gave me British Boat.

This post has been edited by Thomas Kaira: Feb 10 2011, 09:25 PM

I ahve actually watched that on BBC America....good show

A funny old vampire movie - Eddie Murphy's "A Vampire in Brooklyn" Best line:

"There's a new vampire in town, and his name is Julius Jones...ha ha ha."

We recently dropped all of our premium cable channels in a move to cut expenses. Work has been slow To replace them, we signed up for Netflix. It turns out that by connecting our Wii to the internet, we can download movies and TV shows directly to our television.

Since doing this, the fee-on-say and I have started watching a Showtime production called "Dexter". What a bizzare, interesting, and well written/acted show! We are hooked and have been having two episode dinners at the coffee table.

By the way, I definitely recommend Netflix

Heh, we go a step further than that and just don't have a TV to avoid the licence (for those across the pond most European countries require you to licence a TV and it ain't cheap). Frankly I don't see the point, there's so little on TV I want to watch except films and it's cheaper to buy second-hand DVDs and get what I want to see and watch it on a big computer monitor.

A good Scottish film I saw recently was Neds, about someone growing up on a Glasgow scheme in the 70s (not that things have changed much). Quite dark but fairly accurite in it's portreyal.

I have had Netflix for years, and love it. It is really amazing what movies they have. Like your Wii, my blu-ray player has internet access, so I can stream movies to it. But the quality is very iffy. Sometimes it is in perfect HD, other times it is grainy, and might just stop for half a minute while it thinks about whether or not it wants to show any more. Still, I often use the Instant Viewing as a way to preview movies to see if they are any good, then get them on dvd or blu-ray to watch the entire thing.

As far as cable tv goes, I only have the bare minimum basic broadcast channels, and I never even watch those. The only reason I bother with it is that it costs me $15, but if I don't have the tv service, my internet costs me $20 more (I get my tv and internet from the same company). If I like a tv show, I just wait for each season to come out on dvd and get the entire thing from Netflix. Then I can watch the entire season in a few days, and not have to wait a week between episodes or deal with commercials.

I'm a lot like SubRosa, except I don't have Netflix. They don't have closed captioning. I also don't use iTunes for shows or movies either for the same reason. If it doesn't have CC, I pretty much can't watch it and enjoy it.

I use Hulu.com because of all the streaming services, they're the best for CC. Still, they're less than perfect. There's quite a few shows on that don't have CC.

I could live without cable TV/broadcast TV, but I can't live without cable internet (the fastest broadband option in my area). We only have cable TV because my mom is tech-phobic and only wants to watch shows on TV like she always did (and tape to VCR, but with the recent digital conversion and the loss of the VCR remote, she's helpless!).

If there's a show I like, I often wait for the season to come out on DVD, like SubRosa, and buy it (if I can afford it). Most of them do have CC, and it's rare to find one without it.