So Hot!

Well, I missed a lot of the movie and TV world after Wilma came through. But now that power is back, atleast at my house, I am revisiting my favorite escape...movies.

I plan to see the new Harry Pooter movie in a few weeks. The stories and movies are very well done, and I have a heart for fantasy, magic, and good vs. evil.

But last night on DVD I watched...Swordfish.

Other than the obvious, Halle Berry is gorgeous and Hugh Jackman is sexy, the movie has some typicla violence and mayhem. The thousand exploding marbles is pretty brilliant, the roll down the cliff was cool, and Halle berry was in it. Besides, you have to root for a guy who wants to get his daughter back from a skeezy ex.

Halle's name in the movie is Ginger, that's pretty lame. There are quite a few lame parts but some standout scenes too. I mentioned a few, another is the test in the beginning of Stanley's hacking abilities, and Halle Berry sunbathing was cinematic bliss. Before this gets any further piggish, I'll close with a hard and fast rule.

Never watch a movie on TV that you can watch on DVD. Only go to the theater for big screen movies, never drama or romance. And don't expect much from a movie that's only 90 minutes long.

Won Golden Globe. Another 4 wins & 25 nominations

What a great TV show. Nip/Tuck satisfies the shallow and the thoughtful alike. Episodes of lude atcs are interspersed with marginally more episodes of very real life issues. Well, very real somewhere.

Currently in its 3rd season, Nip/Tuck is very edgy, very gritty, and very moving. It pushes way past its little brother "Rescue Me" by virtue of it's working theme-Plastic Surgery-and the sexual twists of Christian with the family meltdowns of Sean and the Macnamaras.

It's saving grace is the very real, seemingly unbreakable bond of friendship between Sean and Christian. It is within the walls of that friendship that their personal moral, social, and emotional weaknesses are revealed and breakthroughs achieved.

"The Real Pain is in the Waiting"

Grey areas

A guilty Sunday pleasure renews tonight in Greys Anatomy. After hours of football viewing I get to settle in with my new favorite medical soap opera.

Ellen Pompeo	....	Dr. Meredith Grey
Sandra Oh	....	Dr. Cristina Yang
Katherine Heigl	....	Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens
Justin Chambers	....	Dr. Alex Karev
T.R. Knight	....	Dr. George O'Malley
Chandra Wilson	....	Dr. Miranda Bailey
James Pickens Jr.	....	Dr. Richard Webber
Isaiah Washington	....	Dr. Preston Burke
Patrick Dempsey	....	Dr. Derek Shepherd

But here's the rub with this sexy medical melodrama... and this is from revieiwing the article by"Ingrid Katz and Alexi Wright- medical residents at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and clinical fellows in medicine at Harvard Medical School."

GA's medical moments seem almost irresponisble, and perhaps too much overshadowed by the interpersonal romanticizing by the medical staff. Well, you read the article and make your own stew. As for me, I can't take my eyes off Meredith Grey. Thanks to my old friend for a new love, Grey's Anatomy

Irony and TV

I sat on my couch eating chicken fingers and cookies and watched "The Biggest Loser".

Gotta love home sweet USA and our love of TV.

Hustled me!

I am stunned by the absolute brilliance of Kung Fu Hustle. I expected a farcical poke at Kung Fu. Instead I got a range of emotion and depth to rival any great movie. Absolutely ridiculous premise and yet somehow the story turns ridiculous into unforgettable.

The story depth goes as low as a group of boys urinating on a weaker one (our hero) to silly like the Man and Woman master commenting that (our hero) would likely end up being a stunt man someday when he grows up. A love story that somehow fits in the middle of unrelenting kung fu. Gangs convincingly ferocious, and characters we love and hate.

There is good and bad, growth and change, surprises and plenty of laughter. The kung fu seems to go over the edge and somehow gets to a place that makes it convincingly unbelievable. We would expect as much from these "Masters".

The imagination to use musicians to fling swords and dead warriors from their stringed instrument. To use unbearable landlords as heroes. Great warriors were popping up in the rank and file, you never knew who the next fighter would be.

It spoke to greatness being tied to simplicity, speed to being still, and character as something worth improving. A wonderfully morally immoral kung fu comedy of heroic proportions. I was grateful for the "Hustle" and I'm going to go watch it again right now.