That Yeti Is One Smooth Talker...

While watching Nip/Tuck the other night, I thought about how upsetting it would be if FX decided to end the series after this season (Season 5). It seems that a normal span for television shows is about five or six seasons, but when a show is so good, I think it's fitting for it to stay on longer. Like Friends and Seinfeld lasted for ten seasons and even though that seems like a long time, I still miss new episodes of Friends.



Nip/Tuck is only a half season, so comparably it's going to be starting the second half of it's third season since it takes up half the time normal seasons do. Around the sixth season it seems that shows start to become repetitive and boring but Nip/Tuck is getting even better. The season finale was such a doozie that all Nip/Tuck fans, including myself, are itching to see the new season. In the last episode, Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) was stabbed repeatedly by his crazy stalker/ex-talent agent while in the middle of performing surgery on his 12 year old daughter who was injured in a car wreck caused by the paparazzi. So yes. Nip/Tuck is one show I will be watching as soon as it comes back on. So here's hoping it will have a long prosperous run like our Friends.

Lipstick and Cashmere

So there seems to be a trend out now with empowered females who kick butt in the business world. I watched Cashmere Mafia first and fell in love. I don't think it's so much the empowered female aspect but just the good plots, talented actresses and great writing. And it's spreading to other shows as well.

I was at the book store the other day and saw the book Lipstick Jungle and saw that it had been turned into a television show. I'm not a big fan of Brooke Shields but it looked a lot like Cashmere Mafia and I wanted to give it a shot. Turns out it's just like Cashmere but with only three girlfriends instead of four. Also, Lipstick is not afraid to show some skin. It's not nearly as graphic as Nip/Tuck but it's enough to make your tummy tingle.

But if you're on the side of females in charge, it definitely gives you plenty of that. The three women in Lipstick Jungle are the most successful business women out there and know it. It shows us all aspects of a love life when the roles of power are switched: a happily married Wendy (Brooke Shields), a married Nico (Kim Raver) with a mister on the side, and a single Victory (Lindsay Price). Both shows are clever but it makes one wonder if one's not just modeled after the other.

Whichever it is, I know I'll be in front of the television at ten o clock on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Jumper

So I just went to see the movie Jumper with my sister-in-law this past weekend, so it's time for a movie review! (yayyy)

Here's the synopsis I found on SmartCine.com: The science fiction thriller leaps into a new realm with JUMPER, which begins the epic adventures of a man who discovers that he possesses the exhilarating ability to instantly teleport anywhere in the world he can imagine. From New York to Tokyo, from the ruins of Rome to the heart of the Saharan Desert, anywhere is possible for David Rice (HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN), until he begins to see that his freedom is not total, that he's not alone . . . but part of an ongoing, global war that threatens the very survival of his rare and extraordinary kind.

I was a little hesitant to go see it because I had just recently seen the movie Shattered Glass (I was forced to for school) and a guy at Blockbuster told me it would have been a good movie if Hayden Christensen wasn't such a bad actor. I'm not sure if it was because the guy got it in my head, or he really was that bad...but I was thinking this when I bought the ticket to Jumper.

The beginning was great; it gave us just enough background information. The concept was brilliant, and the part where he was learning how to teleport was hilarious. I'm big on the tone of the movie. I think tone is set with lighting and how the director interprets the script. The lighting of the movie was fitting. I remember seeing the new Superman film and thinking that the darkness of the movie wasn't very fitting, but I guess they wanted to go dark. Well the darkness fit with Jumper because, while it had it's comedic moments, it was a drama. The choices the director made were great, too. I'm not sure if the script called for the ground to break where he teleported to, but that made it POWERFUL.



The actors and actresses made it great, too. This is a big step up from Shattered Glass for Christensen. I must say he did a good job of acting and not indicating (bad, bad form of acting). Rachel Bilson did a beautiful job of being beautiful and coy; she's such a great actress, I was happy to see her in this film. Now Samuel L. Jackson is worth a whole 'nother blog. The man is a legend and I am so jealous these actors got to act with him. He was amazing and played one scary bad guy.

So I am pleased to say I enjoyed this movie and would recommend it to you avid movie goers out there. And to all the average Joe's as well :)

Music in Television and Movies

This blog was actually inspired by Sergio Mendoza Hochmann's blog: http://www.therockgazette.com/ He has really great posts, so check him out.

So, have you ever realized how powerful a soundtrack is? Or just how music integrated at one point makes a scene AMAZING? My favorite thing to see is some guys (could be hot. Well, preferably be hot) walking and suddenly the walking slows down and the bass starts thumping or rock music starts rocking. My heart starts racing and I'm like, "Wow. That's hot." So what is it about that that makes it so hot? Maybe that their bodies are moving sensually toward the camera or the look on their face is promising to make you pant.

Or maybe it's the rhythm of the music seeping into your blood stream and pumping your heart to the beat. Whatever the reason, music in a show or movie has proven essential because it can make a moment that much better. There have been moments when the music swells at the perfect time and it makes my eyes water. For instance, in the movie "The Truman Show" the director (Ed Harris) is directing a "scene" and he's telling the crew to "zoom in here" and "cut to this camera" and then "And bring the music up..." and his face is a picture of complete rapture as he inhales the beauty of this scene. Truman is reunited with his dad and because the music was paired beautifully with it, it made half the audience misty eyed.

A lot of people don't even realize how much music influences a television show or a movie, but I'm sure they will pay attention now...