en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/3515319 Comments by authorkyleandrews http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jerikson/2012/02/27/glee-jeff-goldblum-and-the-god-squad/#IDComment303143905 You work with Alec Baldwin?! :) Should I have gone with Tina Fey? Really, anyone from 30 Rock could have worked. Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:32:17 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jerikson/2012/02/27/glee-jeff-goldblum-and-the-god-squad/#IDComment303143905 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jerikson/2012/02/27/glee-jeff-goldblum-and-the-god-squad/#IDComment303123714 Why are home-schooled kids always portrayed as socially awkward weirdos in the media? Do they realize that while most kids are shooting each other with spitballs in the cafeteria, home-schooled kids are out in the real world, interacting with adults? It's not like they're kept in a bomb shelter, drinking kool-aid and dropping acid all day. Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:01:22 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jerikson/2012/02/27/glee-jeff-goldblum-and-the-god-squad/#IDComment303123714 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/09/daily-call-sheet-youth-move-online-bridesmaids-takes-vod-crown-denzel-waterboarded-and-cancel-your-cable/#IDComment288528031 The current rating system for television is so antiquated and the networks are lightyears behind in figuring out how to make streaming profitable. For example, if you look at a show like Fringe... It's designed to appeal to a tech savvy audience. It airs on Friday nights. It's made available for streaming online, but those views do not count toward its overall ratings, so the network will probably cancel it before its time. There are more viewers than are being counted, but because they watch it online (made available by the network and studio) those viewers aren't counted. If the networks figured out a way to make those streams profitable, they could count those views in their overall ratings. Air the same commercials online as you do during a live broadcast and sell it all to advertisers as one package. Online commercials can't be fast-forwarded through... It can be done, but it's not being done. Instead, the networks are scratching their heads and wondering why the show isn't getting higher ratings when it airs live. Fringe is just one example. Chuck would be another... Shows which target modern audiences who use technology for their viewing simply will not get the ratings that a show like CSI gets, because CSI targets an older audience which is used to watching shows live and oftentimes doesn't even know what a "Hulu" is. If you're going to target a demographic, you should at least know how to acknowledge them. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:08:02 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/09/daily-call-sheet-youth-move-online-bridesmaids-takes-vod-crown-denzel-waterboarded-and-cancel-your-cable/#IDComment288528031 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ekaris/2012/02/09/madonna-targeted-for-scorn-for-being-older-and-female/#IDComment288072128 Meryl Streep (62) Helen Mirren (66) Sally Field (65) Betty White (90) Cloris Leachman (85) Kathy Bates (63) Judi Dench (77) I'm sure there are more that I can't think of off the top of my head. You can't really exclude comedians because they're making fun of themselves. That's their job. Betty and Cloris make age jokes now because people generally change how they behave and how they think as they get older. This is why people have an issue with Madonna. When someone in their 50's is acting like they're 20, it seems trashy. Especially when they have children. This goes for men as well as women. I constantly see people making comments about aging singers or actors who are still putting on the same schtick that they used when they were young and it's equally disturbing when it happens with men. Agism happens. That much is true, but I don't think you know what agism actually is. To say that it's agist to expect a woman who is past the half-century mark to act her age is not agist. Unfortunately, Madonna built her career on being provocative, so it's not like she can sit on a stool and perform her songs with a guitar in her hands. She built this house of cards herself and now that it's coming down, she has nobody but herself to blame. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 17:21:55 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ekaris/2012/02/09/madonna-targeted-for-scorn-for-being-older-and-female/#IDComment288072128 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/08/trailer-talk-renners-bourne-reboot-revisits-shady-spy-games/#IDComment287290519 The article should be corrected... Joan Allen is in the Bourne movies. Joan Walsh is a liberal blogger. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 19:32:47 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/08/trailer-talk-renners-bourne-reboot-revisits-shady-spy-games/#IDComment287290519 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/zleeman/2012/02/03/spartacus-vengeance-review-new-star-lost-in-andy-whitfields-shadow/#IDComment283170779 I haven't seen the new season yet, but I feel sorry for the new actor. Every review will be a comparison. People will be looking for Whitfield, rather than really looking to see what Liam brings to the table himself. If he's not Whitfield enough, they won't like him. If he's not built the same way, they'll make a comment about it. I think I will wait to see where the dust eventually settles. I don't think anyone related to the show is in an envious position as it premieres. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 23:01:59 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/zleeman/2012/02/03/spartacus-vengeance-review-new-star-lost-in-andy-whitfields-shadow/#IDComment283170779 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jgreggs/2012/01/23/j-j-abrams-fuses-sci-fi-with-crime-genre-on-foxs-new-monday-night-hit/#IDComment272380067 In the season 3 finale, Walter figured out that Peter had made the wrong decision when he destroyed the other universe (remember, Walternate was over in "our" universe because his had been destroyed by Peter). So when they sent the machine to the past, they allowed it to give Peter this glimpse of that one potential future so that instead of destroying the other universe, he would save both of them. That created the bridge that we see on the show now, and apparently wiped Peter from the timeline. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:33:31 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jgreggs/2012/01/23/j-j-abrams-fuses-sci-fi-with-crime-genre-on-foxs-new-monday-night-hit/#IDComment272380067 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jgreggs/2012/01/23/j-j-abrams-fuses-sci-fi-with-crime-genre-on-foxs-new-monday-night-hit/#IDComment272367687 That world no longer exists. It was one of many possible futures, but it's no longer THE future. As soon as Peter planted the machine in the past, that history was altered. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:13:03 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jgreggs/2012/01/23/j-j-abrams-fuses-sci-fi-with-crime-genre-on-foxs-new-monday-night-hit/#IDComment272367687 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jgreggs/2012/01/23/j-j-abrams-fuses-sci-fi-with-crime-genre-on-foxs-new-monday-night-hit/#IDComment272280910 I'm not sure I know which characters you're talking about, so I'm not sure how to respond to your specific comments. As I said, Fringe isn't the same show it started out as. Around halfway through season 1, they had a big change in direction (actually a lot of those early episodes still play a big part, but the show was more focused). So it might be worth another try if you didn't like it at first. UPDATE: Okay, just reread your post with the proper context this time. Got it. I'm not slow, really. It just read weird the first time... I think you're referring to Walter waiting to test his theories before telling Peter and Olivia what he though might be going on, right? He will usually say that he will have to run test and study something before he can give them an answer. But I think that's different than someone having the answer and just choosing not to share it, despite the fact that they're endangering lives in doing so. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:54:58 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jgreggs/2012/01/23/j-j-abrams-fuses-sci-fi-with-crime-genre-on-foxs-new-monday-night-hit/#IDComment272280910 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jgreggs/2012/01/23/j-j-abrams-fuses-sci-fi-with-crime-genre-on-foxs-new-monday-night-hit/#IDComment272272633 I have to disagree with this review. To compare the writing of Alcatraz to the writing on Fringe is like comparing the writing of Gilligan's Island to the writing of Lost. It was sloppy and unpolished... We have a scientist woman who, while on the hunt for a sniper, decides to stand in front of a target with a look of bewilderment on her face. We have two character splitting up to search two different roofs for a suspect, and upon finding his empty, we have one character magically appearing on the second roof shortly after the other agent arrives (y'know... the one who has been climbing those stairs ever since they split up). We have a sniper who doesn't act like a sniper. An OCD character who gets conveniently sloppy, just long enough to leave evidence behind. We have the lead female finding a pattern amongst victims which nobody (including the resident Alcatraz genius) has put together in the last 50 years, despite the fact that it's an incredibly obvious pattern. Fringe doesn't dumb characters down in order to make other characters seem smart. They don't cut corners. They aren't sloppy. Whereas on Alcatraz, I have no idea why this woman would decide to work for a group of people that is keeping vital information from her, which ties her hands behind her back while at the same time puts her life in danger. She'd be better off going rogue. The mystery isn't driven by wonder or complexity. It's driven by a guy who just decides that he doesn't want to tell us, or the other characters what is going on. It's a false mystery. Like if Jack had the secrets of the island on "Lost" that entire time, but simply chose not to tell anyone for the sake of keeping the show going for a little bit longer. As far as casting goes, Anna Torv convinces me that Olivia Dunham is a tough, intelligent, troubled woman. She's complex, and they don't need to pretend that she's a superhero just to make her seem badass. The lead female on Alcatraz suffers from the same problem that shows like Chase had... I don't buy the tiny girl being the toughest person in the room. She's literally ALL of the muscle of this operation. It may sound sexist, but c'mon! This show is not a replacement for Fringe. It's got a rather limited scope. Granted, Fringe wasn't exactly Fringe when it first started, but to call Alcatraz a solid replacement right out of the gate is absurd. One of them is a show that you have to pay attention to (if you want to call that "confusing", I guess that's up to you) and the other is cops and robbers. Just because they have JJ Abrams' name in the credits doesn't mean that he is running these shows. They are run by completely different people and shouldn't be considered interchangeable just because they have the Bad Robot logo on them. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:42:18 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jgreggs/2012/01/23/j-j-abrams-fuses-sci-fi-with-crime-genre-on-foxs-new-monday-night-hit/#IDComment272272633 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/13/daily-call-sheet-bane-said-what-dragon-tattoo-review-and-why-voyager-blows/#IDComment237271711 I agree, for the most part. DS9 really doesn't fall into this. It had really interesting characters and heavy spiritual themes (though alien, they dealt with themes that we deal with in our world). Worf really came into his own on DS9, when he could be dark and fight real battles. DS9 had characters with families. They had war, and gambling, and all sorts of non-utopian fun. Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:04:58 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/13/daily-call-sheet-bane-said-what-dragon-tattoo-review-and-why-voyager-blows/#IDComment237271711 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/13/daily-call-sheet-bane-said-what-dragon-tattoo-review-and-why-voyager-blows/#IDComment237154547 Let's face it, if Picard were given command of DS9, he would have surrendered the station in the first episode and never looked back. The scene in "The Emissary" where Sisko meets with Picard for the first time is really interesting to watch. Just the way the actors played the scene, where Picard is almost cowering to Sisko and just as he begins to feel at ease, Sisko slaps him back down. Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:57:18 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/13/daily-call-sheet-bane-said-what-dragon-tattoo-review-and-why-voyager-blows/#IDComment237154547 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/13/daily-call-sheet-bane-said-what-dragon-tattoo-review-and-why-voyager-blows/#IDComment237152704 I was managed to get into DS9 when it was still on the air, but I think it was a few seasons into the series when I caught on. I was a kid when it premiered and I guess I didn't get the themes. I'm glad that I gave it another try though. Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:52:44 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/13/daily-call-sheet-bane-said-what-dragon-tattoo-review-and-why-voyager-blows/#IDComment237152704 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/13/daily-call-sheet-bane-said-what-dragon-tattoo-review-and-why-voyager-blows/#IDComment237151632 Very true. And the writers responded to what happened on screen. When Odo gave Kira just a hint of a look in one episode, the writers ran with it and turned it into a major character arc. Too often, it seemed like the writers on Star Trek aren't even watching the show that they're writing. With DS9, it seemed like the more the actors became the characters, the more the writers shaped the characters to suit the actors. They allowed the show to take on a life of its own, which is how things should be on a long running series. By the end of the other shows, it felt like the writers were wrestling their characters just to get them to do what they wanted. Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:49:50 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/13/daily-call-sheet-bane-said-what-dragon-tattoo-review-and-why-voyager-blows/#IDComment237151632 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/13/daily-call-sheet-bane-said-what-dragon-tattoo-review-and-why-voyager-blows/#IDComment237149443 You have to wonder who decided to sign a deal which allowed Klingons and Romulans (the two biggest threats of the time) to have cloaking devices while the Federation wasn't allowed to. The Defiant was awesome. The idea of Starfleet having a war ship must have made the TNG/TOS fans faint, but that ship was the coolest thing to ever happen to Star Trek. Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:44:13 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/13/daily-call-sheet-bane-said-what-dragon-tattoo-review-and-why-voyager-blows/#IDComment237149443 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/13/daily-call-sheet-bane-said-what-dragon-tattoo-review-and-why-voyager-blows/#IDComment237147263 It's because at the end of all of the other Star Treks, the ship warps off and they never look back. Basically, they wait until the happiest possible moment, warp off, and pretend that everyone remained happy for the rest of time. With DS9, they're stuck. They have to deal with consequences and what they do will not only have an impact on them, but the entire system around them, and there's no warping away from that. Picard and his friends could afford to pretend that they were above it all, because they didn't exist in a real world environment. It was a hippy commune in space, whereas DS9 was a blending of different cultures, and not everyone was wearing a uniform. There was money and debt, gambling, holosuites (which is a fancy form of brothel)... it was an actual society. Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:38:46 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/13/daily-call-sheet-bane-said-what-dragon-tattoo-review-and-why-voyager-blows/#IDComment237147263 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/13/daily-call-sheet-bane-said-what-dragon-tattoo-review-and-why-voyager-blows/#IDComment236995043 This is why Deep Space Nine is the best of all the Star Treks. In the first episode of TNG, we have Picard surrendering the Enterprise to the first bad guy he runs across. In the first episode of DS9, I believe it was Kira who would have rather seen the station blown up, rather than surrender. On TNG, we have Picard refuse to wipe out the Borg. On DS9, Sisko makes an entire planet uninhabitable in order to catch a traitor who went to work with the Maquis (a terrorist group which was heavily featured on Voyager... for about three seconds before they started pretending that everyone was Starfleet). Sisko did what he had to do for the greater good, and this often lead to questionable decisions which weighed heavily on his soul, but he never backed down from those decisions. DS9 is the Trek that manyf Trekkies don't want to think about because it doesn't follow Roddenberry's vision of the future. A lot of the Battlestar Galactica remake's themes were touched upon and experimented with on DS9... Now that all of the shows are on Netflix, I've tried watching TNG, but it's painful to get through the first couple of seasons. DS9, even in it's "weak" earlier seasons, was a good show with interesting characters. Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:50:02 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/13/daily-call-sheet-bane-said-what-dragon-tattoo-review-and-why-voyager-blows/#IDComment236995043 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2011/11/10/why-are-audiences-laughing-at-j-edgar/#IDComment220523924 That's great. Poppa can play any game he wants. More power to poppa. You are the one who said that Shyamalan's films have been rejected by the target audience. I am the target audience, telling you that they have not been. The majority of his movies have actually made good money, and while they may not appeal to you, there is an audience out there who gets what he was going for and enjoys it. Jaws was not a great movie. Half of the Indiana Jones franchise should be outlawed. Saving Private Ryan was far from being a great movie. Catch Me If You Can was forgettable. Jurassic Park, like Jaws, was fun the first time around but doesn't really have much to offer in repeat viewings. Terminator wasn't really good. T2 was okay, but not a great movie in terms of actual story. I'm not saying that there's no audience for those movies or that I will never watch them. However, the majority of Spielberg and Cameron movies tend to be like cotton candy, melting away to nothingness as soon as you're done with them. With Shyamalan movies, the opposite tends to be true. I watch it multiple times and gets something different from each viewing. Now, you don't get it or whatever and that's great. You don't have to watch the movies, or you can watch them and then make comments about them for years to come. Whatever floats your boat. The point is, Shyamalan has an audience that enjoys his movies. The majority of those movies have been good. In my book that makes him more consistent and reliable than most of the big name directors out there. So yes, I would take a Shyamalan movie over a Spielberg or Cameron movie any day of the week. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:36:29 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2011/11/10/why-are-audiences-laughing-at-j-edgar/#IDComment220523924 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2011/11/10/why-are-audiences-laughing-at-j-edgar/#IDComment220185397 It actually wasn't... It was comparing modern environmentalism to the nuclear paranoia of the 1950's, which is a fair comparison to make. You'll notice that there's even one scene in the movie where they have a nuclear power plant in the background, recalling those old films. The Happening was meant to be a modern day version of those 1950's b-movies. Only today, we're not scared of mutated insects destroying the world. Today, people are afraid of the air. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:30:54 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2011/11/10/why-are-audiences-laughing-at-j-edgar/#IDComment220185397 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2011/11/10/why-are-audiences-laughing-at-j-edgar/#IDComment220183846 With the exception of The Last Airbender, which I don't really consider a "Shyamalan" movie, I can honestly say that I've enjoyed his work. The Village was probably the weakest of the lot, but even that story had some interesting characters which made it enjoyable. Like with Signs and The Happening, I enjoy the fact that what you're told to think by characters in the movie isn't always what's really going on, so you have to pay attention and look a little deeper. The Sixth Sense was probably the only movie that handed everything to the audience on a silver platter, and while it's popular, I wouldn't say it's one of my favorite Shyamalan movies. On top of the fact that I like his stories, I think he's an awesome director who constructs scenes better than I've seen in most modern movies, and he has a talent for creating atmosphere. Yeah, I can safely say that Shyamalan is on the top of my list of modern directors. I'll take one of his movies over Spielberg or Cameron any day of the week. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:26:53 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2011/11/10/why-are-audiences-laughing-at-j-edgar/#IDComment220183846