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Secret Girlfriend (2009)
If only the creators gave the idea a chance...
I can't, in my right mind, give this show more than a 3... It is an interesting idea, in that the perspective is based upon the viewer. However...this perspective is in no way universal. Yes, all guys are perverted, but still...it feels like it's meant for a specific character, you can't really do that in this perspective. And...seriously, they tried making it successful by depicting the viewer as a successful man (in that he is able to have these girlfriends, and about 5 girls per episode sleep with him) OK, some guys can do that...but they aren't watching this show. It's basically making the pathetic "usses" feel better, which doesn't work. It would be an interesting idea for a show that had a more important story, also, than just getting laid and getting a specific girl over time. Woooh...what a good idea for a show...not... So everything but the perspective sucks...Most of the jokes were horrible too... really too bad, some things had potential...
Hairspray (2007)
If I wanted to die of AIDS, I would have watched Rent.
Both I was forced into, and guess what, I had to pretend to sleep and twittle my thumbs around my ex at the time for nothing. The movie is awful, even by musical standards. Even Rent I could watch in entirety and not want to shoot myself. I was upset, but this just ruined life for me. And I know Travolta has had pretty effeminate roles before, (cough* Grease) but this ruined every bit of hope I had for him.
Women, do not force your boyfriends to watch this. They won't be happy. More likely than not you will get dumped or at least ignored for a week. I'm really sorry that I didn't like it actually, because I did try...for her sake. It just will not work for a guy. Though I respect why a fat girl might like it, as that is the starring role.
The Uninvited (2009)
Ehh...
I've seen better, I've seen worse. What can I really say, a good horror film kind of surprises you at the end on the first viewing, and that didn't really happen here. The entire time that she had nightmares I was hoping that the stepmother actually was evil, and that the girl didn't end up crazy. The fact that they TOLD you she was going crazy and still didn't bring a twist to it was a little disappointing. Also, the whole sister thing is a lot overplayed. Obviously all of these complains could probably fire away at the original, but I never saw the original. I might actually give it a shot, and judge it a little more fairly depending on when it was made (haha, I don't even know that) I think a lot of people are going on and rating it for how it appears, and not what's actually happening here, and what's actually happening, I actually didn't really like.
That being said, the cast was good, the acting is decent, I just don't feel like it was all that shocking or surprising. And the only times I jumped were the cheap thrills due to loud booming noises. Not that anything really scares me unless I'm alone in a dark theater while all this is happening anyway. It still seemed like the movie could have been a little better in that aspect as well.
I give it a mediocre rating, but that's not to say I hated it.
Family Guy (1999)
Hmmm...
OK...I know this has been said a million times, but to add insult to injury...the show has gotten really stale lately. Particularly, I wanted to point out, that at first it was about a man trying to find a job to support his dysfunctional family, or impress them, or be a decent person around them. Something like that, it was about the family and how the man would deal with an issue involving said family. Lately though, and by lately, I don't literally mean lately, more or less after the 3rd or 4th season, Peter's lost his character traits entirely and become more or less a doll that spews retarded jokes. It still tries to make reference to it's past episodes and events that have occurred, but you don't even care, because his character isn't even a character anymore. Stewie's become gay, which would be perfectly fine if they didn't make him hit on EVERY SINGLE guy in the show. Also, because he's gay he had to be a trannie? What? Him being a trannie wasn't funny the first time I saw it, why drag it on, not just for the one episode, but onto LATER episodes. Hell, South Park delved in Cartman being gay, but they didn't make it his ENTIRE character. He still is the crazy guy who does very creepy things, though still very childish.
The show also always complains that Meg isn't an interesting character. Well, when you don't write her to be interesting, she won't. It's pretty logical that if you don't involve a character in the show, you might as well kill her off. Of course they can't do that, and have killed off other unimportant characters, the point remains, they could get rid of Meg somehow, but no, they want the stupid one-line jokes that involve her getting hurt, whether hurt feelings or actually physically hurt.
There's also what I call "filler" moments, when the crew can't write anything interesting enough to fill a whole episode and just have something else take over, or drag out something where animation is so simplistic that everything stays in one place and only a mouth moves. For those who know, they can just draw a simple figure of the character, and put the mouth even more in the foreground, it's lazily done. "MOM MOM MOM" OK...Filler moment. The random flashbacks, I honestly can't complain about. It was part of the show when I liked the show, and it should remain part of the show...it's when they turn into filler moments that I really hate. "Mr. Conway Twitty, let's hear a whole song from you now to divert the attention from the fact that Seth and the other writers couldn't come up with the 5-10 minutes of that song" What's worse is, they just take a video of Conway Twitty, they don't even BOTHER animating a scene of it. No one laughs at it, I end up turning the channel if I don't get bored before that moment anyway. The only filler I've liked so far was short and to the point, with "The Rock" simulating Peter and Lois having sex. The actual episode beyond that wasn't all that funny...however...
Beyond all the complaint, there must be something to draw me in, because I do keep watching it enough to know all this. Maybe it's hope...but maybe, just maybe, it does still have entertainment value to me.