The Time Trap

Bloody hell. After such a boring Season 3, Season 4 was just full of emotions. Looks like Tony and Carmela are going to divorce. Why? He’s such a cutie and definately loves her. At least, that’s what he keeps telling all his bitches. Typical woman in mid-life crises, who got a smell of love (to someone else) and think just because their relationship is like that, that this isn’t love anymore. It’s just like with good friends of us. She was just jealous seeing her sister in love and imidiately questioned her marriage after 14 happy years and finally they’ve got divorced. I hope I will never have this in front of me. Bloody hormons and their victims. Cheers.

Okay. I have to admit that Sopranos are definately better than I though on first sight. After you start loving the characters you want to see more. First and second season are fantastic. With the third season I had quite a hard time as it was somehow boring. As I just received Season 4 and 5 I’m full of hope that it will get better again.

Anyway, I’m proud that I have spent some time with THE SOPRANOS.

That’s exactly the idea of a good TIMEPTRAP for lazy nights and rainy weekends.

Another 120 minutes later I’m slowly getting into it. It’s really not a fast catchy series like “Scrubs”, “married with children”, “the wonder years”, “sex and the city” or even “desperate housewifes”, which keeps you curious all the time with a smile in your face. The characters are slowly introduced surrounding Tony, who himself we are getting know better via his sessions with his psychiatrist.

Really catchy  and groovy is the title song “Woke Up his Morning” from A3. It was the first and only thing I liked immediately. The action is increasing and I will continue watching without any idea where this is leading to…

As my brother is married to a family in South Italy and I married into a Family in Colombia, it is a must to see all kind of “family business movies”. I never was in luck seeing “Sopranos” on Telly. I don’t even know if this show was on in Europe. I found them for 22€ on Amazon with very good recommendation and ordered it (together with many other movies).

It was the first DVD I opened (although also got 24 Season 4), put into the DVD player and start watching. So far, I just saw the first 120 minutes - means, still 780 minutes to go.

Resume 120min: I love his mom as much as Tony does and I’m very curious to watch the next 120 minutes tonight. I’ll keep you posted. Gotta go…where is the remote control…

Have you seen the musical? Maybe even in Toronto like me?

Don’t go an buy the DVD. It’s nice to own this beautiful songs in Dolby Digital and with the German track even in DTS quality, but don’t watch it.

Emmy Rossum looks quite cute on first sight but she is not able to show a different face than always the same naive “who is ever going to look at me, I will fall in love to him and gonna kiss him” one. Even John Travolta with his poor two faces acting can set up has 100% more diversity in acting as she does. What a shame.

It was really a hard fight last night not to fall asleep.  I even made the stupid mistake watching the German track (because I like DTS), but “lipp-synchronity” is as non existing in this dubbing as the word I spellt in the way the movie is dubbed.

Although I hate to admit it, I became a victim of commercials and thought this would be something special. Please don’t do the same mistake. Don’t buy it if you are healthy!!! Go and buy it to substitue Valium or Rohybnol if you need it!

Watched the DVD last night. Another nice time trap spending 115 minutes in front of the projector screen. My opinion about this movie is quickly told: it’s a good investment of time for everybody. Definitely none of the best movies I’ve ever seen but it contains all recipes for a good movie. Although I’m not a big fan of Will Smith at all I have to admit, that this role has been written for him and he just had to play himself.

Eva Mendes, well, as a man, not much to say either. One of the most challenging and interesting faces in film history but she doesn’t really match with Will in this movie. There is just something missing - chemistry?

And now to the reason why you have to watch this movie: KEVIN JAMES. Keep this name of our King of Queens in your mind. What a cuddly, lovely, warmhardly, sweet teddy bear. You gonna love him. He deserved this blond and dirty version of Cameron Diaz called Amber Valetta.

All in all. A good time trap for a rainy Friday night at home.

Last night we watched DVD “King Kong”. Nice mixture of “Jurassic Park”, “my best friend Joe” and the original black and white version of Edgar Wallace. Quite interesting, that although the story is well known it’s still shocking. No, not the way the movie is done, it’s shocking that blond woman, which are not really talking a lot (or even saying nothing at all) can break that easily the heart of the biggest man. In case of King Kong she could have rescued him, probably, if she did talk  and explain how charming he is.

Leads to the moral and key learning of this story: It’s easy to fall in love to a no-bullshit-talking-woman but the same reason will kill you one day!

By the way, if you ever have seen the splatter movies of Peter Jackson, like “Bad Taste” you wouldn’t believe that he is able to do movies like “Lord of the rings” (critics upfront:”impossible to produce a movie about this book”) or “King Kong” (critics: “Oh, another remake”). Peter, well improved, well done and lots of respect deciding for this difficult titles!

Peter, if you’re reading this, I’m just proudly jealous as well, because when I was doing trailers for MTV (TVNZ) in New Zealand in 97/98 with SoftImage I went down to your Weta Company in Dunedin (wasn’t located at this time in Wellington) and had a look and talked to some of your guys. It was like I liked it in the past. Lots of cable, computers and empty pizza boxes, quite dark but not smoky. I asked them if they are using SoftImaje or Wavefront and they replied: “No, that’s all to slow, we are doing a real time CG of the weather situation of the Whitbread Really. The only way to do this is in programming language C”. Well, I decided to be a programm user and not to become a programmer although I’ve got my diploma in computer science. Anyway, looks like I made a different career and we both are very happy that way.

Take care and continue doing movies Peter. You’ve got a great team!