rwilymz
Joined Oct 2003
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Indecision 2004 consisted of a show each day for, oh, weeks and weeks that used the following formula:
Token Kerry gag;
28 minutes -- less commercial breaks -- of Bush lambasting.
Granted, the Bush stuff was funny, but after a few days of that the laughs turned to chuckles turned to smiles turned to rolled eyes. "I've seen this show, Jon; get some new material."
For the same reason most people don't eat the same thing for breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week 52 weeks a year, most people like a bit more variety in their political humor.
Many comedians have made a handsome living doing political comedy, and all of them will tell you that the easiest way to lose half your audience is to even hint that you're one-sided. Stewart shouts "one-sided". So far, it's worked. ...well enough for Comedy Central, at any rate.
Hilarious in small doses; amusing when taken in chunks. He could do much better by evening out the lampoon.
Token Kerry gag;
28 minutes -- less commercial breaks -- of Bush lambasting.
Granted, the Bush stuff was funny, but after a few days of that the laughs turned to chuckles turned to smiles turned to rolled eyes. "I've seen this show, Jon; get some new material."
For the same reason most people don't eat the same thing for breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week 52 weeks a year, most people like a bit more variety in their political humor.
Many comedians have made a handsome living doing political comedy, and all of them will tell you that the easiest way to lose half your audience is to even hint that you're one-sided. Stewart shouts "one-sided". So far, it's worked. ...well enough for Comedy Central, at any rate.
Hilarious in small doses; amusing when taken in chunks. He could do much better by evening out the lampoon.
I saw this "film" the first time when I was a teenager, late at night, on broadcast television. Wow, wow, wow!! Susan George was the ideal older woman to a 70s-era kid: sun-bleached blonde, jiggling halter top, and loose! Peter Fonda was uber-cool, and we all aspired to his élan. The ending was an object lesson on the upper limit of "too cool", so we tempered our stride.
But then a funny thing happened. I grew older. I learned to appreciate dialogue in movies. I learned that "cool" doesn't pay bills, and that there's a lot of women whose entire net worth is bottled up inside their jiggling halter top.
I saw this again a few weeks ago on a satellite movie station, on a Sunday afternoon.
Teenagers are idiots. I can say this unequivocally because I liked this movie when I was a teenager. The only reason I'm grading this 4/10 is because I'm taking the average of my two ratings. It got 10 stars a few decades ago. Do the math.
But then a funny thing happened. I grew older. I learned to appreciate dialogue in movies. I learned that "cool" doesn't pay bills, and that there's a lot of women whose entire net worth is bottled up inside their jiggling halter top.
I saw this again a few weeks ago on a satellite movie station, on a Sunday afternoon.
Teenagers are idiots. I can say this unequivocally because I liked this movie when I was a teenager. The only reason I'm grading this 4/10 is because I'm taking the average of my two ratings. It got 10 stars a few decades ago. Do the math.
... if St Louis was NYC.
Living across the river from St Lose and having grown up a few hours from NYC, I was interested in seeing how American Television, an industry concentrated on both coasts, would depict a city smack dab in between them.
I got the answer after a few shows: farcically.
St Lose is dominated by white and black which The JLq Show had, but Television Formula required the Obligatory Hispanic /Liz Torres, great actress/. There are no accented Hispanics around here. The nearest one is 300 miles away -- in Chicago. Casting Liz was my clue that something was seriously amiss in the show.
The closest thing to "ethnic" around here is: 1- "The Hill" -- actually a generally rising slope -- dotted with Italian restaurants; 2- Soulard Market, an old french quarter holdover where the frenchiness is reserved solely in the name; and 3- German towns in southwestern IL where everyone has a last name with no fewer than 18 letters, an uncommon allotment of which are 'e' and 'i'.
No Hispanics. Anywhere.
StL is brain sandwiches and toasted ravioli; downtown closes at 6PM. By law. Budweiser and mostaccioli -- pronounced "muskacholi" -- are the equivalents of champagne and pate at local weddings. These things are interesting, even if only from an Abnormal Psych perspective, and would have been worth seeing in a national television show centered on some region other than the boring, repetitive and cliché NYC and LA scenery and lifestyle.
But, oh well, you can't fight Television Formula. Don't bother sending the writers on a field trip to research the people they're going to depict. Remake the center of the country to be yet another in a long line of NYC replicants.
Good actors; tired plots; wasted opportunity.
Living across the river from St Lose and having grown up a few hours from NYC, I was interested in seeing how American Television, an industry concentrated on both coasts, would depict a city smack dab in between them.
I got the answer after a few shows: farcically.
St Lose is dominated by white and black which The JLq Show had, but Television Formula required the Obligatory Hispanic /Liz Torres, great actress/. There are no accented Hispanics around here. The nearest one is 300 miles away -- in Chicago. Casting Liz was my clue that something was seriously amiss in the show.
The closest thing to "ethnic" around here is: 1- "The Hill" -- actually a generally rising slope -- dotted with Italian restaurants; 2- Soulard Market, an old french quarter holdover where the frenchiness is reserved solely in the name; and 3- German towns in southwestern IL where everyone has a last name with no fewer than 18 letters, an uncommon allotment of which are 'e' and 'i'.
No Hispanics. Anywhere.
StL is brain sandwiches and toasted ravioli; downtown closes at 6PM. By law. Budweiser and mostaccioli -- pronounced "muskacholi" -- are the equivalents of champagne and pate at local weddings. These things are interesting, even if only from an Abnormal Psych perspective, and would have been worth seeing in a national television show centered on some region other than the boring, repetitive and cliché NYC and LA scenery and lifestyle.
But, oh well, you can't fight Television Formula. Don't bother sending the writers on a field trip to research the people they're going to depict. Remake the center of the country to be yet another in a long line of NYC replicants.
Good actors; tired plots; wasted opportunity.