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Everybody Loves Raymond: Cruising with Marie (1999)
The Funniest Episode of the Series
A reluctant Raymond accompanies Marie on a cruise, while Robert dances attendance upon Frank back at home. (Frank has twisted something and needs his help). Ray eats non-stop in his glum passive-aggressive way and seems perplexed by how much fun Marie is having with the passengers. A laugh-out-loud episode, a whole lot of fun!
Point Break (2015)
Pointless Point Break
The original Point Break with Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves was not one of the towering classics of all time. It was quite an enjoyable caper.
Why this thing was re-made is a mystery; I can only speculate that someone, somewhere, told TPTB that 'I kind of liked Point Break back in the day. I remember that movie.' And because Hollywood is barren of any new ideas/terrified of not making enough millions to support their trophy wives and coke habits, they figured, 'yeah, people kind of liked Point Break back in the day, it's gonna be a sure thing. I mean, it's got Hawaii and water and a bank heist caper. What could go wrong?'
It doesn't matter. The story doesn't matter. The scenery doesn't matter. The extreme sports or whatever doesn't matter. People aren't going to flock to this thing because of any of that, yearning for a remake of a brilliant brilliant work of art.
This movie doesn't have Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves, in all their young smoking hot glory. This movie lacks the 'ho-yay' element with its cast of nobodies.
That's my opinion. Look at it if you want, but if you've never seen the original, it is lacking. The remake is a timekiller and nothing notable.
ER: Chicago Heat (1994)
The awful annoying Rachel Green!
I could not stand Mark Green's daughter at any age. But she was annoying as F in this episode. She was spouting tug-at-the-heartstrings ridiculous dialog in the most cloying, stomach-turning widdle voice ever heard urped out by a child actor.
Star Trek: The Cloud Minders (1969)
There's something about this episode.
I am a most fervent fan of Star Trek TOS and still watch it on cable most nights a week. Many episodes have 'stayed' with me over the years, and this episode - with all its shortcomings - is one of them. I think it is because it's Spock, not Kirk, who has the romantic interest. I like the story and the feisty rebellious woman. I like the matte painting of the 'city in the sky', cheesy as it is. I like the gorgeous, ethereal 'Droxine' (and her name!)....there's something about City In the Sky that fascinates me. (maybe it's the spacey, other-worldly music? It fits so well with the city-in-the-sky and clueless aristos.)
House M.D.: After Hours (2011)
Best (though most gorey) Episode Ever.
Just watched this one again, and it is truly cringe-y and gorey as I don't think I've ever seen on a tv drama. House operates on himself, removing tumors from his leg, in his bathtub. Starts out well, but of course he can't continue. (there's a side story with 13 and Chase treating an injured friend of hers in her apartment, and another side story with ridiculous Taub). The main storyline features amazing effects and great acting.
House M.D.: Airborne (2007)
Excellent Episode, both stories
House commandeers the passengers on a plane that he and Cuddy are on when one of the passengers gets sick. The man doesn't speak English....hmmm....time to operate? Any volunteers here to assist? It's hair-raising and hilarious in equal measure. Just Hugh Laurie's best!.....Meanwhile, on the ground, a lady of a certain age seems to be knocking off her sexual bucket list, phones for a female sex worker to come to her house (!) but collapses from a mystery illness. Wilson handles that case with the distracted help of Cameron and Chase. (nothing to do with anything, but isn't it nice that Wilson, Cameron, and Chase all go by nice white-bread surnames?)...funny thing about the lady with the bucket list, she's played by The King of Queen's delightful tv mother! Fatso on KoQ would have an aneurism himself if he ever knew that! ... A must-see episode .
ER: Take These Broken Wings (1996)
OK, Susan....enough!
I'm on my third go-round, watching ER, and though this arc was very touching when I first watched it, I find it kind of annoying now. Sherry Stringfield does a wonderful job of acting, but omg, enough already! I find myself thinking, 'why doesn't she just have her OWN dam baby?'
House M.D.: Insensitive (2007)
Only One Review??
This is probably my favorite House episode. There are moments of utter hilarity in this tale of the girl who can't feel pain. The 'oh yeah, top this!' back-and-forth dialogue between the girl and House is hilarious, as his trick to give her a shot...Cuddy is trying to find a sperm donor, goes on a date, and is waylaid by House. The scene near the end in the operating room is both horrific and funny in a most gruesome way.
House M.D.: Finding Judas (2006)
I don't really know what to give this one :-(
Everyone reviewing this is very concerned with Detective Tritter's shenanigans, but no one has said anything about the POTW. I find this is the most painful sad episode to watch. The seemingly inevitable, horrific fate of that beautiful little girl reduced me to tears when I first saw it. Just re-watched and the same feelings came back. Rather melodramatic denouement, per dramatic tv shows. Heart wrenching. Not helped by House's suffering and lashing out.
The Heiress (1949)
I love it, but some of you people apparently don't 'get it'.
Some viewers are puzzled as to how and why our heroine stayed so browbeaten, ignorant, homely, and timid. Some viewers are looking through a 21st century lens and don't realize this is how so many women were treated back then. The father pretty much despised her (as his beautiful wife died in childbirth) and though he felt responsible for raising her as the heiress to a rich man, he never forgave her for that. She led a sheltered, suffocating life, home with servants and her father all her life. The most she went out was to the market once a week, with her maidservant! She had no social skills, no friends, there were no happy hours back then, no hooking up, an occasional social occasion like the dance she went to. And even then, she wouldn't, couldn't dance!. This was not 'all her fault' - women then were under the thumbs of men - husbands, fathers, relatives. She was a sad, silly woman, who nonetheless yearned for romance, and if only the stupid beau decided he could live with a 'big' fortune instead of a 'vast' fortune. Idiot. .... I am unhappy with the ending. Yes, we see she has turned into a bitter old maid, clearly - her voice and body language! But letting him stand out there pounding on the door....silly, not at all satisfying. She should have twisted the knife in a much more dramatic fashion instead of locking the door and going to bed. (what if he went home and kept showing up, stalking her, for days on end? Would she call the police?' A.
Magic Mike (2012)
Sorry...no bueno
Dumb-azzz 'male stripper' movie with supposedly attractive men shakin' it ftica. Or giggling blushing wimmen. How stupid. Trite. 'Girlz Nite Out' has been a th Ating for decades, tee-hee, bachelorette parties have been a thing for decades, tee-hee. No naked dancers here, I wonder if they all moonlighted for REAL money in front of gay audiences. I can kind of appreciate their efforts, but frankly, they look like a bunch of steroided prison lifers pumped up and putting on a Christmas show at Attica. I would be terrified to meet any of them in a dark alley. :-p.
ER: 9 1/2 Hours (1994)
An Early 'Table-Setting' Episode
I'm strolling down memory lane watching re-runs of ER from the beginning. Interesting to see a young George Clooney, a child version of Rachel, in fact everyone is young and so dramatic! You can see Carol is still stuck on Doug. You can see Susan is in for a world of hurt with her crazy sister Chloe trampling all over her. (You can foresee Carter falling in love with Susan, too.). Mark Green and wife are headed for splitsville down the road, both so enmeshed with their careers...Acting is a bit hammy and heavy-handed with some of the characters. And we all like and admire Mark Greene, but really, all that rolling-around sex-a-thon with his wife got pretty icky really fast. He is not sexxy.
ER: Old Times (2009)
Worth Waiting For
I'm watching re-runs of ER on cable every day, and have suffered through the last season or two, when Gates, Sam, and Neela have taken over. Abby and Luka have bugged out. Morris, the clown, much as I like him, is annoying....but this episode, OMG, Ross, Carter, Benton, and Carol, the old pros, the reason we loved ER, are all in it. Susan Sarandon is a guest star. I think ER went on a couple of seasons too long and they ran out of steam, but they did a good job of winding it up. One of the best tv series ever.
Viva Las Vegas (1964)
It's Just OK
A tad better than the usual Elvis bilge, and Ann Margret is notable. I have nothing against Elvis, he could have been a huge star on screen, but his movies were mostly terrible.
ER: Forgive and Forget (2004)
Despite the Pandemonium...
....I am getting so irritated with 'Sam' and her kid, and her wavering over a relationship with Luka, the whole episode was just too much. I really dislike Sam's storyline, she is hogging too much airtime with her endless dysfunction and her irritating kid. Oh, she gave birth at 16! Oh, she moves around all the time! Oh, she's had endless nursing jobs she left! Oh, she's insecure! ... She's not fit to be in a relationship with anyone on this show. I understand Luka's need for a family and security, but he and Sam aren't a good match.
The New Adventures of Old Christine: Exile on Lame Street (2006)
No reviews for this hilarious episode?
I'm kind of surprised, though I know the show was not a 'big thing' when it was on (only 4 seasons). I found the show somewhat annoying, due to the wonderful characterization of Old Christine by Julia Louise Dreyfuss as 'somewhat annoying', LOL. And the wonderful Wanda Sykes often seemed like she wandered in from another show altogether....I digress. This is the episode where Christine and her brother think her ex-husband took 11 year old Ritchie to a Rolling Stones concert. Christine objects to this strenuously, feeling their son is too young and will 'get lost going to the bathroom there alone.' Seriously, that is her main complaint, that her ex-husband won't do good enough parenting! (and he has shown to be a very good father, always)....So she and her brother go downtown to the concert venue and try to get in so she can find her ex-husband and son and keep an eye on them (the son, of course). They don't have tickets and the scene where they try to buy them at the cashier window is so funny, I was laughing out loud! The man at the cashier window was hilarious! 'Oh, you want tickets? We've been sold out for weeks - IT'S THE ROLLING STONES!' and there is even more, lol. All of it is so funny, exactly what you would expect from a couple of ditzes like Christine and her brother Matthew.....There are a handful of really funny laugh-out loud episodes in this series, mostly it is fair to good, but has moments where you just have to laugh at the poor woman's messy life.
Star Trek: Miri (1966)
Stupid
Stupid and annoying. I don't like kids horning in on a dramatic show, let them stick to big stupid Brady Bunch ha-ha- sit-coms. Michael J. Pollard is annoying, the kids are all annoying, and Kim Darby looks waaaay to old to be a 'kid'. More like their nanny.
Reba (2001)
Dreadful.
It's on tv cable channels for hours and hours and hours all week long, and I watched a few episodes when I had insomnia. What a pile of dreck, it was a rehash of every. single. tv. sitcom. ever made. I suppose Reba is revered as a great country artiste and has a built in fan base. But I don't understand what makes her a 'survivor', according to the theme song. She lives in a big honkin' expensive house, surrounded with wacky-but-loving family, a nice ex-husbands, and she looks like she wears a size zero, and so on. REAL life people like that are obese, their kids are meth-heads, the mom has to work at Walmart - typical trashy southern livin'. 'Roseanne' made the lower classes funny and touching. 'Reba' is just trash. I would rather watch the program guide than this dreck.
House M.D.: Joy to the World (2008)
NOT a happy episode. IMO.
Even though it's set during the Big Fat Holly Jolly Merry Christmas season, even though there's some cleverness about House and 'Irene Adler' and the antique medical book, it is not an episode with a happy ending. (for Cuddy, yeah, sure). For the patient? Bullying by mean beeyotches and ending up dead, not so much. I felt so bad for the girl. I never knew the condition could kill you much later.
Made in Paris (1966)
Hilariously dated, but kind of fun as such things are
This thing was made in 1966, there were social changes a' coming. Heck, the Beatles and dozens of other Brit bands were here; fashions/makeup and social mores were changing fast. And here is our darling young gorgeous naive Ann Margret in the Gay Paree fashion world, fending off several inexplicably straight men dying to get into her lacy undies. Everyone wearing already dated huge Dairy Queen ice-cream-cone hairdos. An eye-goggling endless fashion shows of amazing, though already dated, 'Paris Fashions' (including a hideous hideous wedding gown at the end of the fashion show). And enough dead skinned animal fur to taint the Seine blood red for a year. Every other gown/coat/pantsuit was festooned with fur. Everyone smoking like MAD (and all that fur and expensive clothes worn in nightclubs so thick with nicotine you could hardly see them). Lots of I'm-not-that-kind-of-girl slap and tickle, lots of groovy and not dancing, some OK music of the time - this was made for ladies like my aunt, about 40, and still in love with Elvis years after he peaked. Long gloves, lots of up-do hair, amazing colors, exquisite set decorations (her hotel room - to. die. for.) Just watch this silly dated thing for the eye candy. It plays, and sounds, exactly like something Doris Day would have starred in (she turned it down, wisely, being a bit long in the tooth to play a beautiful young naive virgin being solicited by the three straight men in all of the fashion world.). A lovely Sunday afternoon time-filler. Not good, but not horrible.
Village of the Damned (1960)
WAY too well regarded : terribly miscast
This was made after George Sanders made 'All About Eve' - the high point of his career. Maybe he needed the money for a Sure Thing movie, after his divorces from two Gabor sisters (at different times, mind you). But his role in this is so ludicrous, it's sad.... With his effete persona, his plummy Brit accent - who could possibly believe he married a nice woman and sat drinking tea in the garden, and was overcome with joy at becoming a DADDY!...I picture him swilling down gin all day and mourning his past, until wife/mommy brought him High Tea out in the garden.....Now, I am not throwing aspersions on Mr. Sanders. His life could turn out like that. But he is WAY too old for the role, just all wrong. It's like ...ok, it is like he suffered an accident in NYC after All About Eve, and was sent home to England, and he recovered and married a nice woman who would take care of him....and there he is, dealing with the Village of the Damned children? No. Just No. I can hardly notice the glowing eyes and white wigs of the Damned. too focussed on poor old George Sanders.
Fashions of 1934 (1934)
Pretty Good Film of Its Kind
Sometimes, I would rather watch a creaky old black and white pre-code movie than just about any of the stuff they turn out now. This one has it all, notable actors, elaborate musical numbers, and drop-dead gorgeous 30's fashions. It has one big, glaring flaw: with all those elegant fashions, the whole movie is in black and white. I realize color films were rare or non-existent then, but if the fashion show part at least was colorized, this movie would have been so much more enjoyable. As it is, it's like looking through a box of black and white postcards, wondering what colors those wonderful old pictures might have been.
Once a Thief (1965)
I don't buy it, sorry
The delectable Alain Delon as a San Francisco thief in a grim black and white caper film? Ridiculous, with his sleepy bedroom eyes and beautiful thick hair blowing in the breeze, he belongs in a speedo on a bright and sunny beach, gazing moodily out to sea. He's as out of place as a peacock in a henhouse. Ann Margret chews scenery as an equally unlikely wife (and mother). Both these people are sadly miscast.
House M.D.: Broken (2009)
Pretty good, though cuckoo-ish
I watched this episode again, on cable tv all-day 'House' reruns :-D . 11 years since I first saw it. The first time I really enjoyed seeing House finally sent (though he went voluntarily) to get straightened out. This time, it was interesting to see Lin-Manuel Miranda of 'Hamilton' fame in an early acting job. I do, and did think, it really was very 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'. In 2009 I remember expecting ... more, and it is even more obvious today how much they just assembled a lovable group of goofballs with House being a McMurphy to them...I also did, and still do think the sexxy scene with the lady in the empty room was one of the hottest sexxy scenes I've ever seen on tv. <3 <3 <3. I adore Hugh Laurie - and who could blame her, though she conveniently remembered wife-and-motherhood and House lost her. (probably for the best.).
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
Wonderful Eye Candy of a Certain Flavor
I've read many disparaging reviews of this film, some saying Errol Flynn is 'way past his peak', and it was a big flop when it came out. But if you enjoy sumptuous colorful costume adventures (pirate movies, knight of olde movies, swashbuckler movies), you can't do better than this one. The music, the settings, and the amazingly beautiful costumes (the movie won an Oscar for the costumes!) which look like they were cut from the actual cloth of the period - all combine for good entertainment. The storyline is not that important, nothing that hasn't been seen in the past. Just the perfect movie for a rainy Sunday afternoon, soaking up the noise, spectacle, and color. There are worse ways to kill an hour or two.