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The Bob Newhart Show: Big Brother Is Watching (1974)
odd season starter
this episode is so out of the blue... i was wondering if there was a writing change.
the humor is very plot driven and less about interaction and empty spaces. suddenly a sister character is thrown into the mix in the first show of a season. but not only that, howard proclaims his love and desire to marry her about 20 times in about 20 minutes. it's just bizarre and jarring.
anyone know what's behind the change?
opening credit sequence now has a non sequitur of emily walking around in (southern California) mixed in with the familiar shots of bob walking around chicago. but they throw a kiss in there (emily coming home to bob this time), so you can relax they haven't gotten a divorce.
Elizabethtown (2005)
dreck
badly done nostalgic beating. seems like they took scraps from rejected scripts, put them together and made a failure of a movie that somehow got funded.
acting was flat for the most part. especially orlando bloom's. at the end of most scenes we were thinking why didn't they do another take? did they run out of film? as that his 50'th try to emulate some kind of depth?
the heavily-relied-on clichés were insulting. overall, it was just not good. you can see what they were trying to do. but even for all the formulaic possibilities, they managed to fail to pull off convincing clichés and characters.
don't encourage this kind of film-making. do not see this film if you have an ounce of critical thinking or intelligence.
Die Baumfrau (1999)
documentary: julia butterfly lives in tree top for 2 years
German documentary of Earth First's Julia Butterfly and their battle
against loggers. She lived in a treetop for about 26 months,
eventually saving it by buying it from logging company with
donations.
Also documents some of the logging company and police tactics
to harass, and foil protesters.