Tag: prime

0

Muni Reviews: The 63rd Annual Prime Time Emmy Awards 2011

So this year Jane Lynch was hosting, her most notable role in recent years has been starting as the cheerleading coach on Glee. The opening monologue was very good and as usual had great cameos of stars from hit shows over the past year, it was very well worked and nicely put together. This year the Emmy’s also had the Emmytones a group of 6 harmony barber shop quartet like singers compromising of Kate Flannery (The Office), Taraji P. Henson (Boston Legal), Zachary Levi (Chuck), Joel McHale (Community), Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother) and Wilmer Valderrama (That 70s Show).  There singing was very good but I’ll be honest the show could have done without it. Right onto the awards, firstly I just want to point out I’m NOT going to go through each individual awards, I honestly don’t have the time and plus I got a feeling you’d give up reading after the first two, so instead I’ll go by the groups. The comedy awards Modern Family took home most of the awards best supporting actor and actress, as well as best writing and directing for comedy series. The lead actor and actress went to Jim parson (The Big Bang Theory) and Melissa McCarthy (Mike and Molly).  At this point I’d just like to point out that when the nominees were being announced all the women in the women category went up one by one, it was quite possibly the most funniest moment in the night, definitely put a smile on my face and was a joy to watch, that alone got a standing ovation from the entire audience which tells you how amazing it was to watch, worth catching it on youtube. Finally just on this part I’d like to say that Steve Carell was also nominated for lead actor but did not win, I’d like to say that I was slightly upset he rally did deserve to win and it’s a shame that he was not recognized in any capacity. The Drama awards The drama awards didn’t really have much drama; there was the shock but deserved win for Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights), as well as that the show also won the award for best writing in its category. In the lead actor category, the lead actress award going to Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife).  The directing award went to Martin Scorsese for Boardwalk Empire. Mad Men as usual in a forth year in a row won the best drama award. There were awards for Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) and Margo Martindale (Justified) for the supporting actor and actress awards respectively. The best of British was on show too, with Kate Winslet winning the lead actress award in a miniseries or movie, for her role in Mildred Pierce.  Her acceptance speech however was a bit too over the top. She milked it a lot and was at times cringing to watch.  There was also a bag of awards for Downton Abbey winning best directing and writing as well as best miniseries. Finally there was a cameo award hosting for Ricky Gervais, which was very well put together and got a warm reception of laughs. Also a quick note when Steve Levitan was accepting the award for best writing in a comedy series, as he was telling the story of how his children caught him and his wife in the act of love making, the camera was on his wife and she gave “the look” which got a huge laugh and made me laugh too, another bit worth seeing if you can. A good year for HBO, NBC and ABC, all getting a handful of awards to share between them. I’d say that this years awards were a success and it had a good sense of humor throughout the show. Some outstanding moments, and as usual, some cringy moments too. It’s a great way to kick of the New Year for TV shows returning back to our TVs. Look out for Muni’s Top 5 US shows to look forward to, which I’ll be posting at the end of this week. Muni

3

Kazed reviews: Transformers: Dark of The Moon (2011)

WOW. To be honest, I was a little hesitant to watch Transformers, because, well, I wanted to watch Bridesmaids. Yeah, DON'T JUDGE ME. What I'm going to do today is something a little different, similar to what I did a while back with the High School Musical review, only it'll be a little shorter, and I won't be watching it at the same time, and also it'll be a little less comprehensive than the HSM review. When those credits rolled, I couldn't help but get angered at the thought that a third film was allowed to be made. DAMN YOU MICHAEL BAY. DAMN YOU TO HELL. There were a number of thoughts  going through my head, I'll bullet them below(in no particular order), but keep in mind that I'm merely pointing out the things that I thought were really stupid.

1. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley was a HORRIBLE addition to the film. Purely and simply because she could not act. Megan Fox had at least an ounce of talent in her *cough*, and she could act a slight better than this new girl.
2. Chemistry. There was none whatsoever between Shia LeBouf and Huntington-Whiteley's characters. Not only this, but there was no build-up for their relationship. One of the first scenes we see involves the two, and I had thought that Huntington-Whiteley(That's such a bitch to write) replaced Fox, but I soon learned that this was not the case. Slightly disappointed I was, when I heard her speak in an English accent.
3. Like in Revenge of The Fallen, there were many times when I honestly for the life of me couldn't tell what was going on. Like in Fallen, there were times when the fight sequences between the Autobots and Decepticons seemed like a complete mess. Now don't get me wrong, the visuals in Transformers 3 far surpassed that of it's predecessor, but it still wasn't as good as it could have been. The level of detail in this on the CGI was great. I have no qualms about that. It was just during some of the fast-paced action scenes when it was a little too weldy(I just made a word up) for my liking.
4. Now, I'm not too familiar with the older Transformers' series, but from what I gather about Megatron(You know, that evil robot guy who kills things), is that he wouldn't idly sit by if some British Battleaxe came and tried to meddle in his affairs. I'm almost certain that he would've killed her.
5. The stupid little black cuts in the first half of the film. I mean, once or twice is okay, acceptable, whatever. But when you start using it like it's the end of the world, then it looks a little stupid. Maybe it's just the filmmaker in me, but that really got on my nerves.
6. The small inconsistencies(I won't mention here because I'll be ruining the story) which really annoyed me as to how abruptly things 'ended'(if you catch my drift, those of you who have seen it), and how there were so many coincidences in the film which didn't lead to some much needed deaths.

I have a lot more, but it's now kinda late and I'm tired. I'm satisfied that I got some of it out, but I guess that's my quasi-review/rant of Transformers 3. And also...wouldn't Dark SIDE of The Moon make more sense? Just sayin'. You can follow me on Twitter on @kazed2010 What did YOU think? Comment below!