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The Tracy Morgan Show (2003)
Not one single laugh!
Two episodes premiered last night (Tuesday, 12/02/2003) and not one funny moment in either episode.
I did not laugh once!
The humor is too forced. This show is "trying" too hard to be funny.
Half & Half (2002)
Get new writers and get rid of the actress who plays Mona
This show needs new writers. It just ain't funny!
The actress who plays Mona, the older sister, is a horrible actor. She needs lessons, or the producers should cast someone else to play her role. She is just terrible. She has no comedic sense, which should be easy to achieve with this show, given that the writers have no sense of comedic writing!
This show needs to get better, or be put out of its misery.
The other three actresses (the women who play the mothers, and the younger sister, Dee Dee) are very talented. (The male lead is rather dull, but he isn't as bad an actor as the woman who plays Mona.) Their talent is being wasted here.
Un divan à New York (1996)
Started out good, then lost me when. . .
For the most part, I liked this movie.
I liked that french was spoken in France. (So many American movies have the characters, in places other than the United States, speak only english, even when the character is a native of that "foreign" country. See the movie "Chocolate". This movie starred Juliet Binoche, living in France, yet, she speaks english.)
But, at the final quarter the movie lost me. . .A SPOILER IS APPROACHING. ..when, upon her leaving NYC to return to Paris, the dog--who loves her, and whom she loves--tries to meet up with her at the taxi cab. For whatever reason, she says to her friend, who is in the taxi with her, that she has had enough of the dog, and, then she tells the driver to get going. The dog then proceeds to follow her, by running, in NYC traffic, after the taxi. I just thought that was an incredibly uncaring scene: the dog would most definitely be hit by a car. But, voila!, miraculously, the dog meets up with her at the airport (If you don't live in NYC, you should know that the airport, any of the three airports, is miles and miles and miles away from Manhattan!), and he is unharmed.
I can suspend disbelief when viewing a movie, but this was definitely too much for me. For her character to have jeopardized the safety of the dog, by so carelessly allowing him to follow her taxi in heavy NYC traffic, is absolutely cruel and ridiculous, and out of character for her: She went to great lengths to get the dog back from the woman who removed him from the apartment. . .another scene,by the way, which made absolutely no sense!. ..by swimming in the filthy water of the pond in Central Park.
Lovely & Amazing (2001)
This movie was "Ugly and Hateful". . .I walked out of the theatre!!!
I had a visceral reaction after seeing this movie: I became ill; terribly nauseaus, for hours. Admittedly, I did not see the entire movie; after about 45 minutes I walked out of the theatre. I could not bear to watch any more of what I can only "judge" to be THE worst movie that I have ever had the displeasure of paying for and viewing! Actually, I was ready to walk out on this movie sooner (about 20 minutes into it), but I thought. . .was hoping that it would go somewhere. . .anywhere!
The movie was boring. The two older daughters were extremely ugly human beings. The dialogue was empty. Brenda Blethyn's performance was the only good thing about the movie. That woman could make anything look good, but alas, she was unable to do that for this picture, because its "terribleness" was just so much greater than her greatness.
Lastly, not only was it a bad, terrible, awful, and boring flick, it was incredibly offensive--racist. In all my encounters with black (American) children, I have never come across one who hated their "blackness." The child in this movie was written with such incredibly racial self-loathing, that I could not stand to sit through any more of it: I walked out.
The Job (2001)
Hooray...no laugh track!!!
"The Job" is a great half-an-hour television show. I think it is wonderful that they do NOT have a laughtrack. (There was a really good half-an-hour cop show called "Bakersfield P.D." that was on FOX back in 1993. That show was funny. And they did not use a laughtrack. It was a very clever show--just as is "The Job"--that allowed the viewer to respond to it as the viewer saw fit; no manipulated guffaws! Unfortunately, that show did not survive for long on television.)
I have not watched television for a little more than five years. (I purchased a television a few months ago, so that I could watch the PBS documentary series "Jazz.") And now that I have a television again--without cable (Cable is too expensive...the public owns the airwaves...and paying for television when there are commercials shown with the programs is ludicrous!)--I have found that many of the sitcoms on the air now are NOT funny at all. (Check out "Bette" if you want to know what NOT funny looks like. I cannot believe that that show got made.)
Back to "The Job." I have to agree with many of the comments made prior to mine. I too, wish that the show was an hour long. It is terribly funny, and extremely clever. The cast is great. This show is on my list of "must see t.v."
I do hope that ABC has the "smarts" to not cancel the show.
Thank you, Denis Leary, for the absolutely fabulous television show.