Mad About You - Content Review

May 13th, 2008 by Administrator

From Paul Reiser and Danny Jacobson comes a long-running hit half-hour comedy show Mad About You!

Jaime and Paul Buchman, played by Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser, are already 5 months together but still don’t know how to survive a married life correctly. Now living in an apartment in Manhattan, the couple is still adopting the lifestyle in the said location. Both of them find it hard to adjust because they’re both screwed up on their own ways.

Jaime is a happy-go-lucky person but can be considered as an expert on the field of public relations since she fights for a space she also has a number of annoyance everyday. Paul, on the other hand is a documentary filmmaker. He is very creative and charming but thinks seriously. At their house always come visitors like Jaime’s sister Lisa Stemple (Anne Ramsay), their friends Mark Devanow (Richard Kind), his wife Fran (Leila Kenzle) and Paul’s cousin Ira Buchman (John Pankow). Plus they always have other unusual visitors like noisy neighbors, funny dog walker, family members, by passers, and others.

Paul Reisser, the main actor and the creator of the show, compared Mad About You in “a ride home after a party, when a couple can finally tell each other what have they been thinking all night”, as the program looks for changeful moments of the people.

The mini series basically tackles how a married couple survives everyday. It’s a comedy show but for some this might be the reality. Couples live everyday differently. But what makes this very interesting is that every couple can relate to its story. Even single individual can easily catch the story since it is designed for everyone to see. It’s typical but not to the point that you’ll get bored to this fiction.

Comedy shows really has different meaning these days. A show can be considered as a comedy if the story itself is hilarious or if the actors are acknowledged as comedians even if the script itself is not funny. Still, this show exuded simplicity with its characters, scripts, sets, etc. without sacrificing its rating. It’s so wonderful how they can create shows like this.

While reading comments about this show, it really got to the point where in I’d like to watch it to know for myself if their remarks are true. I’m not being skeptic but it will really make you curious as to how the story goes with shows like this. However, ratings don’t lie. This program has an exceptional ranking so as to prove that people loved this show and their asking for more. Unfortunately, the show has got to end. In the series finale, you get to see what happened to the Buchman’s many years after the previous episode. You get to see a grown-up Mabel, whose first real film is a biography, looking back at her family’s twisted history.

Sure thing this series is comical but it doesn’t get away with the reality. And this are the types of show that I would really want to watch. Many movies or programs have come up today that provides either realistic story but has lots of drama on it or a comedy sitcom but is not sensible. It’s kind of frustrating if you think of it but compared to mad about you, it possessed a quality story without giving up their known for as comedic adlibs.

When people watch this kind of programs, tendency is that it relaxes their minds plus they also enjoy themselves and tends to forget their problems for a short period of time. No wonder why people still chooses to watch sitcoms rather than other shows. Will this be the solution to all our problems? Maybe not! But at least you still have reason to laugh and to grin. After all, can you still afford to smile with all the problems existing today? I don’t think so.

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The Natural (Movie Review)

March 29th, 2008 by Administrator

Nominated for four Academy Awards, The Natural is one of Robert Redford’s best pictures. The breathtaking cinematography, coupled with the bold original score by Randy Newman, makes The Natural one of the most memorable films of its time. A classic baseball film, based on the best-selling novel, the movie has managed to insert itself into the pop culture. Certainly no little league player, nor major league player for that matter, can escape the sounds of Roy Hobbs and his mystical abilities when stepping into the batter’s box with the game on the line… The Natural is quite simply one of the best baseball films around - up there with Field Of Dreams, Eight Men Out, and Major League…

Written more like a fairy tale than a modern drama, The Natural follows the life and times of Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford), a man trained from his earliest days to love the game of baseball by his father. When the boy’s father dies of a heart attack on the family farm, Roy uses the wood from the lightning-felled tree under which his father died to fashion a homemade baseball bat. In love with the girl next door, Iris Gaines (Glenn Close), Roy leaves the farm after promising to come back to her in order to pursue a tryout as a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. But Roy never makes it back…

Mysteriously shot by a woman he meets in a hotel room, Roy’s career is nearly ended by internal injuries. When Roy reappears twenty years later as a forty-year-old rookie for a last place team, he faces opposition from the team coach Pop Fisher (Wilford Brimley) who believes his business partner, The Judge (Robert Prosky), is intentionally sabotaging the team in an effort to cheat Pop Fisher out of his ownership shares. But when Pop Fisher finds out that Hobbs can not only play, but is the best player to ever set foot on a baseball diamond, the team’s losing ways are put to an end - at least until Hobbs decides to complicate his life further…

Involving himself with Pop’s niece, Memo Paris (Kim Basinger), Roy finds the level of his game dropping off. Despite Pop’s warnings, Roy develops a relationship with the girl who is in partnership with the Judge to keep the team stuck in its losing ways. However, when Iris reenters Roy’s life (along with her teenage son), Roy’s play begins to pick up. But the championship is in jeopardy when a familiar reporter, Max Mercy (Robert Duvall), comes dangerously close to uncovering Roy Hobbs’s mysterious past and internal bleeding threatens the life and career of the game’s greatest slugger…

Sporting a different (Hollywood-ized) ending from the novel which spawned its release, The Natural is nonetheless one of the most inspiring, feel good movies of all time. The 1930’s setting, and the seemingly one-dimensional characters, create an innocence of times past that make this movie seem like a flashback to the Frank Capra era. The musical score will create a literal tingling in your bones, and the hero-wins screenplay is one to be appreciated in this era of cynic realism. All these aspects of the film work together to make The Natural one of the most entertaining films around as well as earn it the designation of a must-see film… Pop this one into the DVD player and go live the magic!

About the Author

Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of The Natural (DVD).

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