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One of the best kept secrets about me is that I am a complete JGJ (Jeff Goldblum Junkie): I could watch anything with him on.
So I can swear that first this is not one of his worst movies, and second it's absolutely not as bad as some of the reviews (and the movie's success) may suggest. True, the humour is not at everybody's grasp, the songs come up in the middle of nowhere and a few more flaws are patent; but at the same time the actors' performance are great (finally Emma Thompson is funny! "And she's naked too!" added my male friends; "Wow, Rowan Atkinson can speak", as most Italians would say; and Goldblum's distinctive oddness for once doesn't look out of place). The story is a simple, funny one about love, the satire of the theatre world is brilliant and that of the Health Service is funny but could be much ruder (but that was 1989!).
I know most of this movie by heart, and I can't stop watching it: every single time it manages to move me!
So I can swear that first this is not one of his worst movies, and second it's absolutely not as bad as some of the reviews (and the movie's success) may suggest. True, the humour is not at everybody's grasp, the songs come up in the middle of nowhere and a few more flaws are patent; but at the same time the actors' performance are great (finally Emma Thompson is funny! "And she's naked too!" added my male friends; "Wow, Rowan Atkinson can speak", as most Italians would say; and Goldblum's distinctive oddness for once doesn't look out of place). The story is a simple, funny one about love, the satire of the theatre world is brilliant and that of the Health Service is funny but could be much ruder (but that was 1989!).
I know most of this movie by heart, and I can't stop watching it: every single time it manages to move me!
This show was recently launched in Italy with a title that translates back to "Mum as a friend", and I, being "that difficult daughter", I knew from the start I was going to hate it, knowing its sugariness would have gotten me diabetes.
Boy, was I wrong! The first thing that strikes on you is that, finally, hardly anyone is trying to be nice here: Michel the concierge, the crazy harp player, the counterculture coffee shop owner, but also the "genteel-old money" grandmother, who looks straight out of reality (at least my own). Then, this show is full of my favourite ingredient in life: sarcasm!!! My friends call me Daria, and I always complain about the lack of sarcasm on tv, apart from Roseanne, Daria and the butler from The Nanny: Gilmore Girls has become my daily sarcasm fix!
And also for the person who wrote "Nobody talks like that", at 27 I'm very much like Lorelai: 90% caffeine - 10% water and an attitude that makes most people go "Are you kidding?" and another few just run away (unfortunately I don't have Lauren Graham's eyes). I would love to be Rory though, and to have a mother like me, or like Lorelai (self-righteous? Me?).
Last (and perhaps not least) the nuclear family gets slashed in this movie, but I know a lot of households already slashed by the nuclear family concept, so this shows only portrays reality, but for once it's great!
Boy, was I wrong! The first thing that strikes on you is that, finally, hardly anyone is trying to be nice here: Michel the concierge, the crazy harp player, the counterculture coffee shop owner, but also the "genteel-old money" grandmother, who looks straight out of reality (at least my own). Then, this show is full of my favourite ingredient in life: sarcasm!!! My friends call me Daria, and I always complain about the lack of sarcasm on tv, apart from Roseanne, Daria and the butler from The Nanny: Gilmore Girls has become my daily sarcasm fix!
And also for the person who wrote "Nobody talks like that", at 27 I'm very much like Lorelai: 90% caffeine - 10% water and an attitude that makes most people go "Are you kidding?" and another few just run away (unfortunately I don't have Lauren Graham's eyes). I would love to be Rory though, and to have a mother like me, or like Lorelai (self-righteous? Me?).
Last (and perhaps not least) the nuclear family gets slashed in this movie, but I know a lot of households already slashed by the nuclear family concept, so this shows only portrays reality, but for once it's great!
BH is broadcast in Italy by a second-class network that airs every episode three times a day (at breakfast, lunch and in the night) to make the most of it, and which recently made news because of the high ratings of their "Bonanza" repeats (go figure!!).
So, at first I wasn't surprised to find a series like this on the channel, because when you first look at it it looks poor, drab, dreary and totally 80's styled, like a bad remainder from the bargain bin.
At the same time I became totally addicted with "Murder Call", to the point of waking at 6AM during weekends just to watch it, and when it dawned on me it was the same production company I simply had to find out what was causing this gap.
After careful study, I have to say that there is no real "gap": yes, you can see more money being thrown in MC, but at the same time the series have such different settings that BH is definitely making a choice, and their choice is to be real. Yes, a lot happens in Mt.Thomas for such a small place, but you also see the policemen spending most of their days networking in the community, accompanying witnesses home and filing, and this is very real. The actors look ordinary, but this just adds to the greatness of BH, because would you believe a model serving as a PC in Mt.Thomas?
And you can see no one was hired for their looks, but for their talent instead: all the actors manage to deliver a lot, from the divertissement episodes (ie: The beauty pageant) to the more dramatic ones. Not to mention the Maggie-PJ chemistry, where their performances are perfect beyond belief.
The writing in this show is great, and the dialogues are as real as you can get. Another great point is that every few episodes there's a very "pervy" storyline, like the ones you can experience in Murder Call, and they are always a work of convoluted genius.
Need I say I became addicted to this show as well? Definitely worth a try!
So, at first I wasn't surprised to find a series like this on the channel, because when you first look at it it looks poor, drab, dreary and totally 80's styled, like a bad remainder from the bargain bin.
At the same time I became totally addicted with "Murder Call", to the point of waking at 6AM during weekends just to watch it, and when it dawned on me it was the same production company I simply had to find out what was causing this gap.
After careful study, I have to say that there is no real "gap": yes, you can see more money being thrown in MC, but at the same time the series have such different settings that BH is definitely making a choice, and their choice is to be real. Yes, a lot happens in Mt.Thomas for such a small place, but you also see the policemen spending most of their days networking in the community, accompanying witnesses home and filing, and this is very real. The actors look ordinary, but this just adds to the greatness of BH, because would you believe a model serving as a PC in Mt.Thomas?
And you can see no one was hired for their looks, but for their talent instead: all the actors manage to deliver a lot, from the divertissement episodes (ie: The beauty pageant) to the more dramatic ones. Not to mention the Maggie-PJ chemistry, where their performances are perfect beyond belief.
The writing in this show is great, and the dialogues are as real as you can get. Another great point is that every few episodes there's a very "pervy" storyline, like the ones you can experience in Murder Call, and they are always a work of convoluted genius.
Need I say I became addicted to this show as well? Definitely worth a try!