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Should be worth tuning in for, unless Gordon Ramsay is on a drunken rampage on the other channel.
8/7/08: It was absolutely shameless and cruel last night, the way the judges handled the choosing of the 40 finalists, particularly Hasselhoff, with vocalist Queen Emily - taking advantage of her overly-emotional nature, putting her through the torture of "we don't want to break hearts," blah blah blah, when we all knew damn well she was going through.
And Sharon has sunk to the bottom of the heap as well, giving at least 3 contestants a sad speech about how she couldn't stand doing this, yadda yadda yadda, with all 3 going through, of course.
In fact, with two of them, she was actually shaking her head NO before saying yes.
Blatantly offensive, the whole affair.
Are we finally about done with this reality show BS?
I know they are incredibly cheap to produce and don't require much in talent salaries or any writer salaries to speak of, but at what cost?
Have we really become what the movie "Idiocracy" predicts for American culture?
This show is the absolute bottom of the barrel.
It is television at its lowest point ever.
Remember when NBC aired shows like "Hill Street Blues," "Cheers," "St. Elsewhere," "Night Court," "The Cosby Show," "Seinfeld," etc?
Many of those shows would appear on the same night!
What the Hell happened to network programming since then?
We did.
Well, tastes change but the people who complain about TV content don't.
It's hard to put a real drama or comedy that suits modern sensibilities on TV anymore.
If you do something real, adult and intelligent it either turns off short attention-spanned teens or offends the Christian Right who literally comprise 99 percent of all complaints about content on network TV (true, look that up).
Cable, Tivo and the internet are making it increasingly less lucrative to advertise on TV.
That means ad rates have gone down.
That means TV shows have to be made for less money.
And that means networks will put on the cheapest poop they can get away with and still sell soap in the mid-west.
And of course, that means "America's Got Talent" season two.
So, if you're tired of this worthless "reality TV" crap and you want a truly funny sitcom or an intelligent, engrossing drama that addresses relevant issues of today, either get HBO or complain to the Parents Television Council and tell them to stop complaining every time something interesting happens on TV.
Next, contact your local affiliates and ask them to pass on the word to the network that you're willing to sit through commercials if they'll just start paying actors and writers to make real TV again.
There, I'm done.
Just thought it needed to be said.
First of all, the judges on the show really lower its quality.
They never seem to know what they are talking about, they judge the acts on entertainment value rather than talent, and they are all biased and opinionated.
Hasselhoff seems a little weird these days, Brandy has nothing to say at all, and Piers is just some guy with, as far as I can see, no real credentials.
The show should be called "America's Got Stupid Entertainers."
It doesn't live up to its title.
In fact, one of the judges' favorite acts was the "rapping granny," who was only mildly entertaining and hardly talented at all.
The caliber of entertainers on the show is rather low;
most of the acts are very amateurish.
Regis doesn't really make the show any better.
He doesn't do much of anything.
He must be asking himself how he got himself into this at all.
America has Talent, but you won't see it on this show.
At this point, I feel that no one in the competition is deserving of the million dollar prize.
This show stresses me out.
The Judges make this show horrible and I will not be watching in the future.
The one judge x's everybody before they start and then when the other two don't because they want to give the talent at least a chance to perform, he reaches over and x's their buttons for them stopping the talent.
He is a joke and needs to be muzzled or this show will not be successful!!!
Also why do they X talent and then still send them through??
Do they have a clue???
The judges think people tune in to watch them.
No we tune in because we want to see the talent good or bad.
Take the x buttons away from them, they don't know how to appropriately use them and the show is very aggravating to watch because of it.
I was disappointed and disgusted with Peirs Morgans comments to the Celtic dancers.
It was totally inappropriate on national television (prime time, no less) to suggest(?) that the family drop mom & dad from the act.
It almost sounded like blackmail...
they not only could win the competition this night, but very possibly win the million dollars but only if they got rid of mom and dad.
Family values?
Then to top it off, to encourage a stripper (with all the sexual innuendos) during a prime time television show in my opinion is not family entertainment.
Could NBC be risking a "Janet Jackson" faux paus with this behavior?
Brandi is right...
a stripper has no place on prime time TV.
In my opinion Peirs Morgan needs to receive an "X" (or the axe)!
OK, I saw this movie at the tribeca film festival and came face to face with the director as I tried to get the hell out of there.
I wish I could have said this to him now.
the guy must have a vendetta against the female race or something because the young (18 years old!!!
) female lead Reina seems to be everything he wants you to hate about women.
She is a cock tease, she uses her sexuality to get men to do things for her (quel horreur!), she cares about only one thing, coming to America to find her drug addicted mess of a mother and have a better life.
Throughout the movies, she is robbed, raped, crosses the rio grande, is stuffed in a hollowed out tree stump and abandoned by her boyfriend in a skanky hostel in brooklyn.
She is such a pathetic figure in the end of the movie, how could anyone possibly look this young messed up mother of an infant, prostitute and caretaker of a indigent mother in the eye and tell her to kill herself?
well, thats what the director/writer and lead character does.
what a mensch.
which leads me to the male "hero."
although attractive in the face, he has the personality of Nomie Malone from Showgirls, and I have trouble believing all women fall for his charms.
He continually gets himself lost by running around like a person who's never lived in a big city, I have a hard time swallowing that a colombian from medellin is that ignorant of neighborhoods and how to retrace their steps, that city has 3 million people in it.
I've met colombians, they seem to do just fine with streets and landmarks, they even know how to drive!!!!
They are a sophisticated and street savvy people.
Even worse, he often stumbles into NYC landscapes that are right out of 80s movies clichés (trash can fire bums, squatters, s&m, payphones - your movie needs to be updated when it looks like a scene from bonfire of the vanities) This is not NYC, this is NYC circa 1988, there's so much "ick" factor in this movie, there's even a sex scene with a sleeping grandma in the room.
A SLEEPING GRANDMA PEOPLE!!
Thats farrelly brothers gross, and not in a good way.
With a plot so similar to Showgirls its spooky, this movie is simply really really really bad.
It was surprising, at least after all the media attention in Latin circles it received, to come out of this movie as if I had just lost 2 hours of my time.
If anything after having seen Mexican and Colombian cinema and being familiarized with the themes they depict, "Paraiso" doesn't seem to know where it wants to go and what subjects it really wants us to familiarize ourselves with.
The theme of illegal immigration, a hot topic these days, has received plenty of attention from many media outlets, even film.
Pick any Mexican or Colombian film from the last decade and the idea of an "Better American hope of life", is soon to be found, however, "Paraiso" fails at showing us what really motivates these characters or what lies behind their intentions.
Possibly, poor acting has something to do with that, hiring non-actors from some of these roles was a huge mistake by Mr. Brand, who could learn plenty from his Mexican and Spanish counterparts, he lacks the experience to be able to take a mediocre script and really bring a believable and manageable story within the confines of the Spanish language.
Hopefully Latin-American cinema has a little more to offer than this.
I love all things Irish and was in hopes this would be a clever movie about an enduring Irish Legend.
Instead I saw another version of "Cruella DeVille" acting out an improbable (even for a fantasy) story.
The actor who played the leprechaun was good but the rest of the cast seemed to be along for the ride.
When the film ended the only feeling you had was "why did I waste my time?"
This is one of the most vapid, poorly acted movies I have seen in years.
I had to force myself to sit through the entire thing, and was quite proud when I made it to the end.
though saddened by the fact that I had lost that chunk of my life to this travesty.
My daughter who is 6 (and God knows the movie tastes of 6 year old girls runs pretty parallel to this dribble)could not even stay awake through it, and it is probably the first movie ever she had no desire to watch again.
Yes, that's right, a 6 year old girl refused to sit through this movie a second time.
In her words "it was stupid."
I think that pretty much sums up this colossal waste of time, and film.
It was stupid.
Unlike Jumanji, this is NOT for anyone smarter than a 5th grader.
They use typical kid shortcomings instead of writing a clever script.
Much of the story didn't make sense or was simply unbelievable.
They seem to just make stuff up to fit what they wanted - some things floated in space including the sputum and the astronaut, but the kids were totally unaffected by 0 gravity.
The guy stuck in the game, the Zorgons we never see, the robot repairing itself forever, all seemed like lazy writing and directing.
The youngest kid screws up constantly and says I'm sorry at least 40 times.

Should be worth tuning in for, unless Gordon Ramsay is on a drunken rampage on the other channel.

8/7/08: It was absolutely shameless and cruel last night, the way the judges handled the choosing of the 40 finalists, particularly Hasselhoff, with vocalist Queen Emily - taking advantage of her overly-emotional nature, putting her through the torture of "we don't want to break hearts," blah blah blah, when we all knew damn well she was going through.

And Sharon has sunk to the bottom of the heap as well, giving at least 3 contestants a sad speech about how she couldn't stand doing this, yadda yadda yadda, with all 3 going through, of course.

In fact, with two of them, she was actually shaking her head NO before saying yes.

Blatantly offensive, the whole affair.

Are we finally about done with this reality show BS?

I know they are incredibly cheap to produce and don't require much in talent salaries or any writer salaries to speak of, but at what cost?

Have we really become what the movie "Idiocracy" predicts for American culture?

This show is the absolute bottom of the barrel.

It is television at its lowest point ever.

Remember when NBC aired shows like "Hill Street Blues," "Cheers," "St. Elsewhere," "Night Court," "The Cosby Show," "Seinfeld," etc?

Many of those shows would appear on the same night!

What the Hell happened to network programming since then?

We did.

Well, tastes change but the people who complain about TV content don't.

It's hard to put a real drama or comedy that suits modern sensibilities on TV anymore.

If you do something real, adult and intelligent it either turns off short attention-spanned teens or offends the Christian Right who literally comprise 99 percent of all complaints about content on network TV (true, look that up).

Cable, Tivo and the internet are making it increasingly less lucrative to advertise on TV.

That means ad rates have gone down.

That means TV shows have to be made for less money.

And that means networks will put on the cheapest poop they can get away with and still sell soap in the mid-west.

And of course, that means "America's Got Talent" season two.

So, if you're tired of this worthless "reality TV" crap and you want a truly funny sitcom or an intelligent, engrossing drama that addresses relevant issues of today, either get HBO or complain to the Parents Television Council and tell them to stop complaining every time something interesting happens on TV.

Next, contact your local affiliates and ask them to pass on the word to the network that you're willing to sit through commercials if they'll just start paying actors and writers to make real TV again.

There, I'm done.

Just thought it needed to be said.

First of all, the judges on the show really lower its quality.

They never seem to know what they are talking about, they judge the acts on entertainment value rather than talent, and they are all biased and opinionated.

Hasselhoff seems a little weird these days, Brandy has nothing to say at all, and Piers is just some guy with, as far as I can see, no real credentials.

The show should be called "America's Got Stupid Entertainers."

It doesn't live up to its title.

In fact, one of the judges' favorite acts was the "rapping granny," who was only mildly entertaining and hardly talented at all.

The caliber of entertainers on the show is rather low;

most of the acts are very amateurish.

Regis doesn't really make the show any better.

He doesn't do much of anything.

He must be asking himself how he got himself into this at all.

America has Talent, but you won't see it on this show.

At this point, I feel that no one in the competition is deserving of the million dollar prize.

This show stresses me out.

The Judges make this show horrible and I will not be watching in the future.

The one judge x's everybody before they start and then when the other two don't because they want to give the talent at least a chance to perform, he reaches over and x's their buttons for them stopping the talent.

He is a joke and needs to be muzzled or this show will not be successful!!!

Also why do they X talent and then still send them through??

Do they have a clue???

The judges think people tune in to watch them.

No we tune in because we want to see the talent good or bad.

Take the x buttons away from them, they don't know how to appropriately use them and the show is very aggravating to watch because of it.

I was disappointed and disgusted with Peirs Morgans comments to the Celtic dancers.

It was totally inappropriate on national television (prime time, no less) to suggest(?) that the family drop mom & dad from the act.

It almost sounded like blackmail...

they not only could win the competition this night, but very possibly win the million dollars but only if they got rid of mom and dad.

Family values?

Then to top it off, to encourage a stripper (with all the sexual innuendos) during a prime time television show in my opinion is not family entertainment.

Could NBC be risking a "Janet Jackson" faux paus with this behavior?

Brandi is right...

a stripper has no place on prime time TV.

In my opinion Peirs Morgan needs to receive an "X" (or the axe)!

OK, I saw this movie at the tribeca film festival and came face to face with the director as I tried to get the hell out of there.

I wish I could have said this to him now.

the guy must have a vendetta against the female race or something because the young (18 years old!!!

) female lead Reina seems to be everything he wants you to hate about women.

She is a cock tease, she uses her sexuality to get men to do things for her (quel horreur!), she cares about only one thing, coming to America to find her drug addicted mess of a mother and have a better life.

Throughout the movies, she is robbed, raped, crosses the rio grande, is stuffed in a hollowed out tree stump and abandoned by her boyfriend in a skanky hostel in brooklyn.

She is such a pathetic figure in the end of the movie, how could anyone possibly look this young messed up mother of an infant, prostitute and caretaker of a indigent mother in the eye and tell her to kill herself?

well, thats what the director/writer and lead character does.

what a mensch.

which leads me to the male "hero."

although attractive in the face, he has the personality of Nomie Malone from Showgirls, and I have trouble believing all women fall for his charms.

He continually gets himself lost by running around like a person who's never lived in a big city, I have a hard time swallowing that a colombian from medellin is that ignorant of neighborhoods and how to retrace their steps, that city has 3 million people in it.

I've met colombians, they seem to do just fine with streets and landmarks, they even know how to drive!!!!

They are a sophisticated and street savvy people.

Even worse, he often stumbles into NYC landscapes that are right out of 80s movies clichés (trash can fire bums, squatters, s&m, payphones - your movie needs to be updated when it looks like a scene from bonfire of the vanities) This is not NYC, this is NYC circa 1988, there's so much "ick" factor in this movie, there's even a sex scene with a sleeping grandma in the room.

A SLEEPING GRANDMA PEOPLE!!

Thats farrelly brothers gross, and not in a good way.

With a plot so similar to Showgirls its spooky, this movie is simply really really really bad.

It was surprising, at least after all the media attention in Latin circles it received, to come out of this movie as if I had just lost 2 hours of my time.

If anything after having seen Mexican and Colombian cinema and being familiarized with the themes they depict, "Paraiso" doesn't seem to know where it wants to go and what subjects it really wants us to familiarize ourselves with.

The theme of illegal immigration, a hot topic these days, has received plenty of attention from many media outlets, even film.

Pick any Mexican or Colombian film from the last decade and the idea of an "Better American hope of life", is soon to be found, however, "Paraiso" fails at showing us what really motivates these characters or what lies behind their intentions.

Possibly, poor acting has something to do with that, hiring non-actors from some of these roles was a huge mistake by Mr. Brand, who could learn plenty from his Mexican and Spanish counterparts, he lacks the experience to be able to take a mediocre script and really bring a believable and manageable story within the confines of the Spanish language.

Hopefully Latin-American cinema has a little more to offer than this.

I love all things Irish and was in hopes this would be a clever movie about an enduring Irish Legend.

Instead I saw another version of "Cruella DeVille" acting out an improbable (even for a fantasy) story.

The actor who played the leprechaun was good but the rest of the cast seemed to be along for the ride.

When the film ended the only feeling you had was "why did I waste my time?"

This is one of the most vapid, poorly acted movies I have seen in years.

I had to force myself to sit through the entire thing, and was quite proud when I made it to the end.

though saddened by the fact that I had lost that chunk of my life to this travesty.

My daughter who is 6 (and God knows the movie tastes of 6 year old girls runs pretty parallel to this dribble)could not even stay awake through it, and it is probably the first movie ever she had no desire to watch again.

Yes, that's right, a 6 year old girl refused to sit through this movie a second time.

In her words "it was stupid."

I think that pretty much sums up this colossal waste of time, and film.

It was stupid.

Unlike Jumanji, this is NOT for anyone smarter than a 5th grader.

They use typical kid shortcomings instead of writing a clever script.

Much of the story didn't make sense or was simply unbelievable.

They seem to just make stuff up to fit what they wanted - some things floated in space including the sputum and the astronaut, but the kids were totally unaffected by 0 gravity.

The guy stuck in the game, the Zorgons we never see, the robot repairing itself forever, all seemed like lazy writing and directing.

The youngest kid screws up constantly and says I'm sorry at least 40 times.