eeek... I should just add the disclaimer in my signature about my posts being too long
lol whenever there's a Canadian made-for-TV movie on, I'm always cringing. Seriously, they're horrible (at least all the ones I have seen.) There seems to be some weird style of filming where it's really low budget... really bad acting, storyline that takes itself too seriously, and an ending that resolves nothing. Very cheesy, very campy...odd filming techniques...I just don't get it. Just recently, there was one about a female photographer that...I don't know what...like I have no clue what the point of the show was. She was supposed to be taking pictures for a jeans company...the investor wanted " SEX like it's supposed to be.. raw, dangerous.." .... and I quote: "Think Jenna Jameson and Tito Ortiz.."...the stupidest line, in context, with the most cringe-worthy dead-pan delivery imaginable. The actress who played the photographer had no facial expressions the whole time. Worse than Kristin Stewart heh heh! So she took the pictures, went to a stripclub...the end.
Yeah.
Then there was one about a Russian ballerina who moves to Canada against her family's wishes and meets a Canadian guy she starts dating. The premise could have been made into something interesting..but instead we get hours of sitting, walking, drinking tea, reading, staring, studying a dictionary, looking into shop windows...
The only time I see this style of filming..where the entire scene is just of doing something pointless to any sort of plot or just a menial task...like a 10 minute scene of washing dishes..with only the water and outside cars driving by as sound... or a 15 minute scene of looking out the window, walking over to the couch and reading a book in total silence... is Canadian cinema.
I guess it's just not my cup of tea. Anyway.
Kenny vs. Spenny was a show I really didn't like. I didn't find it funny or creative...looked to me like they were trying hard to be funny but it just wasn't. Quick rant: I hate how nowadays comedy/humour in general has gone down the drain. All you ever see now in comedy is 'gross out' humour...bathroom stuff like farting, diarrhea, stuff like that... or "sex" humour... BORING. and not funny 99% of the time. I'm probably in the minority on this though, since more and more comedies are resorting to this kind of humour.
Ok, Canadian TV
Paradise Falls - cancelled now...was something you could watch and get into if nothing else was on.
Andromeda - ugh. this freakin show. For like two years I watched it every day because it was on at exactly the time I woke up each day and I sleep with the TV on. It had a couple interesting storylines that could have been expanded on..but it took itself too seriously...which made it really cheesy.
WebDreams - a show about the internet sex business in Canada..they had a camgirl who met a regular, a studio, a girl wanting to launch her own website, a married bisexual guy wanting to sell vids/do cam shows, a guy wanting to start a site with various niche models (bodybuilders, large clit,, etc.)
Personally, my favourite is British TV. I love British people in general. I love Great Britain. I'm English at heart, though not by blood (but my descendants will be mwahaha)
Misfits - lol really liked this show, mostly for Nathan. Robert Sheehan has awesome hair and his facial expressions are hilarious. I thought the premise was pretty cool and the episodes left me wanting more.
Skins- Just discovered this show recently...what can I say..It really touched me..because it is so true to life.
Manor House - An interesting social experiment where they took normal people and got them to live as if they were living in 1910. One family got to live for several months as nobility in a huge manor house while the rest worked as the "downstairs" help. Was very intriguing to see how it affected them...life back then was VERY different..there's also 1940's house where a family lives as they would during WW2..
Also, when I was in Russia, I watched some Russian TV...there was a cool show where kids competed in a program of intelligence..smart kids..surprised myself by getting really into it and rooting for the underdog. A bit ashamed that those 10/11 year olds knew the answers to questions/topics that I am clueless about/ignorant of.
"School" - a serial about teenagers akin to "Skins", I am guessing. I haven't watched it myself yet.
"The Irony of Fate" - an old school movie that is watched every New Year's by tradition. A man drinks too much on New Year's and ends up going home to his apartment...in the wrong city. The woman who lives there comes home to find him passed out on her couch. He can't leave because of some circumstances and drama ensues when her boyfriend tries to come over..and when the main character calls his girlfriend in the city he should be in to tell her he's stuck spending New Year's with another woman. I think, though, that there are a lot of cultural references so perhaps it won't be as funny and nostalgic to someone who isn't of Eastern European descent. Still, though, it's a classic. :thumbleft:
