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Post by Sue on Sept 16, 2011 18:45:51 GMT -5
Ouch.
The boat scene made TV Guide's Top Moments of the Week. In a bad way:
1. Most Spectacular Fail: We like Ringer — really, we do. But couldn't CBS (who green-lit the series) and the CW (who aired it) have shelled out a little more in their efforts to realistically double Sarah Michelle Gellar? In an unintentionally hilarious speedboat scene, a really obvious green-screen effect distracts us from what is written as a fairly sweet scene between the sisters. There were weird cutaways, awkward hugs and a particularly ungraceful head-to-shoulder lean -- the latter of which was, thankfully, dropped from the final cut. We're going to assume it was a campy homage because it was a dead ringer for the Hitchcockian noir films of the 1950s. For future reference, though, 60 years have elapsed, it's time to step up the game.
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Post by Karen on Sept 17, 2011 10:47:10 GMT -5
Ouch. The boat scene made TV Guide's Top Moments of the Week. In a bad way: 1. Most Spectacular Fail: We like Ringer — really, we do. But couldn't CBS (who green-lit the series) and the CW (who aired it) have shelled out a little more in their efforts to realistically double Sarah Michelle Gellar? In an unintentionally hilarious speedboat scene, a really obvious green-screen effect distracts us from what is written as a fairly sweet scene between the sisters. There were weird cutaways, awkward hugs and a particularly ungraceful head-to-shoulder lean -- the latter of which was, thankfully, dropped from the final cut. We're going to assume it was a campy homage because it was a dead ringer for the Hitchcockian noir films of the 1950s. For future reference, though, 60 years have elapsed, it's time to step up the game. Well, duh. It was almost a dead ass ringer* for the Tippi Hedren scene in The Birds. Even up to the gulls' squawking sound effects. Love that movie. This just goes to show how old I am! And how removed some of the younger critic writers are from our cinematic past. "Time to step up the game"? They totally missed the point. Well, in my point of view, anyway. Watched the whole thing finally last night on the reairing of it. Love that about the CW. I also heard the new series about a young witch coven was good. I DVR'd it but haven't seen it yet. Anyone else catch it?
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Post by Sue on Sept 21, 2011 22:52:06 GMT -5
2nd ep. It gets one more try
Sadly I thought some of the dialogue was just trite and juvenile and oh so worn. I think it was one of the scenes with B/S (Bridget/Siobhan) and her bff/wife of her lover.
Also -- very choppy. Just no flow at all. First here, then there, then these characters, then those characters. Half a dozen plots going on and we are just jumping back and forth like taking 6 novels and reading 3 pages here, 4 pages there, 2 pages from the next one.
Simply no flow.
Writing was a yawn.
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