Man Vs. Beast

[wesmorris]

i was trying to watch seinfeld tonight at its usual time 10:30. i changed the channel right on time to find that a show called "man vs. beast" was on. i know that tv is stupid and kills my head bla blah, but my god, this has to be the biggest piece of shit I've ever seen.

they had a world class sprinter against a zebra and a giraffe. they ran the 100 yard dash. do you think that the zebra or giraffe knew they were supposed to dash? unbelievable stupidity. omfg, now they're having midgets vs elephants pulling airplanes.

I'm stupified.

 

[Adam]

I was about to post a similar experience of my own. Scary as that is.

Last nigth there was a show called Chains Of Love. Made in Queensland I think. They chain one guy to three girls for a few days (with toilet breaks alone). Each day the guy tells one of the girls to split, and gives her some portion of the AU$10,000 prize pool. In the end there were two of them, the guy and one girl, and they had them sleep together, cameras rolling (no nooky). The next day they divide the money and go their separate ways, and in the final round of interviews every girl complains that the guy was a total wanker, and the guy claims he was in it only for the money. After which the loser tried to get in contact with all three girls for dates.

Yes, I watched the last fifteen minutes or so while waiting for Dead Last to start.

Between these pathetic slops and the rash of home-improvement shows, Australian television is really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

 

[wesmorris]

hmm... hey adam, is rupert murdock (or however you spell it) in control of the media down there? hehe.. he's an aussie fella right? he owns FOX network, which is where I was watching that stupid show. I wonder if it's just that he's this rich eccentric freak who banks of the stupidity of the masses... and WINS! hehe.. just a thought.

 

[Adam]

Murdoch owns everything. He bought half our newspapers, magazines, and TV channels, then used capital from that to start buying America.

 

[wesmorris]

ah, intercontinental drivel. murdoch laughs all the way to the bank. well, someone's got to do it.

it brings up an interesting point I guess... do you think TV is almost to saturation? I mean, isn't there only so far you can take the "one-up-manship" before you're out of things that hold peoples attention? we're finally all the way to examining the lives of good looking nobodies... what's next? weekend with corpse? oh, it was already a movie?

ack, oh well. it will be what it is and i'll get my entertainment from it. it might be once removed, but at least that way you don't have to deal with commercials.

 

[Adam]

Originally posted by wesmorris

what's next? weekend with corpse?

Channel 4 in the UK claimed they were going to have a Chinese "artist" eating a baby's corpse.

I think the utter flop of Colateral Damage demonstrates that American script-writing is dead. So we see the massive success of Lord Of The Rings and movies based on comics, by comic writers who have been writing successfully for 50 years.

 

[wesmorris]

Originally posted by Adam
Channel 4 in the UK claimed they were going to have a Chinese "artist" eating a baby's corpse.

I think the utter flop of Colateral Damage demonstrates that American script-writing is dead.

I never saw it, but that is retarded dude. "amercian script writing is dead?" wtf? there are certainly some questionable choices as to what makes it the box office or the boob tube, but such a generalization seem shortsighted to me. .

Originally posted by Adam

So we see the massive success of Lord Of The Rings
and movies based on comics, by comic writers who have been writing successfully for 50 years.

I don't really know why you make that assertion, but it sounds kind of silly. LOTR simply couldn't have been done before or it would have been enormously successful whenever it was released.. and I don't know what comic stuff you mean.

 

[Adam]

Well, perhaps you see more of it than we do here. Perhaps we only see a very limited selection of USA television and movies. But what I see of it here is really bad. Big Brother, Will & Grace, Temptation Island, Colateral Damage, Jason X (that Voorheese guy), and a few Simpsons clones. There's no story in any of it. Hollywood movies are just lame, unless they use comic book writers and such. Most get by on nifty special effects and nothing else.

 

[wesmorris]

well, I did grow up here and sometimes I just like the pretty flashy lights.. so I guess *shrug*

regarding TV though, yes.. horrible, but there are a few excellent comedies.. I don't do dramas. Like, comedy central's "the daily show" is incredible. I'm a huge "southpark" fan, the simpsons.. blah blah. Scrubs is quite good... hidden hills. A few others are okay. I think there will always be good movies but you know it's hit and miss.. for instance (and I don't know much about where or who made it) but "fight club" is one of my favorite movies ever and was done within the last few years. I wonder if the market is becoming more global... eh. anyway... I'm so far from qualified to really be commenting anyway for more than a halfassed opinion. as I said before, I'm often quite easily entertained. I come HERE for substance (entertainmentwise I mean). does seem like the entertainment industry is reaching some kind of "shock value" plateou.... where even the most shocking is blaze`

 

[Adam]

Yeah, there are some good ones. Fight Club rocked. Most of the shows you mentioned aren't on TV here.

 

[sycoindian]

damm right 'fight club' rocks...ehehe.. one of the best movies in the last few years... i just saw the two towers.. it was good but i was a bit disappointed... i guess i was expectin too muchh... and tv has def gone down the drain and made its way thru the sewers... i do like scrubs.. its pretty good.. and malcolm in the middle is pretty funny too.. i guess dysfunctional stories are more interestin than normal ish...