r watching o movies same as listening 2 o songs? ...
Yes, give me Gone With The Wind and Casablanca anytime.
Yes, give me Beatles and Bee Gees anytime.
Don't waste my time and licence fee with modern trash.
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Yes, give me Gone With The Wind and Casablanca anytime.
Yes, give me Beatles and Bee Gees anytime.
Don't waste my time and licence fee with modern trash.
:oIo:Media corp is under PAP. Both think that Singaporeans don't deserve the best thus giving us crappy programmes and almost 80% are allocated for PAP NEWS to brainwash senior ciitizens. If you believe there is such thing called internet free movie, there is no reason why we should cry over media corp cheap and repetitive programmes. Let's pray they don't have Huang Fei Hong or commedian Zhou Xin Che programmes again.
One of the channels is showing the series "Mad Men" the whole day. Yes, the whole day, non-stop!
This series is very popular in USA, think it won Emmy awards, but for some reason, I don't like it.
Perhaps it reminds me of madmansg. :o
Wish they would show movies from the 70s.
Some of the best movies were from then:
Godfather I and II (NOT III)
The Sting I (NOT II)
Raging Bull
Taxi Driver
The Deer Hunter
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
The Magnificent Seven
Towering Inferno
Ordinary People
etc etc
One of the channels is showing the series "Mad Men" the whole day. Yes, the whole day, non-stop!
This series is very popular in USA, think it won Emmy awards, but for some reason, I don't like it.
Perhaps it reminds me of madmansg. :o
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Pursuit of Happiness, July 13, 2008
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It would be hard to imagine a more absorbingly intelligent American TV series--in terms of writing, acting, and visuals--than MAD MEN. Just before the final season of THE SOPRANOS began in late 2007, AMC presented us in the summer with the thirteen episodes of this marvelously atmospheric series created by one of the main writers of the series, Matt Weiner, that HBO insanely took a pass on. Ostensibly the series is about a group of advertising agency working for Madison Avenue advertising agency, the fictitious Sterling-Cooper, in 1960, during the Nixon-Kennedy presidential contest; yet on a deeper level the show wrestles with much larger questions about the meaning of obsession with having (and marketing) happiness in mid-20th-century America. The series centers primarily around four characters whose lives are inextricably linked with one another: Don Draper (Jon Hamm), a handsome advertising executive at Sterling-Cooper of few words but enormous creative gifts who hides a mysterious past; his beautiful but childlike wife Betty (January Jones), whom he keeps entirely separate in the suburbs from his work life and his mistresses in the city; Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss), Don's new secretary, whose naive affect and kind heart belie her tremendous ambition; and Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser), the smarmy account executive who trades on his ties to the Old New York "Knickerbocracy" to get him ahead. The four central actors are absolutely first-rate, as are several within their near orbits: John Slattery as Roger Sterling, the roguish partner who is both Don's friend and his competitor; the gifted Christina Hendricks, as the firm's femme fatale head secretary; and Robert Morse, as the firm's wily and eccentric senior partner.
Morse's presence ties the series to his famous work in both the Broadway and Hollywood production of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, and the episodes make intelligent reference also to any number of important American fictional works about the NYC business and suburban domestic worlds of the post-War era, including THE APARTMENT and THE BEST OF EVERYTHING. (Richard Yates's REVOLUTIONARY ROAD and the films of Douglas Sirk are also repeatedly evoked too, if in less direct ways.) One of the pleasures of this fine DVD set are the superb extras which allow us to see the especially thoughtful work done by the series' set designers, hairstylists, and (particularly) its head costume designer. The commentaries are generally excellent, and it will come as no surprise to fans of the series that not only the series creator, Matt Weiner, and its writers are especially eloquent but so too are its actors, especially Hamm and Kartheiser. The eye-catching design of this DVD package (fashioned to look and open, naturally, like a classic American manufacturer's product: a Zippo lighter) has been rightly praised for its innovation but also rightly criticized for its unwieldiness.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Immerse yourself in the tone, texture and feel of an era, July 20, 2008
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Mad Men is one of those very rare TV shows that is both superb and popular. Sometimes there really is a TV god. Unlike great shows like Friday Night Lights, people are watching and the awards are rolling in - 16 Emmy nominations, more than any other drama this year.
It's 1960 in a Manhattan based advertising agency. The men have slicked back hair, crisp white shirts and perfect suits. What comes out of their mouths would get them slapped or sued if it happened today. Toots, babe, honey. Women are sex objects and they have less brain power - as one character says, "It was like watching a dog play the piano" when a certain female character with professional drive and passion exceeds the lowly expectations of the men.
The women are no better. The head secretary tells another female that they (the men) designed the technology so simple that even a woman can use it. A mother smokes and drinks while pregnant and ignores the danger of a nearby child playing make believe with a plastic drying cleaning bag over her head. Some of the women act childish because that's the role that's been forced upon them. Others are starting to reject the social strait jacket and are rebelling - it's the beginning of a new era and they are the foremothers of what is about to hit this nation like a baseball bat to the head.
The wall paper in one house is plaid and the cars are big and many have tail fins. There's a cigarette in almost every scene - people cough and there's no recognition of any connection in their minds. One major character smokes, drinks and eats with abandon and almost dies of a heart attack with, again, no recognition of cause and effect.
This show, unlike any on air or cable at this time, immerses you in its era. It's authentic, real and grabs your attention. Quite simply, if you watch only one current show on TV this year it should be Mad Men.
Several reviewers have commented on the packaging. While it is a little more delicate than others, it's still cool (it's like a cigarette lighter) and you can handle the DVDs without damaging them. The DVDs are held in the case with a foam insert that doesn't scratch the surface. When you take the DVDs out you have to gently push against the top side with your (clean) fingers and gently push upward. They will come out and you won't smudge or scratch the surface. If the DVDs are getting damaged it's because people are just grabbing both sides of the disc and pulling it out. Unlike other reviewers, I have not been impressed with other boxed sets where you end up literally breaking the plastic sprockets that hold the DVDs in place. If you want really poor packaging just look at the complete West Wing. In any case, you can handle these DVDs and not damage them.
The extras here are sparse but very good nonetheless. There's an hour long behind the scenes docu that looks as all aspects of the show from character backgrounds to hair and art design to the actors feelings about their characters. It's not full of that fluffy hype stuff you find on other DVD sets where they just show you short clips from the show and present it as somehow something new. You'll actually learn something about the show. I would love to see full interviews with all the actors to talk about the characters they're playing. Maybe we'll get that in the season 2 set. As noted by others, the commentaries are minimal and a bit disappointing. Doesn't really matter in the end as it's still a superb show you simply shouldn't miss.
Are you guys really that old?
Bronson was in the Magnificent Seven and Sutherland was in Ordinary People.
In fact, there are many great actors common to those great movies. De Niro, Pacino, Redford, Newman, McQueen, Bronson, Sutherland, etc.
These days, who are the stars? Keeanu Reeves, Jay Chou, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise. Blah!
Have you seen Mediacorpse cum up with anything creative or novel over the past decade? No, right?
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For US series, Remington Steele (Pierce Brosnan) was the best, followed by Miami Vice (Don Johnson). TJ Hooker (William Shatner) wasn't bad too but I don't really like Knight Rider (Michael Hasselhoff). For the newer series, The Practice (Dylan McDermott) was too stiff and serious, much improved with the spin-off in Boston Legal with an appropriate touch of light humour and wit. Well, it's supposed to better since it cast together veterans like William Shatner, Candice Bergen and James Spader. The even older ones are classics still - Streets Of San Francisco (Michael Douglas), Hawaii Five-0 (Jack Lord).
UK has no reply to US domination of action/thriller series except for Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett), but the script was handed down to the producers on silver platter by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that they'd have no excuse for not making a good one.
For witty comedies, UK series beat US series hands down. Yes Minister/Prime Minister (Sir Nigel Hawthorne) was the best, followed by many goodies to numerous to list. For US casual sitcoms, Happy Days (Henry Wrinkler), Different Strokes (Gary Coleman), Married With Children (Ed O'Neill) and Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld) come to mind as among the most memorable.
UK has no reply to US domination of action/thriller series except for Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett), but the script was handed down to the producers on silver platter by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that they'd have no excuse for not making a good one.
For witty comedies, UK series beat US series hands down. Yes Minister/Prime Minister (Sir Nigel Hawthorne) was the best, followed by many goodies to numerous to list. For US casual sitcoms, Happy Days (Henry Wrinkler), Different Strokes (Gary Coleman), Married With Children (Ed O'Neill) and Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld) come to mind as among the most memorable.
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