Friday, April 25, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
David James Elliott in "Impact"
With all the 'hype' about this new mini-series, I have to put my two-cents in.
Since 'JAG' ended, someone had the nerve to compare David James Elliott to Scott Bakula ('Quntum Leap') "taking roles where he can". Well, ya know - the man has to make a living and please, by all means give the man some credit. In my opinion, David James Elliott doesn't seem to be the type to "just settle" for any role that comes along. Do I sound defensive of the man? Boy, I sure hope so because the man is a hell of an actor and to those who say that DJE is "going to take what he can get", you're intitled to your opinions, but please, by all means, familarize yourselves with the man's acting career before you start throwing tomatoes.
Now that I rambled on about that... onto the good stuff (then again, I don't think I was into anything bad from the begininng). 'Impact'. The first review I read was published by The Hollywood Reporter, though it was a good snyopsis of the mini-series, it only reminded me of Bruce Willis' movie, 'Armageddan'. Hmmm... does anyone even remember that movie? Well, let me see if this old broad can refresh some memories. NASA puts together this team of civilians whose expertise is drilling, they turn them into "astronauts" and send them on a shuttle into space to demolish a very large asteroid headed to Earth. Of course they succeed on destroy the asteroid.
Of course, in 'Impact' we're they're talking about the moon colliding with Earth. I will of course tune in to watch, but I really hope the writers are not replacing the asteroid in 'Armageddan' with the moon in 'Impact'. I,unfortunately will have to be disappointed with the only highlight of the series is that it's starring none other than David James Elliott.
Maria
Since 'JAG' ended, someone had the nerve to compare David James Elliott to Scott Bakula ('Quntum Leap') "taking roles where he can". Well, ya know - the man has to make a living and please, by all means give the man some credit. In my opinion, David James Elliott doesn't seem to be the type to "just settle" for any role that comes along. Do I sound defensive of the man? Boy, I sure hope so because the man is a hell of an actor and to those who say that DJE is "going to take what he can get", you're intitled to your opinions, but please, by all means, familarize yourselves with the man's acting career before you start throwing tomatoes.
Now that I rambled on about that... onto the good stuff (then again, I don't think I was into anything bad from the begininng). 'Impact'. The first review I read was published by The Hollywood Reporter, though it was a good snyopsis of the mini-series, it only reminded me of Bruce Willis' movie, 'Armageddan'. Hmmm... does anyone even remember that movie? Well, let me see if this old broad can refresh some memories. NASA puts together this team of civilians whose expertise is drilling, they turn them into "astronauts" and send them on a shuttle into space to demolish a very large asteroid headed to Earth. Of course they succeed on destroy the asteroid.
Of course, in 'Impact' we're they're talking about the moon colliding with Earth. I will of course tune in to watch, but I really hope the writers are not replacing the asteroid in 'Armageddan' with the moon in 'Impact'. I,unfortunately will have to be disappointed with the only highlight of the series is that it's starring none other than David James Elliott.
Maria
Sunday, April 20, 2008
"Love Sick" with David James Eilliott
I tuned into Lifetime last night to watch 'Love Sick: Secrets of a Sex Addict' last night. This was an excellent movie and I throughly enjoyed it. I'm sure some tuned-in hoping for some "long" and steamy sex scenes, but too bad - go watch some x-rated movie if that's what you wanted! I for one am quite glad they didn't turn the bedroom scenes into something more luring, they were steamy enough and done with a lot of dignity and class "more" was not necessary. I think it would've been too much if they did.
With all the hype about David James Elliott being in this movie, I was just slightly disapointed that there weren't more scenes with him and Sue (even if it wasn't in the bedroom), not even a flashback when Sue admitted to the phsycologist that she was still having sex with him. Sure, Sue follows him to the parking garage and arrives at his house (you bad girl, Sue, but, I can't blame you when you're looking at this actor portraying 'Rick'). I know DJE is a very good looking man and his wife is a very lucky lady, we've seen him in boxers in 'JAG', a few bedroom scenes in 'Degree of Guilt', but the bedroom scenes in 'Love Sick' - I only have one word... WHEW!! I think this took DJE's acting abilities to a whole new level and only shows the fabulous actor that he is.
I've never watched "Army Wives" and don't recall ever watching anything with Sally Pressman. I was actually impressed with her acting. Hell, she almost had me in tears with some heavy and powerful scenes, not to mention very emotional.
Despite the little disapointment, this movie was about Sue Silverman and her road to recovery. I had to feel sorry for DJE's character, "Rick", at the end attempting to contact Sue after she's released from the clinic. However, we see Sue struggling to answer the phone or not, her "test" of strong-will remembering how addicted she was to him for sex before going to the clinic. No, instead she calls her physcologist. Good for you Sue for not giving in!
This was a very powerful and emotional movie. I have to give a hell of a lot of credit to Sue Silverman for writing her book and allowing this portion of her life to be made into a movie and aired on TV. I hope that Lifetime will air the movie again and maybe one day release it on DVD.
Maria
With all the hype about David James Elliott being in this movie, I was just slightly disapointed that there weren't more scenes with him and Sue (even if it wasn't in the bedroom), not even a flashback when Sue admitted to the phsycologist that she was still having sex with him. Sure, Sue follows him to the parking garage and arrives at his house (you bad girl, Sue, but, I can't blame you when you're looking at this actor portraying 'Rick'). I know DJE is a very good looking man and his wife is a very lucky lady, we've seen him in boxers in 'JAG', a few bedroom scenes in 'Degree of Guilt', but the bedroom scenes in 'Love Sick' - I only have one word... WHEW!! I think this took DJE's acting abilities to a whole new level and only shows the fabulous actor that he is.
I've never watched "Army Wives" and don't recall ever watching anything with Sally Pressman. I was actually impressed with her acting. Hell, she almost had me in tears with some heavy and powerful scenes, not to mention very emotional.
Despite the little disapointment, this movie was about Sue Silverman and her road to recovery. I had to feel sorry for DJE's character, "Rick", at the end attempting to contact Sue after she's released from the clinic. However, we see Sue struggling to answer the phone or not, her "test" of strong-will remembering how addicted she was to him for sex before going to the clinic. No, instead she calls her physcologist. Good for you Sue for not giving in!
This was a very powerful and emotional movie. I have to give a hell of a lot of credit to Sue Silverman for writing her book and allowing this portion of her life to be made into a movie and aired on TV. I hope that Lifetime will air the movie again and maybe one day release it on DVD.
Maria
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