Just some questions & thoughts to pose for the day:
1. When did soap operas get so violent? Guiding Light has a creepy stalker 9 year old, General Hospital puts bullets in it's only 12 year old. On a related note, Days of Our Lives has managed somewhat successfully to SORAS (soap opera rapid aging syndrome) nearly every child born in the last ten years. Nevermind they are all related to one another but date anyway...Huh? What happened to 'love in the afternoon' 'on the run stories' 'will they or won't they?' Families don't get together to talk unless they are trapped on an island together (Days), held captive in a hotel (GH), or are hanging out at the hospital because someone contracted some weird disease from tree bark (All My Children). Daytime serials are supposed to be a bit light hearted and fun with some angst thrown in for good measure. They are supposed to be an escape-your supposed to want to be these people or their friend for an hour. At this rate Port Charles is the last place anyone breathing should be, Pine Valley is a bit hokey, Salem is as creepy as ever, and Guiding Light, well I'm just not ready for my akward close-up just yet.
2. Whilst perusing the internet to see what movies beside Indy 4 were coming this summer, I ran into a couple of sites talking about a Land of the Lost movie for next year. Er...okay. Whatever, I'll hold out for Sigmund and the Sea Monsters on Ice. Or better yet, The Banana Splits on Broadway. (Hmmn Will Ferrell is in Land of the Lost-may have to rethink it)
3. I'm growing tired of all of the 'Guy' movies which are in reality 'Chick Flicks'. Now I am a chick and quite fond of the better chick flicks: Bridget Jones (the first one), Serendipity, Under the Tuscan Sun. But the latest trend? Made of Honor? Forgetting Sarah Marshall?, X-Files 2? (yeah come on and face it the only reason X-Files even lasted as long as it did was because everyone wanted to see Scully and Mulder together.)
4. Anyhoo the search for movies to perhaps budget for now in order to see this summer did turn up a gem or two: Speed Racer with that guy from Lost, Star Trek #243 just for the cool bad guy from Heroes, and a heads up for the fall and next year: Harry Potter 6, Land of the Lost (its Will Ferrell), and a chick flick called The Rebound or Rebound with Catherine Zeta Jones (who doesn't make enough chick flicks and she should-I get the feeling that she is actually a better actress than she thinks she is and is holding back) and Justin Bartha who is most known as geeky Riley in the National Treasure films.
5. There is no five. I need another cup of coffee so I'm going now. Later.
