30 June 2004
thoughts about the big and little screens
I’ve finished Curb your enthusiasm, and I’m slowly forming my opnion about the show (well, its first season at least). This opinion of mine isn’t shaping up to be very positive, despite what I might have said before. The show’s just too mean-spirited and abrasive.
It is nice to see Richard Lewis getting some work again, though. But there’s little else to redeem the series, other than I can now say that I have a much clearer idea why I don’t really like Seinfeld. Sure there were laughs, but they weren’t, you know, good ones.
On a more serious note, tonight we watched The day the Earth caught fire, which though it is a very good movie, is up there with Day of the Triffids for having a deceptive title–it covers several weeks of events! Of course, for an apocalyptic vision of the near-future-of-the-past, it’s much more rooted in fact and steeped with credible stuff. And it also doesn’t cop out with villians who just happen to be vulnerable to salt water.