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I've been watching The Riches the last few days, and am really enjoying it. I guess with Eddie Izzard as a main character, I was expecting it to be more of a comedy. It does have its funny moments, but it's not really a comedy. It's pretty dark a lot of times. But it's good.
There aren't usually any big shocking moments or melodrama, but it's fascinating. They're sort of deconstructing society by putting people so far outside of social norms into these roles. Nothing ever is really portrayed as "better" - their former family/nomad/tribe existence or their new affluent/social-norm existence. They definitely idealize the former, but find that there are just as many ugly things about that as well. Basically, it comes down to figuring out what to hang on to and what you can love in this life. It's strange, for as much deception and lying and ugliness that you see, it's still quite life-affirming, especially in how much the two main characters love each other (Minnie Driver plays opposite of Eddie Izzard) in spite of all the crap they go through.
I expected horrible cheesiness in the new Knight Rider movie, and it was there in SPADES. It was laughably wretched. Probably the most amusing part was how they tried to give son-of-Michael depth. "Woe, I have never loved and so I'm going to have random threesomes to fill the hole in my soul." HA!! Oh, and trying to bilk some people out of $90,000? Yeah, Mike Jr.'s a real asshole. But, you know, he's a bad boy on his way to being redeemed! So...he gets to continue to be an asshole -- more of a soulful dickweed, really -- but with a really cool car. I hate this show already.
Part of Mike Jr.'s angst and woe come from the fact that his father (the Hoff) abandoned him when he was 5. We later find out it was because of some bullshit "he had obligations" reason. I think they might have actually said, "he had obligations" and left it at that. He clearly isn't working for Knight Industries, so I'm guessing his obligations included trying to get another Baywatch movie on the air. The Hoff does make an appearance at the end at Mike's mother's funeral. He shakes his son's hand and then leaves, saying he hopes he'll see him around. Asshole Sr. right there.
But hey, things are looking up for Mike Jr.: he's now got a crew of this old guy (playing the role of the doddering scientist), the probable love interest of the scientist's daughter (playing the role of the standard victim), the FBI agent (playing the role of the show's lesbian), and the mechanic (playing the role of goofy best friend.)
Oh, and then there's the car who's a good fifty times better than all these people combined -- except maybe the FBI agent -- and needs to ditch them.
There aren't usually any big shocking moments or melodrama, but it's fascinating. They're sort of deconstructing society by putting people so far outside of social norms into these roles. Nothing ever is really portrayed as "better" - their former family/nomad/tribe existence or their new affluent/social-norm existence. They definitely idealize the former, but find that there are just as many ugly things about that as well. Basically, it comes down to figuring out what to hang on to and what you can love in this life. It's strange, for as much deception and lying and ugliness that you see, it's still quite life-affirming, especially in how much the two main characters love each other (Minnie Driver plays opposite of Eddie Izzard) in spite of all the crap they go through.
I expected horrible cheesiness in the new Knight Rider movie, and it was there in SPADES. It was laughably wretched. Probably the most amusing part was how they tried to give son-of-Michael depth. "Woe, I have never loved and so I'm going to have random threesomes to fill the hole in my soul." HA!! Oh, and trying to bilk some people out of $90,000? Yeah, Mike Jr.'s a real asshole. But, you know, he's a bad boy on his way to being redeemed! So...he gets to continue to be an asshole -- more of a soulful dickweed, really -- but with a really cool car. I hate this show already.
Part of Mike Jr.'s angst and woe come from the fact that his father (the Hoff) abandoned him when he was 5. We later find out it was because of some bullshit "he had obligations" reason. I think they might have actually said, "he had obligations" and left it at that. He clearly isn't working for Knight Industries, so I'm guessing his obligations included trying to get another Baywatch movie on the air. The Hoff does make an appearance at the end at Mike's mother's funeral. He shakes his son's hand and then leaves, saying he hopes he'll see him around. Asshole Sr. right there.
But hey, things are looking up for Mike Jr.: he's now got a crew of this old guy (playing the role of the doddering scientist), the probable love interest of the scientist's daughter (playing the role of the standard victim), the FBI agent (playing the role of the show's lesbian), and the mechanic (playing the role of goofy best friend.)
Oh, and then there's the car who's a good fifty times better than all these people combined -- except maybe the FBI agent -- and needs to ditch them.