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It's 10 o'clock. Are we not on? We're supposed to be Tuesday at 10 every week. We've been moved—we're Wednesday at 10. Are we Wednesdays at 10 from now on? No, we're off next week and on for the following two Wednesdays. What about next year? Best to keep checking in. BOSTON LEGAL (2004-2008)

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The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. 1x17 - "The Fountain of Youth"

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In 1893, a lawyer turned bounty hunter; Brisco County Jr took the job to bring in John Bly and Bly’s gang. As he tracked Bly and his men, he kept coming into contact with a mysterious orb. The Orb turned out to have amazing powers and eventually it was revealed that Bly was not as he seems but a criminal from the distant future that planned to use the orb to time travel back to his future time and rule the world. (Brisco County Jr, TV)

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𝔼𝕤𝕡𝕖𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝 𝟙𝟙𝕊

El 11 de septiembre de 2001 dos aviones se incrustaban contra las Torres Gemelas, atravesando así el corazón de los neoyorquinos y de cualquier ser humano civilizado. El terrorismo yihadista sacudió a occidente con un ataque sin precedentes. Casi 3.000 personas perdieron su vida y con ella sus sueños, además del golpe irreparable para las familias de las víctimas.

Hoy hace 23 años de esta fatalidad

Una de las cualidades más mágicas del séptimo arte es su capacidad para extraer historias inspiradoras de un hecho tan fatal como el 11-S. Asimismo, el cine permite ilustrar de manera fidedigna el transcurso de acontecimientos de la complejidad del citado.

𝕎𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕 𝕋𝕣𝕒𝕕𝕖 ℂ𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 (2006)

El filme "World Trade Center" narra la heroicidad de John McLoughlin y Will Jimeno, los dos primeros policías que se adentraron entre las llamas y los escombros de las torres gemelas para rescatar a las personas que quedaron atrapadas en aquella trampa mortal en que se convirtieron los rascacielos.

Nicholas Cage y Michael Peña dan vida a los dos protagonistas en la producción dirigida por Oliver Stone, ganador de tres Óscar. 

Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal son sus protagonistas

𝕃𝕒 𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕙𝕖 𝕞𝕒𝕤 𝕠𝕤𝕔𝕦𝕣𝕒 (2012)

"La noche más oscura" nace como consecuencia de los atentados del 11 de septiembre, aunque no esté centrada explícitamente en los hechos. El argumento pone la lupa en la operación de inteligencia de las fuerzas estadounidenses para dar caza a Osama Bin Laden, líder por aquel entonces de la banda terrorista Al Qaeda, responsable de las atrocidades del 11-S.

El título, "Zero Dark Thirty", se refiere a la hora: las 00:30 de la madrugada del 2 de mayo de 2011, momento en que el comando SEAL de los marines penetró en la residencia de Bin Laden en Abbottabad, en Pakistán, para dar caza al hombre más buscado de la historia.

El largometraje logró alzarse con un Óscar en la categoría de 'Mejor edición' de sonido, además de acumular otras cuatro nominaciones como 'Mejor película', 'Mejor actriz', 'Mejor guion original' y 'Mejor montaje'. Una de las protagonistas, Jessica Chastain consiguió un Globo de Oro por su interpretación. En el reparto destacan nombres como  Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt, Jennifer Ehle, Mark Strong, Kyle Chandler y Édgar Ramírez.

Jessica Chastain ,Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt, Jennifer Ehle, Mark Strong, Kyle Chandler y Édgar Ramírez son los protagonistas.

𝕌𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝟡𝟛 (2006)

Los atentados del 11-S fueron más allá del World Trade Center. 

"United 93" narra el intento terrorista frustrado por los pasajeros a bordo del vuelo que incialmente cubría el trayecto entre el Aeropuerto Internacional Libertad de Newark (Nueva Jersey) y el Aeropuerto Internacional de San Francisco.

La aeronave fue secuestrada por cuatro terroristas con el objetivo de impactar contra el Capitolio de los EEUU. La película -dirigida, escrita y coproducida por Paul Greengrass- pretende una representación real de lo acontecido en la fatídica fecha. Tal es así, que el cineasta y su equipo se mantuvieron en contacto con las familias de los afectados para empapar de verdad su obra.

Protagonizada por Christian Clemenson, Cheyenne Jackson, Ben Sliney, Khalid Abdalla 

𝔼𝕟 𝕒𝕝𝕘𝕦𝕟 𝕝𝕦𝕘𝕒𝕣 𝕕𝕖 𝕝𝕒 𝕞𝕖𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕒 (2007)

El popular actor Adam Sandler encarna al dentista Charlie Fineman en 'En algún lugar de la memoria'.

Fineman es un dentista de la gran manzana cuya familia muere en los atentados del 11-s. Este duro golpe -que muy probablemente viviera alguien en la realidad- acaba con cualquier ilusión de Fineman y convierte su vida en una agonía; sin embargo, el reencuentro con un viejo amigo de la universidad le hace recuperar la ilusión.

La dirección y guion son obra de Mike Binder, que con el argumento logra emocionar tras vislumbrar la posibilidad de ser feliz tras enfrentar la crueldad en su mayor expresión.

Protagonizada por Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Liv Tyler, Jada Pinkett Smith 

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Fly Me To The Moon (12): "Making History".

#onemannsmovies #filmreview of "Fly Me To The Moon". #FlyMeToThe Moon. Apollo-set rom-com with Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum that barely makes orbit. 3/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Fly Me To The Moon” (2024). Apollo was an astonishing program. Given the clunky technology of the day, I still find it utterly awe-inspiring that NASA was able to get the Saturn V bucket of bolts into the air, let alone accomplish the astounding feat of landing two men, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, onto the moon. The Apollo 11 mission is the backdrop to this…

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Movie Review ~ Fly Me to the Moon

Fly Me to the Moon Synopsis: During the 1960s Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union, a relationship develops between the NASA director in charge of the Apollo 11 launch and the marketing specialist brought in to fix NASA’s public image and stage a “back-up” fake Moon landing.Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Anna Garcia, Jim Rash, Noah Robbins, Christian Clemenson,…

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Fly Me to the Moon (2024) Review

Kelly Jones is a marketing expert is recruited by the White House to fix the broken image of NASA ahead of the Apollo 11 moon landing, which causes chaos for launch director Cole Davis. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Fly Me to the Moon (2024) Review

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The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. 1x01 - Pilot

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I am not a fan of legal shows, but this show had me in stitches all the time. It's not without its faults, but a good watch none the less.

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FLY ME TO THE MOON (2024)

Starring Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Jim Rash, Anna Garcia, Donald Elise Watkins, Noah Robbins, Colin Woodell, Christian Zuber, Nick Dillenburg, Ray Romano, Woody Harrelson, Bill Barrett, Stephanie Kurtzuba, Joe Chrest, Colin Jost, Greg Kriek, Art Newkirk, Peter Jacobson, Ashley Kings, Jonathan Orea Lopez, Christian Clemenson and Eva Pilar.

Screenplay by Rose Gilroy.

Directed by Greg Berlanti.

Distributed by Columbia Pictures. 132 minutes. Rated PG-13.

“Fly me to the moon / Let me play among the stars / And let me see what spring is like / On Jupiter and Mars / In other words, hold my hand / In other words, baby, kiss me.”

It would be nice if the romantic comedy Fly Me To the Moon were as simple, frisky and romantic as the song from which it took its title. Honestly, sometimes it does reach those heights, but it has too much going on plot-wise and not enough romance and comedy to keep its story airborne.

That’s a shame, because this is one of very few rom coms which will be widely released this summer. I was hoping that this film would ignite, but that only happens periodically.

Fly Me To the Moon captures a particular place and time in American history – Cape Kennedy, Florida on the eve of the 1969 Apollo 11 launch and man’s first walk on the moon. It has an interesting cast of characters – scientists, astronauts, marketing specialists, shady government agents, far right-wing politicians and egomaniacal Hollywood directors. It’s old-fashioned, and yet it has things to say about modern society as well.  

So why does Fly Me To the Moon only sometimes reach lift-off?

Simply put, because they were trying to do too much. Added into the dish like an unnecessary spice is a whole section based on the old conspiracy theory that the moon landing was a fake made on a soundstage – quite possibly by Stanley Kubrick. (I will give Fly Me To the Moon props for a clever Kubrick gag in the middle of the action.)

This not-so-little subplot does not appear in the story until about an hour into the film, and honestly, it’s an unwelcome addition. Not only has the fakes space mission storyline been done way too often on film already – from the mostly forgotten but surprisingly good 1970s thriller Capricorn One to more recent films like Moonwalkers, Dark Side of the Moon and others. Hell, it was even a quick sight gag in Minions, which may be proof positive that this story is overdone.

To be quite honest, I think Fly Me To the Moon would have worked better had they simply jettisoned that storyline and had done a straight romance around the NASA launch of Apollo 11. The faking story makes more than one of the main characters look bad on a regular basis. Sure, it does give more ammunition to Woody Harrelson playing the shadowy Nixon operative behind the scheme – and Woody is very funny here – but he was very funny well before this plot thread was introduced. They could have found more for him to do in the original narrative.

Because what Fly Me To the Moon is really about – or at least it was until the storyline took that hard right turn – was the timid romance between two very different types of people who meet working on the leadup to the launch.

The woman is Kelly Jones (Scarlett Johansson), a smart, flirty and somewhat cynical public relations professional who has a sketchy past and some questionable methods. She has been hired by the government to start a buzz on the space program, which is still reeling from the tragic explosion of Apollo 1 a couple of years earlier. She has the hair of an astronaut’s wife, blood red lips and the va-va-voom pants suits and capris of a pin-up girl – all of which she uses to disarm the sexist guys she always has to deal with in business.

The guy is Cole Davis (Channing Tatum), the rather humorless former-aspiring-astronaut and scientist in charge of the mission. You can tell how button-down Cole is because throughout the length of the film he wears the exact same style of shirt – just in different colors. (He also has an odd-modern looking short-but layered haircut which is far from the crew cut which someone in his position would have worn.) You can also tell that he is repressed because the first time he meets Kelly – in a local diner – he acknowledges she is the most attractive woman he has ever seen. Still, he cock-blocks himself, telling her that he can’t get involved with anyone because of bad timing and the importance of his job.

I guess we should look at the elephant in the room here. While Johansson and Tatum are both undoubtedly gorgeous, they have very little chemistry together. This is mostly on Tatum’s side – and it may not even be the actor’s fault, it may just be the role as written. Still, it is a little hard to root for a happy-ever-after for these two.

However, taking a look at the space program at the height of its importance is endlessly fascinating. Had they maintained the view at the actual space landing rather than showing the less interesting attempts to recreate it, Fly Me To the Moon may have been something special. Instead it is a fairly good movie which had the potential to be very good.

Jay S. Jacobs

Copyright ©2024 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: July 12, 2024.

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The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. (1993)

Thirty years ago, the American TV landscape was a world apart from the one we know today. Broadcast networks and syndicated local markets still ruled the roost, the Internet was just starting to have an influence, and cable had a few powerhouses but was still fairly expensive. Perhaps most importantly, while serialized storytelling wasn’t nonexistent-soap operas were popular in daytime, and network dramas and sitcoms like Hill Street Blues and Cheers had made inroads in terms of story arcs and long-term character development even within episodic structures-it was still a relatively fresh concept. In terms of sci-fi genre fare, largely episodic TV was still the order of the day with series like the various Star Trek entries or Quantum Leap. And the televised Western was relatively dead by comparison. Thus we come to The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., a one-season hybrid mash-up on FOX that is practically tailor-made for the designation of “cult classic”. How does it hold up in our streaming age?

Developed by screenwriters Carlton Cuse (Lost, Bates Motel) and Jeffrey Boam (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Lethal Weapon 2 and 3), and inspired by Western serials of old, Brisco’s pilot episode picks up in 1893. The eponymous bounty hunter’s lawman father (R. Lee Ermey) is shot dead by infamous outlaw John Bly (Billy Drago) and his gang during a train escape, with Jr. (Bruce Campbell, he of the legendary chin) left to pick up the pieces. A group of robber barons hires Brisco to track down Bly and his gang, with nebbish lawyer Socrates Poole (Christian Clemenson, not a million miles away from David Hyde Pierce as Niles Crane) as their liaison. Also on Bly’s trail is rival bounty hunter Lord Bowler (Julius Carry), and along the way are colorful characters like Dixie Cousins (Kelly Rutherford), saloon singer and girlfriend of Bly’s second in command Big Smith (M.C. Gainey), and Professor Warwick (John Astin), a Doc Brown type who shares Brisco’s enthusiasm for “the coming thing”/promise of the future. But things quickly become complicated: Bly is interested in a strange artifact known only as the Orb that grants people inexplicable strength and psychic powers, among other niceties. Is THIS the ‘coming thing’? Perhaps, but Brisco will have to find out for himself. And there are plenty of other adventures in store along the way.

I feel like the above description does not quite do the series justice in getting across what it’s about or, more crucially, its tone. Like the other shows of the time that I mentioned, the adventures are primarily episodic; outside of the pilot, there are only five pure “plot” episodes about the Orb and Bly himself, even if many of the episodes deal with other members of his gang. That overarching plot is even resolved several episodes before the end of the season, the rest of which are more standalone plots. And those plots can vary wildly in terms of genre and incident: one story has Brisco acting as a lawyer for an old friend, another features a sheriff who acts like Elvis with no explanation whatsoever in the middle of a reasonably serious story about the cycle of revenge, and yet another has pirates. Yes, that kind. No, they’re not on the water. The only limits here are the writers’ imaginations (and of course the almighty budget), which are quite fertile indeed even if there are occasional dud episodes.

One might be tempted to assume via Campbell’s presence that the series is a parody of square-jawed adventurers in impossibly ridiculous situations. After all, he had just come off Army of Darkness, which rotated his Evil Dead protagonist Ash Williams into an outsized macho caricature whose skill in dispatching Deadites is matched only by his lack of foresight in, uh, everything else. It’s genuinely not. For one, Brisco is a far more traditional lead in terms of his competence. For two, the characters are comedic and eccentric, certainly, but their problems and emotions are taken seriously.  A good early touch is that while Brisco initially seems cold about his father’s death (reasoning that he had a long time to prepare for it given the man’s career), we see at the end of the pilot that he’s genuinely shaken and it still weighs on him for some time. And while he is a bit of a womanizing Indy/James Bond type, he’s not a bro-y horndog.

The others get nice shadings of depth at times as well. Bowler could have very easily come off as an Angry Black Man caricature and a lackey to Brisco once their rivalry turns into genuine partnership. And yet we get real insight to some crucial differences between them, like a terrific beat where Bowler proves to have invested his bounties wisely in terms of his beautiful mansion home, complete with an on-call butler. And their friendship always feels like one of equals, with a back-and-forth and mutual, eventually less grudging respect; there’s some very touching moments later on when we see how things have changed between them. While Socrates doesn’t get AS much development, he does prove to have more backbone than initially anticipated, as well as a moral fiber that serves him well. Dixie too has some nice beats of seeming less like a femme fatale and more like someone who’s very comfortable in her own skin, but also weary of Brisco’s inability to potentially settle down if she ever wanted that.

A lot of this is down to the cast, who is top to bottom terrific, with nary a bad performance in the regular, recurring, or various guest casts. Campbell often self-deprecates about his acting ability compared to some of his contemporaries, but I would say that his very blue-collar, get-the-job-done mentality is an unimaginable boon to his screen presence. There are many actors who could have played Brisco and well, but there’s a potential danger of either too much machismo overpowering the charm of the character or that aforementioned self-parody aspect being too much of a “ain’t this ridiculous, folks” twinkle in the eye. That does work for a character like Ash, who is sympathetic but ultimately a buffoon with one particular skillset, but Campbell wisely modulates and plays more of a straight man here. His comic timing never reaches too far for a laugh, letting them come out naturally rather than mugging for attention (good example is when he throws Dixie over his shoulder at one point and she demands to be put down: “Alright, you look bad in a wig and you were too easy to find!”) This lets him be a good balance to Carry in particular, who’s wonderfully exuberant and over-the-top by comparison, though he too modulates as necessary. Clemenson is the perfect likable nerd, not too action-hero but not too pathetic either, and Rutherford finds the right balance of Dixie being a canny career woman who nonetheless has the soul of a romantic at times. Warwick is also a lot of fun when he shows up, with Astin’s grandfatherly likability that can make even the groaniest of groaner dad jokes land on full display. The various guest villains make good impressions too, with Drago as a particular standout in terms of being genuinely scary for such an ultimately lighthearted show, and John Pyper-Ferguson manages to make a hell of an impression as Pete Hutter, a gunman with delusions of intellectual grandeur and an unhealthy fixation on his prized “piece” revolver. Think cowboy Team Rocket and you’re halfway there.

In terms of the actual production, it’s a handsome one even if the DVDs are showing their age (prayer circle for an eventual HD remaster). The physical effects are all great, and even the primitive CGI has a weird appeal, especially because it gets used for a couple of REALLY horrifying death scenes. It also hugely benefits from being shot on location in terms of the Wide Western Vistas and loving recreations of old-timey towns. The actual direction is very early 90s TV in terms of “get it in the can” professionalism most of the time, but it fits well with the breezy nature of things. Musically it’s fairly standard too outside of Randy Edelman’s excellent Copland-esque theme music (that later got reused for NBC’s Olympics coverage, which definitely fits).

I suppose in terms of actual FLAWS one can discuss, the main one that the racial dynamics are occasionally problematic. In terms of positives, we get a few black characters with Bowler as our main one, and they’re all fairly well portrayed, with nary a hint of racism beyond one “half-breed” comment implying that Bowler has Native American heritage (which is reflected in some of his dress and that Carry apparently had in real life). And while some of the Chinese characters have stereotypical mysticism attached, we are at least spared any broken English, and James Hong being the main recurring one means that the power of James Hong Being Awesome overpowers most of the negatives (he gets a good line about a Wise Saying where Brisco asks if it’s an ancient proverb: “No, I just made it up”). More glaring is zero Native American presence outside of that Bowler mention, and the Mexican characters are divided into groups of Bandits, Corrupt Military Assholes, and Heroic Revolutionaries. Not the most nuanced portrayal, is what I’m saying, even if you can make the argument of “well, EVERYONE is kind of silly, so that doesn’t stand out AS much as it would in a more ‘serious’ show.”

So why did Brisco ultimately fail with audiences? It’s hard to say. By all accounts, Fox was very supportive of the series and promoted the hell out of it. They aired every single episode too, unlike other, later shows that they cancelled early or mid-run (gestures at that one Family Guy joke). The time it was on could have played a role; 8 p.m. on Friday night is generally seen as the Death Slot. But then again, The X-Files, the show it was paired with during THEIR first season, found great success there before moving to primetime Sunday nights mid-run. And the audience Brisco DID obtain loved the hell out of it, especially when TNT later re-ran the series on Saturday mornings. Shit’s just hard to predict sometimes. But I do think it’s a shame. It’s a series that’s fun above all else, with good spirits and plenty of sensible-chuckle humor if rarely outright laugh-out-loud funny.

Maybe someday Brisco County, Jr. will ride again. Until then, we have this. And sometimes, that’s enough.

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Jerry: It’s a rich feeling, whatever it is. Alan: It's called friendship. BOSTON LEGAL (2004-2008)