January 25, 2010
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January 4, 2009
Ignored by the Academy Awards, The Weather Man struck a chord with certain critics and audience members. Pirates Of The Caribbean director Gore Verbinski took the reins of this film which attempts to imitate American Beauty (1999) in its probing dissection of the emptiness of the American pop culture and its emphasis on materialism, fame, and artificially constructed measures of “success”. Writer Steve Conrad creates a world in which the title character lives in utter emotional depression despite having all the outward “success indicators” society craves. Oftentimes funny, The Weather Man is nevertheless a disappointment. The dialogue is often strained, and one leaves with the impression that the film tried too hard to exhibit the symbolism and depth of an American classic. It’s ironic, because the very societal acclaim it seems to condemn leads to its own downfall when the film tries to create memorable one-liners and symbolism that just don’t work…
The Weather Man follows the life of local Chicago weather man Dave Spritz (Nicolas Cage) who lives an ideal life by traditional American standards of success. His salary is in the mid-six figures. He only works two hours a day, and his job requires no thought. He can be right; he can be wrong. It doesn’t really matter. Meanwhile, he’s been short-listed as a prime candidate for the most desirable weather man job in the world, lead weather guy for Hello America, a nationally syndicated mourning show on one of the major networks. By most people’s standard, Dave has it made. But reality is a totally different picture.
In Dave’s world, he’s constantly haunted by his own father’s success and his desire to live up to expectations and gain fatherly approval. Robert Spritzel (Michael Caine) is a celebrated American author who won the Pulitzer Prize at age 33, a man respected by almost everyone in the world. But Dave’s inability to meet his father’s high expectations strains their relationship. In the meantime, Dave and his wife Noreen (Hope Davis) have recently divorced, his daughter Shelly (Gemmenne de la Pena) has taken up smoking and is enduring the pains of teenage adolescence, and his son Michael is the target of a child-molesting counselor. Throw in a bout of a depression due to lack of a substantive life purpose and Dave is really living the American nightmare. But the Hello America job gives Dave a reason for pause as he debates what course his life should take…
Snubbed by critics, I’ll have to agree that The Weather Man is not the film it held the promise of being. It simply tries too hard to provide deep meaning where a little less flair will do the job. The dialogue is a perfect example. It oftentimes seems that the writers were trying to reverse engineer a sort of memorable dialogue situation similar to the famous “quarter-pounder with cheese” exchange from Pulp Fiction. The result is an awkward and tiresome display of such lines as What is that?… It’s a frosty… What’s a frosty? Why would they hit you with a frosty? The audience is left with the feeling that it’s supposed to be captivated by such linguistics, but the result is the exact opposite. Nevertheless, the film is saved by a number of hilarious scenes such as Dave’s pathetic attempt at a spontaneous moment when he pelts his ex-wife with a snowball, the innumerable moments when Dave is bludgeoned with fast food, and one exchange of dialogue which does work when Robert defines the term “camel toe” for his son. Overall, The Weather Man is a decent night’s entertainment, and the film is not completely without value despite its feeble attempt to follow in the footsteps of American Beauty. One just expects more from veteran actors like Cage and Caine…
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Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of The Weather Man (DVD).
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December 13, 2008
Nominated for 9 Craft Awards (bestowed by the Director’s Guild of Canada), Queer As Folk is a groundbreaking drama series that has built itself a large cult following since its inception in 2000. Based on a British TV series of the same name, Queer As Folk is in many ways similar to HBO’s Sex And The City, and it’s one of the first TV dramas to be completely centered around the lives of homosexual characters, or even have prominent homosexual characters - following on the heels of groundbreaking sitcoms such as Ellen (1994) and Will & Grace (1998). The brainchild of UK-born writer and creator Russell T. Davies, Queer As Folk follows the life and times of a group of gay friends as they live out their respective lives in modern-day America…
Set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Queer As Folk follows the exploits of a group of gay and lesbian friends who live on or around Liberty Avenue. Most of the scenes take place either in the character’s homes, a local diner, or the popular gay nightclub Babylon. Lindsay Peterson (Thea Gill) and Melanie Marcus (Michelle Clunie) comprise the lone lesbian couple to star in the series, while various gay friends and neighbors such as Brian Kinney (Gale Harold), Michael Novotny-Bruckner (Hal Sparks), Justin Taylor (Randy Harrison), Ted Schmidt (Scott Lowell), Emmett Honeycutt (Peter Paige), etc. deal with each other and their own varying relationships. Composed in a drama/soap opera format, Queer As Folk centers wholly on the careers and lives (including sex, drugs, love, friendships, tragedies, etc.) of its diverse characters, maintaining a specific focus on its attempted realistic portrayal and illustration of the American homosexual lifestyle…
The Queer As Folk DVD features a number of interesting episodes including the series premiere in which, following a night of entertainment at Babylon with his friends, Brian goes home with a man named Justin, but has a difficult time conveying to Justin that he doesn’t want to pursue a relationship. Meanwhile, friends Lindsay and Melanie are celebrating the birth of their new baby boy, Gus… Other notable episodes from Season 1 include “Episode 110″ in which Brian evicts Justin after he forgets to set the alarm and the place gets robbed, and “Episode 118″ in which Justin learns that his parents are getting a divorce while Ted is reunited with Blake…
Below is a list of episodes included on the Queer As Folk (Season 1) DVD:
Episode 1 (Episode 101) Air Date: 01-17-2003
Episode 2 (Episode 102) Air Date: 01-17-2003
Episode 3 (Episode 103) Air Date: 12-10-2000
Episode 4 (Episode 104) Air Date: 12-17-2000
Episode 5 (Episode 105) Air Date: 01-07-2001
Episode 6 (Episode 106) Air Date: 01-21-2001
Episode 7 (Episode 107) Air Date: 01-28-2001
Episode 8 (Episode 108) Air Date: 02-04-2001
Episode 9 (Episode 109) Air Date: 02-11-2001
Episode 10 (Episode 110) Air Date: 02-18-2001
Episode 11 (Episode 111) Air Date: 02-25-2001
Episode 12 (Episode 112) Air Date: 03-04-2001
Episode 13 (Episode 113) Air Date: 03-11-2001
Episode 14 (Episode 114) Air Date: 03-18-2001
Episode 15 (Episode 115) Air Date: 04-01-2001
Episode 16 (Episode 116) Air Date: 04-08-2001
Episode 17 (Episode 117) Air Date: 04-15-2001
Episode 18 (Episode 118) Air Date: 04-22-2001
Episode 19 (Episode 119) Air Date: 04-29-2001
Episode 20 (Episode 120) Air Date: 06-10-2001
Episode 21 (Episode 121) Air Date: 06-17-2001
Episode 22 (Episode 122) Air Date: 06-24-2001
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Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of the Queer As Folk (DVD).
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