Movie - TV – Commercial Pissers (Ocean’s 13, Finale of Sopranos, 24 & Ask.com)

(Picture taken from my wifes office in Hollywood)

Ocean’s 13

I want my money and time back for seeing this movie. Ocean’s 12 was horrible and this one was right up there with it. I thought Oceans 11 was a terrific movie and hoped they would correct themselves on 13 for the lame plot line of 12.

Steven Soderberg, the man who brought us Oceans 11 and Erin Brokovich has no idea how to make a good heist movie. There was absolutely no surprise or suspense and there is nothing more annoying then introducing new characters at the end of a movie to help complete the story. I call those the “How Convenient” plot twist.

The back and forth with time got annoying but to top it off the actors cool one liners became tiring. We accepted the fact Clooney and Pit were cool in Oceans 11, which is why we came back for more. It appeared the script was just full of bad one-liners.

In typical Hollywood fashion they tried to spoon feed elements which they thought the audience wanted but they got it all wrong.

Season Finale of the Sopranos

Seriously, for weeks I was anticipating the season finale as I had been watching the show religiously since 1999. I am sure there are many people who found it profound that they focused the last few episodes on AJ’s depression but I wanted more Tony Soprano mob action. For years AJ has been nothing more than a bitchy character and I think our time could have better been spent focusing on the mobs business.

How they ended this show was so infuriating I almost called my cable company and canceled my service because I thought my cable went out. I felt that little ending stunt of theirs was like a big “F-U”. It goes to show you can have a loyal fan for 8 long years and it takes only a few seconds to flip them.

24

Basically we stopped watching this show mid season. The blowing up of Valencia, Ca was sweet action but the whole concept of Jack Bauer had jumped the shark several seasons ago. I found this past season long and boring. It just felt like work and a commitment I was not willing to engage.

Ask.com Commercials

I have now scene these new Ask.com commercials of people singing in Broadway fashion a few times and every time I see them I keep thinking I am watching an Ebay Ad. I think whoever put these ads together should be fired. For years Ebay has set the stage for those type of musical commercials and Ask is doing nothing more but making me think of Ebay while spending millions on television advertising.

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