David cook today show
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
American Id
I don’t watch reality TV. Don’t care the least bit for it. As bad as the singers (term used loosely) look in the commercials for the first episodes of American Idol I still can’t be bothered to watch it. But someone was playing the following clip at work today and it made me laugh.
Gladys Knight Auditions Pips
And I also came across this news article which made me laugh. (And therefore the title of the thread.)
American Idol’ Fans Complain: TiVo Ruins FinaleAgain!
“The winner is . . . David . . .” Argh!
That’s how last night’s “American Idol” finale wrapped up for some viewers who had taped the show on TiVos and other digital-video recorder devices. Because “Idol” ran slightly long, some DVRs cut off the show before the winner was revealedleaving those viewers hanging at the most suspenseful moment.
The poorly timed cutoff has become something of a tradition for the Fox program. Viewers who timeshifted the show with DVRs were denied the climactic moment last year, too.
If anything, this year’s incident was worse. The “Idol” finale came down to two contestants, both named David. Some viewers report that their DVRs stopped recording just after host Ryan Seacrest uttered the words, “The winner, by 12 million votes, of American Idol’ 2008 is . . . David”—but before he revealed the last name. (The winner was David Cook, who bested David Archuleta.)
How can this problem be avoided? If Fox fails to ensure that the show ends as scheduled, DVR owners must pad their recording times to catch the overrun. That’s a common tactic for recording football games and other live shows of indeterminate length, but it isn’t usually needed for regularly scheduled primetime programming. (Fox is owned by News Corp., which Powered by Tumblr also owns Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal and this blog.)
TiVo ruined the finale again? Apparently these people have never heard the saying, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Seems they’re the fools. Any “important” shows (to me) get padded with extra recording time on my DVR. (Lost gets an extra fifteen minutes.) And anything on Fox automatically gets padded at the end and the beginning because the Fox starting times always seem to be slightly off from the time settings of my provider (satellite Browser Archive now, but even when I had cable) and every other channel in the line up. Stupid Fox.
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when my relation troy suggested to me that we blog involving our 25 favorite albums and movies, it got me thinking about the difference between ‘favorite’ and ‘best’. i have kind of touched on this a little with this post about my appetite in movies, and how that taste evolves above time. i also perfectly explained in my post about indiana jones and the last crusade that that film holds a particularly close place in my film-going heart. it is the first mist where i started to notice other aspects of filmmaking besides the action on the screen. what is the difference between ‘favorite’ and ‘best’ anyway? is there a imbalance? to me it’s the difference between something like the virgin spring and aliens. yes, those two films have nothing to do with each other, except after the fact that i control the former in towering regard. i would even location it on my rota of the 25 greatest films yet made. aliens? probably not. but there are fewer films i can think of that i find more entertaining than james cameron’s hyper-kinetic action/sci-fi masterpiece. which brings about another dispute: are films by bergman, ozu, fellini, etc. not entertaining? can only oustandingly budget movies or genre pictures be called entertaining? and if so, is this a way that more straightforward film-goers fully get across the difference between the two in broken to save their credibility? is there a prestige between film and movies?i require always explained to people that film, unequal to only one artistic mediums, has the ability to revolution perspectives and make profound statements about life. it’s the most interesting of art forms (to me) and i adoration nothing more than absorbing the philosophies and images of a bergman or fellini. but would i just pop in cries and whispers while i’m working on a crossword puzzle or cleaning the apartment? probably not. it’s a video that requires your utmost attention to its finely crafted details; simply it cannot be half-watched. a film liking aliens even so can, and i would argue it can still be enjoyed the unaltered as if you were giving the take your full attention.of course i am speaking primarily of my favorites; films i have seen time and time again, that for some reason keep me coming back for more. some of these are honourable great films that i grew up with; others are more serious films that i have contrived over the years. but i keep coming back to the debate that i faced a tons when i worked at a video store: can a ‘heavy’ film (like bergman) be entertaining? i come up with it can, and i over most of his films are exhilarating experiences. sure, not in the steven spielberg/george lucas sense, but they unique and life altering experiences with motion picture. they also consist of moments where the pieces seem to fit from other films. as you watch these classics and masters at work, one can see how other films have been influenced by, and utilized the skills that the bergman’s and the fellini’s used years before them. understanding the referential aspect of film is only obtainable by watching movies that are often timed deemed ‘too serious’.
that term bothers me, because there are plenty of bad movies made recently that people claim to love, but i would qualify them as ‘too serious’. this can funds a number of things, but i mostly attribute this to the filmmakers thinking that their film is a lot more important than any other film released that year because they are making an important societal report. films be babel, children of men, crash have garnered both a lot of praise and a lot of hate. i didn’t as a matter of course point to the in the beginning two films entertaining or effective (although i could appreciate the plane that went into them), but i enjoyed crash (i’m not ashamed, i don’t worry how much passage cred i lose because of it) and found it unusually done with-the-top operatic and witty. this is an example of a popular film that many regular joe movie-goers create to be both serious and engaging. i would say the same about a motion picture much the same as 8 1/2, undoubtedly the best film i have till the cows come home seen, and coincidentally one of my favorite movies, too. it’s a film experience unlike any other and i can safely noise abroad that i would enjoy watching the f
javier mascherano today told of his blessing at scoring his first liverpool aspiration but pledged to continue putting the needs of the team before personal glory.
