Bob,
I have always liked getting into bed, especially on a cold night, and watching a good baseball from your side of the country, a “light” movie and a good TV show. So I put up, by our standards, a small Home theatre in my bedroom.
I have a 6.1 system in the bedroom: A Marantz 8002 receiver, a Pioneer Elite 50 inch TV, and Oppo 95, 3 in wall speakers in the front and three in ceiling ones in the back, along with an in ceiling sub-woofer. The TV is in specially built closet so the system takes up virtually no space in the room.
As I have gotten older, I sometimes tucker out earlier than I used to, so I went to the bedroom. Monday night there was NOT a decent TV show to be found. There used to be one or two shows on every night that I could watch, but boy, has that shipped sailed. Other than News and sports, gosh there is [precious little on Network TV.
I did see a movie called “Raising Helen.” This was a small movie with a decent cast that didn’t stop it from being a terrible picture. Helen, played by the beautiful Kate Hudson, a free spirit single woman, unexpectedly inherits three children when her sister passes. As bad as that was the sister was lucky that she didn’t have to suit through the whole movie. Everything, the dialogue, the plot, the ending was predictable and cliché and boring And just not funny. Garry Marshall, the director, has done a few decent movies, but he has such a sit com approach to everything. In fact this could have been a sit com pilot, coping Bachelor Father, Family Affair, and a few thousand others.
On thing. There must be a close up of Kate Hudson every 36 seconds. As with many beautiful women in the movies, she didn’t act, she posed throughout the entire movie.
Tonight I do get two TV shows: NCIS and SHIELD.