http://urbanhonking.com/isawthat Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:36:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://urbanhonking.com/isawthat/2011/05/26/new-netflix-languishing-by-the-tvside/ http://urbanhonking.com/isawthat/2011/05/26/new-netflix-languishing-by-the-tvside/#comments Thu, 26 May 2011 02:15:28 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/isawthat/?p=166 Continue reading →]]> No movies have happened this week. The baby we own is learning how to sleep in his crib and some days he prefers to wake up at 3 a.m. and so I have to go to sleep by 10 and so in lieu of watching the three movies I have from Netflix (Movern Caller–lady directore, about a girl that publishes a book after her boyf’s suicide, The Illusionist (the Franch cartoon) and the Henri Cartier-Bresson doc that is going to have to start paying rent here soon it’s stayed so long) I have been watching DAMAGES on the Netflix Instant. This is not a TV blog, so I will not get into it but for only to tell you that Glenn Closes character is written as basically a “feminist” (airquotes) extension of the role she played in Fatal Attraction, and as you may remember from Susan Faludi’s Backlash she was infamously slapped by the director so that she would act mo’ crazy. Well, I doubt anyone is slapping G-Clo these days, cos her “bitch” is corpo x Godzilla +powersuitting + second-tier cable network show writing. She gets to say lines like “When you take power away from a man, some has to pay–someone always pays.” Also, Ted Danson is on it as a billionaire and when they want him to be “contemplative” they show him cleaning his pool while smoking a cigar and staring into the horizon. It’s super bad-good.

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