Smash on tv

I'm watching the macy's thanksgiving parade and they had an ad for smash!

It wasn't just an ad for smash...it was an ad for smash where jack davenport can be heard AND seen! Usually, they show the shorter one where it just has his voice. Sadly, I'm getting used to the American accent.

I got to show my mom. She's thinks she might watch it!

She wasn't sure since we don't like glee that well.

Yay! Jack looks REALLY good and he gets to be sexy smarmy. I can't wait.

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Muppets, Hugo and Arthur Christmas

So, for The Muppets, we were afraid of a time problem with Hugo so I missed almost all of the credits after they stopped having the celebrities having fun. Was there anything else to it?

Have they dropped Clifford as a Muppet? Why wasn't Robin mentioned?

Otherwise, I'll write up a more complex review soon. I'm not saying it was bad. I liked it and as a movie, it was good. It's just that it wasn't entirely what I was expecting but my expectations were pretty high and doomed to fail. It seems like The Muppets have grown up like the rest of us when we weren't paying attention. They have more grown-up problems. I also have a couple of complaints about Small Fry although overall, I liked it. It was cute.

P.S. To my The Big Bang Theory friends, does Jim Parsons really play the piano? I know Jason Segel can.

I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED Hugo. I cannot say enough good things about it. If you think of yourself as a cinema fan, film buff and/or film historian, YOU MUST SEE THIS!

It's a film about the early, early film history made by someone who cherishes each and every frame of those old silent films. It amounts to a beautiful love letter that isn't afraid to show the bad parts and tragedy. My mom and I found it simply amazing to be able to see those old films on the big screen as intended. Most of the clips are from Georges Méliès' work but there is also Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin and those short films made in the 1890s when film-making was new. Another real highlight to the experience is L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat by the Lumière brothers. Fellow film geeks may recall that this is the early film behind the story, possibly an urban myth, that the audience screamed in fear while watching it, scared that the train would hit them.

To see these pieces of cinema that I've read so much about and seen on much smaller screens...it was just...amazing to infinity and beyond. Some places, like Tampa Theatre, do give limited opportunities a few times a year to see the silent films but they are limited and usually charge a lot more than what a 2D admission would cost. Yes, I did 2D but if you can stomach 3D, then you should do it with this film. I think it would be worth it for these cinematic treasures alone.

Arthur Christmas...well, if James McAvoy is involved, I'm probably going to watch, right?
This was a LOT better than I was expecting. Of course, only in an animated film can you have James McAvoy and Hugh Laurie play brothers while their parents are Jim Broadbent and Imelda Staunton, their grandfather is Bill Nighy and assorted elf voices include Eva Longoria, Andy Serkis and Robbie Coltrane.

It was really cute though with some ideas similar to Prep and Landing but done better with more back-story and a sense of character history. The animation was also adorable and while I assume everyone is talking about end credits song with Justin Bieber, I was more excited to recognize Bill Nighy's singing voice on the first of the end credits songs. Now, we just need like 8 more songs and we can have a Bill Nighy Christmas album.