What was that mess today!

 Gave me a chance to see the brilliance of these actors in something other than their normal soap star genre.  Honestly, I believe James Scott and Arianne Zucker can do just about anything, and look terrific doing it.  From The King’s Speech to The Fighter, they were tops for me.  My Emmy goes to both of them as top lead male and female in a "spoof".  I especially liked the well-done accents all of the actors portrayed.  Again, E.J. and Nicole cracked me up, and Peter did a fantastic job as Rooster Cogburn.  I thought Molly was good, but not as great as some of the others.  The writer for most of these had to be the same one(s) who write so well for the fantastic Victor Kiriakis and his hilarious one-liners we hear so often.  from Peter’s line to ‘Lil’ Sis’ …. "you wanna’ kill em’, give him some of that buttermilk….’  or E.J.’s line discussing his English nannie …. when he said ‘nah, I ain’t eatin’ none a’ dat slop," had me laughing out loud.  Nicole’s Boston accent in The fighter was brilliantly done, and Eric Martsolf nailed Mark Wahlberg to a "T".  Then, Eric and James as the two brothers at the end of The Fighter, sitting together at a table at The Cheating Heart discussing their lives, with James taking a swat at Eric’s head telling him, ‘hey, I’m talkin’ here, don’t talk when I’m talkin’  was a classic spoof of their supposed real fight on the show.  Everyone else did a magnificent job as well, from Judi as the mom in The Fighter, to all of the blonde sisters, to Suzanne as the crazed mom guilting her child in the Black Swan, to everyone in The Social Network, and I mean everyone, especially Chad and the Kunitz twins.  I mean I absolutely loved it.  Then, at the end, when everyone walked back out into the sunshine, Peter’s little role telling Ciara how it was sort of the end of an era, and the beginning of things to come, was so foreshadowing.  At least that’s the way I preferred to take it.   Nice break from the norm …. now, back to business.

                                                  THE END

I have 3 girls–6, 10 and 13. My husband and I never go to the movies, we have to wait for everything to come out on Netflix. Therefore, I’ve seen none of the movies that were spoofed. So for me, I was totally lost and really didn’t enjoy the distraction. I think if you’ve seen the actual movie, maybe you would have enjoyed the Days interpretation. I was pretty bored with it and didn’t enjoy it, I just didn’t know what most of the movies were about so I couldn’t make a connection. I will say I thought Peter Reckell did a good job, I didn’t know who he was at first, and cute Theo did an excellent job! Nice to see him with a meaty line.

like the in between scenes of the teens at the table in The Pub.  I have to say that most of their dialogue made no sense to me at all and they were speaking so fast, I couldn’t understand the words they were saying!  They could have left that part of the show out completely as far as I was concerned. 

whether or not you had seen the movies.  Because they were the best picture nominees, they were showing clips of them all over TV before the Oscars.  And the spoofs were mainly of the clips they had shown.  I didn’t see The Fighter but recognized the move right away.

since I FF’d through any and all t.v. commericals – and haven’t watched an Academy Awards show or any TMZ type shows – (because I don’t watch the Hollyweird drivel) in years or read (m)rags like "People or US" unless I’m stuck in a doctor’s office – I didn’t know what these movies were about.  Unless the movie was from a best seller, I normally don’t know what’s been turned into a movie…maybe it’s because I’m old now and don’t keep up with the latest and greatest "hits"…give me classical and time honored movies and literature any day…A Tale of Two Cities · Heart of Darkness · The Scarlet Letter · Adventures of Huck Finn · The Canterbury Tales · Beowulf

but one (or more) of these could also become a classic eventually.  The King’s Speech could certainly become one, not only for its entertainment value but also for its historical (which, from other programs I’ve seen, depicted it pretty much accurately).  (Sorry about the poor sentence structure here but am under heavy pain meds which are affecting my poor old brain.)

And these movies were not only on programs like Entertainment Tonight or other of those type shows but also on the mainstream primetime "news" (20/20, 60 Minutes, etc.) and late-night shows (Leno, Letterman, etc.)  I don’t know how anyone that watches TV or reads a newspaper could not possibly know what shows these were.  Just sayin’…