Originally Posted by
Comic-Reader Lad
OK, never bothered with these kinds of threads before, but after now reading the posts up until now, I'll play along:
- Friends is a good show -- especially after its first season when they were trying too hard to be hip and quirky. The relationships of the characters and the chemistry of the ensemble are all rock solid. You can take any pairing of characters, put them in a room together, and the results were great. I especially loved how all the friends were actually friends. This is one area where I think Friends WAS "groundbreaking." Most sitcoms have some characters who don't get along with each other, but are forced to interact with each other in every episode because in Hollywood conflict = guffaws. But, in Friends, all 6 friends all got along with each other and cared about each other. That WAS groundbreaking and very refreshing, and I think that's a lot of the key to the show's continued success.
- In contrast, I have the same reaction a lot of you do with Friends as far as The Big Bang Theory goes: I think it sucks, and I could never make myself watch it for more than a few minutes. I did watch the finale, as I try to watch finales of long running hit series, but it was pretty underwhelming to me. I guess it may have meant more to people who watched the series all the way through.
- I vastly prefer the DCEU movies to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and I don't get the love for Captain America: Winter Soldier. Good Lord, what a cliched mess that was. Nick Fury handing a flash drive to Captain America and saying "Take this...don't trust anyone... and then "dying" is something that parodies of spy movies do. They did that on an episode of Laverne and Shirley over 40 years ago.
- Without the novelty of an interconnected movie universe, most of the Marvel movies are quite mediocre. The only decent villain the MCU had was Thanos, and he was a CGI guy who was a Darkseid ripoff in the comics, and in the movies took it a step further by ripping off Ra's Al Ghul's schtick of mass genocide in order to create a better tomorrow.
- Musicals are great and so is live theater. They are definitely different experiences that what we're used to in standard TV and movies, and it did take me awhile to understand that, but once I did, I became a fan of both. Are musicals corny? Yes -- especially the classic ones, but that's the whole point. They are supposed to be unabashedly upbeat, cheery, positive, and life affirming, and that's why as TV and movies get more and more cynical and angry with each passing year, I appreciate old musicals and old Hollywood movies in general all the more. When I see a live theater presentation (and I live in NYC, so I get to see Broadway), I feel enriched. The productions are often amazing to see live.