{"id":139,"date":"2003-06-10T06:38:15","date_gmt":"2003-06-10T11:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=139"},"modified":"2015-05-08T12:42:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:42:53","slug":"tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/10\/tuesday.html","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hence, This-or-That<\/a>: TV Shows\/Movies Edition.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

1. “The Munsters” or “The Addams Family”?<\/b> The Munsters <\/i>always seemed goofy to me. Nobody you could take seriously. The Addams Family<\/i>, though — now, they had style<\/i>. The Munsters were no real threat to the neighborhood. The Addams — well, you can imagnie the occasional salesman or kid being swallowed up by a plant, or hauled off by Grand-Mama to fill out a stew. And the Tish\/Gomez romance was legendary.<\/p>\n

Proof of the matter comes in the movies. You can’t imagine The Munsters <\/i>being any more than a series of gags. The Addams Family <\/i>movies had meat on those gnawed bones.<\/p>\n

And as much as I enjoyed Fred Gwynne, John Astin rocks<\/i>.<\/p>\n

2. “The Sopranos” or the “Godfather” movies?<\/b> We don’t get HBO, so I’ve only seen two eps of Sopranos<\/i>, while on business trips. I enjoyed both of them. I have, on the other hand, never seen The Godfather <\/i>(and, yes, I know that I should). So I’ll have to pass on this one.<\/p>\n

3. “The Jetsons” or “Lost in Space”?<\/b> Apples and Orangs. The former was an occasionally witty satire on modern society (a la The Flintstones), the latter an sf adventure show that turned into high camp. <\/p>\n

4. “Superman” or “Batman” (either the TV shows or the movies)?<\/b> I’d better make it the movies, since there have been eleventy-dozen Superman TV shows (not even counting cartoons).<\/p>\n

Well, okay, cartoons: I prefer the (recent) Superman animated series (WB) over the Batman ones, though I’ll watch either at the drop of a hat. And I particularly liked the “World’s Finest” cross-over between them.<\/p>\n

Movies? I never really did believe a man could fly in the Christopher Reeves Superman <\/i>flick, though it was a decent enough film (Superman II <\/i>had better battles, if vomitous romance). And I liked Gene Hackman’s Lex Luthor.<\/p>\n

Tim Burton’s Batman <\/i>was a tour-de-force<\/i>, despite some odd quirks (it’s impossible to imagine a Burton film without odd quirks, to be fair). And, as insane as it sounds, it was more believable.<\/p>\n

5. “Sex & The City” or “Friends”?<\/b> I have not watched either of them enough to form an opinion — nor do I wish to.<\/p>\n

6. “The Wizard of Oz” or the “Harry Potter” movies?<\/b> An odd combo. I’d probably have to go for the WoO <\/i>classic, over the decently adapted but (I suspect) not-long-term-classic Potter <\/i>flicks.<\/p>\n

7. “The Simpsons” or “King of the Hill”?<\/b> It’s probably unfair to lump these two together, regardless of how Fox broadcasts them. The Simpsons <\/i>is a modern comedy-of-the-surreal classic, and one that will be mined by sociologists for decades, if not centuries, to come, for all its references to modern culture and personalities. King of the Hill <\/i>is just fine comedy — the low-flow toilet episode is one of my faves — that deserves a lot more credit than it gets.<\/p>\n

8. “Grease” or “Saturday Night Fever”?<\/b> Never watched either.<\/p>\n

9. Old prime-time soaps: “Dallas” or “Dynasty”?<\/b> Never watched either, either. Though, as a Denverite, I probably need to vote for Dynasty <\/i>— it’s interesting seeing the “old” oil-based Denver in it.<\/p>\n

10. Not very thought-provoking this week…do you prefer TV shows or movies?<\/b> A great TV series will beat a great movie, just because of the ability of the story and characters to evolve. A great movie will beat a great TV episode, just because of the craftsmanship that can go into it (along with the longer running time).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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