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Funny You Should Ask (2017)
Cheap prizes and contestant discrimination
As much as I really like this show, there are a few things that bother me about it.
(A) The contestants ALL appear to be UNDER the age of fifty or even forty years old. Also, very few are "average" looking or are over-weight. All are thin or healthy looking and many could even be considered "model material". Surely not ALL people in the LA area look like this. One might think that an age discrimination lawsuit could be in Bryon Allen's future.
(B) The amounts awarded the contestants seems pretty small. I would raise the amounts a little to make the contestants and the audiences feel like the contestants are REALLY taking some money home that will TRULY make a difference in their lives and that the shows producers aren't CHEAPSKATES. And who cares what they want to do with the little amount they may take home? Skip that part altogether so there will be more time to make more money.
(C) Tell your audience members NOT to SCREAM AT THE TOP OF THEIR LUNGS. Especially if they have high pitched screams. That is the fastest way to lose your TV audience or at least have them reaching for the MUTE button.
Bad Jim (1990)
When the title of the movie is about the movie.
Not the worst western I've ever seen, but hardly a good one. The lead actor and son of a Hollywood icon is not the actor his dad was. Most of his dialogue sounded overly rehearsed and hardly natural. Then there was a song played in the middle of the movie, probably called Renegade that sounded like something from Air Supply in a late 70s or early 80s in a bad cop movie. This movie like many westerns seemed to not only endorse prostitution, but this one made no big deal about the poor Mexican underage prostitute who appeared to be about 12 years old. Realistic? Probably, but why did this movie gloss over it like it was no big deal. I guess the words pedophile or statutory rape didn't exist in the old west like they do in the new Hollywood. And the wagon train Indian fight was poorly choreographed at best.
Hickok (2017)
Should have been called Hiccup.
The ONLY things decent about this movie were the sets and the acting by the 2 seasoned pros. The dialogue was horrible and sounded like they stole the script from a bunch of other poorly written westerns. Most of the acting was either lackluster or over the top. There were things in certain scenes that were NOT written into the script that made no sense whatsoever.
The dialogue was only made better because of the sound because you couldn't HEAR THEM half of the time. If I turned the sound WAY up to hear the dialogue, then fight/shooting scenes were WAY TOO LOUD. I had to restart the movie and put on the closed captions so I knew what they were saying. The musical score was also plain and boring, a real snooze fest.
I tried watching "The Making of Hickok" but stopped it early because you couldn't hear the comments of most of the actors, and the director...OMG! The director was like listening to crickets chirping. His deadpan and monotone way of talking was EXACTLY like the movie. DULL!
Don't waste your time or money on this one. As someone who has been watching a LOT of westerns from the mid-40's to more recent movies, this was one of the worst I've seen. The real Hickok probably deserved a better representation that this dud.