Tonight at 9p the most anticipated TV Movie of the year debuts on Lifetime and you don’t want to miss Liz & Dick!
The biggest problem with Liz & Dick is not Lindsay Lohan’s acting, but the fact that it is like an ’80s biopic miniseries condensed into a 2 hour movie. That means that each scene is about a minute long and you are exhausted by the end of it because it goes by so fast. If this were a 6-hour miniseries; then it would be Lindsay’s acting holding it back, but since it isn’t it just feels like a big rush to cover the love affair without covering it all.
Liz & Dick tells their story from the day they met until they got married for a second time. So we see how Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton hate each other at first, but then you watch as the two of them have one of Hollywood’s greatest love affairs.
The telemovie spends a lot of time on the filming of Cleopatra, but skips over how much trouble it was to get the movie released because of their affair. The two of them are seen filming another movie together, but they neglected all the other movies they filmed as a couple during that time. You see them spend time with their kids, but you never find out they adopted a child when they were married. A big moment in Richard Burton’s life and his decline was when his brother feel down some steps at his house and was left paralyzed. His brother’s eventual death from it, is what is rumored to have caused him to drink uncontrollably but the film just mentions the accident and his death without any consequences. In fact it doesn’t explain what split them up the first time. Although it touches very quickly what brought them together for a second time.
Seriously this telemovie is so rushed, I bet there will be commercials that will air during it that will be longer than most of the scenes in the movie.
So what about Lindsay’s acting, she looks the role but she doesn’t sound it. Lohan can only do one accent, her own. So throughout the whole movie all you hear is her instead of voice closer to Liz’s. Can I say her acting is bad, not really because there is barely any acting it because it is so rushed.
There are two major complaints I have about Lohan in the movie. Lindsay smokes in about the half the movie, yes it was the times, but it was like come on put the cigarette down. Richard Burton was rumored to smoke around 100 cigs a day, yet Grant Bowler is barely seen smoking in it. The other problem is when Lohan dresses up as old Dame Elizabeth Taylor. She looks like a little girl trying to play a senior citizen on Halloween with a cheap wig. It is just so awful, you will find yourself laughing instead of crying. We should be crying because it is when we find out that Burton died, but it is so fast you don’t even shed a tear.
Now I have to say something nice about the movie, the chemistry between Lohan and Bowler is believable. Bowler does the best he can do in a sh!tty situation.
No matter what anyone tells you about the movie, you know you are going to watch to see if it is as bad as we all say. So I have come up with two drinking games for you to play. Game 1: every time Lindsay smokes, drink and every time she cries, chug. Game 2: every time they change a scene, drink. If you opt to play either game, then run to Trader Joe’s and get a case of Two Buck Chuck because everyone who plays the game is going to need a least bottle to get through the movie.
So have fun tonight watching Liz & Dick because it definitely is an experience!
Nicolas Cage has been an action star, he has been romantic, he has been a serious actor and now he wants to do a musical. The Oscar winner told Norm Clarke, “I do want to try a musical at some point … (maybe) a version of one of the great musicals, ‘Guys and Dolls’ or ‘Oklahoma!'” Wait doesn’t Oklahoma have nudity in it?
I am still processing the concept of him singing and dancing, so I am not sure how I feel about it. But you never know, he could surprise us just like he surprised me in, one of my all-time favorite movies, City of Angles.
Hitched for the Holidays debuts on the Hallmark Channel tonight at 8p and you want to watch this sweet movie about finding love in the strangest of circumstances.
Rob Marino (Joey Lawrence) is the eternal bachelor who has no plans of settling down. That is until his dying grandmother’s deathbed wish is that he finds his soul mate. So he lies and tells her he is in love, only problem is that he single with no prospects. What will he do?
Julie’s (Emily Hampshire) mother (MariLu Henner) wants her daughter to get married so badly that she will fix her up with any guy she can. Julie can’t stand the latest guy and feels the only way to get her mom off her back is to get a boyfriend. But we all know that is not easy, so her friend tells her to create an online ad to look for a fake boyfriend.
Julie finds Rob, who is also looking for someone just for the holidays, so she contacts him. The two meet up and have a connection, but that is not what their relationship is all about. Now they are convincing everyone that they are for real, but they are the only ones who know that they aren’t. Or are they? You have to tune into this lovely movie to find out.
Naughty or Nice debuts tonight at 8p on Hallmark Channel and you are going to want to watch this movie so Santa doesn’t put you on his Naughty List!
Krissy Kringle (Hilarie Burton), no relation, hates her name almost as much as she hates living on Candy Cane Lane (her neighbors changed the name of the street after she moved in). So now that is Christmas time, she is already in a Bah Humbug mood and that was before she was laid off from her job. Her mom comes to her rescue and gets her a job working as a gift wrapper at a mall and that is not the worst of it. She will have to dress as an elf and work at Santa’s Village to boot. At this point she is a total Scrooge, but things are about to change. A book sent to thee Kris Kringle is accidentally sent to her instead and now she knows who is on the Naughty List. She will start busting people for the bad things they have done and things seems to be going so much better for her. That is until she starts screwing up her life with misinformation. That is until her parents (played by Family Ties’ Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter) remind her that there are two sides to every story. That’s when she realizes that the book also has Nice List and she starts to right her wrongs. But is it too late for her? You will have to turn into this nice movie to find out!
Dear Susan Boyle, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, You have all been dethroned by PSY on YouTube. His Gangnan Style music video now holds the title of Most Watched according to NDTV. That horse riding dance has been viewed over 805,055,375 times. OK so now that almost everyone in the world has seen that dance, can we please please please move on to the next musical fad?
