Well, hello there, kind folks. If you’re visiting this blog of mine, I presume that you have a certain interest in the cinema. As for me, even since my early childhood, I have had a deep love of everything related to movies and television. As far as I can remember, I have been more at ease in front of a screen than in the yard, outside, playing. It is a great way to travel, though other people’s stories, without having to foot any kind of steep bill. Over the years, I feel that movie-watching has even fuelled my own creativity.

All that being said, I welcome you in my Cinephile’s Nest. I hope you enjoy it here, feel free to come back at any time. Here you will find reviews of current movies and older ones. TV shows also. Some classics that have remained some of my favourites, some that have disappointed me. I will use a very basic star (*) system to grade them from 1 to 5 (5 being sliced bread level). Remember, these are just my tastes. I will try to explain in each review what I liked about these particular movies, without giving spoilers.

Il y aura aussi des critiques en français pour les films francophones, car j'aime également le cinéma dans ma langue maternelle. Avant d'apprendre l'anglais, plus jeune, je louais des tonnes de films traduits en français, surtout ceux de Bud Spencer et Terrence Hill. Ma mère a eu le choc de sa vie lorsqu'un jour, dans la boîte d'un de ces films, Deep Throat avait malencontreusement inséré. Une expérience formatrice pour le jeune cinéphile que je suis.

Bienvenue à tous, amusez-vous bien.

I welcome you all here, enjoy yourself.

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Two and a Half Men (2003-2015)

 

Genre: TV / Comedy
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones, Ashton Kutcher 
Number of seasons: 12

 

For the first eight seasons, Two and a Half Men focused mainly on Charlie Harper, a boozing and womanizing jingle writer who takes into his Malibu home his brother Alan and his nephew Jake after the down-on-his-luck chiropractor sibling gets divorced. For the last four seasons, after a very public falling out between main star Charlie Sheen and co-creator Chuck Lorre, Ashton Kutcher was brought in as Walden Schmidt, an Internet millionaire, who buys Charlie Harper’s home and still keeps Alan and Jake with him.

Had this show ended after 8 seasons, after the issues with Sheen, it would be one of my favorite TV comedies. The humor was low brow, but it made me laugh out loud so many times. Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer had a good chemistry, but the secondary characters were a real strength of the show. Favorites of mine were Bertha, the housekeeper, and the sarcastic psychiatrist played by Jane Lynch.

When Kutcher got in, there was still a good amount of funny lines, but I never connected with the Walden Schmidt character. He annoyed me. And Jon Cryer’s character got way too one-dimensional. By the end, the storylines started making less and less sense and it became long overdue to pull the plug.

As for the ending, it could have been so much better, had people manage to put their egos aside. Sure, the show creators and writers had the good sense to poke fun at themselves, but it all felt like a giant middle finger to Charlie Sheen.

 

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