Every commercial break in the cricket highlights tonight
carried a trailer for the new series of CSI:Miami. There were cars crashing, cars driving off
piers, cars blowing up, people shooting at people, people shouting at people,
people giving people of the opposite sex those hilarious ‘do sexy’ looks – all the
usual stuff you associate with programmes down at that end of the spectrum and
which you’d begun to find tiresome by the age of about twelve. But then
something interesting happened...
The screen was filled with two small words, but six big
letters:
ONE MAN! it said, obviously introducing the star and hero.
And so he appeared – whatever his name is – in four or five
short clips. But in each one he was taking
his sunglasses off. Well, if that isn’t a transparently pointed message, I
don’t know what is. The makers of the trailer evidently needed to make it clear
that:
‘We know this stuff is made for people with no brain cells,
but we want you to be in no doubt that we get the joke. OK?’
OK.
7 comments:
Oh that show is the worst! And the character taking his glasses off is named Horatio... and i hate him, lol. You'd think it was meant for comic relief the way he does that with his glasses but it isn't. I think the actor is completely unaware of how stupid it is but its such a joke. My friends and i, years ago made a drinking game of it. The funniest thing about it is the horrible dialog. He always says something that is meant to be deep or bad ass, like getting the last word in on an insult but its more like a punch line before taking his sunglasses off. I'll have to link you to a hilarious video of Jim Carey making fun of it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds8k0TOBPwA Jim Carrey
From the show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeeyWvo1rNg
There are some other funny videos making fun of it.
Never watched it, Andrea, but the sunglasses thing had to be a joke.
Yeah, i'd say now after all the sketches, etc, poking fun of it they are in on the joke but for the longest time it wasn't meant to be funny. I haven't seen it in years and i never really watched it seriously to begin with.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIe_EMOPVh8
I just watched Jim Carey. You'd think the formula would be dead by now, wouldn't you?
Yes. I'd think at the very least the actor would feel a bit foolish and put an end to it. I don't understand how he did it to begin with. Maybe once or twice, but how did he seriously do that? Good paycheck maybe.
I'm sure there are lots and lots of people who think he's wonderful. People like you and me have to keep our heads down until we're beyond it, I suppose. It's why I live in a place like this, but even here I can't get completely beyond it.
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