"Sweep! Sweeeeeeeep!"
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icepixieI may have a tiny little crush on Paul Gross. He is quite pretty, after all (there is no way he's in his mid-40s, surely), and he appears to play a lot of softspoken, sensitive, very-intelligent-but-very-oblivious-and-maybe-a-bit-crazy characters I like, and play them well. Hence, today I watched Men with Brooms.
It was predictable and a bit cheesy in places, but, dude. It's about curling, which is possibly the goofiest sport ever invented. It probably could've been ten times more predictable and cheesy and still been funny. I know there are people who take it seriously, but I can't see two people furiously sweeping a patch of ice in front of a slooowly sliding ball of rock without cracking up, I just can't.
Paul Gross's character is very much like Geoffrey Tennant, soall you Slings & Arrows fans ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rowdycamels, you may want to check it out. He even went crazy and left his fiancee at the altar, and, apparently, can at least hear a dead father-figure, if not respond to him. And as far as I can tell, PG has it stipulated in his contract that everything he does involves a shot of his naked rear end. So, lots of similarities. Obviously.
And Beth, Sharon's kinda-but-not-really girlfriend from Wonderfalls, shows up in this! She's blonde this time. I think she looks better as a blonde, actually, although she's quite pretty no matter what.
Anyway. Obviously, I now need to see Due South.
It was predictable and a bit cheesy in places, but, dude. It's about curling, which is possibly the goofiest sport ever invented. It probably could've been ten times more predictable and cheesy and still been funny. I know there are people who take it seriously, but I can't see two people furiously sweeping a patch of ice in front of a slooowly sliding ball of rock without cracking up, I just can't.
Paul Gross's character is very much like Geoffrey Tennant, so
rowdycamels, you may want to check it out. He even went crazy and left his fiancee at the altar, and, apparently, can at least hear a dead father-figure, if not respond to him. And as far as I can tell, PG has it stipulated in his contract that everything he does involves a shot of his naked rear end. So, lots of similarities. Obviously.And Beth, Sharon's kinda-but-not-really girlfriend from Wonderfalls, shows up in this! She's blonde this time. I think she looks better as a blonde, actually, although she's quite pretty no matter what.
Anyway. Obviously, I now need to see Due South.
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Date: 2007-02-07 12:35 am (UTC)Honestly, I've not watched all that many of the DVD eps I have due to sheer lack of time. I mean, I'd watch the 2-hour pilot first because it sets the whole thing up, but otherwise...just go for it. I don't recall it being complicatedly serialized though I think there are a few minor elements that recur here and there.
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Date: 2007-02-07 11:57 pm (UTC):D
Watched the dS pilot today. Heh. I'm not completely sold on buying the DVDs yet, but I'm a big chunk of the way there.