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I love the old series. Elizabeth Montgomery - who couldn't love that? I harbor many fantasies that involve Nicole Kidman. Wil Ferrell has made me laugh in the past. I respect Michael Caine, mostly for Dressed to Kill. I can't stand Shirley Maclaine. But what killed this movie was Nora Ephron. Silkwood was ok, but then I think she fell in love with Meg Ryan and has been doing Sleepless in Seattle/You got mail over and over again. It's amazing how much Nicole apes Meg in Bewitched, disturbingly amazing, and a shameful waste. And it doesn't helpthat the plot is a shambles. Avoid this one. For the sanctity of Elizabeth, avoid it like the plague...
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i've only seen a few of the episodes, enough to realize that nora actually bothered to go back and watch a few and more's the shame. we own the dvd now, the colorized version sadly because we didn't know the original b&w was even available. i like it better now than i did then. man, they could drink on that show. sam is always pouring darren drinks. it always bothered me taht darren got so stressed - here he had this beautiful wife that could do anything - and now i realized she was a great bartender too. dang. no wonder darren had to switch out half way through the series.
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We've completed the first season. Amusing. Surprisingly Tara friendly, which is more than can be said for most evening TV nowadays. And no commercials. Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York had great comic timing, considering the premise. They're both quick with absurd expressions. There's an added track that mentions all the mediocre star cameos - Paul Lynde, Arte Johnson, the girl who played Marsha Brady, etc. I noticed Raquel Welch was credited as s stewardess, but you can't see her from the front ever and her line goes by too fast to tell. You;d think they'd have mentioned that.
Just starting season two this week.
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On the third episode of the second season, a very young James 'Scotty' Doohan has a role as a warlock dad. Best cameo so far. He even 'beams up' at the end. Well sort of. That was worth the whole series, just to see him skinny and hear him without that outrageuos accent.
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I saw the movie the other night. It was actually better than I expected, but I admit that I thought it would be crap. It was fluff, but entertaining enough. (Much like the movies channel 2 used to show in the afternoon when I was a kid.) I particularly liked when she put a spell on Will Farrell to blow his lines. It seemed to me that he was sort of parodying his own work then.
Admittedly, the plot was junk. The idea that he'd fall in love with her because she told him off was absurd. It could have been much better.
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There is mounting evidence that King Bob is not our Bob. How do we know you're the real Bob anyway? The real Bob liked Bewtiched and not Batman Begins? That's too weird. Maybe you've been sober too long...
...or not.
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Well I admit that I enjoy fluff on dvd while I relax on the couch. Work is often unpleasant, so I like to veg out. And I think Nicole Kidman and Will Farrell inclined me to like it.
And Batman Begins wasn't good, but not crap enough to be really enjoyable. Nowhere near as enjoyable as say Resident Evil, or Blade or Van Helsing. It needed some editing! I think if it had been about 90 minutes it would have been much better. On the plus side, it was nowhere near as crappy as Batman and Robin.
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Season one, Samantha is strangely submissive to her love of Darrin - a good period housewife. By the 2nd series, she stands more independantly, less ashamed of her quirks, more at ease. The whole cast is in a groove. They've figured out their roles, the show is a hit and they're enjoying themselves. That groove continues in season 3. Season three switches out two major characters, Gladys Kravitz and Louise Tate. The new Gladys is horrible. She lacks the neuroses of the original, the felling that it might be her madness after all, and replaces it with more obnoxiousness. The new Louise Tate is seemless. It takes a few moments to even realized she's been replaced. I think this is when the show went color, but it doesn't make much of a splash since we got the colorized versions of season 1 & 2. And Tabitha is introduced.
Caught Inherit the Wind last night on PBS. First time I've seen it, actually. I was rivetted. Mrs. Dm has the play, of course. Anyway, Dick York is the accussed Darwin teacher. He's great in the role.
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This is the best season so far. The fashion, especially Samantha's, is over the top. Insane color combinations, ghastly paisley patterns, just eye-popping clothes. Serena (my favorite character) and Dr. Bombay (Mrs DM's fav) come into full play. Samantha is made queen of the witches, a concept that is revisited again in a later episode, but then is mysteriously abandoned. There's a lot of jabs at hippies. Serena even gets busted as a hippie. Leonardo Da Vinci gets mad when a museum guard calls him a hippie. That's funny to me.
If you're only interested enough for one season, this is the one.
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