Nazis make better villains than Soviets.

I loved the one where the interviewer start reading the paper during his rant, walks off etc... I love that style! The Brits rule in that kind of tv.

Heheheh Oh yeah it seems to be a standard bit with Kermode and Simon Mayo. I remember the 'Pirates' reviews going that way..... such were the epicnesses.

Fabulous...

Anyway, it's the same sense of humour I like in the great and wonderful The Apprentice UK... which just started a week ago. Two episodes down, 10 more to go... I consider it the best Tv show there's around... (non-drama tv show)

Cool. Alan Sugar doesnt f**k around! He built the Amstrad cpc from back in the day, y'know.

Do you guys get "The Dragons den"...?
You may like that if you like the apprentice.

We do. I liked that too. We have a version of it in my country, very much alike but it misses that pazzaz that the UK version has. Brits have a nice combo of competitveness, humour and a touch of vile. Perfect!

The Apprentice Uk though, quite unsurpassed. It's my tv highlight of the year!

Cool. 🙂

LOST takes some beating though.
Thats my fav scifi.

I discern fiction and non-fiction on TV

Best fiction: Lost
Best non-fiction: Apprentice UK

(with You're fired as a good second. It's the only show I know that makes fun of and ridicules people for 20 minutes and then sends then home feeling good about themselves. Britannia rules the airwaves!)

I wonder seriously about just that ability: For TV to deliver stuff that is meant to be reality, and isn't in fact on some level, fiction.

It's staged, for sure, to some extend. But it's not scripted. It's actually the way I like it. Plain reality, and I made some in my own career, is overrated and even a bit boring. See Big Brother, boring as hell.

I was one of the makers on a reality series on student F-16 pilots. People loved that last episode as a very nice climax. I made the final scenes of guys actually flying an F-16 solo for the first time. But most of the edited end product was staged by me. And frankly, it one of the scenes that really worked perfectly from beginning to end. And yet, it wasn't fake. They actually did the solo that day. I just had to make it look good for it to work for the viewer.

I think The Apprentice is like that.

Cool. Kudos on the editting work.

Couldn't knock me a a reworked version of Indy IV with no mutt, monkies etc, could ya...?

It wasn't just the editing. I staged a lot of the shots where the walk teh flightline, get in their cockpits, get out, walk back cheering and that kinda stuff. Real life is just a bit too boring to capture the joy that's inside.

Cool. 🙂

Indeed. An F-16 flightline makes a great set. Especially at sunset.

Very Top Gun. 😉

You mean to say that you committed a Michael Bay cliche...on purpose..?

I thought that was Tony Scott.

It was. 🙂

Are you now then denying the Tony Scott/Top Gun visual influence on Bay...? 😛

Nope. That's hwat the producer wanted. And since I was the only one actually filming with F-16's, I had to deliver.

"Oh its a dirty job but someones gotta do it.."

Did you feel appropriately unclean for your temporarily adopted Bayness..?

Nope. It was cool to do. Funny things is, with flightsuits and fighters around, it's already looking quote big and Bayish. Now add a little bit of low sun and there it is. I didn't use any orange filters though.

Ah good. Well your forgiven then. 😖hifty:

And at least you didnt combine filters with needless 360 tracking shots.

And your footage would have had to have been zoomed in ultra close in on a small part of the wing during the firing up of the engines, sacrificing all the cool stuff to include an irrevelvant deck hand drinking coffee in the background to emulate Bay's TFs "action style"....