Monday, January 07, 2013

Movie Monday: The "Springsteen Was Right" Edition...


I'm sure you've heard it before. Maybe you've even said it yourself.

"There's nothing on television."

Bruce Springsteen even wrote a song about it, back in 1992: "57 Channels (And Nothin' On)".

I've come to the conclusion that he's correct. At least for today.

I was looking for a good movie to watch this afternoon. Nothing. Crickets. At least, nothing I want to watch. One channel teased me with a listing for The Thomas Crown Affair. Right. It's the 1999 remake, not the 1968 originial, which I would be very happy to watch. TCM is showing a Paul Newman movie. Good, right? Well, no. It's Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956). It's a boxing movie, and I really don't like either boxing or movies about it. The Departed, which is a good movie, was on, on Fox Movie Channel. Don't subscribe to it.

So, I decided to look for a good series repeat to watch. There are several channels on my cable system that primarily show re-runs of old series. Just, at this time of day, apparently, not the old shows I want to watch. Really. I didn't much like All in the Family when it was on originally.

Documentary? I like documentaries. Anyone who has read here regularly knows that about me. Only, what's mostly on right now are "reality" shows and true-crime series. I guess I could always watch the news - it's that time of day, but half the time these days most of the news sounds like re-runs.

What's that? I should go read a book? Work on my writing?

Yes, you're right. I could do that. Actually, I've already done those things today, and will probably do more of them later. I kind of wanted a break, which is why I turned on the TV in the first place.

Well, since it is Movie Monday, here is a trailer for the 1968 version of The Thomas Crown Affair, starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. It's a good movie. You should see it when you get the chance:



And, finally, I'm going to leave this for you, the song that Springsteen wrote, that could be my theme song today:



Maybe it won't be quite so true tomorrow.

5 comments:

Diane Tingen said...

Sadly, there's more like 257 channels these days (or more), and most of the time, there's still nothing on!!

Diane Tingen said...

Hey, I just noticed (and maybe I've pointed this out before, just don't remember) that you live in Fresno, CA. I was born and raised in Fresno - lived there until I was 23 years old (with two years at BYU in Provo). How long have you lived there?

littlemissattitude said...

I've been in Fresno proper since 2005. But before that, I lived in Sanger for many years, which means I had to come into Fresno to do anything interesting.

Funny thing, I also spent some time in Provo at BYU. Only I didn't like it there at all and went home (to Southern California at the time) after two months. That was a very long time ago.

And, yeah, we've got at least a couple hundred channels, plus OnDemand. It's ridiculous when there isn't anything interesting on any of them. It especially makes me crazy when I want to watch something in the middle of the night and fully half of those channels are showing infomercials.

missattitude

Ashley said...

I loved that song, but isn't that why we blog - because there is nothing on TV???

littlemissattitude said...

I never thought about it that way, but yeah, that's probably part of it.

missattitude