A Perfect Show

Lately I have been watching The Bob Newhart Show on DVD. I have seen this show when I was a kid as well as many others such as Gilligan's Island, Leave it to Beaver, Dick Van Dyke, of course Andy Griffith, Mary Tyler Moore, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, Ozzie and Harriet, well you get the idea.

It really strikes me that these shows could probably run today and be a moderate success. In the age where insults trump jokes on TV or harsh language is found to be funny to a point, these shows are a testament to good writing and acting.

They are frequently criticised for being to unrealistic now. Never dealing with actual problems such as "Ward, Beaver blew up the Dairy Queen again!", "I'll have a talk with him Honey."

Those are really unfair criticisms since they forget that these shows are NOT REAL LIFE. They are TV and while at one time they may have reflected some people's lives, any maybe still do to a small degree, they are fantasy. They are very enjoyable though and to me show a life I think most people would like to live.

I'm having twenty more copies of Locker made right now to send to distributors and friends.

I know that it has a lot of problems but that if they are interested in it then they can buy the rights and remake it if they wish.

It was written to be made quickly and cheaply and in my very humble and worthless opinion is a better movie than Open Water. With a better writer to add about twenty pages to it it could have potential to be a nice small indie film people would want to see.

Now keep in mind this is coming from the person who has seen this movie and all of its clips about a thousand times and knows every technical problem it has.

Fault me all you wish but please don't fault my actors. They had a very difficult time dealing with the cold while delivering their lines.