Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Favorite Movie

I have many favorite movies but one that totally changed the way I look at film was 2001: A Space Odyssey. While watching this movie I felt intrigued, curios about the unknown, My mind was totally blown away in the end. It was like nothing i had ever seen before. It was awe inspiring as if going through space and time, like an experience that one of the main characters goes through in the movie. This is my favorite because it was a pioneer in special effects in how everything looks so real. the music, ex. The Blue Danube, fits perfectly in space. The star gate sequence in the film is probably one of my favorite scenes of all time. This movie is in the genre of Science fiction. I think that the effect that this movie has on the public is that they leave wondering whats beyond our universe, space, is there extraterrestrial life out there. It gives us the curiosity that makes us think, like when the Black Monolith appears in front of the Apes.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Compare and contrast newscast

Every newscast has the same structure of how they first begin with breaking news. Then they go on into local news, national news, international news, weather, and sports but it's the little differences that make them unique.
Every newscast has a man and a woman as the main anchors. Almost all of them have a man in the weather news section except XETV channel 5, they have a woman. Of all the weather sections in the local news channels the most entertaining one is on KUSI 9. There's this old guy named John Coleman that starts off by saying "KKKKKKKUSI" in a very funny way, and then he starts walking fast in front of the camera going across the green screen from one side to the other. Then if there's going to be good weather in the forecast, the James Brown song "i feel good" comes out in the background and if there's going to be bad weather the Daniel Powder song "bad day" is played instead. KUSI is one the few that start at 10 and end at 11:35. It also has this section called "Turko Files" in were a reporter named Michael Turko investigates local problems that local people send him and helps them get to the bottom of it. He accomplishes great things in that sometimes the city fixes the problem or pays for it.

KGTV 10, XETV 5, and KUSI 9 start at 10. KNSD 7 and KFMB 8 both start at 11 which is very convenient with me because I might be busy working on something or watching a TV show that starts at 10 and its one hour long. Out of those 2 I prefer KNSD because I'll be watching the Jay Leno show and just leave it there and then continue to see the Tonight Show. Plus I prefer seeing the news with Marty Levin because ever since I remember he has always been there and my dad met him once while he was doing a news report.

All of the local newscasts for sports have men. They all of course talk about the local teams like the chargers and the padres. Only KNSD 7 talks about soccer, the rest don't. They were the only ones who talked about the local indoor soccer team The San Diego Soccers and of the U.S. soccer team.

XETV 5' s slogan is that they are the station for balanced news and it is kind of true because they will tell you to go online and post your opinion. Then during the program they will show the post's of 2 different points of views from people that are watching the news.


Saturday, January 30, 2010

What i watched on TV

Monday
FOX - House 8 pm
NBC - Late Night with Jimmy Fallon 12:35 am


Tuesday
NBC - Late Night with Jimmy Fallon 12:35 am

Wednesday
ESPN - MANCHESTER UNITED-MANCHESTER CITY 11:45 am - 2:00 pm
Mexican Ch. 45 - CHUCK 8 pm
NBC - Late Night with Jimmy Fallon 12:35 am

Thursday
NBC - Commmunity 8 pm
Parks & Recreation 8:30 pm
The Office 9 pm
30 Rock 9:30 pm
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon 12:35 am

Friday

State of the union

President Barack Obama started his speech by talking about the past and how we have overcome great struggles by working together as Americans. He stated that the markets have been stabilized thanks to the bailout plan but now its time help out the people of the United States. If banks had enough money to give themselves raises then they wont mind if the president proposes a fee on the biggest banks. His number one focus is a new jobs bill. 30 billion dollars will be given to community banks for small business and there will be a business tax credit. Capital gains on small businesses will be eliminated. A new high-speed railroad track will be built in Tampa, Florida. Rebates will be given in order to promote green clean energy. Slash tax breaks on companies who take jobs out to other countries. An energy and climate bill so that the environment can be protected. Export more goods, double our exports so that 2 million jobs can be created, this is all part of the National export initiative. Create an anti-poverty program with a world-class education and revitalize community colleges. There will be a 10,000-dollar tax credit for being 4 years in college and you will pay 10% of your income in loans for college. In 2011, a 3-year federal spending freeze will come in effect. In July of that same year troops will begin to come back. Troops will be out of Iraq by the end of august of this year. Finally, a US and Russia arms control treaty so that in 4 years nuclear weapons are eliminated so they don’t fall in terrorist’s hands. President Obama delivered his plans very well and in an effective manner. He seems pretty determined to accomplish his proposal.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

The Jay Leno Show today had a very good moment in were Jay was explaining the entire story about the problem that is going on in NBC between him and Conan. Then the next segment "Headlines" was okay, headlines is when people send in real newspaper articles or ads with mistakes. I cant believe some of the stuff that is published and is shown to the public, its ridiculous.

Tonight on the tonight show with Conan O'Brien, Conan interviewed the great Martin Scorsese which was very funny, like in a moment were he is offering conan a role for his next movie as an irish man in the 1920's and then conan starts acting like one. Its funny how conan acts all desperate to martin scorsese in that he will do anything to work with him because he's desperate to get a job.

I believe both Conan and Jay are funny at their own thing, its not fair how NBC is playing with them going back and forth. The real problem is not jay or conan but the executives at NBC.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Conan vs. Jay Day 3

Jay started his monologue at the beginning as usual but it was a kind of okay this time. There was a moment in where jay was talking about the dispute that's going on at NBC and shows the headquarters in new york and burbank in a big brawl but with footage from other real events not related to the situation, also a made believe taiwan headquarters, it gave me a laugh. He talked about a new show on fox called human target that he thought was about him. He mentioned David Letterman in how he is also throwing shots at him and jay responds that he thought letterman only threw shots at interns. That was the best joke.
Conan started by saying his monologue. It was pretty funny in how conan jokes about himself leaving the tonight show. The moment for me in the monologue that me burst into laughter was when conan was saying that coming to work has become uncomfortable and then showed a clip of him arriving in his car and as he gets out, supposively he's being shot at by NBC executives. I personally still think Conan is one of the funniest people on television today.

Friday, January 15, 2010

O'Brien vs. Leno Day 2 Thursday

Today Jay Leno had a pretty funny moment on his 10 @ 10 section. Jay was interviewing Jimmy Kimmel who is also a late night host from the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show in ABC. Jay asked Jimmy what his favorite prank was and jimmy said that he once told a guy five years ago that he was going to give him his show and that he gave it ti him but took it back almost instantly. That was one of the greatest moments of the night. Then jay asked if he has ever ordered anything off the TV and jimmy replied "You mean the way NBC ordered your show off the TV?". It was hilarious.
Conan O'Brien was very funny in his monologue for the tonight show. He stated that he has been offered a role for a pornographic movie. He then showed a list of possible of porn names which included "Two hosts, One Slot" and "Crammin' O'Brien" among many. It was ridiculously funny. After that, Conan said that he was selling the tonight show on craigslist while he still can and they showed the web page to prove it.
I think Conan O'Brien is way more creative than jay leno. Conan makes fun of himself but in a good and hilarious way. I have never seen jay make fun of himself but if he has done it, it cant be as funny as conan does it. Conan's interviews are way funny also because he acts sometimes like a child in how he asks questions without sometimes thinking about what he's asking. It's not fair what NBC is doing to Conan. Coco all the way.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Conan O'Brien vs. Jay Leno

The Jay Leno Show started at 10 and as usual jay starts with his monologue and he has some god jokes but it's not really that good. I never found Jay Leno to be really that funny from the start by the way. It was pretty boring when he interviewed Heidi Klum but the car challange is a pretty cool idea because guests compete to beat the time of past guests that have been on the show. He also has this section called 10 @ 10 in where he asks ten questions to a celebrities which i think is kind of dumb because most of the time it's not even that funny. This time he was questioning one of the kardashian sisters but it didn't make me laugh.
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien starts at 11:35 and it also starts with Conan saying his monologue. It was pretty funny in how conan jokes about himself leaving the tonight show. I personally think Conan is one of the funniest people on television today. There was this very hilarious part in where Jack McBrayer comes out during the monologue as a tour guide and is telling people that the studio is where the tonight show with conan o'brien used to be in front of conan himself. He had the really funny Ricky Gervais as a guest and it was funny in how he felt concerned for conan and at the same time making fun of what NBC is doing with the tonight show.
I thought overall Conan was way better because he made me laugh the most. Theres something about his appearance that ads character to him. Even his hair makes me laugh in how he always messes it up and it comes back to the way it was. I'm for team coco.