DVD Movie Reviews

By Dan

While in a perfect world, we’d like to see every actor, director, and all the behind the scenes crew have long and successful careers, sometimes TV shows (and occasionally movie series) outlast their welcome. Whether it’s a TV series that’s reached its seventh season, despite only having enough story for three, or a movie franchise that’s been rehashing itself for a few too many years – sometimes you just have to say “enough is enough”.

Today, we’re going to highlight a few that need to be axed! Yes, the power will go to our heads.

Two and a Half Men

Homer obviously feels the same way I do about this show.

I was never a fan of this way-too-obvious sitcom to begin with, but after 9 seasons and Channel Nine seemingly putting it on a daily loop for a while (they did it with Gordon Ramsay and Top Gear too, and are currently doing it with The Big Bang Theory – Channel Nine programmers, what are you doing?) I’m even less of a fan now. And with the latest series (and following Charlie Sheen’s infamous brain explosion), we’ve now got Ashton Kutcher in the house. Let it go guys, it’s time to put this show out of its misery, and in turn end my misery.

Transformers

Call me old school, but that’s the way I like my Transformers.

Hey, I love the eighties as much as the next fluoro-socks wearing, mullet sporting, Bananarama listening, Tab Cola drinking, Subaru Vortex driving, Hypercolour T-shirt loving, Rubik’s Cube solving, Miami Vice watching guy, but even I found it hard to enjoy the Transformers movies. Especially the second one, which made no sense whatsoever and seemed to go for about three days. Anyway, how much robot-brawling action or Shia LaBeouf smugness can we take? I think three movies is just about pushing it, yeah?

House

Say what you want about the show, but Hugh Laurie nails the stubble look.

Oh House, back when you started, you were simply great. Hugh Laurie was awesome as the terminally cranky doctor (and who knew he could do such a great American accent), you had some genuinely interesting medical cases, and the supporting cast all held their own against Old Grumble Guts. But fast forward to the eighth season, and things have gone off the rails. House is in jail, half the original cast has left, and the magic has mostly gone. Sure, Laurie’s still pretty good, but at times he’s also going through the motions. Wrap it up, guys.

Top Gear

Not pictured: something on fire. Thankfully.

Oh dear, I’m genuinely a big fan of Top Gear, so this is hard to write. It’s not that Top Gear isn’t still entertaining (it is – mostly), it’s that so much of it is so obvious. It really looks like the team have run out of ideas, and are rehashing what they did in 2007. The annoying thing is that it could be so much better – the team still have flashes of brilliance in every season, why can’t we have more of them? Cut back on the “funny stuff”, focus more on the cars, and you’ll get a reprieve from me. Otherwise, it’s the axe for you.

Paranormal Activity

Which Paranormal Activity film is this from? Who cares, they’re all the same!

I’ll come out and admit that I’m not a fan of horror films at all, but the Paranormal Activity films seem to irk me more than most. When the first in the series appeared, it was a genuinely scary film that did seem to change up the usual horror formula. However then #2 surfaced, and it was almost exactly the same. #3 followed the formula, and I’m sure that the recently announced fourth film in the series won’t change it up either. Maybe, just maybe, it’s time to consign Paranormal Activity to the graveyard?

One Tree Hill

I would rather watch this.

Does anyone actually watch this show? Seriously, it’s got to be one of the least watched shows to make it to 9 seasons. Now, I know it’s finishing soon, so this is slightly redundant, but how did it even get this far? It’s like the teen equivalent of According To Jim – a show that stays on air forever despite no-one caring about it. It could be cancelled tomorrow and I’m sure no-one will notice.